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Fighting the Enemy: Australian Soldiers and their Adversaries in World War II
ISBN: 9780521782227 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Fighting the Enemy is about men with the job of killing each other. Based on the wartime writings of hundreds of Australian front-line soldiers during World War II, this powerful and resonant book contains many moving descriptions of high emotion and drama. Soldiers' interactions with their enemies are central to war, and their attitudes to their adversaries are crucial to the way wars are fought. This book is an unprecedented and thorough examination of the way Australian combat soldiers interacted with troops from the four powers engaged in World War II.
Fighting the Enemy is about men with the job of killing each other. Based on the wartime writings of hundreds of Australian front-line soldiers during...
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325,10 zł |
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Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact
ISBN: 9780521851374 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In January 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales, Australia and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their new neighbors. Dancing with Strangers tells the story of what happened between the first British settlers of Australia and these Aborigines. Inga Clendinnen interprets the earliest written sources, and the reports, letters and journals of the first British settlers in Australia. She reconstructs the difficult path to friendship and conciliation pursued by Arthur Phillip and the local leader 'Bennelong' (Baneelon) that was ultimately destroyed by...
In January 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales, Australia and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their ...
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374,15 zł |
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A History of Queensland
ISBN: 9780521876926 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A History of Queensland is the first single volume analysis of Queensland's past, stretching from the time of earliest human habitation up to the present. It encompasses pre-contact Aboriginal history, the years of convictism, free settlement and subsequent urban and rural growth. It takes the reader through the tumultuous frontier and Federation years, the World Wars, the Cold War, the controversial Bjelke-Petersen era and on, beyond the beginning of the new millennium. It reveals Queensland as a sprawling, harsh, diverse and conflictual place, where the struggles of race, ethnicity, class,...
A History of Queensland is the first single volume analysis of Queensland's past, stretching from the time of earliest human habitation up to the pres...
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403,57 zł |
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South Melbourne: A History
ISBN: 9780522846645 / Angielski / Miękka / 455 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) South Melbourne is a state of mind. Once you live there, you don't want to shift. Doris Condon, South Melbourne resident from 1942 until her death in 1979, Mayor 1969 to 1970. The first of Melbourne's suburbs to adopt fuoll municipal status, South Melbourne has also been at the forefront of many of the forces that have shaped both the local and national landscapes. Having seen its Aboriginal inhabitants displaced by European settlers, what became of one of Melbourne's first industrial suburbs then underwent a shift from manufacturing to commercial industry after the Second World War before...
South Melbourne is a state of mind. Once you live there, you don't want to shift. Doris Condon, South Melbourne resident from 1942 until her death in ...
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152,51 zł |
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The Rocks: Everyday Life in Early Sydney 1788-1830
ISBN: 9780522848441 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Winner of the NSW Premier's Award for nonfiction 1997. Shows the Rocks as a place very different from the usual images of a brutal colony. Showing rather a preindustrial town, a face-to-face society, marked more by movement and opportunity than coercion, discipline and punishment. Hardcover ISBN 0522847226 $34.95.
Winner of the NSW Premier's Award for nonfiction 1997. Shows the Rocks as a place very different from the usual images of a brutal colony. Showing rat...
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91,49 zł |
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A History of Australia: Volumes I & II: From Earliest Times to 1838
ISBN: 9780522848977 / Angielski / Miękka / 812 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The first two volumes of Manning Clark's classic six-volume history of Australia. These two texts deal with the pre-white settlement era and the earliest years of European colonisation through to the establishment of an increasingly settled society and the expeditions of the inland explorers.
The first two volumes of Manning Clark's classic six-volume history of Australia. These two texts deal with the pre-white settlement era and the earli...
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234,49 zł |
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A History of Australia: Volumes III and IV: 1824-1888
ISBN: 9780522848984 / Angielski / Miękka / 950 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The third and fourth volumes in Manning Clark's classic six-volume history of Australia. These two texts explore the years 1824 to 1888, taking the story of Australia through the momentous discovery of gold to the centenary of the coming of European civilization to Australia.
The third and fourth volumes in Manning Clark's classic six-volume history of Australia. These two texts explore the years 1824 to 1888, taking the st...
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234,49 zł |
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Australia's Bid for the Atomic Bomb
ISBN: 9780522849141 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This very important work is a fundamental rewriting of Australian history from 1943 to 1968. It argues that after World War II, Australian defence policy was premised on Joint nuclear weapons development with the United Kingdom; and that while this endeavour failed, it shaped domestic and foreign policy until the end of the 1950s. Nuclear weapons have traditionally been seen as American and British concerns, and various official histories have held that the development of rockets and atomic weapon testing were essentially British exercises. But author Wayne Reynolds reveals an entirely new...
This very important work is a fundamental rewriting of Australian history from 1943 to 1968. It argues that after World War II, Australian defence pol...
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119,61 zł |
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Invisible Invaders: Smallpox and Other Diseases in Aboriginal Australia 1780-1880
ISBN: 9780522849394 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Judy Campbell argues that epidemics of smallpox among Australian Aboriginals preceed European settlement. She believed they originated in regular visits to the northern coast of Australia by Macassan fishermen from southern Sulawesi and nearby islands.
Judy Campbell argues that epidemics of smallpox among Australian Aboriginals preceed European settlement. She believed they originated in regular visi...
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167,52 zł |
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Eureka: New Illustrated Edition
ISBN: 9780522849622 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Before dawn on 3 December 1854, colonial troopers at Ballarat attacked a group of gold miners who had thrown up a stockade in defiance and defence. Some diggers had guns, but many were unarmed; some twenty of them were killed, along with four troopers. In the decades that followed, the truth of what happened that morning became obscured by partisans on both sides. For many years the Eureka Stockade was regarded as a shameful event and almost forgotten; more recently, it has been celebrated as a righteous stand against injustice. John Molony's Eureka vividly recreates the story of Eureka and...
Before dawn on 3 December 1854, colonial troopers at Ballarat attacked a group of gold miners who had thrown up a stockade in defiance and defence. So...
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119,61 zł |
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The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining
ISBN: 9780522850093 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Australian landscape is littered with mines. This text tells the story of Australia's mineral discoveries, describes the giants of its mining history and records the tremendous influence that mining has had on its attitudes to unionism, religion, law and politics.
The Australian landscape is littered with mines. This text tells the story of Australia's mineral discoveries, describes the giants of its mining hist...
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133,97 zł |
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Losing the Blanket: Australia and the End of Britain's Empire
ISBN: 9780522850284 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) An account of British decolonization and its aftermath. It discusses its implications for Australian policies in the key areas of defence in Southeast Asia, the politics of the Commonwealth, the European Union, Australia's own colonial policy and the bilateral relationship with Britain itself.
An account of British decolonization and its aftermath. It discusses its implications for Australian policies in the key areas of defence in Southeast...
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119,61 zł |
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Mariners Are Warned!: John Lort Stokes and "H. M. S. Beagle" in Australia 1837-1843
ISBN: 9780522850444 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In 1837, John Lort Stokes was commissioned by the British Hydrographic Office to chart unknown parts of the Australian coastline in the H.M.S. Beagle, the sailing ship that Charles Darwin made famous. Thus began the oceanic career of the last Royal Navy surveyor and a great Australian seaman whose stories are recounted in this biography. Through his travels, Stokes circumnavigated Australia twice, discovered the Fitzroy, Albert, and Flinders rivers, and charted a graveyard of sailing ships known as Bass Strait. Stokes's adventures are told by an experienced seaman who captures a sailor's awe...
In 1837, John Lort Stokes was commissioned by the British Hydrographic Office to chart unknown parts of the Australian coastline in the H.M.S. Beagle,...
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142,34 zł |
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A History of Port Phillip District: Victoria Before Separation
ISBN: 9780522850642 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The period from the first temporary convict camp of 1803 to the formal separation of Victoria from New South Wales in 1851 encompasses years of struggle and adversity. They saw the future of the territory shaped by Aborigines, whalers, adventurers, squatters, speculators and immigrants.
The period from the first temporary convict camp of 1803 to the formal separation of Victoria from New South Wales in 1851 encompasses years of strugg...
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167,48 zł |
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The French Consul's Wife: Memoirs of Celeste de Chabrillan in Gold-Rush Australia
ISBN: 9780522850666 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This memoir of Celeste de Chabrillan, former Parisian courtesan, circus performer, dancer, and wife of the French consul, offers a firsthand account of the years she spent in gold rush Victoria during the middle of the 19th century. De Chabrillan recounts stories of her childhood in the village of St. Kilda, her time spent in the Ballarat gold field, and her attendance of a public hanging and Governor Hotham's "beer ball." The publication of this memoir, which includes descriptions of her illegitimate birth, miserable adolescence, and celebrity career as a bareback rider and polka dancer,...
This memoir of Celeste de Chabrillan, former Parisian courtesan, circus performer, dancer, and wife of the French consul, offers a firsthand account o...
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119,61 zł |
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Ray Parkin's Wartime Trilogy: Out of the Smoke/Into the Smother/The Sword and the Blossom
ISBN: 9780522850673 / Angielski / Miękka / 972 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Both the courage and the inhumanity displayed during wartime are chronicled in these three diaries penned by Ray Parkin, who served during World War II. Engaging narratives and pictures detail his experience on the "HMAS Perth in the Sunda Strait battle with the Japanese naval force that eventually sunk his ship. Also recounted are Parkin's 15 months as a prisoner of war, during which he helped construct the Burma-Siam railway. Details of his final 12 months of captivity in a crowded tramp steamer reveal the endurance of soldiers who survived submarine attacks and weathered a typhoon. These...
Both the courage and the inhumanity displayed during wartime are chronicled in these three diaries penned by Ray Parkin, who served during World War I...
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71,15 zł |
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Scandal in the Colonies: Sydney & Cape Town, 1820-1850
ISBN: 9780522850758 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Explores how colonial societies offered European settlers the opportunity to invent new identities. This book uncovers the stories of two port towns that were rife with gossip and dubious reputations. It argues that scandal influenced imperial policy and became a key element in the emergence of societies divided by class and race.
Explores how colonial societies offered European settlers the opportunity to invent new identities. This book uncovers the stories of two port towns t...
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153,11 zł |
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Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History
ISBN: 9780522851144 / Angielski / Miękka / 415 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This definitive account explores the treaties made between white settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia and the different ways in which the two groups interpreted those acts of possession. Questions such as "Why were these agreements forged?""How did the Aborigines understand the terms of the agreements?" and "On what basis did whites claim to be the rightful owners of the land?" are thoroughly discussed as well as the ways the settlers rewrote history to remove mention of the destruction and displacement of the Aborigines.
This definitive account explores the treaties made between white settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia and the different ways in which the two g...
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111,11 zł |
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The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne
ISBN: 9780522851236 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) With a new preface and epilogue and a collection of picture essays by contemporary writers, this updated edition explores the economic, political, social, and cultural consequences of the economic rise and fall of Melbourne during the 1880s.
With a new preface and epilogue and a collection of picture essays by contemporary writers, this updated edition explores the economic, political, soc...
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167,48 zł |
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A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific: The Formation of Identities
ISBN: 9780631218739 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book provides an arresting interpretation of the history of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific from the earliest settlements to the present. Usually viewed in isolation, these societies are covered here in a single account, in which the authors show how the peoples of the region constructed their own identities and influenced those of their neighbours.
By broadening the focus to the regional level, this volume develops analyses - of economic, social and political history - which transcend national boundaries. The result is a compelling work which both describes the... This book provides an arresting interpretation of the history of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific from the earliest settlements to the present. ...
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217,71 zł |
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