Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. This memoir tells the cruelty, bravery and deaths of the men he fought alongside, and of his own journey from...Loe edasi...
This book is a hybrid, part academic part autobiography, containing accounts of marine geological and oceanographic work, geographical accounts and impressions of places visited, personal recollections of activities undertaken, and comments on situa...Loe edasi...
This book explores a series of Australian shadow places that manifest complex stories of colonised Australia in the throes of environmental crisis. These are places—from nuclear testing grounds, to extractivist landscapes, to the frontiers of co...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9780241711217)
Andrea Wulf belongs to the small, splendid canon of writers unafraid to render fact with feeling Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian and author of Figuring An inspiring biography of the remarkable naturalist, explorer and revoluti...Loe edasi...
This book is the first history of foreign MNEs in twentieth-century Australia, filling a major gap in the economic and business history literature of Australia and of the history of international business globally....Loe edasi...
This book examines the experience of migration of strong-minded Australian women, who were influential cultural agents from the years directly following the end of World War I until 1941—a pivotal period in the history of cultural relations betwee...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197777688)
An engaging history of a three year voyage that set off to find the Northwest Passage but instead returned to Europe with extraordinary findings about species, Indigenous-produced knowledge of the Pacific world, and the people and nature of the Pacif...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9780241670125)
A brilliant memoir from the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts Christopher de Hamel is one of the worlds best-known scholars and writers on illuminated manuscripts. He was mostly brought up in the south of New Zeal...Loe edasi...
Architectural Encounters in Asia Pacific explores the architecture of colonial trade and industry, revealing a complex network of transnational connections across the built heritage of the worlds most dispersed and culturally div...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009742115)
Nursing Aids at War: The Australian Army Medical Womens Service in the Second World War explores the chronological history of the Australian Army Medical Womens Service (AAMWS) and challenges our understanding of servicewomen and gendered work in...Loe edasi...
This book reveals how radical Croatian groups—responsible for bombings, armed incursions, and political violence across two continents—were allowed to proliferate thanks to the disinterest and tacit support of Australias governing Liberal Party....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009603744)
The Commanders Eyes and Ears: Australian Army Combat Intelligence in the Cold War, 194575 explores the contribution made by the Australian Armys combat intelligence services to force commanders during the Cold War, focusing primarily on the Austra...Loe edasi...
In the tradition of Hampton Sides and Simon Winchester comes a vital and timely work of historical adventure and reclamation by British archeological scholar Mike Pitts—a book that rewrites the popular yet flawed history of Rapa Nui (Easte...Loe edasi...
Dogs and Their Humans in Pacific Island Interspecies Cultures explores diverse canine–human relationships in ancient and contemporary Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, and Australia. Dogs and Their Humans in Pacific Island Int...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009637671)
Exploring the Australian Armys second-longest conflict from a new perspective, Supporting the Commitment is an engaging and valuable account of how the Armys logistical elements supported its combat operations in South Vietnam....Loe edasi...
This book looks at the recent history of sex, contraception, and abortion in Australia’s most conservative state, Queensland. This book looks at the recent history of sex, contraception, and abortion in Australia’s most conservative...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Dec-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009603812)
Examining the development of the Australian infantry through a critical and comparative lens, After Anzac provides an engaging account of the birth of the Anzac legacy and how this continues to define Australian infantry and society today....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Nov-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009489430)
Lying between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Australia served as a crossroads for trade and migration across the British Empire. Amanda Nettelbeck explores how intersecting concerns around race and mobility during the nineteenth century changed the...Loe edasi...
Full Corset and Stockings details the history of womens cricket in England and the games evolution as it moved to Australia, sharing the unknown stories of professional English and Australian players. ...Loe edasi...
Offering insight into nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical school dissecting rooms and anatomy museums, this book explores how collected human remains have shaped Western biomedical knowledge and attitudes towards the body. ...Loe edasi...
A global study of violence on four colonial frontiers to explore the dynamics of massacre in a comparative perspective, and to re-think the past oppression and exploitation of colonized peoples. Violence was a constant on all colonial fron...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 viole...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 winemaker...Loe edasi...
Early Photography in Colonial Australia explores 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 dee...Loe edasi...
This book makes a significant contribution towards contextual hermeneutical strategies and to the postcolonial appropriation of biblical materials....Loe edasi...
This book is a hybrid, part academic part autobiography, containing accounts of marine geological and oceanographic work, geographical accounts and impressions of places visited, personal recollections of activities undertaken, and comments on situa...Loe edasi...
This book explores a series of Australian shadow places that manifest complex stories of colonised Australia in the throes of environmental crisis. These are places—from nuclear testing grounds, to extractivist landscapes, to the frontiers of co...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9780241711217)
Andrea Wulf belongs to the small, splendid canon of writers unafraid to render fact with feeling Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian and author of Figuring An inspiring biography of the remarkable naturalist, explorer and revoluti...Loe edasi...
This book is the first history of foreign MNEs in twentieth-century Australia, filling a major gap in the economic and business history literature of Australia and of the history of international business globally....Loe edasi...
This book examines the experience of migration of strong-minded Australian women, who were influential cultural agents from the years directly following the end of World War I until 1941—a pivotal period in the history of cultural relations betwee...Loe edasi...
Ruth Balint, Ebony Nilsson, Phillip Deery, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Boris Frankel, Elena Govor, Ellen Gray, Justine Greenwood, Philip Mendes, Mara Moustafine...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197777688)
An engaging history of a three year voyage that set off to find the Northwest Passage but instead returned to Europe with extraordinary findings about species, Indigenous-produced knowledge of the Pacific world, and the people and nature of the Pacif...Loe edasi...
Discover the textures of everyday life in colonial Hawai°i--from missionary households and sugar plantations to hula schools and military bases--through the eyes of the people who lived it-- Provided by publisher. Discover the texture...Loe edasi...
Sari: Greenwood Cultural Center Series in African Diaspora History and Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN-13: 9780806196572)
In December of 1971 the Black Panther Party expanded to Australia. This might seem an odd place for a quintessentially African American political force, but as Jacynda Ammons reveals in this expansive work, Aboriginal Australians had long looked to t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Sydney University Press, ISBN-13: 9781761540653)
Sinophone Australia opens a new window onto Australian history by foregrounding Chinese-language sources as a lens through which to reinterpret the nations past. Understanding Australian history through sources written in a different language offer...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Sydney University Press, ISBN-13: 9781761540592)
Sinophone Australia opens a new window onto Australian history by foregrounding Chinese-language sources as a lens through which to reinterpret the nations past. Under-standing Australian history through sources written in a different language offe...Loe edasi...
Moshe Rapaport, Gilianne Brodie, Dennis A. Ahlburg, Dakota Alcantara-Camacho, Tammy Hailipua Baker, Glenn Banks, John Barker, Simon Batterbury, Aletta Biersack, Hans Juergen Boehmer...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9780824899592)
The exploration and settlement of the Pacific Island world is one of the most remarkable achievements of humanity. Early seafarers, skilled in navigation, discovered diverse habitats and biotas extending across a third of the globe. In this sea of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9780824891930)
Upon sighting the USS Charleston on January 29, 1891, hundreds of citizens of the Kingdom of Hawai i rushed to Honolulu Harbor to celebrate the return of King David Kalakaua. Just two months earlier, their beloved mo i had left the islands...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9780824891923)
Upon sighting the USS Charleston on January 29, 1891, hundreds of citizens of the Kingdom of Hawai i rushed to Honolulu Harbor to celebrate the return of King David Kalakaua. Just two months earlier, their beloved mo i had left the islands...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9798880701421)
Voices Beyond the Grave uncovers critically understudied histories of Japanese internment and labor diasporas in the French Pacific. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, French colonial authorities, following Charles de Gaulle’s order...Loe edasi...
Honorable Mention for the John Lyman Book Award in the category of U.S. Naval History. Mastering the Art of Command is a detailed examination of Admiral Chester W. Nimitzs leadership during World War II. It describes how he used his talents to guide...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9780241670125)
A brilliant memoir from the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts Christopher de Hamel is one of the worlds best-known scholars and writers on illuminated manuscripts. He was mostly brought up in the south of New Zeal...Loe edasi...
