Illicit Love is a history of love, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and settler citizens at the heart of two settler colonial nations, the United States and Australia. Award-winning hist……続きを見る
This book provides a thoroughly researched biography of the naval career of Matthew Flinders, with particular emphasis on his importance for the maritime discovery of Australia. Sailing in the wake ……続きを見る
出版社: Monash University Publishing
発売日: 2016年10月01日
While the Great War raged, Australians were twice asked to vote on the question of military conscription for overseas service. The recourse to popular referendum on such an issue at such a time was ……続きを見る
著者:Shirley Xanthos
出版社: Prahran Mechanics’ Institute
発売日: 2017年05月01日
Thousands of years ago humans discovered that by heating rocks in a fire they could make better weapons for hunting for food. With time people became intelligent enough to improve on these processes……続きを見る
First published in 1870 under its much longer subtitle, Travels in Southern Waters is based on the journals of Lieutenant the Hon. Herbert Meade and his time served on HMS Curaçoa and HMS Esk. He sp……続きを見る
First published in 1873, Pakeha Rambles Through Maori Lands is an account of life in early colonial New Zealand as seen through the eyes of John H. H. St. John. When St. John arrived in New Zealand,……続きを見る
著者:Keith Dunstan
出版社: Allen & Unwin
発売日: 2017年05月24日
You probably have a tin of shoe polish tucked under the laundry sink bearing the little bird logo that has been in homes around the globe for over a century. Founded in Melbourne by William Ramsay i……続きを見る
Four years before the inaugural Tour de France, four cyclists known as 'Overlanders' set out on a race around Australia.
On 24 November 1896 a wiry and wily bushman named Arthur Richardson left Cool……続きを見る
Alan Turing saved millions of lives. But Bletchley Park wasn’t the only major code-breaking operation during World War II. Down under, there was Central Bureau.
Central Bureau ー Australia’s own lar……続きを見る
In recent decades historians have studied several new aspects of early modern naval history and placed it in a wider context than traditional studies of naval warfare. This volume brings together 23……続きを見る
Presenting the history of the inhabitants of the Pacific Islands from first colonization until the spread of European colonial rule in the later 19th century, this volume focuses specifically on Pac……続きを見る
Autobiography of Colin Crump
To celebrate Colin Crump's eightieth birthday, and to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of his brother Barry Crump's death, CP Books have re-released In Endless Fear……続きを見る
著者:Gordon Smith
出版社: Gordon Smith
発売日: 2017年07月23日
This book is on the life of a family during the First World War. The Family that went to War” is set back in the early 1900’s during wartime. The story follows six Australian family members as they ……続きを見る
Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony.
The story ……続きを見る
著者:Jane C. Goodale
出版社: University of Washington Press
発売日: 2017年05月01日
Melanesia has been the research focus of some of anthropology’s legendary names. In the best tradition of Melanesian scholarship, Jane Goodale writes here of the Kaulong who live in the deep forests……続きを見る
著者:Gordon Smith
出版社: Gordon Smith
発売日: 2017年07月23日
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“Una famiglia in guerra” è ambientato agli inizi del ‘900 durante il periodo della prima guerra mondiale. La storia segue le vicissitudini di sei componenti di una famiglia au……続きを見る
著者:Thomas Richardson
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2017年06月30日
In 2002, Governor General Michael Jeffrey stated that 'we Australians had everything under control in Phuoc Tuy Province'. This referred not only to military control, but to the policy of 'pacificat……続きを見る
Science, Sexuality, and Race in the United States and Australia, 1780–1940, Revised Edition is a sociohistorical tour de force that examines the entwined formation of racial theory and sexual constr……続きを見る
著者:Mr Paul Irish
出版社: NewSouth Publishing
発売日: 2017年05月01日
Contrary to what you may think, local Aboriginal people did not lose their culture and die out within decades of Governor Phillip's arrival in Sydney in 1788.
Aboriginal people are prominent in acco……続きを見る
The first ever book devoted entirely to the golden years of the Sydney underworld.
In the late 1960s Sydney was one of the most prosperous places on earth and one of the most corrupt. A large propor……続きを見る
出版社: Monash University Publishing
発売日: 2016年11月01日
Muchof the scholarship on the Great War, and especially the Dardanelles/anakkalecampaign, has been viewed through a narrow national prism and focusedexclusively on military aspects of the engagement……続きを見る
A lively and engaging portrait of a towering and complex figure of Australian colonial history.
Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping Australia's destiny, transforming the harsh, foreboding pen……続きを見る
'Marsh knows how to spin a yarn' - Gold Coast Bulletin
Whether they're carting produce, stock, fuel, or even (unbeknown to them) dead bodies, there's one thing that can be said about outback truckie……続きを見る
From electro-convulsive therapy to epilepsy, from criminal lunacy to community care, Unfortunate Folks: Essays on Mental Health Treatment, 1863-1992, opens windows on to the history of mental health……続きを見る
'Life is long. When you're forty-eight, there's been a lot of stuff that's happened (laughs). It's got elements of comedy and there are elements of heartache and drama and thriller and it's got so m……続きを見る
著者:Tristan Moss
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2017年06月30日
Based around the Pacific Islands Regiment, the Australian Army's units in Papua New Guinea had a dual identity: integral to Australia's defence, but also part of its largest colony, and viewed as a ……続きを見る
The all-time classic telling of life in the 1960s Hauraki Gulf
In 1964 trailblazing author Shirley Maddock and photographer Don Whyte made an extraordinary voyage around the Hauraki Gulf, documentin……続きを見る
著者:Steven Bullard
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2017年07月31日
This volume of The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations recounts the activities of Australia's military forces in response to overseas natural disas……続きを見る
An immigrant's tale of an untamed country
Alexander Gibson, my father, was a young Englishman who with his brother settled in Australia in the 1920s. The brothers each married one of the Solomon sis……続きを見る
In Karl Emil Franzos' Werk 'Reise- und Kulturbilder aus den Vogesen' werden Leser auf eine faszinierende Reise durch die Vogesen mitgenommen. Durch detaillierte Beschreibungen der Landschaft und der……続きを見る