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Mallee Country: Land, People, History by Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor, Katie Holmes
37.95 AUD
39.95 (5% off)
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian History Ser.
Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening ...Show more
'Me Write Myself' - The Free Aboriginal Inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land at Wybalenna, 1832-47 by Leonie Stevens
28.50 AUD
29.99 (4% off)
Category: Indigenous Australians | Series: Australian History Ser.
Exiles, lost souls, remnants of a dying race ... The fate of the First Nations peoples of Van Diemen's Land is one of the most infamous chapters in Australian, and world, history. The men, women and children exiled to Flinders Island in the 1830s and 40s have often been written about, but never allowed ...Show more
On Red Earth Walking - The Pilbara Aboriginal Strike, Western Australia 1946-1949 by Anne Scrimgeour
37.95 AUD
39.95 (5% off)
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian History Ser.
In 1946 Aboriginal people walked off pastoral stations in Western Australia's Pilbara region, withdrawing their labour from the economically-important wool industry to demand improvements in wages and conditions. Their strike lasted three years. On Red Earth Walking is the first comprehensive account of ...Show more
Sea Snakes by Harold Heatwole
4.99 AUD
39.95 (87% off)
Category: Animals & Nature SPECIALS | Series: Australian Natural History Series
Sixty per cent of the world's sea snakes are in our territorial waters - here's where they are, what they eat and who eats them, how they dive, breathe, reproduce, and function in their varying habitats.
The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory: Passchendaele and the ANZAC Legend by Matthew Haultain-Gall
32.95 AUD
34.95 (5% off)
Category: Military History | Series: Australian History Ser.
The Ypres salient 'was the favourite battle ground of the devil and his minions' wrote one returned serviceman after the First World War. Few who fought in the infamous third battle of Ypres – now known as Passchendaele – in 1917 would have disagreed. All five of the Australian Imperial Force's (AIF) in ...Show more
The Conscription Conflict and the Great War by Archer Damousi et al
32.95 AUD
34.95 (5% off)
Category: Military History | Series: Australian History Ser.
While the Great War raged, Australians were twice asked to vote on the question of military conscription for overseas service. The recourse to popular referendum on such an issue at such a time was without precedent anywhere in the world. The campaigns precipitated mass mobilisation, bitter argument, a ...Show more
The Emperor's Grace: Untold Stories of the Australians Enslaved in Japan during World War II by Mark Baker
32.95 AUD
34.95 (5% off)
Category: Military History | Series: Australian History Ser.
The Emperor's Grace is the story of the men of "C" Force – the first contingent of Australian, British and Dutch POWs shipped from Singapore to Japan in November 1942 – who worked in the Kawasaki Shipyard in Kobe before the American firebombing campaign razed the city, and then the infamous Fukuoka coal ...Show more
The Fountain of Public Prosperity: Evangelical Christians in Australian History 1740-1914 by Stuart Piggin; Robert D. Linder
47.45 AUD
49.95 (5% off)
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian History Ser.
The official religion brought to Australia with the First Fleet was Evangelical Christianity, the 'vital religion' then shaping public policy through William Wilberforce and his fellow evangelicals. That it has shaped Australian history ever since, making a substantial contribution to the public prosper ...Show more
The Fountain of Public Prosperity - Evangelical Christians in Australian History 1740¿1914 by Stuart Piggin; Robert D. Linder
37.95 AUD
39.95 (5% off)
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian History Ser.
The official religion brought to Australia with the First Fleet was Evangelical Christianity, the 'vital religion' then shaping public policy through William Wilberforce and his fellow evangelicals. That it has shaped Australian history ever since, making a substantial contribution to the public prosper ...Show more
The Hard Slog : Australians in the Bougainville Campaign, 1944-45 by Karl James
62.95 AUD
Category: Military History | Series: Australian Army History Series
The island of Bougainville in the South Pacific was the site of one of the largest and most gruelling campaigns fought by Australian forces during the Second World War. During the offensive against the Japanese from November 1944 to August 1945, more than 500 Australians were killed and two Victoria Cro ...Show more
Unnamed Desires A Sydney Lesbian History by Rebecca Jennings
32.95 AUD
34.95 (5% off)
Category: Sexuality | Series: Australian History Ser.
The first in-depth study of female same-sex desire in twentieth-century Australia, this book explores the compelling stories of ordinary women who struggled to build lives and express their love for other women in a hostile society. Focusing on Sydney and country New South Wales in the mid-twentieth-cen ...Show more