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Australian Magpie: Biology and Behaviour of an Unusual Songbird by Gisela Kaplan
$29.95 AUD
Category: Nature and Animals | Series: Australian Natural History Ser.
The warbling and carolling of the Australian magpie are familiar to many although few of us recognize that it ranks among the foremost songbirds of the world. Its impressive vocal abilities, its propensity to play and clown, and its willingness to interact with people, make the magpie one of our most we ...Show more
Dunera Lives: Profiles by Ken Inglis; Bill Gammage; Seumas Spark; Jay Winter; Carol Bunyan
$39.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Australian History Ser.
This second volume of Dunera Lives presents the voices, faces, and lives of 20 people, who, together with nearly 3000 other internees from Britain and Singapore, landed in Australia in 1940. All over the world there were Dunera Lives, those of men and women who passed through the upheavals of the Second ...Show more
Fatal Contact - How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia's First Peoples by Peter Dowling
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian History Ser.
Fatal Contact explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788. Epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, measles and sexually transmitted diseases swept through the Indigenous populations of the ...Show more
Geoffrey Blainey: Writer, Historian, Controversialist by Richard Allsop
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biographies | Series: Australian History Ser.
Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia's 'greatest living historian', a writer whose prolific output includes such iconic books about the country's past as The Tyranny of Distance and Triumph of the Nomads. However, Blainey has also been a controversial figure. His 1984 comments about Asian im ...Show more
I Wonder: The Life and Work of Ken Inglis by Peter Browne (Editor); Seumas Spark (Editor)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biographies | Series: Australian History Ser.
Ken Inglis was one of Australia's most creative, wide-ranging and admired historians. During a scholarly career spanning nearly seven decades, his humane, questioning approach -- summed up by the recurring query, 'I wonder...' -- won him a large and appreciative audience. Whether he was writing about re ...Show more
Mallee Country: Land, People, History by Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor, Katie Holmes
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian History Ser.
Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening ...Show more
On Red Earth Walking: The Pilbara Aboriginal Strike, Western Australia 1946–1949 by Anne Scrimgeour
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian History Ser.
In 1946 Aboriginal people walked off pastoral stations in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, withdrawing their labour from the economically important wool industry to demand improvements in wages and conditions. Their strike lasted three years. On Red Earth Walking is the first comprehensive account of ...Show more
Save our Sons: Women, Dissent and Conscription during the Vietnam War by Carolyn Collins
$34.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Australian History Ser.
Save Our Sons tells for the first time the full story of the Save Our Sons movement of Australian women who banded together to oppose conscription during the Vietnam War.In 1965, angered by the Menzies’ government’s decision to conscript young men to fight in the Vietnam War, a group of Sydney housewive ...Show more
The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory: Passchendaele and the ANZAC Legend by Matthew Haultain-Gall
$34.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Australian History Ser.
The Ypres salient 'was the favourite battle ground of the devil and his minions' wrote one returned serviceman after the First World War. Few who fought in the infamous third battle of Ypres – now known as Passchendaele – in 1917 would have disagreed. All five of the Australian Imperial Force's (AIF) in ...Show more
The Emperor's Grace: Untold Stories of the Australians Enslaved in Japan during World War II by Mark Baker
$34.95 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Australian History Ser.
The Emperor's Grace is the story of the men of "C" Force – the first contingent of Australian, British and Dutch POWs shipped from Singapore to Japan in November 1942 – who worked in the Kawasaki Shipyard in Kobe before the American firebombing campaign razed the city, and then the infamous Fukuoka coal ...Show more
The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, the Settlers and the Protectors by Bain Attwood
$26.99 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian History Ser.
Beyond the generalisations of national and colonial history, what can we know about how Aboriginal nations interacted with the British settlers who invaded their country, the men appointed by the imperial and colonial governments to protect them, and each other?In The Good Country Bain Attwood makes a m ...Show more
Woman Suffrage in Australia by Audrey Oldfield
$53.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Studies in Australian History Ser.
With the granting of the vote to women in 1902 Australian suffragist Rose Scott told male politicians that their names would be remembered when the names of the suffragettes had been forgotten. Her words have held true for the best part of this century, until the publication of this 1993 book. Woman Suf ...Show more
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