Australasian and Pacific history

How did scientists, artists, designers, manufacturers and amateur enthusiasts experience and value the sea and its products?

How did scientists, artists, designers, manufacturers and amateur enthusiasts experience and value the sea and its products?

The true story of a queen deposed, a five-year police state, an attempted counter-coup, and the end of an independent nation.

The Petrov Affair: Politics and Espionage is a memoir of the Petrov Affair, a historical event that involves the defection of Vladimir Petrov, a colonel in the Soviet intelligence service in Sydney, and the announcement of his defection ten days later by Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies.

The nineteenth-century spread of democracy in Britain and its colonies coincided with an increase in alcohol consumption and in celebratory public dinners with rounds of toasts.

New York Times bestseller: The true story of the WWII naval battle portrayed in the Roland Emmerich film is "e;something special among war histories"e; (Chicago Sun-Times).

Family history research has been one of Brendas passions for the past twenty years.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;THE OLD BRITISH TALES OF THE BUSH - 5 Intriguing Books of Australia (Illustrated)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

In See How We Roll Melinda Hinkson follows the experiences of Nungarrayi, a Warlpiri woman from the Central Australian desert, as she struggles to establish a new life for herself in the city of Adelaide.

A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching Pacific histories for the first time or for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses.

Notorious, numerous and varied, serial murderers from Australia have an eclectic record of crimes, methods and trademarks.

?

Today's New Zealand is an emerging paradigm for successful cultural relations.

How did Hawaiian and Polynesian culture come to dramatically alter American music, fashion and decor, as well as ideas about race, in less than a century?

Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean' is Edward Hamilton Currey's most famous work.

This vintage book contains the thirteenth edition of "e;First Lessons in Maori"e;, a practical and comprehensive coursebook for learning the Maori language.

This vintage book contains an detailed account of the Kelly Gang and their various exploits, painstakingly composed by the author from official documents, contemporary newspapers, and other sources of information.

This early work by G.

The Battle of Le Hamel on 4 July 1918 was an Allied triumph, and strategically very important in the closing stages of WW1.

Sir Hubert Wilkins is one of the most remarkable Australians who ever lived.

If only these walls and this land could talk .

The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history.

The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's great epics - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before.

In this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier.

No matter how practised we are at history, it always humbles us.

The term Polynesia refers to a cultural and geographical area in the Pacific Ocean, bound by what is commonly referred to as the Polynesian Triangle, which consists of Hawai'i in the north, New Zealand in the southwest, and Easter Island in the southeast.

It is the 1860s and colonial Australia is no longer just a dumping ground for the pitiful throw-offs of harsh English justice.

The story of the man who strung the telegraph across Australia, and the woman who gave her name to Alice Springs.

Newly married, Jeannie Gunn accompanies her husband to 'The Elsey', the huge cattle station in the Northern Territory, several hundred miles from the nearest town.

Originally published in 1928, this book is a comprehensive study of the Maori people and their inner lives, customs and beliefs, written by one who lived amongst them during a time before modern western civilisation had much altered their existence.

The nineteenth-century spread of democracy in Britain and its colonies coincided with an increase in alcohol consumption and in celebratory public dinners with rounds of toasts.

Australia's tale of discovery, colonization and eventual settlement by the British is fraught with conflict.

Company towns are often portrayed as powerless communities, fundamentally dependent on the outside influence of global capital.

Company towns are often portrayed as powerless communities, fundamentally dependent on the outside influence of global capital.

A World of Relationships is an ethnographical account and anthropological study of the cultural use and social potential of dreams among Aboriginal groups of the Australian Western Desert.

A judicial revolution occurred in 1992 when Australia's highest court discarded a doctrine that had stood for two hundred years, that the country was a terra nullius - a land of no one - when the white man arrived.

A judicial revolution occurred in 1992 when Australia's highest court discarded a doctrine that had stood for two hundred years, that the country was a terra nullius - a land of no one - when the white man arrived.

On the afternoon of 8 April 1802, in the remote southern ocean, two explorers had a remarkable chance encounter.

Expatriate journalist and film-maker John Pilger writes about his homeland with life-long affection and a passionately critical eye.

The authoritative, epic history of the British colonisation of Australia.

The last book in a trilogy of explorations on space and time from a preeminent scholar, The Boundless Sea is Gary Y.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;THE TALES OF THE SEA"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is a memoir of a year spent on a U.

The Long Search for Peace recounts Australian peacekeeping missions that began between 1947 and 1982 and follows them to 2006.