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Among Cannibals: An Account of Four Years' Travels in Australia and of Camp Life with the Aborigines of Queensland
ISBN: 9781108006330 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lumholtz's entertaining and informative account of his 1880 expedition to Australia describes Aboriginal society and traditions observed at close quarters.
Lumholtz's entertaining and informative account of his 1880 expedition to Australia describes Aboriginal society and traditions observed at close quar...
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343,38 |
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A Brief History of Australia
ISBN: 9780816082513 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a comprehensive guide to Australia, from the time of aboriginal settlement through to the modern day. It takes a largely chronological approach and looks at social, cultural, economic and political trends in the country's long history.
This is a comprehensive guide to Australia, from the time of aboriginal settlement through to the modern day. It takes a largely chronological approac...
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83,21 |
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Disasters That Changed Australia
ISBN: 9780522856491 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Australian history is full of disasters and colossal debacles. Some are natural but many more are man-made, results of individual or collective stupidity, poor choices, short-sightedness or outright greed. This title nominates the disasters that have been instrumental in creating the Australia.
Australian history is full of disasters and colossal debacles. Some are natural but many more are man-made, results of individual or collective stupid...
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122,40 |
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To the Islands: White Australia and the Malay Archipelago Since 1788
ISBN: 9780739120521 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To the Islands offers a unique perspective on the evolution of economic, social and political interconnections between Australia and its island region spanning two centuries, from the early years of British colonization to the present day. The book advances the argument that globalizing processes are drawing Australia incrementally closer to modern day South East Asia and the wider Asia Pacific. While globalization is a term commonly associated with the twentieth century world, this study traces the history of Australia's regionalisation back to the nineteenth century; to the lived...
To the Islands offers a unique perspective on the evolution of economic, social and political interconnections between Australia and its island region...
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220,40 |
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In/Visible Sight: The Mixed-Descent Families of Southern New Zealand
ISBN: 9781897425862 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Angela Wanhalla starts her story with the mixed-descent community at Maitapapa, Taieri, where her great-grandparents, John Brown and Mabel Smith, were born. As the book took shape, a community emerged from the records, re-casting history and identity in the present. Drawing on the experiences of mixed-descent families, In/visible Sight examines the early history of cross-cultural encounter and colonization in southern New Zealand. There Ng?i Tahu engaged with the European newcomers on a sustained scale from the 1820s, encountering systematic settlement from the 1840s and... Angela Wanhalla starts her story with the mixed-descent community at Maitapapa, Taieri, where her great-grandparents, John Brown and Mabel Smith, w... |
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127,29 |
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The A to Z of Australia
ISBN: 9780810876347 / Angielski / Miękka / 554 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The A to Z of Australia relates the history of this unique and beautiful land, which is home to an amazing range of flora and fauna, a climate that ranges from tropical forests to arid deserts, and the largest single collection of coral reefs and islands in the world. Through a detailed chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and cross-referenced dictionary entries on some of the more significant persons, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets, author James Docherty provides a much needed single...
The A to Z of Australia relates the history of this unique and beautiful land, which is home to an amazing range of flora and fauna, a climate that ra...
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220,40 |
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The Quarantined Culture: Australian Reactions to Modernism, 1913-1939
ISBN: 9780521477130 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1913 the Australian press displayed a cosmopolitan openness to the culture of the modern world. By 1919, however, Australia had become an inward-looking society bent on keeping the outside world out - a quarantined culture. This book looks at the impact of the First World War on Australian culture, focusing on reactions to modernist art. John Williams argues that the creation of the Anzac legend, the back-to-the-land movement, notions of racial superiority and the mythology of the masculine nation were reactionary and anti-modern. Reflecting this, Australian pioneers of post-impressionism...
In 1913 the Australian press displayed a cosmopolitan openness to the culture of the modern world. By 1919, however, Australia had become an inward-lo...
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151,33 |
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Riding the Sheep's Back: The Rise and Fall of John McNamara and Company
ISBN: 9781922168740 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,88 |
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Champagne from Six to Six: A Brief Social History of Entertainments and Recreations at Beechworth and the Ovens Goldfields, Victoria Australia 18
ISBN: 9781609112431 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In mid-19th-century Australia, like its counterparts in California and Chile, there was a focus on the rush for gold. Given the sobriquet "diggers," men arrived in the tens of thousands from all points of the globe. In often remote bush settings, makeshift towns quickly sprouted in the foothills, valleys, and plateaus leading to the Blue Mountains and the Australian Alps. Focusing on the counterplay with this influx of fortune seekers, there also emerged a nascent global entertainment industry. Champagne from Six to Six is a short history of the pastimes of these diggers on the gold fields at...
In mid-19th-century Australia, like its counterparts in California and Chile, there was a focus on the rush for gold. Given the sobriquet "diggers," m...
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111,71 |
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The Unknown Nation: Australia After Empire
ISBN: 9780522856453 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title offers an original and compelling insight into why Australians have come to exhibit their nationhood in curious new ways - such as spontaneously bellowing the national anthem at sporting events. It argues that the critical period for understanding this phenomenon is the twilight of the British Empire in the 60s and 70s.
This title offers an original and compelling insight into why Australians have come to exhibit their nationhood in curious new ways - such as spontane...
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122,40 |
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A Braided River: New Zealand Baptists and Public Issues 1882-2000
ISBN: 9783034313728 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As both dissenters and evangelicals, Baptists have had an intriguing and often complex relationship with society. This book casts light on that relationship by tracing the history of Baptist involvement in public debate within New Zealand. It analyses ten significant public debates to have occurred since the 1880s, comparing the Baptist contribution with that of other denominations. By showing how Baptist approaches to public issues have changed over time, this study provides significant insights into the evolving nature of Baptist identity. It argues that evangelical theology fundamentally...
As both dissenters and evangelicals, Baptists have had an intriguing and often complex relationship with society. This book casts light on that relati...
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607,41 |
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Zombie Myths of Australian Military History
ISBN: 9781742230795 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this fascinating account, leading Australian military historians tackle 10 of the most enduring historical zombies, or national myths, that have staggered their way through the halls of military history for more than 200 years. From Aboriginal resistance and invasion to Australia's recent involvement in East Timor, this record disproves the incorrectly memorialized and so-called gallant deeds of past Australian servicemen. Provocative and opinionated, this record attempts to correct the historical record.
In this fascinating account, leading Australian military historians tackle 10 of the most enduring historical zombies, or national myths, that have st...
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78,32 |
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Australia, Part 1, Australia: A Reissue of Volume VII, Part I of the Cambridge History of the British Empire
ISBN: 9780521168533 / Angielski / Miękka / 788 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The publication in 1933 of the Australia volume of the Cambridge History of the British Empire was a landmark in historical interpretation of the nation and its place in the world. To coincide with the Australian Bicentenary in 1988, Cambridge University Press reissued this book in an unaltered edition. For this reissue Professor Geoffrey Bolton contributed a specially commissioned introduction assessing the importance, historical context and legacy of the volume.
The publication in 1933 of the Australia volume of the Cambridge History of the British Empire was a landmark in historical interpretation of the nati...
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292,82 |
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Intimate Strangers: Friendship, Exchange and Pacific Encounters
ISBN: 9780521437516 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Louis Antoine de Bougainville reached Tahiti in 1768, he was struck by the way in which 'All these people came crying out tayo, which means friend, and gave a thousand signs of friendship; they all asked nails and ear-rings of us.' Reading the archive of early contact in Oceania against European traditions of thinking about intimacy and exchange, Vanessa Smith illuminates the traditions and desires that led Bougainville and other European voyagers to believe that the first word they heard in the Pacific was the word for friend. Her book encompasses forty years of encounters from the...
When Louis Antoine de Bougainville reached Tahiti in 1768, he was struck by the way in which 'All these people came crying out tayo, which means frien...
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368,21 |
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A Voyage to Terra Australis: Undertaken for the Purpose of Completing the Discovery of That Vast Country, and Prosecuted in the Years 1801, 1802, a
ISBN: 9781108018180 / Angielski / Miękka / 508 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In volume 1, Flinders (1774-1814) provides an account of the charting of the south coast of Australia.
In volume 1, Flinders (1774-1814) provides an account of the charting of the south coast of Australia.
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404,89 |
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A Voyage to Terra Australis: Undertaken for the Purpose of Completing the Discovery of That Vast Country, and Prosecuted in the Years 1801, 1802, a
ISBN: 9781108018197 / Angielski / Miękka / 630 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early nineteenth century, Australia remained largely uncharted, and doubt prevailed as to its unity as a continent. The 1801 expedition led by English mariner and cartographer Matthew Flinders (1774 1814), was groundbreaking in this respect. Flinders' charting of the Australian coastline provided the first complete map outlining the continent, and his influence was decisive in changing its name from Terra Australis to Australia - a term 'more agreeable to the ear'. Structured around daily geographical and astronomical observations, Flinders' journals - published in 1814, the day before...
In the early nineteenth century, Australia remained largely uncharted, and doubt prevailed as to its unity as a continent. The 1801 expedition led by ...
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476,64 |
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A Primary Source Guide to Australia
ISBN: 9781448833122 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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115,83 |
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Cassell's Picturesque Australasia, Volume 4
ISBN: 9781144771766 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your...
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and...
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103,36 |
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What We Did in Australia: Being the Practical Experience of Three Clerks in the Stock-Yard and at the Gold Fields
ISBN: 9781144960962 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your...
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and...
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90,42 |
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Watching the Sun Rise: Australian Reporting of Japan, 1931 to the Fall of Singapore
ISBN: 9780739107829 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historians have long claimed that a tradition of fear of Japan dominated Australian thinking about foreign affairs and defense after Japan's defeat of Russia in 1905 and that this fear remained widespread throughout the Australian population until the Pacific War. This study of Australian reporting on Japan challenges that claim by exposing a culture of state censorship, intimidation of the media, and neglect of official public discussion of foreign affairs in the years 1931-1941 which resulted in newspapers, radio, and news reels projecting a collective national consciousness of Japan as a...
Historians have long claimed that a tradition of fear of Japan dominated Australian thinking about foreign affairs and defense after Japan's defeat of...
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528,96 |