Australia & Oceania 93

Fighting Hard tells a history of the Aborigines Advancement League, the oldest Aboriginal organisation in Australia. As both a welfare and activist body, the League can be seen as the 'mother' of al……続きを見る

The people of Australia and Ireland have much in common based on genealogy and a shared heritage. The connections forged between Anzacs and the Irish in World War I have been little known until now.……続きを見る

In the 1970s the run-down inner-city suburb of Redfern was a gathering place for Aboriginal intellectuals and ambitious young radicals. Having fled poverty and segregation in rural Australia in the ……続きを見る

In 1943, a small band of inexperienced Australian and British fighter pilots fought an ongoing air battle in defense of north-western Australia, flying against a formidably skilled and proficient op……続きを見る

A celebrity decorator with blue hair. A single mother who advised JFK in the Oval Office. A Christian nudist with a passion for almond milk. A century ago, ten Australian women did something remarka……続きを見る

This book is the first to draw extensively on the recently released highly classified notes of the cabinet room discussions of successive Australian Governments from 1950 to the mid-1970s and detail……続きを見る

By the late 1960s, Indigenous education in Australia was in crisis. When Whitlam swept to power in 1972, his Labor government reached out to Indigenous people to guide change at a national level. Th……続きを見る

In 1957, Ella Simon of Purfleet mission near Taree, New South Wales, applied for and was granted a certificate of exemption. Exemption gave her legal freedoms denied to other Indigenous Australians ……続きを見る

The son of Greek migrant parents, Jackomos was born in Collingwood and grew up in the Great Depression, mixing with people from a range of backgrounds. He was at different times a welfare worker and……続きを見る

Brian Butler's grandmother was taken from her family in 1910. She was 12 years old. Twenty years later her daughter, Brian's mother, was taken. Thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander fam……続きを見る

Historically, photographs of Indigenous Australians were produced in unequal and exploitative circumstances. Today, however, such images represent a rich cultural heritage for descendants, who see t……続きを見る

WHY HAS SUCCESS BEEN SO RARE IN AUSTRALIAN REFERENDUMS? From the failed attempt to ban communism in 1951 to the unsuccessful Voice referendum in 2023, Australians have been cautious about constituti……続きを見る

McGregor offers a holistic interpretation of the complex relationship between Indigenous and settler Australians during the middle four decades of the twentieth century. Combining the perspectives o……続きを見る

On 27 May 1967 an overwhelming majority of electors voted in a national referendum to amend clauses of the Australian Constitution concerning Aboriginal people. 27 May 2007 is the 40th anniversary o……続きを見る

Country women and the colour bar is a timely corrective to established ideas about race relations in rural New South Wales by revealing the untold story of grassroots efforts by Aboriginal and white……続きを見る

They built them tough in the old days. Our ancestors' exploits in a new country demonstrate that life was not meant to be easy. This book chronicles the journeys and adventures of tough Queensland p……続きを見る

This book is the result of an honest and humble attempt to record the brief history of the Chamberlain family, in such a way that those who follow have some record of the pioneering spirit of earlie……続きを見る

'I am George Baggs, wrenched from the cradle of my birthing and flung across the sea to this infernal place at the mercy of a pitiless wind ... a place where the western winds howl ceaselessly and r……続きを見る

From the time of the continent's formation tens of millions of years ago as the Godwana twin of Antarctica, Australia has been dominated by fire much as its sister has been by ice. Now Stephen Pyne,……続きを見る

The dramatic history of America's tropical paradise. 続きを見る

This book presents cultural representations of Christ embedded in the imagination and the contested myths of Australian life. The essays attest to the variety and subtlety of neglected or unspoken r……続きを見る

This book examines a significant part of New Zealand history through a critical analysis of the Muslim community in Christchurch, a neglected but important aspect of wider New Zealand social and rel……続きを見る

'Impostor ', 'greedy' and 'incompetent' - Edmund Hammond Hargraves was beloved by few and reviled by many more. Ask google Who discovered gold in Australia? and you'll promptly get 'Edward Hammond H……続きを見る

The Early Pacific and European Narratives of Abel Tasman's 1642 Voyage In this important book, Rüdiger Mack seeks to rebalance our perspective by focusing upon the expedition led by Abel Tasman, in ……続きを見る

When aborigines murdered a sailor from the Dutch ship Duyfken on the west coast of Cape York in 1606, it was the beginning of Australia's 'Race War'! Within weeks, another 9 Duyfken sailors were mur……続きを見る

This book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact between Oceania and the Americas and analyses them from a history of ideas perspective. Despite limited factual evidence, tr……続きを見る

Discover the compelling story of **The Mayflower**, the ship that changed the course of American history forever. In 1620, a group of religious separatists known as the Pilgrims set sail from Englan……続きを見る

'Water will come and you think it will be soft. You think it will be smooth and find its way around your things: your houses and cars and furniture, your gardens and windows and hope. But water can ……続きを見る

The Titanic, a marvel of early 20th-century engineering, captured the world’s imagination with its unprecedented luxury and tragic fate. Billed as the "unsinkable" ship, this grand ocean liner repre……続きを見る

Major re-examination of issues of island identity and interaction with case studies from Crete, Cyprus and Sardinia covering a long time span and key cultural periods. Water may separate islands and……続きを見る