Roger - Australia & Oceania 1

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

Australia is presented as a free and independent nation. The story is repeated in schools, parliaments, and media. We are told that Federation in 1901 created a sovereign country, that the Constitut……続きを見る

Famed for its breathtaking isolation, Easter Island was a verdant South-Sea idyll when a small canoeful of Polynesians arrived in c. AD 700. Centuries later the island's statues were famous througho……続きを見る

Survival, heroism, courage and mateship in Ambon - a place of nightmares. In February, 1942, Ambon, an Indonesian island north of Darwin, fell to the Japanese army and the Allied forces defending it……続きを見る

South Australians are lucky. They have not only a temperate climate but a government developed from the principles of the Enlightenment, which encourages innovation and social progress. The lead Sou……続きを見る

During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, Samuel Bentham influenced both the technology and the administrative ideas employed in the management of the British navy. His influence stemmed ……続きを見る

An argument has long raged over the name of Australia's COON Cheese. Aboriginal social justice activist Dr Stephen Hagan began a campaign against the name in 1999. For years, brand owners denied the……続きを見る

"Fallout" is the strange but true story of a celebrated Australian scientist's involvement in the 1956 British atomic bomb tests. Hedley Marston, an idol with his own feet of clay, was det……続きを見る

The forgotten story of the worst POW camp in Japan 'I think I was very near death that night.' HELL'S HEROES is the story of the prisoner-of-war camp that never was - so dubbed by one old soldier be……続きを見る