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| Author | : Donald Denoon |
| Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
| Total Pages | : 544 |
| Release | : 2000-11-27 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780631179627 |
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 aspirations of European settlers and reveals how the dispossessed and marginalized indigenous peoples negotiated their own lives as best they could. The authors demonstrate that these stories are not separate but rather strands of a single history.
| Author | : Alexander Sutherland |
| Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
| Total Pages | : 461 |
| Release | : 2020-09-28 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1465544968 |
| Author | : Stuart Macintyre |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2009-06-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521516082 |
Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and brought technology, institutions and ideas to make it their own. It relates the advance from penal colony to a prosperous free nation and illustrates how, as a nation created by waves of newcomers, the search for binding traditions was long frustrated by the feeling of rootlessness, until it came to terms with its origins. The third edition of this acclaimed book recounts the key factors - social, economic and political - that have shaped modern-day Australia. It covers the rise and fall of the Howard government, the 2007 election and the apology to the stolen generation. More than ever before, Australians draw on the past to understand their future.
| Author | : David Blair |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 798 |
| Release | : 1878 |
| Genre | : Australasia |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Stuart Macintyre |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 368 |
| Release | : 2004-08-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521601016 |
Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands of years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and brought technology, institutions and ideas to make it their own. It relates the advance from penal colony to a prosperous free nation and illustrates how, in a nation created by waves of newcomers, the search for binding traditions has long been frustrated by the feeling of rootlessness. This revised edition incorporates the most recent historical research and contemporary historical debates on frontier violence between European settlers and Aborigines and the Stolen Generations. It covers the Sydney Olympics, the refugee crisis and the 'Pacific solution'. More than ever before, Australians draw on the past to understand their future.
| Author | : Jeffrey Grey |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2008-02-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139468286 |
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 on Australia and Australians. It discusses the development of the armed forces as institutions and examines the relationship between governments and military policy. This book is a revised and updated edition of one of the most acclaimed overviews of Australian military history available. It is the only comprehensive, single-volume treatment of the role and development of Australia's military and their involvement in war and peace across the span of Australia's modern history. It concludes with consideration of Australian involvement in its region and more widely since the terrorist attacks of September 11 and the waging of the global war on terror.
| Author | : Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Publisher | : [Carlton, Victoria] : Melbourne University Press ; London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1962] i.e. |
| Total Pages | : 532 |
| Release | : 1963 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Manning Clark's History of Australia.
| Author | : John H. Chambers |
| Publisher | : Interlink Books |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
A Traveller's History of New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands gives the curious tourist not only a modern day portrait of New Zealand and the far flung islands, their political systems and economic diversity, but also looks at the early settling of this massive area which covers about a fifth of the whole surface of the earth. When European navigators first sailed into the region, they were astonished at the exotic shared culture and language of the natives, separated in many cases by terrifying stretches of open ocean. The story of the peopling of the South Pacific Islands and New Zealand is one of the world's great epics. The book also has practical information for visitors, an Historical Gazetteer, and is illustrated with relevant maps plus a Chronology of Events. Special topics covered include Firewalking in Fiji, the Musket Wars, the Haka, Polynesian Tattooing and the Jon Frum Cargo Cult of Vanuatu. Book jacket.
| Author | : Tim M. Berra |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : |
It also deals with the country's colorful history, its laidback lifestyle and the quirky and entertaining brand of English that Australians speak.
| Author | : David Hunt |
| Publisher | : Black Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9781863956116 |
Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia ... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie - the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are. Girt introduces forgotten heroes like Mary McLoghlin, transported for the crime of "felony of sock", and Trim the cat, who beat a French monkey to become the first animal to circumnavigate Australia. It recounts the misfortunes of the escaped Irish convicts who set out to walk from Sydney to China, guided only by a hand-drawn paper compass, and explains the role of the coconut in Australia's only military coup. Our nation's beginnings are steeped in the strange, the ridiculous and the frankly bizarre. Girt proudly reclaims these stories for all of us. Not to read it would be un-Australian. About the author: David Hunt is an unusually tall and handsome man who likes writing his own biographical notes for all the books he has written (one). He has worked as an historical consultant and comedy writer for television, and also has a proper job. "A sneaky, sometimes shocking peek under the dirty rug of Australian history." John Birmingham "Hilarious and insightful -- Hunt has found the deep wells of humour in Australia's history." Chris Taylor, The Chaser
