Dancing with Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact
ISBN: 9780521851374 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In January 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales, Australia and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their new neighbors. Dancing with Strangers tells the story of what happened between the first British settlers of Australia and these Aborigines. Inga Clendinnen interprets the earliest written sources, and the reports, letters and journals of the first British settlers in Australia. She reconstructs the difficult path to friendship and conciliation pursued by Arthur Phillip and the local leader 'Bennelong' (Baneelon) that was ultimately destroyed by...
In January 1788, the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales, Australia and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who would be their ...
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380,79 zł |
A History of Queensland
ISBN: 9780521876926 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A History of Queensland is the first single volume analysis of Queensland's past, stretching from the time of earliest human habitation up to the present. It encompasses pre-contact Aboriginal history, the years of convictism, free settlement and subsequent urban and rural growth. It takes the reader through the tumultuous frontier and Federation years, the World Wars, the Cold War, the controversial Bjelke-Petersen era and on, beyond the beginning of the new millennium. It reveals Queensland as a sprawling, harsh, diverse and conflictual place, where the struggles of race, ethnicity, class,...
A History of Queensland is the first single volume analysis of Queensland's past, stretching from the time of earliest human habitation up to the pres...
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411,26 zł |
South Melbourne: A History
ISBN: 9780522846645 / Angielski / Miękka / 455 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. South Melbourne is a state of mind. Once you live there, you don't want to shift. Doris Condon, South Melbourne resident from 1942 until her death in 1979, Mayor 1969 to 1970. The first of Melbourne's suburbs to adopt fuoll municipal status, South Melbourne has also been at the forefront of many of the forces that have shaped both the local and national landscapes. Having seen its Aboriginal inhabitants displaced by European settlers, what became of one of Melbourne's first industrial suburbs then underwent a shift from manufacturing to commercial industry after the Second World War before...
South Melbourne is a state of mind. Once you live there, you don't want to shift. Doris Condon, South Melbourne resident from 1942 until her death in ...
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149,14 zł |
The Rocks: Everyday Life in Early Sydney 1788-1830
ISBN: 9780522848441 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the NSW Premier's Award for nonfiction 1997. Shows the Rocks as a place very different from the usual images of a brutal colony. Showing rather a preindustrial town, a face-to-face society, marked more by movement and opportunity than coercion, discipline and punishment. Hardcover ISBN 0522847226 $34.95.
Winner of the NSW Premier's Award for nonfiction 1997. Shows the Rocks as a place very different from the usual images of a brutal colony. Showing rat...
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89,46 zł |
A History of Australia: Volumes I & II: From Earliest Times to 1838
ISBN: 9780522848977 / Angielski / Miękka / 812 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first two volumes of Manning Clark's classic six-volume history of Australia. These two texts deal with the pre-white settlement era and the earliest years of European colonisation through to the establishment of an increasingly settled society and the expeditions of the inland explorers.
The first two volumes of Manning Clark's classic six-volume history of Australia. These two texts deal with the pre-white settlement era and the earli...
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229,30 zł |
A History of Australia: Volumes III and IV: 1824-1888
ISBN: 9780522848984 / Angielski / Miękka / 950 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The third and fourth volumes in Manning Clark's classic six-volume history of Australia. These two texts explore the years 1824 to 1888, taking the story of Australia through the momentous discovery of gold to the centenary of the coming of European civilization to Australia.
The third and fourth volumes in Manning Clark's classic six-volume history of Australia. These two texts explore the years 1824 to 1888, taking the st...
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229,30 zł |
Australia's Bid for the Atomic Bomb
ISBN: 9780522849141 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This very important work is a fundamental rewriting of Australian history from 1943 to 1968. It argues that after World War II, Australian defence policy was premised on Joint nuclear weapons development with the United Kingdom; and that while this endeavour failed, it shaped domestic and foreign policy until the end of the 1950s. Nuclear weapons have traditionally been seen as American and British concerns, and various official histories have held that the development of rockets and atomic weapon testing were essentially British exercises. But author Wayne Reynolds reveals an entirely new...
This very important work is a fundamental rewriting of Australian history from 1943 to 1968. It argues that after World War II, Australian defence pol...
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116,97 zł |
Eureka: New Illustrated Edition
ISBN: 9780522849622 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before dawn on 3 December 1854, colonial troopers at Ballarat attacked a group of gold miners who had thrown up a stockade in defiance and defence. Some diggers had guns, but many were unarmed; some twenty of them were killed, along with four troopers. In the decades that followed, the truth of what happened that morning became obscured by partisans on both sides. For many years the Eureka Stockade was regarded as a shameful event and almost forgotten; more recently, it has been celebrated as a righteous stand against injustice. John Molony's Eureka vividly recreates the story of Eureka and...
Before dawn on 3 December 1854, colonial troopers at Ballarat attacked a group of gold miners who had thrown up a stockade in defiance and defence. So...
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116,97 zł |
The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining
ISBN: 9780522850093 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Australian landscape is littered with mines. This text tells the story of Australia's mineral discoveries, describes the giants of its mining history and records the tremendous influence that mining has had on its attitudes to unionism, religion, law and politics.
The Australian landscape is littered with mines. This text tells the story of Australia's mineral discoveries, describes the giants of its mining hist...
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131,01 zł |
Losing the Blanket: Australia and the End of Britain's Empire
ISBN: 9780522850284 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An account of British decolonization and its aftermath. It discusses its implications for Australian policies in the key areas of defence in Southeast Asia, the politics of the Commonwealth, the European Union, Australia's own colonial policy and the bilateral relationship with Britain itself.
An account of British decolonization and its aftermath. It discusses its implications for Australian policies in the key areas of defence in Southeast...
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116,97 zł |
A History of Port Phillip District: Victoria Before Separation
ISBN: 9780522850642 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The period from the first temporary convict camp of 1803 to the formal separation of Victoria from New South Wales in 1851 encompasses years of struggle and adversity. They saw the future of the territory shaped by Aborigines, whalers, adventurers, squatters, speculators and immigrants.
The period from the first temporary convict camp of 1803 to the formal separation of Victoria from New South Wales in 1851 encompasses years of strugg...
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163,77 zł |
Ray Parkin's Wartime Trilogy: Out of the Smoke/Into the Smother/The Sword and the Blossom
ISBN: 9780522850673 / Angielski / Miękka / 972 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Both the courage and the inhumanity displayed during wartime are chronicled in these three diaries penned by Ray Parkin, who served during World War II. Engaging narratives and pictures detail his experience on the "HMAS Perth in the Sunda Strait battle with the Japanese naval force that eventually sunk his ship. Also recounted are Parkin's 15 months as a prisoner of war, during which he helped construct the Burma-Siam railway. Details of his final 12 months of captivity in a crowded tramp steamer reveal the endurance of soldiers who survived submarine attacks and weathered a typhoon. These...
Both the courage and the inhumanity displayed during wartime are chronicled in these three diaries penned by Ray Parkin, who served during World War I...
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69,57 zł |
Scandal in the Colonies: Sydney & Cape Town, 1820-1850
ISBN: 9780522850758 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores how colonial societies offered European settlers the opportunity to invent new identities. This book uncovers the stories of two port towns that were rife with gossip and dubious reputations. It argues that scandal influenced imperial policy and became a key element in the emergence of societies divided by class and race.
Explores how colonial societies offered European settlers the opportunity to invent new identities. This book uncovers the stories of two port towns t...
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149,73 zł |
Possession: Batman's Treaty and the Matter of History
ISBN: 9780522851144 / Angielski / Miękka / 415 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This definitive account explores the treaties made between white settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia and the different ways in which the two groups interpreted those acts of possession. Questions such as "Why were these agreements forged?""How did the Aborigines understand the terms of the agreements?" and "On what basis did whites claim to be the rightful owners of the land?" are thoroughly discussed as well as the ways the settlers rewrote history to remove mention of the destruction and displacement of the Aborigines.
This definitive account explores the treaties made between white settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia and the different ways in which the two g...
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108,65 zł |
A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific: The Formation of Identities
ISBN: 9780631218739 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an arresting interpretation of the history of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific from the earliest settlements to the present. Usually viewed in isolation, these societies are covered here in a single account, in which the authors show how the peoples of the region constructed their own identities and influenced those of their neighbours.
By broadening the focus to the regional level, this volume develops analyses - of economic, social and political history - which transcend national boundaries. The result is a compelling work which both describes the... This book provides an arresting interpretation of the history of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific from the earliest settlements to the present. ...
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213,52 zł |
H V Evatt and the Establishment of Israel: The Undercover Zionist
ISBN: 9780714655789 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Minister for External Affairs, and the dominant force in the formation of Australian foreign policy for a crucial decade in the battle over Palestine (1941-1949), Herbert Vere Evatt played a central role in the Australian political response to Zionism and the conflict in Palestine. This book, which uses a variety of primary sources from Australia, Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States, provides a valuable study of Evatt the Zionist, as well as illuminating a fascinating political figure. This valuable book charts the debate in Australia over the creation of a Jewish state as...
The Minister for External Affairs, and the dominant force in the formation of Australian foreign policy for a crucial decade in the battle over Palest...
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685,43 zł |
H V Evatt and the Establishment of Israel: The Undercover Zionist
ISBN: 9780714684611 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reveals the fascinating story of the involvement of the Australian statesman, Dr. H V Evatt, in the United Nations decision to partition Palestine-a decision that paved the way for the establishment of Israel six months later. It unravels the complex interplay of motives and pressures in the shadow of an emerging Cold War that resulted in Evatt's pivotal role at a decisive moment that changed the face of the modern Middle East.
The narrative focuses on the enigmatic background and character of Evatt's involvement in the Palestinian drama: the personalities that influenced him... This book reveals the fascinating story of the involvement of the Australian statesman, Dr. H V Evatt, in the United Nations decision to partition Pal...
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253,82 zł |
Old New Zealand and Other Writings
ISBN: 9780718501969 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this work, a pakeha Maori trader looks back to the good old times before Governors were invented, and law, and justice, and all that. It is a construction of Maori life and customs, most notibly of tapu (taboo). There is also a selection of Maning's unpublished letters.
In this work, a pakeha Maori trader looks back to the good old times before Governors were invented, and law, and justice, and all that. It is a const...
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591,36 zł |
Little America: Australia, the 51st State
ISBN: 9780745325392 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What role does the US play in shaping Australian politics? Australia is one of the US's most staunch supporters: Australia has sent troops to Iraq, and is an ally in the 'war on terror'. Australian domestic policy also follows the US economic model, as state industries and services have been privatised. Erik Paul, a specialist in international studies, dissects the relationship between Australia and the US. He explores how Australia has become a key player in maintaining American dominance in South East Asia, and looks critically at the contrast between the Australian wealth and the...
What role does the US play in shaping Australian politics? Australia is one of the US's most staunch supporters: Australia has sent troops to Iraq, an...
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160,28 zł |
Multiethnic Australia: Its History and Future
ISBN: 9780786425228 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After once trying to keep its population white and predominantly British, Australia reversed course. Since 1947 it has absorbed five million immigrants from some 240 countries and places around the globe, with increasing numbers from Asian nations. In time, the country developed a multicultural outlook that encourages immigrants as well as indigenous people to retain their traditional cultures while also becoming loyal Australians. This book examines Australia past and present to show why immigration policies changed, the conflicts the new policies caused and the benefits they brought. The...
After once trying to keep its population white and predominantly British, Australia reversed course. Since 1947 it has absorbed five million immigrant...
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181,52 zł |