Convict Workers

• Hardcover | Studies in Australian History
• This work offers a new interpretation of Australia's convict past. It is based on a detailed analysis of records of 20,000 male and female convicts - ... Lees meer

Hunters and Collectors

Tom Griffiths

• Hardcover | Studies in Australian History
• An account of the thousands of amateur enthusiasts who shaped the Australian historical imagination. Lees meer

Convict Workers

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Australian History
• In a radical new interpretation of Australia's past, based on exhaustive and detailed analysis of recORD this book shows that the convicts sent to Aus... Lees meer

Governing Prosperity

Nicholas Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Australian History
• The 1950s' undeniable prosperity has become synonymous with conservatism, and inertia seen as its hallmark. This book offers a fresh and challenging i... Lees meer

Fashioned from Penury

Margaret Maynard

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Australian History
• From the first white settlement clothing was of vast social significance to Australians. It was central to the ways class and status were negotiated a... Lees meer

The Price of Health

James A Gillespie

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Australian History
• This book provides background to the current debate on health policy by studying the political conflict over it in Australia from 1910 to 1960. It loo... Lees meer

British Imperialism and Australian Nationalism

Luke Trainor

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Australian History
• This book examines the relationship of the Australian colonies with Britain and the Empire in the late nineteenth century, and looks at the beginnings... Lees meer

Colonial Technology

Jan Todd

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Australian History
• Australia has always imported overseas technology, largely out of necessity, but has this been exploitative, fostering a relationship of dependence, o... Lees meer

Single Mothers and Their Children

Shurlee Swain, Renate Howe

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Australian History
• This is a powerful and moving history of single motherhood in Australia. It tells the story of these women and their children and the lives they const... Lees meer

Australia, Britain and Migration, 1915-1940

Michael Roe

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Australian History
• This book is the first systematic study of assisted emigration from Britain to Australia during the inter-war years. It looks at the British and Austr... Lees meer

Educating for the 21st Century

Mark H Mullin

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Australian History
• The author, headmaster of St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., shares his experiences, thoughts, and hopes for young people of today and tomorrow. H... Lees meer

A New Australia

Bruce Scates

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Australian History
• The 1890s in Australia were a time of social and industrial upheaval. They also nurtured a flourishing radical culture: anarchists, socialists, single... Lees meer

Gender and War

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Australian History
• War has been a key part of the Australian experience and central to many national mythologies. Yet more than most activities, war polarises femininity... Lees meer

The Invisible State

Alastair Davidson

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Australian History
• The Invisible State is the first major book applying contemporary state theory to Australia. Professor Davidson takes a historical approach, tracing t... Lees meer

The Rule of Law in a Penal Colony

David Neal

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Australian History
• This book, written by a lawyer and unique for its perspective based in both legal and social history, illuminates the important role played by the con... Lees meer

Convict Maids

Deborah Oxley

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Australian History
• Convict Maids looks at female convicts transported from Britain and Ireland to New South Wales between 1826 and 1840. Deborah Oxley refutes the notion... Lees meer

Outback Ghettos

Peggy Brock

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Australian History
• Up until the 1970s, a large proportion of Aboriginal people in Australia had some experience in institutions as part of government assimilation and pr... Lees meer

The Politics of Work

Raelene Frances

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Australian History
• The Politics of Work is concerned with the complex relationship between economic and technological change, the nature of sexual division in the workfo... Lees meer

British Imperialism and Australian Nationalism

Luke Trainor

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Australian History
• This book examines the relationship of the Australian colonies with Britain and the Empire in the late nineteenth century, and looks at the beginnings... Lees meer

Aboriginal Labour and the Cattle Industry

Dawn May

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Australian History
• Cattle has been big business in Australia for well over a century and earns substantial export dollars. Yet the contribution that Aboriginal people ha... Lees meer

Colonial Technology

Jan Todd

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Australian History
• Australia has always imported overseas technology, largely out of necessity, but has this been exploitative, fostering a relationship of dependence, o... Lees meer

The Captive Republic

Mark McKenna

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Australian History
• This first comprehensive history of republican thought and activity in Australia traces debate around an Australian republic from 1788 to the present.... Lees meer

Criminal Law and Colonial Subject

Paula Jane Byrne

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Australian History
• This book explores the relationship of a colonial people with English law and looks at the way in which the practice of law developed among the ordina... Lees meer

Hunters and Collectors

Tom Griffiths

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Australian History
• Hunters and Collectors is about historical consciousness and environmental sensibilities in European Australia from the mid-nineteenth century to the ... Lees meer