Australasian and Pacific history

Es sind Regionen der Sehnsüchte, es ist ein Kontinent der Träume: Australien, Neuseeland und die Inseln Ozeaniens.

This book is a collection of essays arising out of the 'Zealandia's Great War' conference organised by the New Zealand Military History Committee in November 2003.

This second edition has been brought up to date following the latest developments in the state.

1864 was a tough year for the fledgling town of Brisbane as it struggled to throw off the shackles of its origins as a harsh penal settlement.

First there was Girt.

Winner of the ACT Book of the Year AwardIt was the era of Hawke and Keating, Kylie and INXS, the America s Cup and the Bicentenary.

How many Australians born in the 137 years since Truganinis death learnt her legend and scarcely thought deeper about the enormity of the loss she represented, and the history that led to it?

In this eloquent and informative book, historian Klaus Neumann examines both government policy and public attitudes towards refugees and asylum seekers since Federation.

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

On a signboard at Cobargo I read the magic word 'Bermagui'.

Arthur Upfield is known internationally for his crime novels featuring Bony, the Aboriginal Detective.

Paul Wenz was born in France in 1869, lived in Australia, and wrote stories dealing mainly with his Australian experiences for the French.

Abdul the Sniper was the pride of the Turkish Army.

'To attack and ambush, to snipe and raid is the job of the Australian Guerrilla.

To observe a ridge of sandhills was to wonder what lay beyond them.

'I felt certain there must be gold in those hills, Jack', wrote a prospector to Ion Idriess, 'but I know very little about the game.

If there are genuine questions about Australian history, there is something to puzzle over.

Just a little way down Collins Street, beside Henry Buck's, is a perpetually dark but sheltered laneway called Equitable Place.

This is not a book of documents, snippets or worthy speeches.

"e;Old landmarks fall in nearly every block .

Girt.

'With bayonet in hand, I cautiously approached the narrow opening.

The Award-Winning History of Colonial MelbourneJames Boyce tells the true history of this country with rare clarity and an eye for the essential that never fails.

From Barton to AlbaneseUpdated editionSince 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the national show.

For the first time in two hundred years, here is a full and authentic account of the beginnings of modern Australia.

One of Australia's finest essayists, the first to cut through 'the great Australian silence' to convey the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture to settler Australians The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia s Indigenous people Marcia LangtonW.

Freedom on the Fatal Shore brings together John Hirst's two books on the early history of New South Wales.

Today Australian Rules football is a multi-million-dollar business, with superstar players, high-profile presidents and enough scandals to fill a soap opera.

In early 1965 at age thirteen, Mark Aarons came under the 'adverse notice' of ASIO, which opened volume one of his nine-volume security file.

Sense and Nonsense in Australian History represents a lifetime's original reflection by Australia's most innovative and penetrating historian.

The acclaimed history of colonial TasmaniaA brilliant book and a must-read for anyone interested in how land shapes people Tim FlanneryAlmost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemens Land.

In The History Question, Inga Clendinnen looks past the skirmishes and pitched battles of the history wars and asks whats at stake - what kind of history do we want and need?

In Made in England, David Malouf looks at Australia's bond with Britain and wonders whether it wasn't the Mother Country which did most of the giving.

In Whitefella Jump Up, Germaine Greer suggests that embracing Aboriginality is the only way Australia can fully imagine itself as a nation.

In this national bestseller Robert Manne attacks the right-wing campaign against the Bringing them home report that revealed how thousands of Aboriginal children had been taken from their parents.

Sewing Freedom is the first in-depth study of anarchism in New Zealand during the turbulent years of the early 20th centurya time of wildcat strikes, industrial warfare, and a radical working class counter-culture.

The Pacific War brings together the perspectives and insights of world-renowned military historians.

The Pacific War brings together the perspectives and insights of world-renowned military historians.

Shortlised for the Saltire Society Non Fiction Book of the Year Award Almost every adult and child is familiar with his Treasure Island, but few know that Robert Louis Stevenson lived out his last years on an equally remote island, which was squabbled over by colonial powers much as Captain Flint's treasure was contested by the mongrel crew of the Hispaniola.

Culloden was the last battle on British soil.

Before his death at the age of 110 in May 2011, Claude Choules was the last man alive who had served in both world wars.