Discover the textures of everyday life in colonial Hawaii-from missionary households and sugar plantations to hula schools and military bases-through the eyes of the people who lived it.Daily Life in Colonial Hawaii offers a rich, ground-level view...Loe edasi...
Discover the textures of everyday life in colonial Hawaii-from missionary households and sugar plantations to hula schools and military bases-through the eyes of the people who lived it.Daily Life in Colonial Hawaii offers a rich, ground-level view...Loe edasi...
A brilliant memoir from the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable ManuscriptsChristopher de Hamel is one of the world s best-known scholars and writers on illuminated manuscripts. He was mostly brought up in the south of New Zealand, where h...Loe edasi...
The extraordinary true story of courage under fire and survival during one of the deadliest wartime attacks on Australia - the sinking of the hospital ship, the Centaur - and the bravery of its heroes Few disasters have touched Australia as profoundl...Loe edasi...
Deborah Lawrie didnt just break the glass ceiling - she flew right through it. They told her women couldnt fly commercial airliners.They told her women werent welcome in the cockpit.They told her women couldnt work and have a family.She told them...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Mar-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197777695)
In 1815, the Russian vessel Rurik set off on a three-year voyage through the Pacific and Arctic oceans in a quest to find the worlds most elusive geographic feature, the Northwest Passage. Financed by a wealthy Russian count and commanded by a fame-...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Mar-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Black Inc., ISBN-13: 9781743824481)
A groundbreaking account of the people and places that have shaped Aboriginal MelbourneIn Wheres All the Community? Aboriginal Melbourne Revisited, Julie Andrews paints a vivid portrait of the Aboriginal community in Melbourne, from 1835 to today.Dra...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Mar-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Distributed via Draft2Digital, ISBN-13: 9798233061219)
In the mid-14th century, an invisible killer emerged from the trade routes of the East, carrying with it the end of the world as the Middle Ages knew it. "e;The Black Death: A World Transformed"e; offers a haunting and comprehensive analysis...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Feb-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197777701)
In 1815, the Russian vessel Rurik set off on a three-year voyage through the Pacific and Arctic oceans in a quest to find the worlds most elusive geographic feature, the Northwest Passage. Financed by a wealthy Russian count and commanded by a fame-...Loe edasi...
Sari: Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Feb-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040631324)
Between 1949 and 1972, Australia became the largest centre of violent Croatian nationalism outside of Europe. This book reveals how radical Croatian groups - responsible for bombings, armed incursions, and political violence across two continents - w...Loe edasi...
Sari: Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Feb-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040515990)
Between 1949 and 1972, Australia became the largest centre of violent Croatian nationalism outside of Europe. This book reveals how radical Croatian groups - responsible for bombings, armed incursions, and political violence across two continents - w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Feb-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Melbourne University Press, ISBN-13: 9780522881912)
Was Robert Menzies out of step with the swinging 1960s, or did he shape the profound changes that it wrought Menzies led Australia for over half the decade, finally retiring in 1966 as our oldest prime minister. His reputation for stability and conti...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Feb-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Melbourne University Press, ISBN-13: 9780522881721)
For generations, Indigenous peoples in Australia have faced systemic barriers to justice and are often denied the right to determine their own legal and cultural futures. Defending the Defenceless is a powerful exploration of Indigenous self-determin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Feb-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Distributed via Draft2Digital, ISBN-13: 9798233289545)
Australia is often seen as a young nation, defined by British colonization and modern settlement—but its story stretches far beyond European arrival. Long before the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788 at Botany Bay, Aboriginal Australians and T...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Jan-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Big Sky Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781923514195)
Behind the birth of a nation lies a brutal, lawless world where crime, punishment, and desperation ruled and shaped the Australia we know today.This gripping true crime collection unearths the darkest chapters of Australias colonial past. From the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jan-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040605851)
Dogs and Their Humans in Pacific Island Interspecies Cultures explores diverse canine-human relationships in ancient and contemporary Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Australia. Anthropologically combining ethnographic, archaeological, biologica...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jan-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040557310)
Dogs and Their Humans in Pacific Island Interspecies Cultures explores diverse canine-human relationships in ancient and contemporary Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Australia. Anthropologically combining ethnographic, archaeological, biologica...Loe edasi...
Women, Indenture, and Resistance explores the lived experiences of Indian indentured (girmitiya) women in the Fiji Islands between 1879 and 1920, during the height of British colonial rule. Set against the backdrop of sugar-cane plantations, the book...Loe edasi...
The unofficial history of Australias national day since the first contentious one, thereby offering 237 other reasons for a day off. The nation is grateful. This is an indispensable book. It will grace the bookshelves of any trivia lover and also p...Loe edasi...
This book looks at a little-researched diaspora, originating on the Greek Aegean Island of Ikaria. Ikaria, being a small, isolated island, close to the Turkish coast, had a long and independent history, with periods of autonomy, including the short-l...Loe edasi...
This book looks at a little-researched diaspora, originating on the Greek Aegean Island of Ikaria. Ikaria, being a small, isolated island, close to the Turkish coast, had a long and independent history, with periods of autonomy, including the short-l...Loe edasi...
Bad boys, bright lights and sorry ends: the story of our most infamous gangster. Joseph Leslie Squizzy Taylor was many things to many people: a kind and caring husband, father and stepfather, a reliable son and brother, a generous and considerate n...Loe edasi...
Women, Indenture, and Resistance explores the lived experiences of Indian indentured (girmitiya) women in the Fiji Islands between 1879 and 1920, during the height of British colonial rule. Set against the backdrop of sugar-cane plantations, the book...Loe edasi...
The history of Australia has been written before - but not like this.In The Shortest History of Australia, Mark McKenna offers a compelling new version of our national story. This is a modern Australia permeated by First Nations history; a multicultu...Loe edasi...
The inspiring story of Mary Penfold, the mother of the Australian wine industry - a self-taught vintner and business genius who emigrated to a frontier settlement and built her familys small vineyard into one of the worlds most respected winemakers...Loe edasi...
When Richard Waterhouse turned his attention to his own family and antecedents, he discovered an Australian story.This book records over 200 years of history through revolution and war, boom and bust, relocation and work, and births, deaths and marri...Loe edasi...
The universally admired salmon has long swum in the flow of human progress, but no other species has found itself amid such a maelstrom of modern debates. Within salmons evolving narrative lies a remarkable but oft-forgotten quest: to bring salmon...Loe edasi...
Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empires many incursions into Europe. Yet how did the forms of violence...Loe edasi...
Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empires many incursions into Europe. Yet how did the forms of violence...Loe edasi...
Douze fascinantes histoires diles perdues, sur lesquelles vivent quelques centaines dhabitants. Ces mondes lilliputiens, loin detre anecdotiques, sont des avatars du notre, accable aujourdhui par linfiniment grand - le dereglement climatique, le...Loe edasi...
Desde la antiguedad clasica y hasta la epoca contemporanea, diversas tradiciones occidentales miraron a Egipto con asombro, interes y ambicion. Este libro explora como los monumentos, los jeroglificos, la religion y la historia del Egipto antiguo fue...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Melbourne University Press, ISBN-13: 9780522879537)
Early Photography in Colonial Australiaexplores the origins of the photographic culture that continues to shape how we see the world. From its mid-nineteenth-century beginnings photography was more than just a new technology it was deeply implicated...Loe edasi...
Examines what Australians read and wrote during the long nineteenth century, exploring their responses to the novels, poetry and non-fiction that inspired them, and the everyday writings of ordinary people, including diaries, letters and other person...Loe edasi...
Examines what Australians read and wrote during the long nineteenth century, exploring their responses to the novels, poetry and non-fiction that inspired them, and the everyday writings of ordinary people, including diaries, letters and other person...Loe edasi...
How an ancient land became a great democracy.Longlisted for Best Non Fiction in the Indie Book Awards 2026 Tony Abbott should be congratulated ... This history of Australia is vivid, readable, provocative Geoffrey Blainey, historianI think its ve...Loe edasi...
In Aboriginal-Colonial Exchanges in New South Wales, 1800-1835, Annemarie McLaren re-tells key elements of the foundational story of Australia: the meeting between Indigenous people and colonists and the entangled world that resulted. She does so thr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040785713)
Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion, and Exile, 1550--1850 brings together eleven original essays by an international group of scholars, each investigating how family, or the idea of family, was maintained or reinvente...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040791691)
Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion, and Exile, 1550--1850 brings together eleven original essays by an international group of scholars, each investigating how family, or the idea of family, was maintained or reinvente...Loe edasi...
