Australia

John Rickard

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• "A perceptive, balanced, wide-ranging interpretation of the evolution of modern Australia which is both erudite and well-written."--Duncan Bythell ***... Lees meer

Dunera Lives

Carol Bunyan, Bill Gammage, Ken Inglis, Seumas Spark, Jay Winter

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• The story of the 'Dunera Boys' is an intrinsic part of the history of Australia in the Second World War and in its aftermath. The injustice these 2000... Lees meer

The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory

Matthew Haultain-Gall

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• 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 foug... Lees meer

The Conscription Conflict and the Great War

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• While the Great War raged, Australians were twice asked to vote on the question of military conscription for overseas service. The recourse to popular... Lees meer

The China Breakthrough

Billy Griffiths

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• In June 1971, Australian Opposition Leader Gough Whitlam left Sydney for a tour of Asia. At the time, the People's Republic of China was a forbidding ... Lees meer

Slow Catastrophes

Rebecca Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• Living with drought is one of the biggest issues of our time. Climate change scenarios suggest that in the next fifty years, global warming will incre... Lees meer

Made in Lancashire

Richard Turner

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• At the height of the Victorian gold rush, between July 1852 and June 1853, hundreds of government-assisted migrants from Lancashire, England made thei... Lees meer

Asbestos in Australia

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• Asbestos in Australia presents for the first time a multi-dimensional view of Australia's asbestos story featuring contributions from experts in the d... Lees meer

'Me Write Myself'

Leonie Stevens

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• Exiles, lost souls, remnants of a dying race: the fate of the First Nations peoples of Van Diemen's Land is one of the most infamous chapters in Austr... Lees meer

A Historian for All Seasons

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• Geoffrey Bolton was the most versatile and widely travelled of his generation of Australian historians. As a scholar, teacher, and commentator he enri... Lees meer

The Fountain of Public Prosperity

Robert D Linder, Stuart Piggin

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• The official religion brought to Australia with the First Fleet was Evangelical Christianity, the 'vital religion' then shaping public policy through ... Lees meer

Unnamed Desires

Rebecca Jennings

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• As the first in-depth study of female same-sex desire in 20th-century Australia, Unnamed Desires explores the compelling stories of ordinary women who... Lees meer

A White Hot Flame

Sue Taffe

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• "A white hot flame indeed - here is an important contribution to our national story." --Kim Scott *** Mary Montgomerie Bennett (1881-1961) is an impor... Lees meer

'I Wonder'

• Hardcover | Engels | Australian History
• Ken Inglis was one of Australia's most creative, wide-ranging, and admired historians. During a scholarly career spanning nearly seven decades, his hu... Lees meer

Freak Out

Tony Wellington

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• Freak Out is Australia's coming-of-age story, how we as a nation responded to the global events that filled our daily news coverage, and how the music... Lees meer

Gender Violence in Australia

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• In 2015, the Australian federal government proclaimed that violence against women had become a national crisis. A third of all women in Australia have... Lees meer

The Emperor's Grace

Mark Baker

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• 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 ... Lees meer

Contesting Australian History

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• One of Australia's leading scholars and a highly distinguished professor of history, Marilyn Lake forged a career that spanned several decades across ... Lees meer

A Handful of Sand

Charlie Ward

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• SHORTLISTED for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2017 (Australian History) SHORTLISTED for the Northern Territory Chief Minister's History Book Aw... Lees meer

Beyond Gallipoli

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• Much of the scholarship on the Great War, and especially the Dardanelles/Canakkale campaign, has been viewed through a narrow national prism focused e... Lees meer

On Red Earth Walking

Anne Scrimgeour

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• In 1946 Aboriginal people walked off pastoral stations in Western Australia's Pilbara region, withdrawing their labour from the economically important... Lees meer

A Second Chance

Margaret Taft, Markus

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• They came from an old world to a new land. The Yiddish speakers from Eastern Europe brought few material possessions but clung to a language and a cul... Lees meer

Mallee Country

Richard Brooome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor, Katie Holmes

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and man... Lees meer

Geoffrey Blainey

Richard Allsop

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia's "greatest living historian." However, Blainey has also been a controversial figure. His 1984 commen... Lees meer