Australasian and Pacific history Books
Massey University Press Te Kupenga
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NewSouth Publishing Pathfinders: A history of Aboriginal trackers in
Book SynopsisThere are few Aboriginal icons in white Australian history. From the explorer to the pioneer, the swagman to the drover’s wife, Europeans predominate. Perhaps the only exception is the redoubtable tracker who, with skills passed down by generation after generation for over 65,000 years, read the signs and traced the movement of people across the land.The saviour of many and cursed by the wayward, trackers live in the collective memory as one of the few examples where Aboriginal people’s skills were sought after in colonial society. In New South Wales alone, thousands of Aboriginal men and a smaller number of women toiled for the authorities post-1862, tracking the lost and confused, seeking out the thieves and their ill-gotten booty and bringing criminals to justice.More often than not the role of tracker went unacknowledged. Little about the complexity and diversity of their work is known, how it grew out of traditional society and was sustained by the vast family networks of Aboriginal families that endure to this day. Pathfinders brings the work of trackers to the forefront of New South Wales law enforcement history, ensuring their contribution is properly acknowledged.Trade Review‘The word tracker conjures images of the legendary Aboriginal bush experts responsible for bringing criminals to justice and finding people lost in the wild. Michael Bennett’s new book is a very welcome addition. The book charts an important though largely overlooked area of the country’s history. Aboriginal trackers hold a mythical yet obscure presence in the history of the continent. Bennett weaves back into the nation’s historical narrative these Aboriginal heroes and heroines.’ — Professor John Maynard
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Yale University Press Islanders
Book SynopsisExplores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain Cook. This title reveals that there was gain as well as loss, survival as well as suffering, and invention as well as exploitation.Trade Review"Thomas’ description of the journey into the imperial world of the Pacific is made inclusive and companionable with lovely asides… [a] comprehensive but gripping book"—Katrina Schlunke, Times Higher Education Supplement -- Katrina Schlunke * Times Higher Education Supplement *"Islanders is not only a fine work of scholarship but also a lucid and engrossing read."—Rod Edmond, BBC History Magazine -- Rod Edmond * BBC History Magazine *“The islanders’ minds and feelings may be inaccessible in purely anthropological terms, but Thomas provides ample evidence to allow readers to fill in the gaps.”—Dr. Andrew Rudd, Church Times -- Dr. Andrew Rudd * Church Times *Joint winner of the 2010 Wolfson History Prize given by the Wolfson Foundation -- 2010 Wolfson History Prize * Wolfson Foundation *"Intellectually sophisticated and clearly written, this first-rate study of the experience of the Pacific Islanders provides one of the best available studies of the nature of imperial contact and violence, and of the traumas they caused.”—Jeremy Black, University of Exeter -- Jeremy Black"We are used to idea of thinking of the Pacific in the age of exploration and empire as a play-pond for the greed, ambition and curiosity of Europeans, but now Nicholas Thomas has produced a bracing revision that - Antipodean-like - inverts many of our assumptions about the Islanders that they supposedly discovered and exploited. Drawing on a lifetime of research, and in vivid sinewy prose, he brings to life an unknown world of Islander explorers, adventurers, traders, sailors, whalers, warriors, priests and migrants - peoples who criss-crossed every ocean and whose stories have never made it into Hakluyt or any voyage anthology. Surely it is these Pacific Islanders, rather than we European intruders, who deserve to be seen as the world's first cosmopolitans." - Iain McCalman, author of Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution -- Iain McCalman“Islanders tells the compelling, sometimes shocking, story of the western world's impact on the peoples of Oceania before 1900. Using all the evidence now available, Thomas shows that the lives of individuals, both Pacific islanders and European newcomers, were profoundly altered as the contact became more persistent and intrusive. Explorers, missionaries, traders and officials jostled for status and profit in their relationship with islanders - chiefly, priestly and otherwise - who in turn pursued their own interests in the years before catastrophic population decline changed the islands for ever. Islanders will appeal to specialists and non-specialists alike as a scintillating contribution not only to Pacific history, but to the general study of relations between European and non-European peoples.” - Glyn Williams, author of The Great South Sea -- Glyn Williams"Beautifully written, with spell-binding vignettes. An important, original controbution to our knowledge of life in the Pacific." - Dame Anne Salmond, author of The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas -- Anne Salmond"Enjoyably readable."—G.E. Marcus, Choice -- G.E. Marcus * Choice *“Thomas has written a work of scholarship that merits close attention and, at the same time, that presumes a ready grasp of the vast geography of the Pacific. His analysis is thoughtful and often thought-provoking.”—Tim Severin, Irish Examiner -- Tim Severin * Irish Examiner *
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Little, Brown Book Group James Cook
Book SynopsisCaptain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook?The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated.But who was the real James Cook?This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, navigator and cartographer of his era, and to personally map a third of the globe. His great voyages of discovery were incredible feats of seamanship and navigation. Leading a crew of men into uncharted territories, Cook would face the best and worst of humanity as he took himself and his crew to the edge of the known world - and beyond.With his masterful storytelling talent, Peter FitzSimons brings James Cook to life. Focusing on his most iconic expedition, the voyage of t
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Cambridge University Press A History of New South Wales
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Cambridge University Press Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment
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Aboriginal Studies Press Palm Island
Book SynopsisIn November 2004, Mulrunji Doomadgee''s tragic death triggered civil unrest within the Indigenous community of Palm Island. This led to the first prosecution of a Queensland police officer in relation to a death in custody. Despite prolonged media attention, much of it negative and full of stereotypes, few Australians know the turbulent history of Australia''s Alcatraz, a political prison set up to exile Queensland''s ''troublesome blacks''. In Palm Island, Joanne Watson gives the first substantial history of the island from pre-contact to the present, set against a background of some of the most explosive episodes in Queensland history. The repressive regimes were under the guise of protectionism. But police control continues, and there is a continuing failure to address the causes of ongoing Indigenous disadvantage. Palm Island, often heart-wrenching and at times uplifting, is a study in the dynamics of power and privilege, and how it is resisted.
£21.59
Aboriginal Studies Press One Law For All Aboriginal people and criminal
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Oratia Media The Anzac Experience
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Oratia Media Sea Edge Where the Waitemat meets Auckland Where
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Oratia Media The Forgotten Wars Why the Musket Wars Matter
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Otago University Press Phoney Wars
Book SynopsisThis book looks at the lives of New Zealanders during the greatest armed struggle the world has ever seen: the Second World War. It is not a political, economic or military history; rather it explores what life was like during the war years for ordinary people living under the New Zealand flag. It questions the war as a story of good against bad. All readers know that the Axis powers behaved ruthlessly, but how many are aware of the brutality of the Allied powers in bombing and starving enemy towns and cities? New Zealand colluded in and even carried out such brutal aggressions. Were we, in going to war, really on the side of the angels? Contrary to the propaganda of the time -- and subsequent memory -- going to war did not unite New Zealanders: it divided them, often bitterly. People disagreed over whether or not we should fight, what we were fighting for and why, who was fighting, who was paying, and who was dying. In this provocative and moving book, Stevan and Hugh Eldred-Grigg exp
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Monash University Publishing Up from the Underworld
Book SynopsisA regional mining community that won a national reputation, Wonthaggi came to be admired by many, and disliked by others. For sixty years the town's highly unionised miners successfully worked the thin, broken seams of a state coal mine that would have been regarded as insufficiently profitable by most Australian mine owners. At times, through the national Miner's Federation, they exerted a powerful influence within the Australian coal industry and beyond. For the residents of Wonthaggi, their mine and their union helped them understand and define who they were, these things playing a role in their everyday lives, understandings and imaginations that thoroughly transcended the workplace. In an age of private accumulation and social fragmentation, Up from the Underworld brings to light this important history.
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Te Papa Press Te Ata o Tu The Shadow of Tumatauenga
Book SynopsisACCESSIBLE, IMPORTANT GUIDE TO THE TAONGA RELATING TO THE NEW ZEALAND WARS HELD BY TE PAPAThe wars of 184572 were described by James Belich as bitter and bloody struggles, as important to New Zealand as were the Civil Wars to England and the United States'. The conflict's themes of land and sovereignty continue to resonate today.This richly illustrated book, developed in partnership with iwi, delves into Te Papa's Matauranga Maori, History and Art collections to explore taonga and artefacts intimately connected with the key events and players associated with the New Zealand Wars, sparking conversation and debate and shedding new light on our troubled colonial past.Contributing essays from Basil Keane, Arini Loader, Danny Keenan, Jade Kake, Mike Ross, Paul Meredith, Monty Soutar, Puawai Cairns and Ria Hall.
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Massey University Press The Home Front
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Massey University Press With Them Through Hell
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£42.50
Massey University Press For King and Other Countries
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Te Papa Press Hei Taonga ma nga Uri Whakatipu
Book SynopsisA landmark book about four remarkable museum expeditions that contributed to a recovery of Maori society. This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of the expeditions and details the innovative experiments of Maori leaders in the latter part of the twentieth century.Trade Review“ … a volume that is as much a treasure as the taonga it records.” Kete Books 2021Table of ContentsHei Wahi Ake | Wayne Ngata Page 8 Mihi | Arapata Hakiwai Page 10 Introduction | Anne Salmond, Conal McCarthy, Amiria Salmon Page 12 Chapter 1: Kia Ora Te Hui Aroha | Monty Soutar Page 76 Chapter 2: E Tama! E Te Ariki! Haere Mai! | Anne Salmond, James Schuster, Billie Lythberg Page 116 A Pouhaki for the Prince | James Schuster Page 146 Chapter 3: Toia Mai! Te Taonga! | Anne Salmond Page 154 Like He's Sitting Here and Talking | John Niko Maihi Page 188 My Tupuna are revealing themselves | Sandra Kahu Nepia Page 192 Where There Was an Astronomer There's a Pohutukawa | Te Wheturere Poope Gray Page 194 The Knowledge Inside the Words | Te Aroha McDonnell Page 196 Chapter 4: Oh Machine, Speak On, Speak On | Anne Salmond, Billie Lythberg Page 200 Chapter 5: The Eye of the Film | Natalie Robertson Page 218 Chapter 6: Alive with Rhythmic Force | Anne Salmond, Billie Lythberg, Conal McCarthy Page 278 Appendices Page 304 Reconnecting Taonga | Billie Lythberg The Terminology of Whakapapa | Apirana Ngata, Wayne Ngata Relationship Terms | Apirana Ngata Notes Glossary Bibliography Image Credits About the Authors Acknowledgements Index
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Massey University Press Our First Foreign War
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£36.54
Massey University Press Invisible
Book SynopsisMIGRATION AND RACISM IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALANDTrade Review'timely, passionate, highly readable and deeply challenging.' - Jane Buckingham, New Zealand Journal of History
£27.00
Massey University Press The Front Line
Book SynopsisNew Zealand's war through the lens of those who served. A book of photographs of New Zealand's involvement in the Second World War.Table of ContentsContents Introduction: New Zealand and the Second World War Chapter 1: At War Again Chapter 2: Early Days Chapter 3: Greece and Crete Chapter 4: The Air War over Europe Chapter 5: The War in North Africa Chapter 6: The War at Sea Chapter 7: The Air War over the Pacific Chapter 8: The Ground War in the Pacific Chapter 9: The Italian Campaign Chapter 10: Prisoners of War Chapter 11: The Home Front and Jayforce Chapter 12: Coming Home Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements About the Author Index
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Massey University Press The Forgotten Coast
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Massey University Press One Hundred Havens
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Cambridge University Press Anzac and Empire
Book SynopsisAnzac and Empire is the first full-length biography of George Foster Pearce - a carpenter who became one Australia's most influential politicians, and the man central to how Australia planned for, and fought in, World War I.Table of ContentsList of illustrations and tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. 'We, too, have hopes and ambitions', 1870–1909; 2. Building the Framework, 1910–1913; 3. War, 1914; 4. 'One of the great battle stories of the British Empire', 1915; 5. Conscription and the Labor Split, 1916; 6. The disastrous department, 1917; 7. 'Pearce is doomed!', 1918; 8. London and Washington, 1919–1922; 9. Rearmament, 1922–1952; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
£46.80
Cambridge University Press The Good International Citizen
Book SynopsisVolume 3 of the official history of Australian peacekeeping, humanitarian and post-cold war operations explores Australia's involvement in six missions following the end of the Gulf War. These missions reflected increasing complexity of peacekeeping, as it overlapped with enforcement of sanctions, weapons inspections, humanitarian aid, election monitoring and peace enforcement.Table of ContentsPart I. Strategy and Policy: 1. Peacekeeping after the Gulf War: Australian defence policy: 1991; 2. Peacekeeping in the new world order: Australia's response: 1991–1996; Part II. Cambodia: 3. From Angkor Wat to Pol Pot: Cambodia to 1988; 4. Law and order on the border: the Australian federal police and the UN border relief organisation, 1989–1993; 5. An Australian peace proposal: the Cambodian peace agreement: 1989–1991; 6. First into Phnom Penh: the Australian army contingent in the UN advance mission in Cambodia: 1991–1992; 7. The roadblock: Australians in the UN transitional authority in Cambodia, February–May 1992; 8. Change in plan: Australians in the UN transitional authority in Cambodia, June–December 1992; 9. 'Democracy's surprise triumph': Australians in the UN transitional authority in Cambodia: 1993; 10. Developing operation banner: Australian military assistance to Cambodia: 1994–1997; 11. Winding up operation banner: the end of Australian military assistance to Cambodia: 1997–1999; Part III. Western Sahara: 12. A good international citizen: Australia's commitment to Western Sahara: 1990–1991; 13. Backbone of the mission: the Australians in Western Sahara: 1991–1994; Part IV. Former Yugoslavia: 14. Roads not taken: Australian peacekeeping in the Former Yugoslavia: 1991–1996; 15. A modest commitment: Australian peacekeepers in the Former Yugoslavia: 1997–2004; Part V. Watch on Iraq: 16. A new type of commitment: humanitarian relief in Kurdistan: May–June 1991; 17. Disarming Iraq: sanctions and weapons inspection: 1991–1992; 18. A limited liability: Australia and the hunt for Saddam's weapons: 1993–1997; 19. UNSCOM and the US alliance: Australia re-commits forces to the Gulf: 1997–1999.
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Cambridge University Press Taking Liberty
Book SynopsisAt last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy. The legacy of seizing a continent and alternately destroying and governing its original people shaped how white Australians came to see themselves as independent citizens. It also shows how shifting wider imperial and colonial politics influenced the treatment of indigenous Australians, and how indigenous people began to engage in their own ways with these new political institutions. It is, essentially, a bringing together of two histories that have hitherto been told separately: one concerns the arrival of early democracy in the Australian colonies, as white settlers moved from the shame and restrictions of the penal era to a new and freer society with their own institutions of government; the other is the tragedy of indigenous dispossession and displacement, with its frontier violence, poverty, disease and enforced regimes of mission life.Trade Review'This is the first book to get to grips not only with how settlers in the Australian colonies gained powers of self-government, but how those powers were comprehended, experienced and resisted by Aboriginal Australians. Rigorously researched and compellingly narrated, this is one book that everyone with an interest in settler colonialism must read.' Alan Lester, University of Sussex and La Trobe University, Melbourne'Curthoys and Mitchell take issue with major trends in the field and aim at genres of narrative that have failed to capture the dialectics between settlers and indigenous communities. This is a fierce, unflinching case for rooting principles of equality and inclusion in deep, unsentimental genealogies of the nineteenth-century experience.' Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign'This is an important book. It is deeply learned. It compels a rethinking of political history as traditionally conceived, demanding a reckoning with the centrality of violence and the attempted erasure or coercion of Indigenous peoples to the development of democracy and colonial self-government both in Australia and the wider British settler empire. Chilling, heartbreaking, magisterial: this book is a game-changer.' Elizabeth Elbourne, McGill University, Montreal'This landmark book traces a vital shift in the histories of liberty and unfreedom across the Australian colonies in the mid nineteenth century, for the first time interrogating how responsible government and the gaining of democratic rights and freedoms for settlers gave rise to violent and oppressive degrees unfreedom for Indigenous peoples. A must read for all historians of Australia and of settler colonialism.' Penelope Edmonds, University of TasmaniaTable of ContentsIntroduction: how settlers gained self-government and indigenous people (almost) lost it; Part I. A Four-Cornered Contest: British Government, Settlers, Missionaries and Indigenous Peoples: 1. Colonialism and catastrophe: 1830; 2. 'Another new world inviting our occupation': colonisation and the beginnings of humanitarian intervention, 1831–1837; 3. Settlers oppose indigenous protection: 1837–1842; 4. A colonial conundrum: settler rights versus indigenous rights, 1837–1842; 5. Who will control the land? Colonial and imperial debates 1842–1846; Part II. Towards Self-Government: 6. Who will govern the settlers? Imperial and settler desires, visions, utopias, 1846–1850; 7. 'No place for the sole of their feet': imperial-colonial dialogue on Aboriginal land rights, 1846–1851; 8. Who will govern Aboriginal people? Britain transfers control of Aboriginal policy to the colonies, 1852–1854; 9. The dark side of responsible government? Britain and indigenous people in the self-governing colonies, 1854–1870; Part III. Self-Governing Colonies and Indigenous People, 1856–c.1870: 10. Ghosts of the past, people of the present: Tasmania; 11. 'A refugee in our own land': governing Aboriginal people in Victoria; 12. Aboriginal survival in New South Wales; 13. Their worst fears realised: the disaster of Queensland; 14. A question of honour in the colony that was meant to be different: Aboriginal policy in South Australia; Part IV. Self-Government for Western Australia: 15. 'A little short of slavery': forced Aboriginal labour in Western Australia 1856–1884; 16. 'A slur upon the colony': making Western Australia's unusual constitution, 1885–1890; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Limits of Peacekeeping Volume 4 the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping Humanitarian and PostCold War Operations
Book SynopsisThe Limits of Peacekeeping highlights the Australian government's peacekeeping efforts in Africa and the Americas from 1992 to 2005. Changing world power structures and increased international cooperation saw a boom in Australia's peacekeeping operations between 1991 and 1995. The initial optimism of this period proved to be misplaced, as the limits of the United Nations and the international community to resolve deep-seated problems became clear. There were also limits on how many missions a middle-sized country like Australia could support. Restricted by the size of the armed forces and financial and geographic constraints, peacekeeping was always a secondary task to ensuring the defence of Australia. Faith in the effectiveness of peacekeeping reduced significantly, and the election of the Howard Coalition Government in 1996 confined peacekeeping missions to the near region from 1996â2001. This volume is an authoritative and compelling history of Australia's changing attitudes towarTable of Contents1. Whither the good international citizen? Australia's approach to peacekeeping, 1991–96; Part I. Somalia: 2. Towards peace enforcement: Australia responds to the Somalia disaster, 1992; 3. Australian Force Somalia: deploying the 1 RAR Battalion Group, December 1992–January 1993; 4. 'The unforgiving school of trial and error': the 1 RAR Battalion Group in Somalia, January–February 1993; 5. Achieving the mission: Australian civil–military operations in Somalia, April–May 1993; 6. Maintaining a commitment: Australia's role in Unosom II, 1993; 7. 'Our name would not be worth much … if we turned tail': withdrawing from Somalia, 1994–95; Part II. Rwanda: 8. 'Somebody do something': the Rwandan genocide and Australia, 1994; 9. After the tempest: the first contingent to Rwanda, August 1994–February 1995; 10. Increasingly unwelcome guests: the second contingent to Rwanda, February–August 1995; 11. Mandate meets reality: Kibeho, April 1995; Part III. The Keating Government's Last Missions: 12. A success story in Africa: Australia and the Mozambique elections, 1994; 13. Adrift in Africa: Australian deminers in Mozambique, 1994–2002; 14. One for the alliance: the commitment to Haiti, 1994–95; 15. To the Caribbean: Australian police operations in Haiti, 1994–95; Part IV. The Howard Government's Missions: 16. Defining the national interest: the Howard Government and peacekeeping, 1996–2001; 17. Universal peacekeepers? Guatemala, 1997; 18. 'Backing a winner': Australia and the UN mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea, 2001–05; 19. 'Two guys can, and do, make a difference': Australian advisers in Sierra Leone, 2001–03.
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Cambridge University Press Kokoda
Book SynopsisIn this book, Karl James brings together eminent military historians from Britain, the United States, Japan and Australia to reassess the principal battles from both Allied and Japanese perspectives, providing readers with a more complete understanding of one of the major turning points in the Second World War.Table of Contents1. Kokoda: the immortal trail Karl James; Part I. Turning Points: 2. War across the world Antony Beevor; 3. Confrontation in the Coral Sea: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz's plan for a decisive battle John B. Lundstrom; 4. South Pacific turning point: Guadalcanal Richard B. Frank; Part II. Allied Perspectives: 5. Victory at all cost: Douglas MacArthur's Papuan campaign of 1942–3 James W. Zobel; 6. Command failures on the Kokoda Trail Rowan Tracey; 7. The air war over Papua: the RAAF experience Mark Johnston; 8. The Battle of Milne Bay Phillip Bradley; 9. Grinding out a victory: Australian and American commanders during the beachhead battles Peter J. Dean; Part III. Japanese Perspectives: 10. Making soldiers: training, doctrine and culture in the Imperial Japanese Army Edward J. Drea; 11. Japanese commanders in Kokoda Haruki Yoshida; 12. Against overwhelming odds? Opposing strengths on the Kokoda Trail Peter Williams; Part IV. On the Trail: 13. On the trail of an extraordinary man: the making of the architect of Kokoda Robyn Kienzle; 14. Trekking Kokoda Charlie Lynn; Part V. Legacies: 15. Papua's overlooked legacy: the AMF as a learning institution Garth Pratten; 16. Kokoda: an epic in Australian history David Horner.
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Cambridge University Press Our Corner of the Somme
Book SynopsisBy the time of the Armistice, Villers-Bretonneux - once a lively and flourishing French town - had been largely destroyed, and half its population had fled or died. From March to August 1918, Villers-Bretonneux formed part of an active front line, at which Australian troops were heavily involved. As a result, it holds a significant place in Australian history. Villers-Bretonneux has since become an open-air memorial to Australia''s participation in the First World War. Successive Australian governments have valourised the Australian engagement, contributing to an evolving Anzac narrative that has become entrenched in Australia''s national identity. Our Corner of the Somme provides an eye-opening analysis of the memorialisation of Australia''s role on the Western Front and the Anzac mythology that so heavily contributes to Australians'' understanding of themselves. In this rigorous and richly detailed study, Romain Fathi challenges accepted historiography by examining the assembly, projTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Villers-Bretonneux. An Australian victory?; 2. 'The turning point of the war': occupying the memory front; 3. A school or nothing; 4. The Australian National Memorial of Villers-Bretonneux: commemorating the nation within an imperial frame; 5. 'Have we forgotten this place?'; 6. 'The meaning of the ANZAC tradition … must be learned anew'; 7. 'A piece of Australia in France'; 8. 'It was great to see Australia acknowledged in such a great way'; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Human Rights in TwentiethCentury Australia
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking study unpicks a tangled web of activists, bureaucrats, writers and politicians who championed, engaged with, critiqued or ignored what are today held to be the unassailable truths of universal human rights. Today's debates about freedom of religion, offshore detention and indigenous recognition have a long human rights history.Trade Review'In this fascinating account of how global ideas travel, Jon Piccini illuminates how Australians invoked universal human rights in pursuit of political and social reforms. By carefully charting the ways the concept was deployed by groups ranging from Indigenous Australians to anti-abortion evangelicals, Piccini offers a fresh reading of the capacities and the limits of this supple moral language.' Barbara Keys, author of Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s'This major contribution to understanding Australia's national navigation of the human rights idea and its place within wider global rights represents a strikingly impressive intervention. It interacts with some of the key trends within the grander constellation of human rights history and connects with the changing contours of human rights as an international discourse and transnational social movement.' Roland Burke, author of Decolonisation and the Evolution of International Human Rights'Australia has no bill of rights, but human rights talk permeates its culture and politics. Jon Piccini has for the first time explained the history of this paradox, in a significant contribution to our understanding of how the appeal to human rights became both pervasive and contested in modern Australia.' Frank Bongiorno, author of The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia'Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia is an important book and Jon Piccini has set out an agenda for further research which I hope students of Australian history will seek to follow. He has also presented Australias … record on human rights to an international audience and this will no doubt inspire future conversations and comparisons in global settings.' Julia T. Martínez, History Australia'Jon Piccini's excellent history of human rights in twentieth century Australia joins a growing number of 'national human rights histories' that seek to show how domestic political and civil movements engaged with the emergent global discourse of human rights … This book, which draws on a wide range of Australian newspapers, manuscript collections, archives, and publications from a wide range of civil liberties, human rights, indigenous rights, and sectarian organizations, should appeal to historians of modern Australian politics and foreign policy, indigenous transnationalism, and human rights more generally.' Brad Simpson, Journal of Contemporary HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: bereft of words; 1. Inventing rights; 2. Cold War rights; 3. Experimental rights; 4. Who's rights? 5. Implementing rights; Epilogue: cascade or trickle?
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HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd A Sense of Balance
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John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd Australia's Military History For Dummies
Book SynopsisCreated especially for the Australian customer! The simple and easy way to get your mind around Australia''s military history More people are visiting Gallipoli and walking the Kokoda Trail each year now find out why. This complete guide helps you trace the story of Australia''s involvement in war, from the colonial conflicts with the Indigenous population, through the World Wars to peacekeeping initiatives in East Timor and the controversial conflict in Afghanistan. Find out the origins of Australia''s military history go all the way back to the arrival of the First Fleet and the conflicts with the Indigenous peoples Learn about the heroism of the Anzacs discover the origins of the legend of Gallipoli, and how the brass bungled the campaign Discover the horrors of war consider the suffering and huge losses on the Western Front Recognise the successful battles of World Wars I and II follow the Diggers'' exploits in Palestine and Syria, and at Tobruk and Alamein Marvel at the grim jungle battles track the Diggersthrough New Guinea, Borneo, Malaya and Vietnam between 1942 and 1972 Admire Australia''s efforts to repel possible invaders learn how Australians defended their country against the Japanese during World War II See how the Cold War heated up witness the fight against communism in the Korean and Vietnam Wars Appreciate the modern-day Australian Defence Force acknowledge the courage of the men and women who protectus into the 21st century Open the book and find: New insights into the meaning of Anzac Day Simple explanations of the structure of Australia''s military Details of who fought whom, where, when and why Stories of Australia''s great military fighters and leaders Accounts of the iconic battles that established Australia''s reputation Locations of Australia''s peacekeeping operations around the world Ways in which war and conflict have shaped the nation Reasons why Australia goes to war Learn to: Comprehend the impact of waron Australia Appreciate the heroism at AnzacCove and other significant battlefields Understand the controversies ofrecent conflicts, including in Vietnam and Iraq
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Huia Publishers New Flags Flying: Pacific Leadership
Book SynopsisFrom 1960 to 1990, islands across the Pacific gained independence or self-government. In the years following this, Ian Johnstone and Michael Powles interviewed the Pacific people in key leadership positions in the lead-up to and achievement of independence.
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Huia Publishers Stepping Up: COVID-19: Checkpoints and
Book SynopsisThis book discusses the roadside checkpoints that were set up by Maori to protect communities during the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. Case studies of four different checkpoints are examined, each of which looked slightly different, but all of which were underpinned by tikanga Maori. The checkpoints are discussed as practical expressions of whanau, hapu, iwi and Maori rangatiratanga and indicate the ongoing existence and flourishing of rangatiratanga.
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Auckland University Press Untold Intimacies
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Auckland University Press Mana Moana
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Sally Milner Publishing Pty Ltd Deadly Secrets: The Singapore Raids 1942-45
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Auckland University Press A Fire in the Belly of Hineāmaru: A Collection of Narratives about Te Tai Tokerau Tūpuna: 2022
Book Synopsis‘E kore e mōnehunehu te pūmahara ki ngā momo rangatira o neherā nā rātou nei i toro te nukuroa o Te Moana Nui a Kiwa me Papa Tū a Nuku. Ko ngā tohu o ō rātou tapuwae i kākahutia ki runga i te mata o te whenua – he taonga, he tapu. Time will not dim the memory of the special class of rangatira of the past who braved the wide expanse of ocean and land. Their sacred footprints are scattered over the surface of the land, treasured and sacred.’ — Sir James Hēnare From peacemakers and strategists to explorers and entrepreneurs, the tūpuna of the North are an inspiration to the people of Te Tai Tokerau. This remarkable book by Melinda Webber and Te Kapua O’Connor introduces a new generation to twenty-four of those tūpuna – Nukutawhiti and Hineāmaru, Hongi Hika and Te Ruki Kawiti, and many more. Through whakapapa and kōrero, waiata and pepeha, we learn about their actions, their places, their values, and their aspirations. Published in both a te reo Māori edition translated by Quinton Hita and an English-language edition, and featuring original cover art by Shane Cotton, A Fire in the Belly of Hineāmaru is a call to action for Te Tai Tokerau today – a reminder to celebrate the unbroken connection to histories, lands, and esteemed ancestors.
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Auckland University Press 'A Bloody Difficult Subject': Ruth Ross, te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Making of History
Book SynopsisRuth Ross is hardly a household name, yet most New Zealanders today owe the way they understand the Treaty of Waitangi — or te Tiriti o Waitangi as Ross called it — to this remarkable woman’s path-breaking historical research. Taking us on a journey from small university classes and a lively government department in the nation’s war-time capital to an economically poor but culturally rich Māori community in the far north, and from tiny schools and cloistered university offices to parliamentary committees and a legal tribunal, Attwood enables us to grasp how and why the place of the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand law, politics, society and culture has been transformed in the last seven decades. A frank and moving meditation on the making of history and its advantages and disadvantages for life in a democratic society, A Bloody Difficult Subject is a surprising story full of unforeseen circumstances, unexpected twists, unlikely turns and unanticipated outcomes.
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Auckland University Press A Different Light
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£61.65
Huia Publishers God's Messenger: J. F. Riemenschneider and Racial
Book SynopsisThis is a new biography of the North German missionary Rev. J. F. Riemenschneider, who settled in the Taranaki region of New Zealand in the first half of the nineteenth century.
£28.46
Huia Publishers He Korero - Words Between Us: First M?ori-P?keh?
Book SynopsisThis book traces M?ori engagement with handwriting from 1769 to 1826. Through beautifully reproduced written documents, it tells an image-led story about the earliest relationships between M?ori and P?keh? based around the written word.
£29.66
Huia Publishers Flashback: Tales and Treasures of Taranaki
Book SynopsisShowcasing fifty-seven items from the collections at Puke Ariki museum in Taranaki, Flashback puts a fresh light on Taranaki heritage and the stories of the region and people.
£33.11
Huia Publishers Agents of Autonomy
Book SynopsisAgents of Autonomy examines the way that Maori reorganised and responded to the Crown''s determined drive to secure Maori lands. O''Malley''s history discusses in detail the succession of Maori organisations, or ''Native Committees'', that formed throughout the nineteenth century and came very close to regaining control of their affairs and their resources.
£17.99
Otago University Press A Deserter's Adventures: The Autobiography of Dom
Book SynopsisDom Felice Vaggioli wrote this autobiography between 1909 and 1911, after the publication in Italy of his History of New Zealand and its Inhabitants. One of the first Benedictine monks to be sent to New Zealand, he arrived in 1879 and returned home in 1887, having worked in Gisbourne, Auckland and the Coromandel. A Deserter's Adventures is Vaggioli's title, as he was a concientious objector, or "draft-dodger," as a young monk and so termed himself "a deserter." This is typical of the individual who emerges from these pages: always questioning, and always applying a strong sense of justice and fine logic to the many dilemmas he found himself in as a missionary priest in New Zealand.
£19.76
Otago University Press Ka Taoka Hakena: Treasures from the Hockec
Book SynopsisIn 1907 Dr T.M. Hocken of Dunedin - historian, bibliographer and collector - undertook to gift to the University of Otago his magnificent collection of books, manuscripts, paintings and other historical documents relating to New Zealand and the Pacific. Published to celebrate the centenary of the Hocken Collections' Deed of Trust, this book documents almost 200 items, dating from the seventeenth century to the present day, photographed by Bill Nichol. These include historical and modern paintings, photographs and drawings, maps and plans, books, newspapers and posters, sheet music, sound recordings, and early New Zealand manuscripts. Many items relate to Maori history.Table of ContentsPreface; A Labour of Love: Dr Hocken and His Collection; The Hocken Collections 1910 to 2007; Archives and Manuscripts; Publications; Maps and Plans; Music and Sound; Paintings and Drawings; Photographs.
£26.21
Te Papa Press Tangata o le Moana: New Zealand and the People of
Book SynopsisThis richly illustrated history tells the fascinating story of Pacific people and their relationships with, and contributions to, New Zealand society. Across fifteen chapters written by leading historians and writers, every aspect of New Zealand's relationship with Pacific people is covered - from migration to tourism, economics to politics, sport to the arts.Trade Review"revealing and rewarding... the stories and the history of the Pacific and the way in which the various groups have interacted with each other and New Zealand is outlined in am accessible and informative way" Most importantly, the book is told from uniquely Pacific perspectives ... a truly Pacific side to the history of New Zealand." -- National Business ReviewTable of ContentsE kore au e ngaro: Ancestral connections to the Pacific -- Explorers and pioneers: The first Pacific people in New Zealand -- Visitors: Tupaia the navigator priest -- Little-known lives: Pacific Islanders in nineteenth-century New Zealand -- A Pacific destiny: New Zealand's overseas empire 1840-1945 -- Barques, banana boats and Boeings: Connecting New Zealand and the Pacific -- FIA (forgotten in action): Pacific Islanders in the New Zealand armed forces -- A land of milk and honey? Education and employment migration schemes in the postwar era -- Communities and cultures: Pacific organisations in New Zealand -- Economic links between the Pacific and New Zealand in the twentieth century -- All power to the people: Overstayers, dawn raids and the Polynesian Panthers -- Good neighbour, big brother, kin? New Zealand's foreign policy in the contemporary Pacific -- Representing the nation: Pacific peoples and politicians in New Zealand -- Conspicuous selections: Pacific Islanders in New Zealand sport -- Arts specific: Pacific peoples and New Zealand arts -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Image Credits -- Index.
£49.59
Oratia Media Wiremu Pere: The Life and Times of a Maori
Book SynopsisWiremu Pere (Wi Pere) lived from 1837 to 1915, leading his tribes of Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga a Mahaki through some of the most turbulent chapters of New Zealand history. He stood resolute against colonialism and entered parliament to stand up for his East Coast people, yet was astute in his business dealings and was compromised in the views of many Pakeha and Maori. This handsome book, illustrated with numerous photographs, whakapapa and maps, sets out the many sides Wi Pere''s life and times with a particular focus on his family life, parliamentary career and contributions to the East Coast.
£55.99
