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Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia
ISBN: 9780521805957 / Angielski / Twarda / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A team of prominent historians and curators have produced this innovative cultural history of gold and its impact on the development of Australian society. Throughout history, gold has been the "stuff" of legends, fortunes, conflict and change. The discovery of gold in Australia 150 years ago precipitated enormous developments in the newly settled land. The population and economy boomed in spontaneous cities. The effects on both the environment and indigenous Aboriginal peoples have been profound and lasting.
A team of prominent historians and curators have produced this innovative cultural history of gold and its impact on the development of Australian soc...
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405,87 zł |
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The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, its People and their Origins
ISBN: 9780521807890 / Angielski / Twarda / 1010 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Documenting the dramatic history of Australian settlement, this monumental work describes the rich ethnic and cultural inheritance of the nation through the contributions of its people. It is one of the largest reference works of its kind, with approximately 250 contributors and almost one million words. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and- white, the book is both a comprehensive encyclopedia and a survey of the controversial debates about citizenship and multiculturalism now that Australia has attained the centenary of its federation. A first edition, which appeared in 1988, quickly...
Documenting the dramatic history of Australian settlement, this monumental work describes the rich ethnic and cultural inheritance of the nation throu...
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474,93 zł |
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The Germans in Australia
ISBN: 9780521612432 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Germans have played a significant part in Australian history since 1788. For the first hundred years of European settlement they were the largest ethnic group on the continent, contributing to the development of the hinterlands of Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria. Today there are an estimated 700,000 people in Australia of German descent. In the first hundred years of European settlement in Australia they were welcomed as industrious settlers and daring pioneers, skilful scientists and respected members of the medical and legal professions. Although two world wars...
Germans have played a significant part in Australian history since 1788. For the first hundred years of European settlement they were the largest ethn...
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193,75 zł |
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John Devoy's Catalpa Expedition
ISBN: 9780814727744 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The story of John Devoy's 1876 Catalpa rescue is a tale of heroism, creativity, and the triumph of independent spirit in pursuit of freedom. The daily log on board the whaling ship Catalpa begins with the typical recount of a crew intact and a spirit unfettered, but such quiet words deceive the truth of the audacious enterprise that came to be known as one of the most important rescues in Irish American history. John Devoy's men rescued six Irish political prisoners from the Australian coast, allowing millions of fellow Irishmen and American-Fenians, many of whom... The story of John Devoy's 1876 Catalpa rescue is a tale of heroism, creativity, and the triumph of independent spirit in pursuit of freed... |
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109,29 zł |
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The Rule of Law in a Penal Colony: Law and Politics in Early New South Wales
ISBN: 9780521372640 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book, written by a lawyer and unique for its perspective based in both legal and social history, illuminates the important role played by the concept of the rule of law in the transformation of New South Wales from a penal colony to a free society. The convicts had first-hand experience of criminal law, but all the settlers were part of a culture that emphasized the rule of law as the guarantee of its fundamental political value, British liberty. Dr. Neal outlines the interaction between law and politics in early New South Wales, where because there were no official political structures,...
This book, written by a lawyer and unique for its perspective based in both legal and social history, illuminates the important role played by the con...
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445,33 zł |
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The Many Lives of Kenneth Myer
ISBN: 9780522855463 / Angielski / Miękka / 670 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) When Kenneth Baillieu Myer's father fell dead on the footpath in 1934, Ken's life changed in that instant. Groomed by his mother to lead the Myer empire, Ken with his brother oversaw Myer's failure as a major retailing force and sold it to Coles. This biography is about money: making it, giving it and its responsibilities.
When Kenneth Baillieu Myer's father fell dead on the footpath in 1934, Ken's life changed in that instant. Groomed by his mother to lead the Myer empi...
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206,78 zł |
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To the Islands: White Australia and the Malay Archipelago Since 1788
ISBN: 9780739120514 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) 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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559,06 zł |
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Great Southern Land : A New History of Australia
ISBN: 9780140291322 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Original, provocative and entertaining, Great Southern Land provides the most comprehensive one-volume history of this endlessly fascinating nation.
Original, provocative and entertaining, Great Southern Land provides the most comprehensive one-volume history of this endlessly fascinating nation.
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131,49 zł |
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The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South Wales: Mixture of Breeds
ISBN: 9780333584590 / Angielski / Miękka / 373 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This study explores the pre-history of Irish convict transportation to New South Wales which began with the Queen in April 1791. It traces earlier attempts to revive the trans-Atlantic convict trade and the frustrated efforts by Irish authorities to join in the Botany Bay scheme after 1786. The nine Irish shipments to North America and the West Indies are described in detail for the first time, including the dramatic outcomes in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and the Leeward Islands which eventually forced the Home Office to find space for Irish convicts on the Third Fleet. These events are...
This study explores the pre-history of Irish convict transportation to New South Wales which began with the Queen in April 1791. It traces earlier att...
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384,63 zł |
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The Fox Boy : The Story of an Abducted Child
ISBN: 9780747558057 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Mutual kidnapping between the Maori and the English inhabitants in New Zealand had dated back to the 1769s. In 1869, after an English defeat in battle in the Taranaki forest, one more Maori boy, aged five, was captured. This little captive was to be adopted by the prime minister and educated to become a lawyer and an English gentleman. Photographed, just a few days after his kidnap wearing a fine English suit and boots, the boy stands beside a vase of flowers and a weighty book placed on an abony stand, looking as if he's seen a ghost.
Mutual kidnapping between the Maori and the English inhabitants in New Zealand had dated back to the 1769s. In 1869, after an English defeat in battle...
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93,12 zł |
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British Imperialism and Australian Nationalism: Manipulation, Conflict and Compromise in the Late Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780521436045 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book examines the relationship of the Australian colonies with Britain and the Empire in the late nineteenth century, and looks at the beginnings of Australian nationalism. It is the first detailed study of the formative period 1880-1900. As the debate about an Australian Republic becomes more heated, this book is a timely reexamination of the colonial character of Australia's federation and Australia's incorporation into an imperial framework.
This book examines the relationship of the Australian colonies with Britain and the Empire in the late nineteenth century, and looks at the beginnings...
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188,77 zł |
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Australia's China: Changing Perceptions from the 1930s to the 1990s
ISBN: 9780521484978 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Australia's China explores the multifaceted and dynamic Australian encounter with China from the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the present. This relationship, which was variously enriching, baffling and antagonistic, is traced through official papers, literature, film and interviews. Both popular and official reactions to China are examined, highlighting aspects of Australian identity and self-image. The competing and shifting perceptions of China also reflect the broader East-West encounter.
Australia's China explores the multifaceted and dynamic Australian encounter with China from the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the pre...
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245,25 zł |
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To Constitute a Nation: A Cultural History of Australia's Constitution
ISBN: 9780521668972 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This imaginative and resonant book looks at the constitution as a cultural artifact. Irving looks beyond the well-known events, places and figures to locate federation and the constitution in the context of broader social, political and cultural changes. Despite its paradoxical construction, there is something uniquely Australian about the constitution, and it marked a utopian moment as the old century gave way to the new. Irving analyzes the background and outcomes of the recent Constitutional Convention and considers its significance for Australia's future. A new chapter covers the...
This imaginative and resonant book looks at the constitution as a cultural artifact. Irving looks beyond the well-known events, places and figures to ...
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169,08 zł |
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Deliberative Democracy in Australia: The Changing Place of Parliament
ISBN: 9780521624589 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book evaluates the role and performance of the Australian parliament. It explores its institutional design and its principles and practices, presenting a compelling case for reform. Uhr looks at the place of representative assemblies in liberal political theory and examines ways in which deliberative democracy might be made more effective and meaningful in Australia. Combining political theory with first-hand knowledge of the Australian parliament, the author makes an important contribution to debates in Australia and internationally.
This book evaluates the role and performance of the Australian parliament. It explores its institutional design and its principles and practices, pres...
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415,73 zł |
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Labour and Gold in Fiji
ISBN: 9780521363723 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book is a study of an important aspect of Pacific history and political economy, the mining of gold and the development of an indigenous labor force in Fiji from 1930 to 1970. The book focuses on the town of Vatukoula, which is in the northwest of Fiji's largest island Viti Levu and is the country's only company mining town. Labour and Gold in Fiji examines the mechanics of the labor market but also focuses on the ordinary working lives, experiences and struggles of the mining community. By examining the impact of gold mining in Fiji, 'Atu Emberson-Bain extracts a number of important...
This book is a study of an important aspect of Pacific history and political economy, the mining of gold and the development of an indigenous labor fo...
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371,33 zł |
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Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership
ISBN: 9780521773546 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This extraordinary book explores the feelings of non-Aboriginal Australians as they articulate their sense of belonging to the land. Peter Read asks the pivotal questions: What is the meaning of places important to non-Aboriginal Australians from which the Indigenous people have already been dispossessed? How are contemporary Australians thinking through the problem of knowing that their places of attachment are also the places that Aboriginals loved--and lost? And are the sites of all our deep affections to be contested, articulated, shared, foregone or possessed absolutely?
This extraordinary book explores the feelings of non-Aboriginal Australians as they articulate their sense of belonging to the land. Peter Read asks t...
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371,33 zł |
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Criminal Law and Colonial Subject
ISBN: 9780521403795 / Angielski / Twarda / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book explores the relationship of a colonial people with English law and looks at the way in which the practice of law developed among the ordinary population. Paula Jane Byrne traces the boundaries among property, sexuality and violence, drawing from court records, dispositions and proceedings. She asks: What did ordinary people understand by guilt, suspicion, evidence and the term "offense"? She illuminates the values and beliefs of the emerging colonial consciousness and the complexity of power relations in the colony. The book reconstructs the legal process with great tetail and...
This book explores the relationship of a colonial people with English law and looks at the way in which the practice of law developed among the ordina...
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627,85 zł |
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The Country of Lost Children: An Australian Anxiety
ISBN: 9780521594400 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The figure of the lost child has haunted the Australian imagination. Peter Pierce's original and sometimes shocking study The Country of Lost Children traces this ambivalent and disturbing history. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from poetry, fiction and newspaper reports to paintings and films, The Country of Lost Children analyzes the cultural and moral implications of the lost child in Australian history and illuminates a crucial aspect of our present condition. At its core are confronting, often troubling, questions about childhood itself.
The figure of the lost child has haunted the Australian imagination. Peter Pierce's original and sometimes shocking study The Country of Lost Children...
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509,46 zł |
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Australian Brass
ISBN: 9780521401579 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Sir Horace Robertson was one of Australia's most colorful and controversial generals. His career spanned forty years and two world wars, as well as a lengthy period in both Japan and Korea between 1946 and 1951. Australian Brass not only charts the life and career of "Red Robbie," it uses his career as a vehicle to trace the development of the Australian regular army and the professional officer corps. It is also the first account of the occupation of Japan from a senior officer's perspective, as Robertson was Commander-in-Chief of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force after the Second...
Sir Horace Robertson was one of Australia's most colorful and controversial generals. His career spanned forty years and two world wars, as well as a ...
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405,87 zł |
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Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-War Australia
ISBN: 9780521802185 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This very moving book, based on oral testimonies, focuses on the shifting patterns of mourning and grief in the experiences of Australian women who lost their husbands during the Second World War and the wars in Korea and Vietnam.
This very moving book, based on oral testimonies, focuses on the shifting patterns of mourning and grief in the experiences of Australian women who lo...
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405,87 zł |
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