The World Heritage-listed Port Arthur penitentiary is one of Australia's most visited historical sites, attracting over 400,000 visitors each year. Designed to incarcerate 480 men, between 1856 and ……続きを見る
Combining literary criticism with book history, Carter and Osborne explore how Australian authors and their books fared in the US market from the 1840s through to the 1940s, most notably in the 1880……続きを見る
An Attractive Naivety is a historical novel of war, identity, and endurance, set against Australia's first half-century as a nation.
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Australia is newly federate……続きを見る
Fairness and Freedom compares the history of two open societies--New Zealand and the United States--with much in common. Both have democratic polities, mixed-enterprise economies, individuated socie……続きを見る
... We had become radicalised during the rise of urban policy in Labor's opposition program, and now we were working for them in government ...
As a technocrat in the Whitlam government, David Wilmo……続きを見る
In The History of Parthian Empire, George Rawlinson traces the Arsacid rise from Parni chiefs to a dominion straddling Iran and Mesopotamia. Drawing on Greek and Latin historians alongside coins and……続きを見る
著者:David Wright
出版社: Auckland University Press
発売日: 2013年11月01日
In 1955 the United States-owned ship Joyita mysteriously disappeared while sailing between Apia, Samoa, and Tokelau in the Pacific Ocean. The ship was discovered in poor condition near Fiji five wee……続きを見る
著者:David Hastings
出版社: Auckland University Press
発売日: 2013年11月01日
From the mid-19th-century rivalry between the New Zealander and the Southern Cross to the 20th-century dominance of the New Zealand Herald and the Auckland Star, the story of Auckland's newspapers i……続きを見る
著者:David Veart
出版社: Auckland University Press
発売日: 2015年02月01日
Toys are funーbut they are also serious business, as David Veart makes clear in this remarkable story of New Zealanders and their toys from Maori voyagers to 21st-century gamers. Deploying the tools……続きを見る
Ten years after the end of World War I, the Sydney Sun reported that an unknown Anzac still lay in a Sydney psychiatric hospital. 'This man . . . was found wandering in a London street during the wa……続きを見る
著者:David V. Williams
出版社: Auckland University Press
発売日: 2013年11月01日
When the New Zealand Supreme Court ruled on Wi Parata v the Bishop of Wellington in 1877, the judges infamously dismissed the relevance of the Treaty of Waitangi. During the past 25 years, judges, l……続きを見る
著者:David Hastings
出版社: Auckland University Press
発売日: 2013年10月01日
Drawing upon more than 80 personal diaries and journals of those on board, this resource explores the rich experience and the trials and tribulations of hopeful Anglo-Celtic pilgrims headed to Austr……続きを見る
'Dreadful murder at Opunake', said the Taranaki Herald, 'Shocking outrage', cried the Evening Post in Wellington when they learned in November 1880 that a young woman called Mary Dobie had been fou……続きを見る
In 1907, the Western Australian government began a program of forcibly removing supposedly ill Aboriginal people to purpose built lock hospitals on Bernier and Dorre Islands, off the coast of Carnar……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
An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales is a two-volume history of the British settlement in Australia written by Colonel David Collins, administrator of Britain's first colonies in Aust……続きを見る
著者:David Thomson
出版社: Bridget Williams Books
発売日: 2015年12月21日
Our present welfare state has little good reason to survive much longer, and we will have to find a new basis for its continued existence.’ So writes David Thomson as he offers an unflinching perspe……続きを見る
David Collins' 'The History of the First English Colony in New South Wales: 1788-1801' provides a comprehensive account of the early days of British settlement in Australia, detailing the challenges……続きを見る
著者:David Horner
出版社: Allen & Unwin
発売日: 2014年09月24日
Winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History
For the first time, ASIO has opened its archives to an independent historian. With unfettered access to the records, David Horner tells th……続きを見る
The Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911-14, led by the young Australian geologist Dr Douglas Mawson, who was later knighted for his efforts, was not only one of the last great voyages of……続きを見る
Japan’s oceans demand our attention. Violent, prolific, and changeful, they define life and death on the archipelago: pushing the shore under the rush of tsunami, charging typhoon circulation, feedi……続きを見る
著者:David Dufty
出版社: Allen & Unwin
発売日: 2024年09月03日
The construction of the Overland Telegraph in 1870 is an extraordinary feat of engineering and a wild gamble that nearly went terribly wrong.
It was the greatest feat of engineering in nineteenth-ce……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
A true story. In 1853, Australia was rocked by the robbery of 〓6,000 of gold from an escorted shipment on a country road heading from the McIvor gold fields to Melbourne, Within days, 400 men were ……続きを見る
The Story of Hawaii (Illustrated Edition) offers a rich tapestry of literary styles and themes that capture the essence and evolution of Hawaiian culture and history. This collection masterfully wea……続きを見る
著者:David P Reiter
出版社: Interactive Press
発売日: 2024年03月18日
For 100 years, the astounding story of Anzac horsemen, cameleers, aviators, rough riders, medics, vets, light and armoured cars hasn’t been told. Until now. Championed by Australia’s Lieutenant Gene……続きを見る
The Story of Hawaii (Illustrated Edition) offers an evocative exploration into the rich tapestry of Hawaiian history and culture, weaving narratives that span the sacred and the everyday. Encompassi……続きを見る
The Story of Hawaii: History, Customs, Mythology, Geography & Archaeology offers readers a comprehensive exploration of Hawaii's storied past and vibrant culture, converging diverse literary forms a……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
著者:David Collins
出版社: Victoria University Press
発売日: 2024年05月09日
The arrival of Europeans in Aotearoa brought about an inevitable clash between the laws and values of Maori societies and those of the newcomers. Like a subduction zone between two tectonic plates, ……続きを見る