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Charles Dickens' Australia: Selected Essays from Household Words 1850-1859 : Book Three: Frontier Stories
ISBN: 9781920898694 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Charles Dickens is little celebrated as a journalist, yet his career spanned nearly 40 years. Starting as a court reporter, parliamentary newspaper columnist and theatre critic, he developed an instinct for injustice, humbug and charade. For 20 years he edited his own weekly journal, Household Words, later known as All the Year Round, publishing articles and stories designed to be interesting, entertaining, and educational. Dickens had a keen interest in Australia and fortuitously began publishing the periodical at a transitional moment, just before the heady days of the 1850s gold rush set...
Charles Dickens is little celebrated as a journalist, yet his career spanned nearly 40 years. Starting as a court reporter, parliamentary newspaper co...
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120,19 zł |
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Charles Dickens' Australia: Selected Essays from Household Words 1850-1859 : Book Five: Maritime Conditions
ISBN: 9781920899264 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Charles Dickens is little celebrated as a journalist, yet his career spanned nearly 40 years. Starting as a court reporter, parliamentary newspaper columnist and theatre critic, he developed an instinct for injustice, humbug and charade. For 20 years he edited his own weekly journal, Household Words, later known as All the Year Round, publishing articles and stories designed to be interesting, entertaining, and educational. Dickens had a keen interest in Australia and fortuitously began publishing the periodical at a transitional moment, just before the heady days of the 1850s gold rush set...
Charles Dickens is little celebrated as a journalist, yet his career spanned nearly 40 years. Starting as a court reporter, parliamentary newspaper co...
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96,15 zł |
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Charles Dickens' Australia: Selected Essays from Household Words 1850-1859 : Book Four: Mining and Gold
ISBN: 9781920899257 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Charles Dickens is little celebrated as a journalist, yet his career spanned nearly 40 years. Starting as a court reporter, parliamentary newspaper columnist and theatre critic, he developed an instinct for injustice, humbug and charade. For 20 years he edited his own weekly journal, Household Words, later known as All the Year Round, publishing articles and stories designed to be interesting, entertaining, and educational. Dickens had a keen interest in Australia and fortuitously began publishing the periodical at a transitional moment, just before the heady days of the 1850s gold rush set...
Charles Dickens is little celebrated as a journalist, yet his career spanned nearly 40 years. Starting as a court reporter, parliamentary newspaper co...
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115,38 zł |
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The Sugarbag Years: An Oral History of the 1930s Depression in New Zealand
ISBN: 9781597406697 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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126,48 zł |
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The Strange Birth of Colonial Democracy: New South Wales, 1848-1884
ISBN: 9781597403016 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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336,91 zł |
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The Sugarbag Years: An Oral History of the 1930s Depression in New Zealand
ISBN: 9781597402989 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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186,61 zł |
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Adelaide and the Country, 1870-1917: Their Social and Political Relationship
ISBN: 9781597402996 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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300,85 zł |
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Convict Society and Its Enemies: A History of Early New South Wales
ISBN: 9781597403009 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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264,77 zł |
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Squatter, Selector, and Storekeeper: A History of the Darling Downs, 1859-93
ISBN: 9781597407908 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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138,51 zł |
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The A to Z of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia
ISBN: 9780810868106 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This engaging reference examines the history of, the search for, and the discovery of Australia, taking full account of the evidence for and the speculation surrounding possible earlier contacts by the Ancient Egyptians, Arabs, and Chinese seamen. Day brings the expeditions to life, expressing the desires that drove great sea captains deeper into turbulent waters searching for caches of spice, silks, and precious metals. Covers a wide variety of topics, including - Seamen from eight nations - The recovery of storm wrecked ships - Diplomatic treaties - Priority of discovery disputes - Military...
This engaging reference examines the history of, the search for, and the discovery of Australia, taking full account of the evidence for and the specu...
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355,02 zł |
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Madness in the Family: Insanity and Institutions in the Australasian Colonial World, 1860-1914
ISBN: 9780230578074 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Madness in the Family explores how colonial families coped with insanity through a trans-colonial study of the relationships between families and public colonial hospitals for the insane in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and New Zealand between 1860 and 1914.
Madness in the Family explores how colonial families coped with insanity through a trans-colonial study of the relationships between families and publ...
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192,30 zł |
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Australia's Empire
ISBN: 9780199563739 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This is the first major collaborative reappraisal of Australia's experience of empire since the end of the British Empire itself.
The volume examines the meaning and importance of empire in Australia across a broad spectrum of historical issues-ranging from the disinheritance of the Aborigines to the foundations of a new democratic state. The overriding theme is the distinctive Australian perspective on empire. The country's adherence to imperial ideals and aspirations involved not merely the building of a 'new Britannia' but also the forging of a distinctive new culture and society. It... This is the first major collaborative reappraisal of Australia's experience of empire since the end of the British Empire itself.
The volume exam... |
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247,97 zł |
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Labour and the Money Power: Australian Labour Populism, 1890-1950
ISBN: 9781597402958 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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270,78 zł |
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Australian Brass
ISBN: 9780521122511 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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184,62 zł |
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Red Coat Dreaming: How Colonial Australia Embraced the British Army
ISBN: 9780521193603 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Red Coat Dreaming tells the story of the affectionate relationship between colonial Australia and the British army.
Red Coat Dreaming tells the story of the affectionate relationship between colonial Australia and the British army.
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203,62 zł |
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Fighting the Enemy: Australian Soldiers and their Adversaries in World War II
ISBN: 9780521119955 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 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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178,82 zł |
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From the Ruins of Colonialism: History as Social Memory
ISBN: 9780521565769 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) From the Ruins of Colonialism throws fresh light on the history of memory, forgetting and colonialism. Focusing on Australia, the book charts how film, public commemorations, history textbooks and museums have, in a strange ensemble, become something called Australian History. It considers key moments of historical imagination, including the legends of Captain Cook and the Eureka Stockade, events such as the 1988 Bicentennial celebrations and the shipwrecked woman Eliza Fraser, whose story reflects anxieties about race and gender. This book argues for a new sense of remembering. Rather than...
From the Ruins of Colonialism throws fresh light on the history of memory, forgetting and colonialism. Focusing on Australia, the book charts how film...
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194,15 zł |
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The Politics of Work: Gender and Labour in Victoria, 1880-1939
ISBN: 9780521457729 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Politics of Work is concerned with the complex relationship between economic and technological change, the nature of sexual division in the workforce, and the role of union, employer and state activists. It carefully traces the impact of all of these factors on wage levels for men and women. The treatment of these themes touches on wide historical issues, as we follow the fortunes of Victorian manufacturing and consider the political strategies of the trade unions of the time and the state's response to them. The study is also an important piece of social history, evoking the nature of...
The Politics of Work is concerned with the complex relationship between economic and technological change, the nature of sexual division in the workfo...
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219,70 zł |
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A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty
ISBN: 9780674052789 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Part regency mystery, part imperial history, this book is a tale of adventure and deceit across two worlds, British aristocrats and Australian felons, bound together in an emerging age of opportunity and individualism, where personal worth was battling power based on birth alone.
Part regency mystery, part imperial history, this book is a tale of adventure and deceit across two worlds, British aristocrats and Australian felons,...
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147,71 zł |
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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 (dostawa przed świętami) 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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359,78 zł |
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