Ari - Australia & Oceania 1

This is the story of how Indigenous knowledge shaped the Australian continent. Based on the stunning SBS and Channel 10 TV series, The First Inventors takes readers on a journey through 65,000 years……続きを見る

"Hiringa Whenua: Threads of Connection" weaves a compelling narrative of 19th-century New Zealand, exploring the profound transformations that shaped the nation. From the first European contact with……続きを見る

Some lives leave quiet ripples - but their impact runs deep. Carol Mavis Kent's story begins in hardship: a fractured family, a childhood illness that nearly claimed her life, and a marriage that wo……続きを見る

In Aboriginal-Colonial Exchanges in New South Wales, 1800-1835, Annemarie McLaren re-tells key elements of the foundational story of Australia: the meeting between Indigenous people and colonists an……続きを見る

Hawaiian Legends & Myths is a collection of books by William Drake Westervelt, one of Hawaii's foremost authorities on island folklore. It contains five books Westervelt wrote about Hawaiian legends……続きを見る

Tsy boky torolalana amin’ny fitadiavana volamena miafina tsy akory ity boky ity na dia toa izany aza no tonga ao an-tsaina rehefa mahita ny lohateniny. Fandalinana no hibahana amin’ity rakitsoratra ……続きを見る

Global Cities: How the World Really Lives is a series of rich, witty, and immersive urban portraits – each one a passport into the real life of a city, far beyond the brochure gloss. Think: big idea……続きを見る

This book examines the formation of colonial social identities inside the institutions for the insane in Australia and New Zealand. Taking a large sample of patient records, it pays particular atten……続きを見る

In the high mountains and jungles of the northern Philippines lived a quarter of a million people, Malayan, Indonesian and Pygmy. These so-called ‘non-Christians’, differing widely in life and custo……続きを見る

From early explorers to contemporary scientists, naturalists have examined island flora and fauna of Oceania, discovering new species, carefully documenting the lives of animals, and creating work c……続きを見る

In 'The Last Laird of MacNab', Various authors come together to paint a vivid picture of the final days of the MacNab clan in the Scottish Highlands. Written in a mix of historical fiction and non-f……続きを見る

Winner of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society Annual Prize in Legal History 2025 (Best Monograph) Investigating the history of vagrants in colonial Australia and New Zealand, this……続きを見る

This book details the exploits of the highly skilled Naval Aviators charged with achieving air supremacy over New Guinea in their A6M2/3 Zero-sens. The combat record of the Zero-sen in New Guinea ha……続きを見る

A Stolen Generations story of astounding courage: three Aboriginal girls, taken from their mothers, escape barefoot back to their beloved homeland in East Pilbara. This is the true account of Nugi G……続きを見る

Gaunt's Time had a meaning for blossoming colonial Victoria akin to that of Greenwich Time for those "back home" in England. But to remember Thomas Gaunt only as a clock maker is to do him a great d……続きを見る

The book considers Australian First Nations constitutionalism by drawing on the chthonic constitutional traditions of three distinct Australian First Nations legal orders: the Warlpiri, Yolngu, and ……続きを見る

The aerial clashes between the iconic Corsair and Zero-sen translated into a contest of speed and altitude for the former, versus the latter's outstanding agility and range. Whilst the F4U Corsair e……続きを見る

March 1942. Java is about to fall. An Australian military dispatch rider and a Dutch air force transport pilot embark on a frightening escape from the advancing Japanese that takes them from Bandung……続きを見る

With dozens of beautiful photographs and extensive text, this Malaysian art book is a testament to the skill and spirituality of Malaysia's traditional woodcarvers. Wood has always played a signific……続きを見る

Botany Bay is renowned as the site of Captain Cook's first landing on the east coast of New Holland in 1770, infamous as the place chosen by the British as a dumping ground for convicts, and celebra……続きを見る

A vital Aboriginal perspective on colonial storytelling Indigenous lawyer and writer Larissa Behrendt has long been fascinated by the story of Eliza Fraser, who was purportedly captured by the local……続きを見る

What woman today would accept losing her job or her nationality on marriage? What mother would accept that she had no custody rights to her children? Who would deny women the right to equal pay and ……続きを見る

Alexander Moszkowski's Buch "Das Buch der 1000 Wunder" ist eine faszinierende Sammlung von Erzählungen über die aufregendsten und unerklärlichsten Phänomene der Welt. Mit einem fließenden und packen……続きを見る

This book focuses on the departure of Britain’s 'surplus' women to Australia and New Zealand organised by Victorian British female emigration societies. Starting with an analysis of the surplus of w……続きを見る

Over generations, Australian women have envisaged a world of freedom. This new collection of documents - letters, songs, poetry, diary extracts - charts the visions that inspired women and the obsta……続きを見る

Seafarers were the first workers to inhabit a truly international labour market, a sector of industry which, throughout the early modern period, drove European economic and imperial expansion, techn……続きを見る

This book tells the history of adoption in Australia from its beginnings in the nineteenth century to its decline at the beginning of the twenty-first. The authors find that a market in babies has l……続きを見る

In his own version of Kafka's Letter to Father, Bernard Marin reflects on fatherhood: his own experience as the son of a distant and angry father, and as a loving father himself. Recalling his fathe……続きを見る

A detailed history and analysis of the most controversial amphibious operation in the Pacific during WWII: the Battle for Peleliu. On September 15, 1944, the United States invaded the tiny Pacific i……続きを見る

Bernard Marin, a successful Jewish accountant, was almost fifty when he was suddenly struck down by crippling headaches. The problem, however, was not just physical. Bernard’s distress was the resul……続きを見る