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A Historian for All Seasons: Essays for Geoffrey Bolton by Stuart Macintyre
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Australian History
Geoffrey Bolton was the most versatile and widely travelled of his generation of Australian historians. As a scholar, teacher and commentator he enriched understanding of the countrys regional mosaic, some of its notable figures and others who were just as revealing, the natural environment, social patt ...Show more
Australian Magpie: Biology and Behaviour of an Unusual Songbird by Gisela Kaplan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Animals | Series: AUSTRALIAN NATURAL HISTORY
The Australian magpie is one of our nation's most popular and iconic birds. It is loved for its impressive vocal abilities, propensity to play, excellent parenting and willingness to form enduring friendships with people.Written by award-winning author Gisela Kaplan, a leading authority on animal behavi ...Show more
Fatal Contact - How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia's First Peoples by Peter Dowling
$34.95 AUD
Category: History | 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
I Wonder: The Life and Work of Ken Inglis by Peter Browne (Editor); Seumas Spark (Editor)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography | 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
Making Modern Australia: The Whitlam Government's 21st Century Agenda by Jenny Hocking
$14.97 AUD
$29.95 (50% off)
Category: No Category | Series: Australian History
The Whitlam government propelled Australia out of the presumptions and certainties of twenty-three years of conservative government and changed it irrevocably. It passed a record number of bills into law and became the most successful reformist government in Australias history. This book brings to light ...Show more
On Red Earth Walking: The Pilbara Aboriginal Strike, Western Australia 1946–1949 by Anne Scrimgeour
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | 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
Roadies: The Secret History of Australian Rock'n'Roll by Stuart Coupe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Film & Music | Series: The Secret History of Australian Rock'n'Roll
This is your backstage pass to the hidden side of the music industry - the tantrums, the fights, the tensions, the indulgence, the sex, the alcohol, the drugs. The roadies see it all, and now they are sharing their secrets. Roadies are the unsung heroes of the Australian music industry. They unload the ...Show more
Save our Sons: Women, Dissent and Conscription during the Vietnam War by Carolyn Collins
$34.95 AUD
Category: History | 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
Slow Catastrophes: Living with Drought in Australia by Rebecca Jones
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Australian History
Dead sheep, dry dams, cracked earth and economic devastation: we feel we understand drought and yet there is more to this story. Australias long history of drought has goaded people to adapt and respond creatively. This book explores the way people have lived and worked with drought from the nineteenth ...Show more
The Fountain of Public Prosperity: Evangelical Christians in Australian History 1740-1914 by Stuart Piggin; Robert D. Linder
$49.95 AUD
Category: Religion/Spirituality | Series: Australian History Ser.
The official religion brought to Australia with the First Fleet was Evangelical Christianity, the 'vital religion' then shaping public policy through William Wilberforce and his fellow evangelicals. That it has shaped Australian history ever since, making a substantial contribution to the public prosper ...Show more
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