Mic - Australia & Oceania 1

Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays is the first sustained study of this acclaimed Australian author. It brings together two celebrated novelists and ten noted critics of Australian literature to co……続きを見る

Much of the evidence we have of Chinese Australian history, particularly from the 19th century, comes from European observers and their records. These sources often reflect patronising attitudes at ……続きを見る

It has been said many times (by me anyway) that Chinese Australian history is perforce reliant on European observers – often of dubious quality and more often dubious perspectives (see Observers 8).……続きを見る

Brief Sojourn in Your Native Land highlights the enduring connection between Sydney and South China from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, maintained by thousands of Sydney residents bo……続きを見る

What has lived with us, entertained us, travelled with us and symbolised Australian aspirations, only to end up gathering dust or even at the tip? It’s not the car, or the washing machine, or the se……続きを見る

Too much like Englishmen uncovers a forgotten migration that reshaped colonial Australia long before the gold rushes made Chinese migration visible. Between 1848 and 1853, more than 3,000 men from A……続きを見る

In this innovative study Michael Bassett, historian and former politician, explores how and why the state became such an active and interventionist player in New Zealand life, developing, subsidisin……続きを見る

After the battle of Orakau in 1864 and the end of the war in the Waikato, Tawhiao, the second Maori King, and his supporters were forced into an armed isolation in the Rohe Potae, the King Country. ……続きを見る

Brings to life the history of the most important agency of government in New Zealand for much of the last century. It traces the evolution of the Department of Internal Affairs from its genesis as t……続きを見る

After every conflict, historians gather to describe the heroic exploits stemming from that action. For Victoria Cross winners, such histories are ordinarily detailed and numerous, but there are some……続きを見る

Curiosity got the better of me when I read Captain Holman's letter of 11 January 1859 where he wrote... I have been abroad six times viz. - to the Philippine Islands, the Brazils, twice to the Canad……続きを見る

"Australia, Land of the FREE, just as long as you do as you're told. " ~Mgg In the darkest days of Covid, one writer hit the road, traveling from town to town to capture the raw stories of everyday ……続きを見る

In the pages of this book the history of the Russian Orthodox Church in Australia is diligently chronicled within the wider context of the place of ethnic Russians in a dominantly anglophone society……続きを見る

Of the many episodes that make up the oftentimes exotic impression of Chinese Australian history the 1850s walk from the small port of Robe in South Australia to the goldfields of Victoria has repea……続きを見る

'Mowed them down wholesale!' With these words, a judge summed up the last great punitive massacre of Aboriginal people in Australia. Coniston, Central Australia, 1928: the murder of an itinerant pro……続きを見る

En 1880, peu avant sa mort, le célèbre peintre Édouard Manet brosse un tableau illustrant l'évasion de Rochefort (voir couverture). Cette affaire rocambolesque d'un groupe de déportés politiques aya……続きを見る

Tracing Mick Malone's entire military career from time spent in combat as a trooper with 3 Squadron SAS in Vietnam, to his influence in developing innovative counter-terrorism techniques in Australi……続きを見る

Délinquant multirécidiviste, escroc et déserteur, Jean-Baptiste Delfaut a 28 ans lorsqu'il est déporté au bagne de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Toute sa vie, il emploiera son talent d'écrivain à raconter le ……続きを見る

Publiés une première fois en 1902, puis à deux reprises par la suite, les « mémoires » de Delfaut ont longtemps intrigué les connaisseurs du bagne de Nouvelle-Calédonie. Car cette œuvre d'un forçat-……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

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

Michael Brown undertakes a thorough study of Eyeliner's BUY NOW, a vaporwave homage to the kitsch electronic sounds of the 1980s and 1990s. Eyeliner's BUY NOW (2015) belongs to a new genre for our t……続きを見る

In the first major national history of Aotearoa New Zealand to be published for 20 years, Professor Michael Belgrave advances the notion that New Zealand's two peoples ー tangata whenua and subseque……続きを見る

In his seminal work, "Report on State of the Colony of New South Wales," John Thomas Bigge provides a meticulous examination of the early colonial experience in Australia during the early 19th centu……続きを見る

This groundbreaking book delves into the lived experiences and collective wisdom of Indigenous communities impacted by colonialism. Through collaborations with non-Indigenous colleagues, this book s……続きを見る

Articles included in issue 26 of Marxist Left Review: Editorial: Eighteen months of hard Labor - Omar Hassan From Marx to Lenin: Debates that forged the socialist approach to war - Mick Armstrong C……続きを見る

This bestselling book by the late Michael King is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand. First published in 2003 and hailed as a triumph of careful research, wide rea……続きを見る

"The history of small, private presses in this country is also (largely) the history of our literature." (Michael Gifkins' 1990 'Bookmarks', New Zealand Listener). This quote graphically states the ……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