Australasian and Pacific history Books
Monash University Publishing The Shelf Life of Zora Cross
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£17.09
Monash University Publishing For Social Betterment: Social Work Education in
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£24.29
Monash University Publishing Justice in Kelly Country
£17.99
Australian Scholarly Publishing The Politics of Police Diplomacy
£999.99
Australian Scholarly Publishing Battle of the Banks
£22.80
ATF Press Spirit of Australia
£21.80
ATF Press The Bonhoeffer Legacy: Australasian Journal of
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£18.04
ATF Press The Bonhoeffer Legacy: Australasian Journal of
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£28.79
ATF Press Redfern: Aboriginal activism in the 1970s
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£24.29
Aboriginal Studies Press Talking Strong: The National Aboriginal
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£24.29
ATF Press Alice's Daughter: Lost Mission Child
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£21.59
ATF Press Country Women and the Colour Bar: Grassroots
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£24.29
ATF Press Australia in Space
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£39.09
ATF Press Australia in Space: A History of a Nation's
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£74.66
Monash University Publishing Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent
Book SynopsisAntipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent is a new history of an ancient geography. It reassesses the evidence for why Europeans believed a massive southern continent existed, and why they advocated for its discovery. When ships were equal to ambitions, explorers set out to find and claim Terra Australissaid to be as large, rich and varied as all the northern lands combined.Antipodes charts these voyagesvoyages both through the imagination and across the High Seasin pursuit of the mythical Terra Australis. In doing so, the question is asked: how could so many fail to see the realities they encountered? And how is it a mythical land held the gaze of an era famed for breaking free the shackles of superstition?That Terra Australis did not exist didn't stop explorers pursuing the continent to its Antarctic obsolescence, unwilling to abandon the promise of such a rich and magnificent land till it was stripped of every ounce of value it had ever promised. In the process, the southern continentan imaginary landbecame one of the shaping forces of early modern history.
£24.29
Monash University Publishing The Conscription Conflict and the Great War
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£17.99
Monash University Publishing Australia's Northern Shield?: Papua New Guinea
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£40.72
Monash University Publishing Slow Catastrophes: Living with Drought in
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£21.59
Monash University Publishing Dunera Lives: A Visual History
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£24.29
Monash University Publishing A Historian for All Seasons: Essays for Geoffrey
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£24.29
Monash University Publishing 'Me Write Myself': The Free Aboriginal
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£17.99
Monash University Publishing A Second Chance: The Making of Yiddish Melbourne
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£17.99
Monash University Publishing The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, The
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£17.99
Monash University Publishing Black Saturday: Not the End of the Story
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£17.99
Australian Scholarly Publishing Behind the Legend: The Many Worlds of Charles
Book Synopsis"Telegraph" Todd became a legend in his own lifetime for introducing Australian colonists to a new information age. But only recently has the full extent of his many and varied achievements come to light.
£999.99
ATF Press Australis Oscar 5: The Improbable Story of
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£66.56
ATF Press Australis Oscar 5: The Improbable Story of
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£79.16
ATF Press Christianity in the Post Secular West
Book SynopsisWhat is the future of Christianity in the twenty-first century West? Are Western societies growing more secular, leaving cherished religious traditions behind? Or have modernity''s secularising currents generated equally powerful desecularising and resacralising currents? Should secularisation theory, the dominant paradigm in the social scientific study of religion for much of the twentieth century, be thrown in the dustbin, as some scholars have suggested? Or does it remain useful, even indispensable, despite its limitations? How are globalising processes, bringing diverse religious communities into increasingly close contact, affecting Western Christian communities? Such questions have attracted increasing attention from scholars in many disciplines during recent years and are at the heart of the essays in this volume.
£23.39
ATF Press Christianity in the Post Secular West
Book SynopsisWhat is the future of Christianity in the twenty-first century West? Are Western societies growing more secular, leaving cherished religious traditions behind? Or have modernity''s secularising currents generated equally powerful desecularising and resacralising currents? Should secularisation theory, the dominant paradigm in the social scientific study of religion for much of the twentieth century, be thrown in the dustbin, as some scholars have suggested? Or does it remain useful, even indispensable, despite its limitations? How are globalising processes, bringing diverse religious communities into increasingly close contact, affecting Western Christian communities? Such questions have attracted increasing attention from scholars in many disciplines during recent years and are at the heart of the essays in this volume.
£28.79
Monash University Publishing Attending to the National Soul: Evangelical
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£28.89
Monash University Publishing The Fountain of Public Prosperity: Evangelical
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£37.93
Monash University Publishing The Fatal Lure of Politics: The Life and Thought
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£24.29
Monash University Publishing Democratic Adventurer: Graham Berry and the
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£39.96
Wilkinson Publishing Mutineers: A True Story of Heroes and Villains
Book SynopsisThe story of five young Australian sailors seeking adventure in a far-off war who fell foul of British Imperial authority and sparked one of the most controversial events in the annals of the RAN. Mutineers explores the use and abuse of power by our military and political leaders at a critical time in our nations history and reveals how leaders missed an opportunity to take control of our national destiny. Five young sailors, including a decorated war hero, were ringleaders of the most controversial mutiny in the annals of the Royal Australian Navy in Fremantle Harbour on 1 June 1919. Severe jail sentences handed out by a naval court martial sparked a political furore several months before a Federal election. The two most senior naval officers in the RAN threatened to resign when the Hughes Government pressured the Admiralty in London to allow the sailors to be released early in time for Christmas. Three of the sailors went on to serve again in World War Two in the Middle East, Malaya and New Guinea. One became a prisoner of war of the Japanese in Changi and another served with the US Small Boat Service. All but one lived long and happy lives.
£17.99
Canterbury University Press Place Names of Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills
Book SynopsisIn the place names of a country large parts of its history are embalmed … The names persist longer than the beings who gave them." —J.C. AndersenPlace names have great linguistic and cultural significance, vivifying the landscape and giving it deeper character and interest. Banks Peninsula, Lyttelton Harbour and the Port Hills of Christchurch offer a wonderfully diverse and kaleidoscopic array of names that speak of the area's Maori and colonial history and the people who have lived and worked there. Engagingly written, brimming with information and enriched with black and white photographs and stunning color plates, this substantial volume is an important addition to Gordon Ogilvie's popular and acclaimed histories of Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills.
£39.85
Otago University Press The Lives of Colonial Objects
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£999.99
Otago University Press Standing My Ground: A Voice for Nature
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£23.96
Otago University Press Pushing Boundaries: New Zealand Protestants &
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£999.99
Otago University Press Unearthly Landscapes: NZ's Early Cemeteries,
Book SynopsisBy the nineteenth century the ancient urban churchyards of Britain, burdened with generations of dead, were unable to cope with rising numbers of corpses. Partially decomposed bodies were regularly disinterred and dumped in pits to free up room for the newly dead. Fears about the danger to public health eventually put an end to the urban churchyard burial grounds, and by the time settlers set sail for New Zealand large modern cemeteries were being established on the edges of towns and cities. Migrants therefore brought with them a range of burial practices. The land they arrived in already had a long tradition of Māori burial ritual and places, which would be transformed by this contact with the European world. The migrants own traditions were adapted to their new environment and society, creating burial places unique to New Zealand. Today, old cemeteries dot the countryside, but are often ignored. Yet the resting places of the dead are a reflection of the life of the surrounding community, and New Zealands early cemeteries have fascinating stories to tell. In this beautifully written and illustrated book, Stephen Deed sets out to reconnect the historic cemeteries we see today with the history of this country and its people.
£33.20
Otago University Press Prison Diary of A C Barrington: Dissent &
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£16.16
Otago University Press Acknowledge No Frontier: The Creation & Demise of
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£17.95
Otago University Press The Face of Nature: An environmental history of
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£28.90
University of Guam Press History of the Mariana Islands
Book SynopsisHistoire des isles Marianes (History of the Mariana Islands), was published in Paris in 1700 with authorship attributed to French Jesuit priest Charles Le Gobien, S.J. It provides a detailed glimpse into a tumultuous and critically significant period in the history of the Mariana Islands and the CHamoru peoplethe period commonly referred to as the CHamoru-Spanish Wars. It includes detailed accounts of the first 30 years of the Jesuit mission in the Marinas. It also features speeches by CHamoru chiefs, including the famous speech by Maga'låhi Hurao that is etched onto the wall at the entrance of the Guam Museum.Using research conducted in several national and international archives in Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, and at the Richard F. Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center in Guam, Alexandre Coello de la Rosa produced this English translation of the first Spanish edition of Le Gobien's text. This present edition also stems from a manuscript preserved in the Arxiu de
£15.19
Scribe US Palestine Diaries
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£17.95
University of Cincinnati Press See No Evil – New Zealand′s Betrayal of the
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£34.25
Scribe Us The Still-Burning Bush
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£13.60
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA Talepakemalai: Lapita and Its Transformations in
Book SynopsisThis book is a study of the Lapita Cultural Complex, a region spanning both Melanesia and Western Polynesia. The Lapita culture has been interpreted as the archaeological manifestation of a diaspora of Austronesian-speaking people (specifically of Proto-Oceanic language) who rapidly expanded from the New Guinea region into Remote Oceania. The Lapita Cultural Complex--first uncovered in the mid-20th century as a widespread archaeological complex spanning both Melanesia and Western Polynesia--has subsequently become recognized as of fundamental importance to Oceanic prehistory. Notable for its highly distinctive, elaborate, dentate-stamped pottery, Lapita sites date to between 3500-2700 BP, spanning the geographic range from the Bismarck Archipelago to Tonga and Samoa. The Lapita culture has been interpreted as the archaeological manifestation of a diaspora of Austronesian-speaking people (specifically of Proto-Oceanic language) who rapidly expanded from Near Oceania (the New Guinea-Bismarcks region) into Remote Oceania, where no humans had previously ventured. Lapita is thus a foundational culture throughout much of the southwestern Pacific, ancestral to much of the later, ethnographically-attested cultural diversity of the region.
£99.75
University of Hawaii Press 'Ohu'ohu nā Mauna o 'E'eka: Place Names of Maui
Book SynopsisIn ‘Ohu‘ohu nā Mauna o ‘E‘eka: Place Names of Maui Komohana, author Cody Kapueola‘ākeanui Pata gathers together over 1,600 inoa ‘āina (place name) entries for Maui Komohana—an area of less than 200 square miles. This region has also come to be known as "West Maui." For Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians), inoa ‘āina have always served to encode and relay meaningful information across space and time, from one generation to the next. Inoa ‘āina continue to be revered as inseparable from genealogies, individual and collective narratives, mele (poetic verse), and prayers, and they persist into modern times as cherished and sacred legacies deserving of deference and appreciation.The content for ‘Ohu‘ohu nā Mauna o ‘E‘eka: Place Names of Maui Komohana was compiled from dozens of maps, nineteenth- and twentierth-century Hawaiian and English language newspapers, mele, online databases, numerous print publications, recordings of Kanaka Maoli speakers of the Maui Komohana region, and information provided directly to the author by his elders, masters, and mentors. Whether one is a genealogical descendant of Maui Komohana, a practitioner of ‘oihana Hawai‘i (Hawaiian professions), or any other manner of scholar, this book is meant to be a resource for all researchers who wish to delve deeper into the toponymy of Maui Komohana.
£22.46
