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

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

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

Making Modern Australia

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• The changes we have made will remain-like all great Labor legislation-permanent landmarks in our history.--Gough Whitlam ***The Whitlam government pro... 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

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

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 hum... Lees meer

Australian Lives

Anisa Puri, Alistair Thomson

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• 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. ... 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

Australia

John Rickard

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• John Rickard's Australia: A Cultural History, first published in 1988, is still the only short history of Australia from a cultural perspective. It ha... 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

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

A Wild History

Darrell Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | Australian History
• In 1883, pastoralists began to drive great herds of cattle into the Victoria River District of Australia's Northern Territory. They entered a vast tro... 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

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

Attending to the National Soul

Robert D Linder, Stuart Piggin

• Hardcover | Engels | Australian History | nr. 2
• In this major new contribution Stuart Piggin and Robert Linder tell the story of how Australian evangelical Christians responded to the decline of the... Lees meer