Australasian and Pacific history Books
Steiner Franz Verlag Die Idee Eines Weiaen Australiens
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£48.60
Peter Lang AG The Other Rebellion: Attacking Ignorance and Vice
Book SynopsisThe discovery of gold and the prospect of easily acquired riches destabilized society in the Australian colony of Victoria. At Ballarat, one of the colony's principal goldfields, the collapse of previously adhered-to moral restraints and the presence of lawless behaviour was commonplace. Against seemingly insurmountable odds, a small but zealous body of clerics and schoolteachers endeavoured to counter the influence of immorality and crime by promoting virtue and honesty in children. As a social history, the book especially examines to use the words of Reverend Thomas Hastie, an 1850s Buninyong preacher the humbler classes'. The Other Rebellion is different to other history books, and uniquely appealing.
£39.60
Peter Lang AG Der Erste Weltkrieg in der australischen
Book SynopsisDer Autor untersucht die übergeordnete Rolle, die der Erste Weltkrieg in der kurzen Geschichte Australiens spielt. Dieser Krieg und der in seiner Folge entstandene Anzac-Mythos besitzen seit der Landung australischer Truppen auf der Gallipoli-Halbinsel am 25. April 1915 eine herausgehobene Stellung im Geschichtsbewusstsein vieler Australierinnen und Australier. Das Buch zeigt auf, wie sich dies in der Geschichtskultur des Landes manifestiert hat. Der Autor analysiert den diachronen Wandel der Objektivationen des Geschichtsbewusstseins (beispielsweise Gedenktage, Denkmale oder Filme) und ermöglicht so ein besseres Verständnis der Geschichte und Kultur Australiens.
£68.67
Peter Lang AG Sanfter Paternalismus: Entstehung, Geschichte und
Book SynopsisDiese Studie widmet sich der Entwicklung des modernen Sozial- und Interventionsstaates im Australien des 20. Jahrhunderts. Sie zeigt, dass der australische Sozialstaat unterschiedliche historische Einflüsse amalgamiert. Die Steuerfinanzierung von Sozialleistungen, das Versicherungsprinzip und die Sozialsteuer konstituieren bis heute das interessante Mischmodell Australien. Sozialpolitik in ihrer australischen Definition beschränkte sich nie nur auf staatliche finanzielle Leistungen an die Bürger. Die Löhne wurden bis in die jüngste Vergangenheit im Wohlfahrtsstaat des Lohnempfängers von sogenannten Schiedsgerichten und -kommissionen festgesetzt. Dazu kam das System der Schutzzölle, die australische Arbeitsplätze sichern und beim Aufbau einer nationalen Automobilindustrie helfen sollten, die sich am PKW-Modell Holden als dem (Status-)Symbol des sozialen Aufstiegs festmachen lässt.
£65.11
Peter Lang AG Swiss Settlers in New Zealand: A history of Swiss
Book SynopsisThe book presents the first comprehensive history of Swiss settlement in New Zealand. It describes Swiss settlement in New Zealand from the time of the gold rushes in the 1860s to the present day in a very accessible way. The focus is on the Swiss-born migrants: who they were, why they came, how they have adapted to life in New Zealand, and their ongoing links with their homeland and the Swiss community in New Zealand. The migrants’ stories are set in the historical and social context of the period in which they arrived. The book is a mixture of archival and other research of primary and secondary resources, and life history interviews. It will appeal to academics interested in the New World and migration studies and to Swiss living in New Zealand and elsewhere.Table of ContentsReasons for Swiss migration to New Zealand – Personal accounts – The goldminers and other pioneers – The assisted immigrants of the 1870s and later farmer Swiss – The post-war skilled tradesmen – The millennials – Swiss integration into New Zealand and heritage maintenance – The Swiss contribution to New Zealand
£65.20
Peter Lang AG The Tongan Double Canoes
Book SynopsisThe double canoe constituted the backbone of Polynesian culture, since it enabled the Polynesians to enter and conquer the Pacific. In Tonga, a center of Polynesian navigation, two types were known: the tongiaki and the kalia. Contrary to most contributions, the author argues that the Tongans were not only the Western Pacific masters of navigation, but also of canoe designing. Typical of Polynesian canoes was the sewing technique which can be traced back to ancient India but was also practiced in Pharanoic Egypt and southern Europe. The legend of the magnetic mountain is to be viewed in this context. Oceanic navigation, which declined during the 19th century, had developed its own means of orientation at sea, including astronomy and meteorology.Table of ContentsPolynesia – History – Tonga – Fiji – Samoa – Navigation – Double canoes – Tongiaki – Kalia – Boat building – Boat houses – Sewing technique – Indian origins – Oceanic orientation at sea – Astronomy – Meteorology – James Cook – François Pâris – James Hornell – Catamaran
£32.63
Peter Lang AG Frida Peemueller’s Memoirs of German Samoa
Book SynopsisThis volume is an annotated edition of Frida Peemüller’s memoirs of her time in German Samoa from 1910 to 1920. In her memoirs Frida Peemüller gives us a unique insight into what was happening in Samoa under the last years of the German administration, under New Zealand occupation during World War I, and in Germany itself at the outbreak of war, as she had returned to Germany in 1914 and was one of the very few Germans whom the New Zealand authorities permitted to re-enter Samoa. Her memoirs also give us a remarkable perspective on life in Aden in the early twentieth century, as it was on the ship returning her to her job with the American Consul in Aden that she met her future husband, the Samoan plantation owner Barnim Peemüller. The years they spent together on his Ululoloa plantation were to be, as she writes, the best years of their lives, as in 1920 they were repatriated by the New Zealand authorities back to a Germany that bore little resemblance to the country they remembered.Table of ContentsSouth Pacific – Samoa – German Empire – Colonialism – World War I – New Zealand
£36.94
Hirmer Verlag Inspired by Country: Bark Paintings from Northern
Book SynopsisThe Gerd and Helga Plewig Collection of Bark Paintings from Northern Australia with works mainly from the 1950s to 1970s is presently considered the best collection of its kind outside of Australia. It includes works from the Kimberley, Wadeye, the Tiwi Islands, Arnhem Land and Groote Eylandt by artists like Yirawala, Mawalan Marika and Mungurrawuy Yunupingu. Painting on bark is part of a continuing artistic tradition of Australian Aboriginal people intimately related to long-established practices of body decoration, rock painting and the manufacture and decoration of various objects in sacred and secular spheres. It is thought to have been practiced for centuries, but has only been known to European researchers and collectors since the early 19th century. Bark painting relates to the time of creation which underlies the present and determines the future.
£33.60
Universitatsverlag Winter Tracking the Ancestors: On Their Journeys Along
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£99.29
Universitatsverlag Winter Reconciliation, Representation and Indigeneity:
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£54.15
Universitatsverlag Winter The Gently Bowing Person: An Ideal Among the
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£51.30
Academia Verlag Mana, Macht Und Mythen: Tradition Und Moderne in
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£30.00
Linkgua Mindanao. Su Historia Y Geografía
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£15.37
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Las voces del desierto / Mutant Message Down
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£16.64
Mousse Publishing I Have Not Loved (Enough or Worked)
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£17.10
Brill Gathering Souls: Jesuit Missions and Missionaries
Book SynopsisThis essay deals with the missionary work of the Society of Jesus in today’s Micronesia from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Although the Jesuit missionaries wanted to reach Japan and other Pacific islands, such as the Palau and Caroline archipelagos, the crown encouraged them to stay in the Marianas until 1769 (when the Society of Jesus was expelled from the Philippines) to evangelize the native Chamorros as well as to reinforce the Spanish presence on the fringes of the Pacific empire. In 1859, a group of Jesuit missionaries returned to the Philippines, but they never officially set foot on the Marianas during the nineteenth century. It was not until the twentieth century that they went back to Micronesia, taking charge of the mission on the Northern Marianas along with the Caroline and Marshall Islands, thus returning to one of the cradles of Jesuit martyrdom in Oceania.Trade Review“This impressively erudite essay provides a condensed but informative history of Jesuit missionary engagement in Micronesia.” John Barker, University of British Columbia. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 72, No. 1 (2021), pp. 200–201. “Alexandre Coello de la Rosa offers a brief history of the Jesuit missions in Micronesia from arrival in the Marianas Islands in 1668 to the conclusion of World War II in 1945. The fifteen high-quality images, sixteen sections, over four hundred footnotes, and a bibliography of fourteen pages made for an instructive narrative. I recommend this book as an overview of the Jesuits in Micronesia. In addition, Coello’s wide use of scholars of Pacific Islands studies has much to teach a worldwide audience. The author introduces the global mission of the Society of Jesus and “global modernity in the Iberian colonial empires,” connecting histories of the Jesuits from the Pacific Ocean to Atlantic histories, the Spanish monarchy, and world history, all in a worthy endeavor.” James B. Tueller, Brigham Young University, Hawaii. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 7, No. 4 (2020), pp. 673–675.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Arrival of the Jesuits in the Philippines The Marianas as Part of the Universal Christian Project Gathering Souls at the Margins of the Spanish Empire To Retain or Abandon the Marianas? Corruption, Greed, and Misgovernment New Spiritual and Geopolitical Configurations The Baroque Theater of Power Lights and Shadows: The Virgin of Our Lady of Light A New Foothold in the Nineteenth-Century Carolines Twentieth-Century Jesuits at the Crossroads of the New Pacific World Empires Chuuk Yap Palau and Pohnpei The Marshall Islands Conclusion
£71.44
Sidestone Press Collecting Kamoro
Book SynopsisThe story of ethnographic collecting is one of cross-cultural encounters. This book focuses on collecting encounters in the Kamoro region of Papua from the earliest collections made in 1828 until 2011. Exploring the links between representation and collecting, the author focuses on the creative and pragmatic agency of Kamoro people in these collecting encounters. By considering objects as visualizations of social relations, and as enactments of personal, social or historical narrative, this book combines filling a gap in the literature on Kamoro culture with an interest in broader questions that surround the nature of ethnographic collecting, representation, patronage and objectification.
£34.00
Alpha Edition An Australian in China: Being the Narrative of a
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£12.84
Double 9 Booksllp The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
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£10.44
Double 9 Books A Dark Chapter from New Zealand History
Book SynopsisA Dark Chapter from New Zealand History by James Hawthorne unfolds as a literary masterpiece that intricately weaves historic drama into the tapestry of New Zealand's past. In this compelling paintings, Hawthorne demonstrates his prowess as a terrific writer, creating a story that now not only delves into ancient occasions but additionally engages readers on an emotional and intellectual degree. The book, considered one among Hawthorne's crowning achievements, gives a brilliant exploration of a specific, perhaps tumultuous, bankruptcy in New Zealand's history. Through the lens of historic drama, the writer skillfully brings to life the characters, events, and landscapes that formed the state's trajectory. Hawthorne's writing is characterized by creativity and passion, infusing the narrative with a sense of vibrancy that transports readers to extraordinary eras and emotional landscapes. The work's brilliance lies no longer best in its historical accuracy but in its ability to attach human beings thru shared reports and information. With a fashionable but handy prose fashion, James Hawthorne invitations a numerous target audience to immerse themselves within the complexities and nuances of New Zealand's beyond. A Dark Chapter from New Zealand History stands as a literary gem, imparting each an insightful historical account and a charming exploration of the human revel in.
£9.49
Equinox Publishing (Asia) Pte Ltd Black Armada: Australia and the Struggle for Indonesian Independence 1942-49
£20.85
Springer Verlag, Singapore Racism in Australia Today
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on historical and current data to examine racism in Australia. Making use of the latest state and federal data sets, it critically synthesises contemporary research on race relations with a focus on racism and anti-racism initiatives. Employing innovative analytical methods, the book provides students and researchers with a current and up-to-date analytical framework, and benchmark empirical evidence on race relations. In addition, the book also analyses research data from other countries in order to generate some comparative insights and draw possible lessons and policy implications for Australia.Table of ContentsChapter One: Introduction.- Chapter Two: Race relations in Australia: A Brief History.- Chapter Three: Institutional racism.- Chapter Four: The economics of racism.- Chapter Five: Contemporary racism in Australia.- Chapter Six: Media, public discourse and racism.- Chapter Seven: Social and economic impacts of racism.- Chapter Eight: Racism and young people.- Chapter Nine: Travelling racism: Global forces and their impact on racism.- Chapter Ten: Countering racism: Challenges and progress in anti-racism efforts.- Chapter Eleven: Conclusion.
£104.49
Cornell University Press Fijian-English Dictionary: With Notes on Fijian
Book SynopsisThe Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, recommends Ronald Gatty's Fijian-English Dictionary as the most up-to-date lexicographic source for the language, a reliable, practical guide that includes helpful notes on word usage and Fijian culture.
£26.09
Xlibris Au The Footprints of Maitland's Old Hands Trilogy:
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£44.60
Independently Published Medical Officers and Dispensers in the Port
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£13.63
