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.
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.
Today Australian Rules football is a multi-million-dollar business, with superstar players, high-profile presidents and enough scandals to fill a soap opera.
Winner of the 2009 Tasmania Book PrizeWinner of the 2008 Colin Roderick AwardAlmost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen s 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?
Among the vast body of manuscripts composed and collected by the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), held by UCL Library's Special Collections, is the earliest Australian convict narrative, Memorandoms by James Martin.
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.
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.
Imperial spaces takes two of the most influential minority groups of white settlers in the British Empire - the Irish and the Scots - and explores how they imagined themselves within the landscapes of its farthest reaches, the Australian colonies of Victoria and New South Wales.
Imperial spaces takes two of the most influential minority groups of white settlers in the British Empire - the Irish and the Scots - and explores how they imagined themselves within the landscapes of its farthest reaches, the Australian colonies of Victoria and New South Wales.
Papua New Guinea's village court system was introduced in 1974, partly in an effort to overcome the legal, geographical, and social distance between village societies and the country's formal courts.
The audience-producer boundary has collapsed in indigenous and ethnic community broadcasting, and this is the first comprehensive study globally to chart the rise of its new relationship.
A must-read biography of an enigmatic personality who helped shape early MelbourneMadame Brussels, the most legendary brothel keeper in nineteenth-century Melbourne, is still remembered and celebrated today.
The experience of immigration to Australia from Scotland is outlined here, from daily life and occupation, to interactions with the indigenous inhabitants.
Whether in the form of warfare, dispossession, forced migration, or social prejudice, Australia s sense of nationhood was born from and continues to be defined by experiences of violence.
