Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emergin……続きを見る
In recent times, the Asia-Pacific region has far surpassed Europe in terms of reciprocal trade with the United States, and since the 1980s immigrants from Asia entering the United States have exceed……続きを見る
People and Change in Indigenous Australia arose from a conviction that more needs to be done in anthropology to give a fuller sense of the changing lives and circumstances of Australian indigenous c……続きを見る
著者:Cathy A. Small
出版社: Cornell University Press
発売日: 2011年10月03日
"Most Americans are unaware that the United States is a major terminus for the people of Tonga, an island nation in the South Pacific. Small examines Tongan migration to the United States in a trans……続きを見る
Joint winner of the 2020 Prime Minister's Award for Non-Fiction.
Shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier's Award for Non-Fiction.
'We want you to come with us on our journey, our journey of songs……続きを見る
**Shortlisted for the 2021 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime**
Shocking real-life stories of murderous women who used rat poison to rid themselves of husbands and other inconvenient family members. For……続きを見る
Did golden-haired celts settle the South Pacific over a 1000 years before Māori?
"Forbidden History contends that there were people here before Māori. A great many of us have no trouble with that co……続きを見る
Effie Davis is a modern young woman, educated and independent. And for a free-spirited woman in Melbourne in 1896 there is much to fight for ….. causes like universal suffrage and equal pay for wome……続きを見る
When Afghan entrepreneur Abdul Wade first brought his camel trains to the outback, he was hailed as a hero. Horses couldn't access many remote settlements, especially those stricken by flood or drou……続きを見る
著者:Ryan Bodman
出版社: Bridget Williams Books
発売日: 2023年10月01日
This is the story of a sport told through its communities. Rugby League in New Zealand: A People’s History unveils the compelling journey of a game flourishing against the odds.
Beginning with the g……続きを見る
In 'The Log of a Cowboy' by Andy Adams, readers are taken on a gripping and detailed journey through the life of a cowboy in the late 19th century American West. Written in a straightforward and eng……続きを見る
In 'A Trip to Manitoba' by Mary Agnes FitzGibbon, readers are taken on a captivating journey through the Canadian province of Manitoba, experiencing its landscapes, culture, and people through the v……続きを見る
Harry Freame was the first Australian to win the Distinguished Conduct Medal at Gallipoli. Raised as a samurai, he risked his life again and again to scout the beaches and hills of the battlefield, ……続きを見る
著者:Hildegard Mary Ryan
出版社: Bolt Publishing Services Pty. Ltd.
発売日: 2024年05月27日
This book is a study of one monastery of Benedictine nuns, who came from England to the Colony of New South Wales in 1848-49. Their story revolves on the first word of their Rule: Obsculta (listen).……続きを見る