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  • - Evangelical Christians in Australian History 1740-1914
    af Stuart Piggin & Robert D. Linder
    285,95 kr.

  • af Ken Inglis
    285,95 kr.

  • - Writer, Historian, Controversialist
    af Richard Allsop
    255,95 kr.

  • - Land, People, History
    af Richard Broome
    287,95 kr.

    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 and burning the mallee to make way for wheat. Government backed settlement schemes devastated lives and country, but some farmers learnt how to survive the droughts, dust storms, mice, locusts and salinity as well as the vagaries of international markets and became some of Australias most resilient agriculturalists. In mallee country, innovation and tenacity have been neighbours to hardship and failure. Mallee Country is a story of how land and people shape each other. It is the story of how a landscape once derided by settlers as a howling wilderness covered in dismal scrub became home to citizens who delighted in mallee fauna and flora and fought to conserve it for future generations. And it is the story of the dreams, sweat and sorrows of people who face an uncertain future of depopulation and climate change with creativity and hope.

  • - From Boom to Dust
    af Gail Phillips
    285,95 kr.

  • - Essays in Honour of Marilyn Lake
     
    253,95 kr.

  • - Not the End of the Story
    af Peg Fraser
    210,95 kr.

  • - Mary Montgomerie Bennett, Author, Educator, Activist for Indigenous Justice
    af Sue Taffe
    253,95 kr.

  • - The Djadja Wurrung, The Settlers and the Protectors
    af Bain Attwood
    210,95 kr.

  • - A Cultural History (Third Edition)
    af John Rickard
    285,95 kr.

  • - A Visual History
    af Ken Inglis
    297,95 kr.

  • - Living with Drought in Australia
    af Rebecca Jones
    253,95 kr.

    Living with drought is one of the biggest issues of our times. Climate change scenarios suggest that in the next fifty years global warming will increase both the frequency and severity of these phenomena. Stories of drought are familiar to us, accompanied by images of dead sheep, dry dams, cracked earth, farmers leaving their lands, and rural economic stagnation. Drought is indeed a catastrophe, played out slowly. But as Rebecca Jones reveals in this sensitive account of families living on the Australian land, the story of drought in this driest continent is as much about resilience, adaptation, strength of community, ingenious planning for, and creative responses to, persistent absences of rainfall. The histories of eight farming families, stretching from the 1870s to the 1950s, are related, with a focus on private lives and inner thoughts, revealed by personal diaries. The story is brought up to the present with the authors discussions with contemporary farmers and pastoralists. In greatly enriching our understanding of the human dimensions of drought, Slow Catastrophes provides us with vital resources to face our ecological future.

  • - An Intimate History
    af Alistair Thomson & Anisa Puri
    287,95 kr.

    Life is long. When youre forty-eight, theres been a lot of stuff thats happened (laughs). Its got elements of comedy and there are elements of heartache and drama and thriller and its got so many things in it. -- Rhonda King, born 1965. I really like the idea that in maybe a hundred years someone could listen and hear about my life to learn about what living in 2012 or 2013 was like. Think thats really cool. -- Adam Farrow-Palmer, born 1988. This book illuminates Australian life across the 20th and into the 21st century: how Australian people have been shaped by the forces and expectations of contemporary history and how, in turn, they have made their lives and created Australian society. From oral history interviews with Australians born between 1920 and 1989, fifty narrators reflect on their diverse experiences as children and teenagers, in midlife and in old age, about faith, migration, work and play, aspiration and activism, memory and identity, pain and happiness. In the book you can read and in the e-version of the book listen to the comedy, heartache and drama of ordinary Australians extraordinary lives. As our interviewee Kim Bear (born 1959) explains, Stories are a great way to inform people about what it is to be human. Even if you say one thing that resonates theres that connection made.

  • - The Gurindji Struggle, After the Walk-off
    af Charlie Ward
    210,95 kr.

  • - Essays for Geoffrey Bolton
     
    285,95 kr.

  • - The Whitlam Government's 21st Century Agenda
     
    210,95 kr.

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    210,95 kr.

    While the Great War raged, Australians were twice asked to vote on the question of military conscription for overseas service. The recourse to popular referendum on such an issue at such a time was without precedent anywhere in the world. The campaigns precipitated mass mobilisation, bitter argument, a split in the Labor Party, and the fall of a government. The defeat of the proposals was hailed by some as a victory of democracy over militarism, mourned by others as an expression of political disloyalty or a symptom of failed self-government. But while the memory of the conscription campaigns once loomed large, it has increasingly been overshadowed by a preoccupation with the sacrifice and heroism of Australian soldiers -- a preoccupation that has been reinforced during the centennial commemorations. This volume redresses the balance. Across nine chapters, distinguished scholars consider the origins, unfolding, and consequences of the conscription campaigns, comparing local events with experiences in Britain, the United States, and other countries. A corrective to the militarisation of Australian history, it is also a major new exploration of a unique and defining episode in Australias past.

  • - In Search of the Southern Continent
    af Avan Judd Stallard
    285,95 kr.

  • - The Free Aboriginal Inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land at Wybalenna, 1832-47
    af Leonie Stevens
    212,95 kr.

  • - A history of the National Council of Women in Australia, 1896 - 2006
    af Marion Quartly
    285,95 kr.

    For much of the twentieth century, the National Council of Women of Australia was the peak body representing women to government in Australia, and through the International Council of Women, to the world. This history of NCWA tells the story of mainstream feminism in Australia, of the long struggle for equality at home and at work which is still far from achieved. In these days when women can no longer be imagined as speaking with one voice, and women as a group have no ready access to government, we still need something of the optimistic vision of the leaders of NCWA. Respectable in hat and gloves to the 1970s and beyond, they politely persisted with the truly radical idea that women the world over should be equal with men.

  • - Finding Lives in a Museum Mystery
    af Alexandra Roginski
    165,95 kr.

    1860. An Aboriginal labourer named Jim Crow is led to the scaffold of the Maitland Gaol in colonial New South Wales. Among the onlookers is the Scotsman AS Hamilton, who will take bizarre steps in the aftermath of the execution to exhume this young man''s skull. Hamilton is a lecturer who travels the Australian colonies teaching phrenology, a popular science that claims character and intellect can be judged from a person''s head. For Hamilton, Jim Crow is an important prize. A century and a half later, researchers at Museum Victoria want to repatriate Jim Crow and other Aboriginal people from Hamilton''s collection of human remains to their respective communities. But their only clues are damaged labels and skulls. With each new find, more questions emerge. Who was Jim Crow? Why was he executed? And how did he end up so far south in Melbourne? In a compelling and original work of history, Alexandra Roginski leads the reader through her extensive research aimed at finding the person within the museum piece. Reconstructing the narrative of a life and a theft, she crafts a case study that elegantly navigates between legal and Aboriginal history, heritage studies and biography. Searching for Jim Crow is a nuanced story about phrenology, a biased legal system, the aspirations of a new museum, and the dilemmas of a theatrical third wife. It is most importantly a tale of two very different men, collector and collected, one of whom can now return home.

  • - A Sydney Lesbian History
    af Rebecca Jennings
    253,95 kr.

  • - A Feminist between the Wars
    af Dr Patricia & OAM Clarke
    253,95 kr.

  • - Whitlam in the Middle Kingdom, 1971
    af Billy Griffiths
    178,95 kr.

  • - The Battle for Australia's Inner Cities
    af David Nichols, Graeme Davison & Renate Howe
    253,95 kr.

  • - Life and Death on the Victoria River Frontier
    af Darrell Lewis
    210,95 kr.

  • - Confronting the spectre of polio
    af Kerry Highley
    285,95 kr.

  • - Stories of Australian Adoption
    af Denise Cuthbert, Shurlee Swain & Marian Quartly
    253,95 kr.

  • - Coalminers and Community in Wonthaggi 1909-1968
    af Andrew Reeves
    285,95 kr.

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