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Volume 2 - Ypres, Winter Western Front and Bullecourt 1916-1917 Unveiling History's Silent Heroes Brendan Bateman's Drummoyne's Great War: Drummoyne War Memorial First World War Biographies is more ……続きを見る

The companion volume to YOUNG HAWKE: the making of a larrikin from the award-winning historian and author of CURTIN and CHIFLEY Bob Hawke was one of the most influential Australians of the twentieth……続きを見る

Volume 3 - Messines, Third Ypres, Palestine, Spring Offensive, The 100 Days Unveiling History's Silent Heroes Brendan Bateman's Drummoyne's Great War: Drummoyne War Memorial First World War Biograph……続きを見る

Volume 1 - Gallipoli, Western Front, Messines, Pozières, Mouquet Farm Unveiling History's Silent Heroes Brendan Bateman's Drummoyne's Great War: Drummoyne War Memorial First World War Biographies is……続きを見る

A book about the people of Paekākāriki, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Includes: The Story of Muaūpoko Ropata Hurumutu: 1805 to 1875 Te Rauparaha –Timeline Kahe Te Rau-o-te-rangi Thomas Bevan The Smiths of ……続きを見る

The Streets of Paekākāriki looks at the historical development of this small village on New Zealand's Kāpiti Coast. Michael O'Leary traces the origins from early Māori settlement through to the arri……続きを見る

Here is the story of Corporal Horrie, mascot for the 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion in World War II. This little Egyptian terrier saw Australian Army service in Egypt, Greece, Crete Syria and Palestine……続きを見る

It was not just the men who lived on the brink of peril when under sail at sea. Lucretia Jansz, who was enslaved as a concubine in 1629, was just one woman who endured a castaway experience. Award-w……続きを見る

The vast Northern Territory itself was the last place authorities envisaged air services. For decades, no operator was able to service the vast outback cost effectively. That is, until John Tilley a……続きを見る

Visions of Nature revives the work of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who shaped the environmental attitudes of settlers in the colonies of the Tasman World and in California. Despit……続きを見る

Braided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii’s Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the arr……続きを見る

In the century from the death of Captain James Cook in 1779 to the rise of the sugar plantations in the 1870s, thousands of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) men left Hawai‘i to work on ships at sea an……続きを見る

The last book in a trilogy of explorations on space and time from a preeminent scholar, The Boundless Sea is Gary Y. Okihiro’s most innovative yet. Whereas Okihiro’s previous books, Island World and……続きを見る

GAVIN LONG FINALLY GETS THE BIOGRAPHY HE RICHLY DESERVES. While Charles Bean is the subject of several major biographies, this is the first life story of his acolyte, war correspondent and editor an……続きを見る

The award-winning author of The Sydney Wars reveals the breadth of frontier resistance warfare. The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance ended in 1824 with a series of massacres conducted by settlers i……続きを見る

The members of the Australian battalion of Gull Force endured some of the harshest prisoner-of-war conditions of any Australian during the Second World War. In February 1942, on the remote island of……続きを見る

Jean Sharp grew up in working class Mayfield, Newcastle, NSW, in the shadow of the BHP steelworks. Her life spanned the steelworks’ very beginnings to nearly its closure in 1999. Jean recalls in rem……続きを見る

Intertextual, passionate and personal throughout, Crowded House's Together Alone is a key addition to the surprisingly limited range of scholarship on one of Australasia's most successful and adored……続きを見る

Challenges the terrestrial focus of European prehistory, emphasizing the significance of seascapes, maritime networks, and coastal societies in shaping prehistoric Europe. For many years now, the ma……続きを見る

This book describes William Dawes’ life and professional achievements. William Dawes was a British Marine serving as the official astronomer on board the First Fleet making the 1787–1788 voyage from……続きを見る

A history of the first five decades of one of Australia's leading universities. Griffith University's first students arrived on its leafy bush campus in March 1975. Without the pedigree of age, Grif……続きを見る

Fascinating stories from Australia's colonial navies and the early Royal Australian Navy, whose untried ships and the eager crew manning them performed feats of great courage in World War I. Just mo……続きを見る

The Award-Winning History of Colonial Melbourne 'James Boyce tells the true history of this country with rare clarity and an eye for the essential that never fails.' ーDavid Marr With the founding o……続きを見る

The nineteenth-century spread of democracy in Britain and its colonies coincided with an increase in alcohol consumption and in celebratory public dinners with rounds of toasts. British colonists ra……続きを見る

The Routledge History of the Modern Maritime World since 1500 provides a wide-ranging set of chapters, covering the sixteenth century to the present, which represent the main lines of current enquir……続きを見る

Born at the end of the Age of Enlightenment and growing up as Romanticism took hold of European culture, Matthew Flinders was the embodiment of these seemingly irreconcilable movements. His achievem……続きを見る

Two killers. A tainted trial. A bungled execution. The killers were Pevay and Timme. In 1841 they slew two men and wounded others in an angry rampage through the Victorian countryside. As Tasmanian ……続きを見る

The heart-rending story of the Australians brutally imprisoned in Sandakan, the Japanese POW camp in North Borneo, whose very name came to symbolise cruelty and ill-treatment. In mid-1942, after the……続きを見る

European portrayals of Aboriginal people and their objects have long had political implications. This book explores ‘ethnographic’ objects from Western Australia now in British and Irish museums, an……続きを見る

First published in 1970, Australian Economic Development in the Twentieth Century analyses aspects of Australian economic development in the twentieth century and places them in historical and inter……続きを見る