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The killers were Pevay and Timmy. In 1841 they slew two men and wounded others in an angry rampage through the Victorian......more

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Ken Inglis is one of Australia’s most admired and warmly regarded historians. Written with style and wit, Observing Aust......more

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Through oral histories, memoirs, and Facebook posts of Vietnamese adults who entered Australia as children after the Vie......more

This book surveys historical and emerging global air and space power issues and provides a multidisciplinary understandi......more

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The 25th anniversary edition of the much-beloved true adventure tale of Nathaniel Courthope; "A magnificent piece of pop......more

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They built them tough in the old days. Our ancestors’ exploits in a new country demonstrate that life was not meant to b......more

A charming and important collection of the 40-year personal correspondence between two distinguished Australian historia......more

Who and I? I am Thomas Toke, alias Thomas Tookey, alias Thomas Toak. I was born in England, transported to Sydney, Austr......more

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE AND PRIX FÉMINA ETRANGER - LONGLISTED FOR PRIX MÉDICIS - An exquisite, genre-d......more

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This book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact between Oceania and the Americas and analyses ......more

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History of the AWU is a first-hand account of the making of a union and the makings of a nation. It depicts the industri......more

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From its earliest years, South Australia was the most German of the Australian colonies. As they contributed to the foun......more

Of the many episodes that make up the oftentimes exotic impression of Chinese Australian history the 1850s walk from the......more

An engrossing, highly original and award-winning exploration of the Australian middle class. Journeyings begins with a t......more

Challenges the web of powerful images which has shaped academic and popular thinking on the early settlement period. The......more

Beyond the Silver Screen tells the history of women’s engagement with filmmaking and film culture in twentieth-century A......more

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Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van ......more

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Preparing a Nation?, based on extensive archival research, addresses perennial questions of Australian colonialism in Pa......more

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This book considers the ethics and politics of state apologies made to Indigenous peoples....more

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This book explores how Australia managed the prisoner of war issue throughout the Second World War and the immediate pos......more

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Centering on cases of sexual violence, this open access book illuminates the contested introduction of British and Frenc......more

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The story of the campaign that almost lost the Anzacs and the retreat that saved a nation. Stan Watson was among the fir......more

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Northern Australia was once one the most remote areas of the world. To all its early visitors-Macassan fishermen, white ......more

Translated from the French and Retold By Helen Rosenman Dumont d’Urville’s two epic voyages to the South Pacific and Ant......more