Cities, Citizens and Environmental Reform tells a story of community involvement in the development of Australian town planning from the early 20th century from the first wave of enthusiasm for mode……続きを見る
The second generation of Pacific historians, who began their careers in the 1970s and 1980s, is gradually fading from the academic scene. They have made fundamental contributions to the field of Pac……続きを見る
William was a 17-year-old groomsman, an outdoors man-of-action with a wild temperament. Would this head-strong youth follow his father's lace-weaving trade, tethered to the click-clack of a loom in ……続きを見る
A new life running a high country sheep station in New Zealand. Christine Fernyhough is well known as a leading Auckland philanthropist, having set up Books in Homes and then the Gifted Kids Progra……続きを見る
著者:Christine Dann
出版社: Bridget Williams Books
発売日: 2015年12月21日
Christine Dann was an early participant in the women’s movement that swept through New Zealand in the 1970s and 80s. Up from Under is a detailed and fascinating study of the achievements and aspirat……続きを見る
This book argues that transpacific history cannot be comprehended without including “vertical” connections; namely, those between the southern hemisphere and the northern hemisphere. It explores suc……続きを見る
Musical sounds are some of the most mobile human elements, crossing national, cultural, and regional boundaries at an ever-increasing pace in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whole musical ……続きを見る
March 1945. A handful of young Allied operatives are parachuted into the remote jungled heart of the Japanese-occupied island of Borneo, east of Singapore, there to recruit the island’s indigenous D……続きを見る
Seeking your fortune. It's something that all migrants have done: moved to a new country, a new town, a new home in search of a better life. Charles Augustus Leopold Leov fled from Pomerania in Prus……続きを見る
著者:Christine Perrott
出版社: The Book Reality Experience
発売日: 2021年07月08日
This collection of fascinating reminisces captures the school days of those girls who attended the Presbyterian Ladies College (PLC) in Armidale, New South Wales during the period 1936 to 1964.
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In 1910 in Bendigo, three children were found dead in their home, brutally murdered with an axe and a knife.
Their mother, Camellia McCluskey, was a de facto wife at a time when such a position was ……続きを見る
Life-affirming life stories from longterm Wairarapa residents.
When Christine Hunt Daniell sat down with pen and paper and talked with the 'old- timers' for this book, her motivation was to preserve……続きを見る