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A Military History of Australia
by Jeffrey Grey  Publisher Comments A Military History of Australia provides a detailed chronological narrative of Australia's wars across more than two hundred years, set in the contexts of defence and strategic policy, the development of society and the impact of war and military service...
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Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time
by Doris Pilkington Publisher Comments The remarkable true story of three young girls who cross the harsh Australian desert on foot to return to their home. Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up by...
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Explorers (98 Edition)
by Tim (ed.) Flannery Publisher Comments A lively collection of extraordinary stories of adventure and discovery, The Explorers tells the epic saga of the conquest and settlement of Australia. Editor Tim Flannery selects sixty-seven accounts that convey the sense of wonder and discovery, along...
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Wobblies! : a Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World (05 Edition)
by Paul Buhle Synopsis A vibrant history in graphic art of the "Wobblies." published for the centenary of the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World and promoted by a major US tour. The Stories of the hard-rock miners' shooting wars. young Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the...
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A History of the Pacific Islands (Palgrave Essential Histories)
by Steven Roger Fischer Publisher Comments A History of the Pacific Islands traces the human history of nearly one-third of the globe over a 50,000 year span. This is history on a grand scale, taking the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia from prehistoric culture to the present day...
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Being Australian
by Catriona Elder Publisher Comments Following a decade of major social and cultural change in Australia, this study looks at what exactly it means to be Australian and examines how different concepts—such as egalitarianism and sporting prowess—have been used to create a...
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The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
by Robert Hughes Publisher Comments Here is history on an epic scale — a riveting, brilliantly written account of the birth of Australia out of the suffering and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system. Eighty years lay between the landing at Botany Nay in 1788...
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Atlantic Crossings : Social Politics in a Progressive Age (98 Edition)
by Daniel T. Rodgers Publisher Comments The most belated of nations, Theodore Roosevelt called his country during the workmen's compensation fight in 1907. Earlier reformers, progressives of his day, and later New Dealers lamented the nation's resistance to models abroad for correctives to the...
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Hostile Shores: Catastrophic Events in Prehistoric New Zealand and Their Impact on Maori Coastal Communities
by Bruce Mcfadgen Publisher Comments Evidence from several disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, demography, history, and the Maori oral tradition, are combined in this analysis of the many volcanic periods that shaped New Zealand. This authoritative, groundbreaking study...
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Australian Dreaming: 40,000 Years of Aboriginal History
by Jennifer Isaacs Synopsis Australian Dreaming is the first Aboriginal history of the Australian continent and its people, as told by Aboriginal storytellers. It recounts epic travels of the Great Spirit Ancestors and tells how they created the animals and plants and gave birth to...
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A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
by Thomas Keneally Publisher Comments It was 1786 when Arthur Phillip, an ambitious captain in the Royal Navy, was assigned the formidable task of organizing an expedition to Australia in order to establish a penal colony. The squalid and turbulent prisons of London were overflowing, and...
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Australia: Great Southern Land
by Frank Welsh Publisher Comments In a compelling narrative, acclaimed historian Frank Welsh traces the history of the land from scattered convict settlements today's thriving independent nation. A probing and engaging history of Australia--the most comprehensive and up-to-date account...
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Voices of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime
by Robert Lawlor Publisher Comments Australian aboriginal people have lived in harmony with the earth forperhaps as long as 100,000 years, in their words, since the First Day.In this absorbing work, Lawlor explores the essence of their culture asa source of and guide to transforming our...
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Constructing Australia: A Companion to the ABC TV Series (Miegunyah Volumes)
by Richard Evans Publisher Comments A dramatic story of political turmoil and private tragedy, this impressive book celebrates Australia's three epic feats of engineering: the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Perth-Kalgoorlie Pipeline, and the Overland Telegraph. Combining a wealth of rare...
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The Best Man Who Ever Served the Crown?: A Life of Donald McLean
by Ray Fargher Publisher Comments An important work of scholarship, this biography of Donald McLean focuses on the time period from his first government appointment as Protectorate of Aborigines in 1843 to his death in 1877. A key figure in the drama surrounding New...
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Reluctant Indonesians
by Clinton Fernandes Publisher Comments Timely and provocative, this analysis challenges the orthodox views of the foreign policy establishment and its various supporters in the media by examining West Papua, Australia’s relationship with Indonesia, and Australian foreign policy in...
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Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes
by Danielle Clode Publisher Comments Recounting the epic and often tragic journeys of French explorers—Bougainville, Lapérouse, D'Entrecasteaux, Baudin, Freycinet, d'Urville, and others—to Australia, this account encompasses a remarkable period of French and...
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Gangland Australia
by James Morton Publisher Comments A comprehensive investigation of organized crime in Australia, this study discusses the entire history of crime on the continent—from the forgeries and robberies of early convicts to the recent gangland slayings in Melbourne. Famous faces of...
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The Gates of Memory
by Book News Annotation Of the 60,000 Australian soldiers who died during World War I, the vast majority were never repatriated, heightening feelings of loss and complicating memory. While much has been written about the heroism of those soldiers, Luckins (School of...
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The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People
by Tim Flannery Publisher Comments Humans first settled the islands of Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, and New Guinea some sixty millennia ago, and as they had elsewhere across the globe, immediately began altering the environment by hunting and trapping animals and gathering...
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