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Terre Napoléon: A History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia
ISBN: 9781108030786 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Ernest Scott (1867 1939) emigrated to Australia in 1892, settling in Melbourne where he worked as a journalist. In 1913 he was appointed Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. This volume, first published in 1910, discusses the aims and outcome of the survey of the south Australian coast performed by Nicholas Baudin's French expedition between 1800 and 1804, and established Scott's reputation as a historian. Scott traces the path of Baudin's expedition along the then unexplored south coast of Australia, estimating the amount of original surveying performed by the expedition to...
Ernest Scott (1867 1939) emigrated to Australia in 1892, settling in Melbourne where he worked as a journalist. In 1913 he was appointed Professor of ...
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279,81 zł |
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Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon (1788)
ISBN: 9781849024600 / Angielski / Twarda / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) George Worgan was an English naval surgeon who accompanied the First Fleet to Australia. He made expeditions to the Hawkesbury River and Broken Bay areas north of Sydney and spent a year on Norfolk Island after his was shipwrecked there. Although he kept a journal, it was not published on his return, unlike his contemporary, Watkin Tench. This book consists of letters to his brother in England, written in 1788, the second letter journaling the first six months after the First Fleet's arrival in Sydney Cove.
George Worgan was an English naval surgeon who accompanied the First Fleet to Australia. He made expeditions to the Hawkesbury River and Broken Bay ar...
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79,91 zł |
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WILLIAM THOMAS & Family
ISBN: 9780473187484 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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57,06 zł |
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The Illusion of Victory: The True Costs of Modern War
ISBN: 9780522856156 / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 'The Illusion of Victory' demonstrates that most of the rewards of victory in modern warfare are either exaggerated or false. Ian Bickerton persuasively argues that as the rhetoric of victory becomes more hollow all countries must adopt creative new approaches to resolving disputes.
'The Illusion of Victory' demonstrates that most of the rewards of victory in modern warfare are either exaggerated or false. Ian Bickerton persuasive...
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139,44 zł |
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God, Guns And Government On The Central Australian Frontier: Who Killed Ereminta?
ISBN: 9780977531219 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "There's a movie in this story." "Essential reading..." When Mounted Constable William Willshire had his troopers shoot two Aboriginal men, Ereminta and Donkey, in cold blood they left behind several witnesses, and an intriguing story. The man who shot Ereminta, Thomas, was an Aranda-Lutheran, one of the Finke River mission's first converts. This book reveals some surprising connections between the police, including William Willshire, and the missionaries. The pastoralists offered young Aboriginal men and women new opportunities outside traditional life. The frontier policemen protected the...
"There's a movie in this story." "Essential reading..." When Mounted Constable William Willshire had his troopers shoot two Aboriginal men, Ereminta a...
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180,15 zł |
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Die Nikobaren als Objekt kolonialer Bestrebungen
ISBN: 9783656195351 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Australien, Ozeanien, Note: 1,7, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat Kiel (Historisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Spezialisierungsmodul Neuzeit: Selbststudium mit Prufungsleistung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Hausarbeit geht es um die Kolonisierungsgeschichte der Nikobaren. Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung steht der Reisebericht von Adolf Eschel Kroon aus dem Jahr 1785. In diesem Bericht unterbreitete der Kaufmann dem danischen Konigshaus das Angebot, die Inselgruppe der Nikobaren als Kolonie auszubeuten. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Australien, Ozeanien, Note: 1,7, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat Kiel (Historisches Semina...
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164,59 zł |
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The Founders of Canterbury: Being Letters from the Late Edward Gibbon Wakefield to the Late John Robert Godley, and to Other Well-Known Helpers in the Foundation of the Settlement of Canterbury in New
ISBN: 9781108039932 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796 1862) was a colonial advocate and political theorist, who was influential in the early colonisation of New Zealand and South Australia. Wakefield read widely on contemporary economics and social questions, and his theory of colonisation helped shape the British Empire. He formed the New Zealand Association in 1837 to create a new colony in that country, finally emigrating himself in 1852. His son, the editor of this volume of letters, was appointed secretary of the first settler expedition to New Zealand in 1839, and was elected political representative for...
Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796 1862) was a colonial advocate and political theorist, who was influential in the early colonisation of New Zealand and S...
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268,39 zł |
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Finance, Politics, and Imperialism: Australia, Canada, and the City of London, c.1896-1914
ISBN: 9780230222038 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Andrew Dilley offers a major new study of financial dependence, examining the connections this dependence forged between the City and political life in Edwardian Australia and Canada, mediated by ideas of political economy. In doing so he reconstructs the occasionally imperialistic politic of finance which pervaded the British World at this time.
Andrew Dilley offers a major new study of financial dependence, examining the connections this dependence forged between the City and political life i...
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192,30 zł |
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The Southern Districts of New Zealand: A Journal, with Passing Notices of the Customs of the Aborigines
ISBN: 9781108040631 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The physician and ethnographer Edward Shortland (1812 93) first travelled to New Zealand in 1841, a year after the Treaty of Waitangi. He became private secretary to Governor William Hobson, and quickly learned the Maori language. First published in 1851, this book describes Shortland's experiences on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island while conducting a census of the local Maori settlements in 1843. It documents South Island Maori myths, traditions and everyday life, and includes genealogical tables and a short word-list of the local dialect. It also describes a French Company...
The physician and ethnographer Edward Shortland (1812 93) first travelled to New Zealand in 1841, a year after the Treaty of Waitangi. He became priva...
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268,39 zł |
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Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia
ISBN: 9781108039390 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Having decided to try his fortune in the new colonies of South Australia and New Zealand, budding geologist James Coutts Crawford (1817 89) landed at Sydney in 1838 and lost no time in buying and driving a herd of cattle from Braidwood, New South Wales, to Adelaide, a distance of more than three hundred miles of unfamiliar territory. This remarkable journey proved typical of the rest of his travels, during which he served variously as explorer, translator, and sheriff of Wellington. This book, which includes illustrations and maps, is his own record of his experiences, first published in...
Having decided to try his fortune in the new colonies of South Australia and New Zealand, budding geologist James Coutts Crawford (1817 89) landed at ...
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336,93 zł |
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A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales: Including an Accurate Description of the Situation of the Colony, of the Nat
ISBN: 9781108039147 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In May 1787 a fleet of ships carrying convicts left England bound for Botany Bay, New South Wales, where they were to establish a settlement. One of the crew on board the Charlotte was Watkin Tench (c.1758 1833), who wrote about the voyage of what was later known as the First Fleet. He remained in New South Wales, living in Port Jackson (part of present-day Sydney) from 1788 to 1791, and in this work, published in 1793, he gives a vivid, first-hand account of the early years of British settlement. The chapters are chronologically organised and discuss the many challenges settlers in the...
In May 1787 a fleet of ships carrying convicts left England bound for Botany Bay, New South Wales, where they were to establish a settlement. One of t...
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216,98 zł |
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A History of the Australasian Colonies: From Their Foundation to the Year 1911
ISBN: 9780521238588 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Published in 1912 as part of the Cambridge Historical Series, this is the third edition of The History of the Australasian Colonies. Created with the general reader in mind, it provides a concise, yet rigorous, analysis of historical developments in Australasia and contextualises these developments in terms of the later political situation at the beginning of the twentieth century. Whilst the narrative is undoubtedly redolent of the colonial period, it retains a high documentary value in revealing the attitudes of the time in which it was written. The text of the this edition was considerably...
Published in 1912 as part of the Cambridge Historical Series, this is the third edition of The History of the Australasian Colonies. Created with the ...
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240,15 zł |
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One Big Union: A History of the Australian Workers Union 1886–1994
ISBN: 9780521558976 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Australian Workers Union (AWU), formed in 1886, has been one of the most influential unions in Australia's political and industrial history. This comprehensive and compelling book, first published in 1996, is a national history of the AWU. It shows that the union has been a player in key events and crises in Australian history, including the great strikes of the 1890s, the 1916 17 conscription crisis, Labor's splits in the 1950s and the 1956 shearers' strike. The book features vivid portraits of the tempestuous and talented individuals who matched these great issues. Unique as a union...
The Australian Workers Union (AWU), formed in 1886, has been one of the most influential unions in Australia's political and industrial history. This ...
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245,25 zł |
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Two Expeditions Into the Interior of Southern Australia, During the Years 1828, 1829, 1830, and 1831: With Observations on the Soil, Climate, and Gene
ISBN: 9781108038850 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Charles Sturt (1795 1869) was a British soldier, sent to New South Wales in charge of convicts in 1826. In 1827 Governor Darling appointed him to lead the first of two expeditions into the interior, in search of pastoral land for settlement and a navigable river system. Sturt's two-volume account of his journeys, published in 1833, begins with a description of the colony. Volume 1 focuses on the expedition of 1828 9, when Sturt and a small party travelled on horseback down the Macquarie River until it turned into marshes. Skirting the unhealthy swamps, they eventually discovered and named the...
Charles Sturt (1795 1869) was a British soldier, sent to New South Wales in charge of convicts in 1826. In 1827 Governor Darling appointed him to lead...
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279,81 zł |
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Two Expeditions Into the Interior of Southern Australia, During the Years 1828, 1829, 1830, and 1831: With Observations on the Soil, Climate, and Gene
ISBN: 9781108038867 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Charles Sturt (1795 1869) was a British soldier, sent to New South Wales in charge of convicts in 1826. In 1827 Governor Darling appointed him to lead the first of two expeditions into the interior, in search of pastoral land for settlement and a navigable river system. Sturt's two-volume account of his journeys was published in 1833. Volume 2 describes how in November 1829 Sturt left Sydney to trace the Murrumbidgee River, which led him to the Lachlan, and ultimately the Murray. The ship which was supposed to be waiting for the party on the south coast had left, and the explorers were forced...
Charles Sturt (1795 1869) was a British soldier, sent to New South Wales in charge of convicts in 1826. In 1827 Governor Darling appointed him to lead...
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216,98 zł |
![The History of New South Wales: With an Account of Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania], New Zealand, Port Phillip [Victoria], Moreton Bay, and Other Australi Flanagan, Roderick 9781108038928 Cambridge University Press](/9781108038928_the_history_of_new_south_wales_with_an_account_of_van_diemens_land_tasmania_new_zealand_port_phillip_victoria_moreton_bay_and_other_australi.jpg "The History of New South Wales: With an Account of Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania], New Zealand, Port Phillip [Victoria], Moreton Bay, and Other Australi") |
The History of New South Wales: With an Account of Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania], New Zealand, Port Phillip [Victoria], Moreton Bay, and Other Australi
ISBN: 9781108038928 / Angielski / Miękka / 566 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Having arrived with his parents from Ireland in New South Wales in 1840 as a 'bounty emigrant', the young Roderick Flanagan (1828 62) quickly developed a passionate interest in his adopted country. Following an apprenticeship with a city printer, the educated and astute Flanagan worked for a number of Australia's early newspapers, including Melbourne's Daily News and the Sydney Morning Herald, where he acquired his distinctive, journalistic approach to history. Published shortly after his early death in London in 1862, Flanagan's two-volume chronicle of New South Wales represents a lifetime...
Having arrived with his parents from Ireland in New South Wales in 1840 as a 'bounty emigrant', the young Roderick Flanagan (1828 62) quickly develope...
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394,04 zł |
![The History of New South Wales: With an Account of Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania], New Zealand, Port Phillip [Victoria], Moreton Bay, and Other Australi Flanagan, Roderick 9781108038935 Cambridge University Press](/9781108038935_the_history_of_new_south_wales_with_an_account_of_van_diemens_land_tasmania_new_zealand_port_phillip_victoria_moreton_bay_and_other_australi.jpg "The History of New South Wales: With an Account of Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania], New Zealand, Port Phillip [Victoria], Moreton Bay, and Other Australi") |
The History of New South Wales: With an Account of Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania], New Zealand, Port Phillip [Victoria], Moreton Bay, and Other Australi
ISBN: 9781108038935 / Angielski / Miękka / 594 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Having arrived with his parents from Ireland in New South Wales in 1840 as a 'bounty emigrant', the young Roderick Flanagan (1828 62) quickly developed a passionate interest in his adopted country. Following an apprenticeship with a city printer, the educated and astute Flanagan worked for a number of Australia's early newspapers, including Melbourne's Daily News and the Sydney Morning Herald, where he acquired his distinctive, journalistic approach to history. Published shortly after his early death in London in 1862, Flanagan's two-volume chronicle of New South Wales represents a lifetime...
Having arrived with his parents from Ireland in New South Wales in 1840 as a 'bounty emigrant', the young Roderick Flanagan (1828 62) quickly develope...
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394,04 zł |
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An Octogenarian's Reminiscences
ISBN: 9781108038966 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In this 1902 work, teacher, historian and archivist James Bonwick (1817 1906) recalls a long life's contribution to the fields of education and historical writing. More than sixty publications can be attributed to Bonwick, who was elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1865. He traces his life from boyhood to the many years he spent in Australia, establishing, managing and inspecting schools. Bonwick stressed the need for observation and experimentation by the pupil rather than rote learning. He was also involved in the temperance movement, and was a sympathetic champion of the...
In this 1902 work, teacher, historian and archivist James Bonwick (1817 1906) recalls a long life's contribution to the fields of education and histor...
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279,81 zł |
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Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time: Containing the History of Australasia from 1542 to Date
ISBN: 9781108039048 / Angielski / Miękka / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A pioneering Australian reference work, this dictionary was published in 1879 by John Henniker Heaton (1848 1914), who in his youth spent twenty years as a journalist in Australia before returning to England and campaigning in Parliament for postal reform. Published amid a bitter dispute with the government printer, it is still acknowledged to contain much useful information despite some inaccuracies. The first part, 'Men of the Time', focuses on notable men and women with Australian connections, from 1542 to the date of publication, including explorers, governors, leading colonists, writers...
A pioneering Australian reference work, this dictionary was published in 1879 by John Henniker Heaton (1848 1914), who in his youth spent twenty years...
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376,92 zł |
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Explorations in Australia: I-Explorations in Search of Dr Leichardt and Party. II-From Perth to Adelaide, Around the Great Australian Bight. III-
ISBN: 9781108039185 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) John Forrest (1847 1918), was an Australian surveyor and explorer. At twenty-two, he led an expedition to determine the fate of Ludwig Leichardt, who had earlier disappeared in the western desert. The following year he surveyed the coastal route from Perth to Adelaide, establishing the possibility of a telegraph line. In 1874, he crossed the central western desert, a two-thousand mile journey which confirmed his heroic reputation. He received the founder's medal of the Royal Geographical Society in London and was appointed Deputy Surveyor-General. His account of these expeditions, published...
John Forrest (1847 1918), was an Australian surveyor and explorer. At twenty-two, he led an expedition to determine the fate of Ludwig Leichardt, who ...
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279,81 zł |
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