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Die Geburt einer Nation? Die Entwicklung Australiens bis 1901
ISBN: 9783638655361 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Australien, Ozeanien, Note: 2,0, Universitat Duisburg-Essen, 15 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wenn von Australien als "jungstem Kontinent" die Rede ist, wird oft vergessen, dass Australien als "Land" sogar noch viel junger ist. Erst am 1. Januar 1901 trat die Verfassung des "Commonwealth of Australia" in Kraft und loste damit die Verfassungen der vorher eigenstandigen britischen Kolonien Neusudwaldes, Tasmanien, Queensland, Victoria, Sud- und Westaustralien ab. Ein neuer Staat war damit geschaffen...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Australien, Ozeanien, Note: 2,0, Universitat Duisburg-Essen, 15 Quellen im Literaturverzei...
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178,11 zł |
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The Convicts of the "Eleanor" : Protest in Rural England, New Lives in Australia
ISBN: 9780850365047 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book focuses on the men of the convict transport Eleanor who arrived in NSW in 1831. They were all from the counties of Berkshire, Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire and were transported for their part in the Swing riots - the great agricultural uprising of 1830-31. This episode which touched thirty counties and has been called 'the last peasants' revolt' led to more than 480 people being sent to Australia ('the largest single group in the history of transportation' (George Rude). The men on the Eleanor who made up 30% of the Swing transportees. Part I of the book deals with the men of the...
This book focuses on the men of the convict transport Eleanor who arrived in NSW in 1831. They were all from the counties of Berkshire, Dorset, Hampsh...
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100,96 zł |
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Islands in the Interior: The Dynamics of Prehistoric Adaptations Within the Arid Zone of Australia
ISBN: 9781879621060 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In this book, Veth develops a model of settlement and subsistence in the Western Desert of Australia, drawing on his own archaeological investigations, as well as ethnographic and environmental data. Building on this model, he concludes with a plausible reconstruction of the colonization of the harsh, arid interior of this continent.
In this book, Veth develops a model of settlement and subsistence in the Western Desert of Australia, drawing on his own archaeological investigations...
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249,67 zł |
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Islands in the Interior: The Dynamics of Prehistoric Adaptations Within the Arid Zone of Australia
ISBN: 9781879621077 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In this book, Veth develops a model of settlement and subsistence in the Western Desert of Australia, drawing on his own archaeological investigations, as well as ethnographic and environmental data. Building on this model, he concludes with a plausible reconstruction of the colonization of the harsh, arid interior of this continent.
In this book, Veth develops a model of settlement and subsistence in the Western Desert of Australia, drawing on his own archaeological investigations...
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687,32 zł |
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Ray Parkin on a POW's Survival
ISBN: 9780522851960 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) At risk of death, prisoner of war Ray Parkin secretly kept a journal of the months in 1943-44 he spent working on the Thai-Burma Railway. His account, first published as "Into the Smother", received international acclaim for its restrained but realistic depiction of POWs living, working and dying in a Japanese camp deep in the Thai jungle. It was hailed by the legendary literary critic Max Harris as 'probably the finest POW writing in English'. "The MUP Masterworks" series celebrates distinguished Australian writers and ideas. Each volume contains an extract from a literary work of enduring...
At risk of death, prisoner of war Ray Parkin secretly kept a journal of the months in 1943-44 he spent working on the Thai-Burma Railway. His account,...
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57,67 zł |
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John Joseph Griffin: The Life and Times of an Irish Emigrant
ISBN: 9780957122901 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries many millions of Irish people left their homeland in search of a better life overseas. This is the story of one emigrant, John Joseph "Jack" Griffin who, in the year 1900, left his job as a shop assistant in Co. Kerry and embarked on a two-month journey by sea to the other side of the world. He settled in Western Australia and having worked as a drover for a number of years finally became the owner of a 200,000 acre sheep station. In 1909 he married Mary Glass, an immigrant from Northern Ireland. Following the untimely death of his wife he enlisted in...
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries many millions of Irish people left their homeland in search of a better life overseas. This is the story of ...
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85,62 zł |
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The Art of the First Fleet : And Other Early Australian Drawings
ISBN: 9780300041187 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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548,10 zł |
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Australian Between Empires: The Life of Percy Spender
ISBN: 9781848930001 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Part biography, part transnational history, this study details the life and career of Percy Spender, one of Australia's most prominent twentieth-century political figures.
Part biography, part transnational history, this study details the life and career of Percy Spender, one of Australia's most prominent twentieth-centu...
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755,01 zł |
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In Oceania: Visions, Artifacts, Histories
ISBN: 9780822320029 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In this collection of essays, ""Nicholas Thomas, a leading theorist of historical anthropology, explores the historicization of cultural encounters in the region referred to as Oceania. Basing his claims on wide-ranging historical and ethnographic research and building on his celebrated studies of exchange and colonialism in the Pacific, Thomas describes how outsiders and islanders alike have constructed indigenous cultures over the last two hundred years.
"In Oceania" documents and analyzes the "rhetorical artifacts" of explorers, missionaries, fiction and travel writers, and the people... In this collection of essays, ""Nicholas Thomas, a leading theorist of historical anthropology, explores the historicization of cultural encounters in...
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442,60 zł |
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Uncanny Australia: Sacredness and Identity in a Postcolonial Nation
ISBN: 9780522848168 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This text presents Aboriginal sacred sites and the religious post-colonial history of Australia.
This text presents Aboriginal sacred sites and the religious post-colonial history of Australia.
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100,96 zł |
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A History of Australia: Vols 5 & 6: 1888-1935
ISBN: 9780522848991 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The last two volumes in Manning Clark's classic six-volume history of Australia. These two texts cover Federation, the Boer War and World War I's Gallipoli. They finish with the story of an emerging Australian identity at the point of its greatest trial - the outbreak of World War I.
The last two volumes in Manning Clark's classic six-volume history of Australia. These two texts cover Federation, the Boer War and World War I's Gall...
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235,63 zł |
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The Native-Born: The First White Australians
ISBN: 9780522849035 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This beautifully written, absorbing and thoughtful book tells the story of the first white Australians. Born before 1850. Most were the children of convicts. They had no access to land and no education, and free settlers generally treated them with contempt, as second-rate citizens.
This beautifully written, absorbing and thoughtful book tells the story of the first white Australians. Born before 1850. Most were the children of co...
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120,19 zł |
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The Cruise of HMS Calliope in China, Australian and East African Waters, 1887-1890
ISBN: 9781108045889 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Arthur Cornwallis Evans (1860 1935) was chaplain on the steamship HMS Calliope on a three-year voyage to Asia and Australia (January 1887 to April 1890) that covered 76,814 nautical miles (88,395 miles), with more than 500 days spent at sea. He compiled this lively account of the voyage at the request of his shipmates, drawing information from several of their journals, and published it in Portsmouth in 1890 before the crew dispersed. It contains both brief factual entries about the progress of the voyage and more sustained descriptions of life on board ship and in port, including some naval...
Arthur Cornwallis Evans (1860 1935) was chaplain on the steamship HMS Calliope on a three-year voyage to Asia and Australia (January 1887 to April 189...
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194,15 zł |
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Botany Bay: The Real Story
ISBN: 9781863955546 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) For the first time in two hundred years, here is a full and authentic account of the beginnings of modern Australia. We all know the conventional story. Established as a dumping ground for Britain's criminals, Australia owes its existence simply to overcrowded jails and a daunting remoteness from everywhere else. In Botany Bay: The Real Story, Alan Frost goes beyond these cliches to shed new light on the decision to settle New South Wales. He examines the hopes and fears of the politicians who took the decision, and the larger commercial and military needs that underwrote it. In the years...
For the first time in two hundred years, here is a full and authentic account of the beginnings of modern Australia. We all know the conventional stor...
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72,10 zł |
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Remapping the Future: History, Culture and Environment in Australia and India
ISBN: 9781443850612 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The first decade of the twenty-first century has seen an increasing trend in the field of Australian Studies for scholars to situate their research within a broader international context and conversation. In some cases, this involves exploring how concepts developed in other national contexts can be employed to illuminate aspects of the Australian experience; in others, the focus is on the transnational movement of people and ideas between Australia and the rest of the world. This collection of essays represents a selection of this recent scholarship, particularly in relation to conversations...
The first decade of the twenty-first century has seen an increasing trend in the field of Australian Studies for scholars to situate their research wi...
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208,23 zł |
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Searching for the Beaumont Children: Australia's Most Famous Unsolved Mystery
ISBN: 9781740311069 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) On Wednesday, 26 January 1966 -Australia Day- the three Beaumont children left their home in the Adelaide suburb of Somerton Park for a morning at the beach. By the end of the day, the worst fears of every Australian parent were realised when Jane, aged 9, her sister Arnna, 7, and their four-year-old brother, Grant, did not return home. The -Beaumont Children Case- remains Australia's most famous unsolved mystery. The unknown fate of the three siblings has become an integral part of Australia's urban mythology. More than any other crime, the disappearance of the Beaumont children has become...
On Wednesday, 26 January 1966 -Australia Day- the three Beaumont children left their home in the Adelaide suburb of Somerton Park for a morning at the...
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150,10 zł |
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Image of Australia
ISBN: 9780292744240 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This volume, originally published as a special issue of The Texas Quarterly in 1962, contains a collection of Australian literature and essays on Australian culture. This volume, originally published as a special issue of The Texas Quarterly in 1962, contains a collection of Australian literature an... |
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135,32 zł |
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Nationalism in Asia: A History Since 1945
ISBN: 9780470673010 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Using a comparative, interdisciplinary approach, Nationalism in Asia analyzes currents of nationalism in five contemporary Asian societies: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea.
Using a comparative, interdisciplinary approach, Nationalism in Asia analyzes currents of nationalism in five contemporary Asian societies: ... |
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355,99 zł |
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Narrative of Some Passages in the History of Van Diemen's Land: During the Last Three Years of Sir John Franklin's Administration of Its Government
ISBN: 9781108049757 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The famous explorer of the Arctic region, Sir John Franklin (1786 1847) was appointed Governor of the penal colony of Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen's Land) in 1837. At first enthusiastically welcomed by the free colonists of the island, Franklin quickly became embroiled in political and administrative difficulties, and his compassion for convicts and aboriginals alike was incompatible with his duties. In 1843, colonial officials loyal to his predecessor succeeded in getting Franklin recalled by sending damaging accounts of his conduct to London. This pamphlet was Franklin's defence of...
The famous explorer of the Arctic region, Sir John Franklin (1786 1847) was appointed Governor of the penal colony of Tasmania (then known as Van Diem...
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154,16 zł |
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With the Lost Legion in New Zealand: the War Against the Maoris 1866-71
ISBN: 9780857068569 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The War against the Maoris of New Zealand
The author of this book, sometimes known as 'Maori Browne, ' had a long career as a colonial soldier. He left posterity with three books based either on his career or the experiences of men he knew. They focus on warfare as experienced by men like himself-tough, resourceful individuals who enjoyed fighting and were expert marksmen, horsemen and seasoned campaigners. Irrespective of who they were and where they fought Browne affectionately refers to them as the 'Lost Legion'-those upon whose blood and toil the British Empire (in his opinion) was... The War against the Maoris of New Zealand
The author of this book, sometimes known as 'Maori Browne, ' had a long career as a colonial soldier. H... |
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139,48 zł |
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