Australasian and Pacific history Books
NewSouth Publishing Beautiful Balts: From displaced persons to new
Book Synopsis170,000 Displaced Persons arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952 – the first non-Anglo-Celtic mass migrants.Australia’s first immigration minister, Arthur Calwell, scoured post-war Europe for refugees, Displaced Persons he characterised as ‘Beautiful Balts’. Amid the hierarchies of the White Australia Policy, the tensions of the Cold War and the national need for labour, these people would transform not only Australia’s immigration policy, but the country itself. Beautiful Balts tells the extraordinary story of these Displaced Persons, tracing their journey from the chaotic camps of Europe after World War II to a new life in a land of opportunity, where prejudice, parochialism, and strident anti-communism were rife. Drawing from archives, oral history interviews and literature generated by the Displaced Persons themselves, Persian investigates who they really were, why Australia wanted them, and what they experienced.Trade ReviewShortlisted for the Australian Historical Association's W. K. Hancock Prize 2018, the Prime Minister's Literary Awards Prize for Australian History 2018, and the Queensland Literary Awards USQ History Book Award 2018"They were often called “ Bloody Balts” and told to go back to where they came from; yet this group of post-World War II immigrants from Eastern Europe helped shape modern Australia with their culture and through peaceful assimilation. Life was a hard journey but it was also a song of hope. Jayne Persian’s Beautiful Balts celebrates both." — Peter Skrzynecki OAM"A lively, well-grounded history of postwar refugees and resettlement that makes sense of the historical and political context while offering vivid glimpses of individual lives in upheaval." — Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick, University of Sydney
£999.99
NewSouth Publishing Woolloomooloo: a biography
Book SynopsisTold in his vivid and entertaining style, Louis Nowra writes Woolloomooloo’s biography, drink in hand, from the vantage point of the Old Fitzroy Hotel, the cosy, eccentric and wonderful pub on Dowling Street, Woolloomooloo. It’s a world of sex, sin, sly grog, sailors, razor gangs, larrikins, workers, artisans, fishermen, activists, drinkers, fashion designers, tradies, and artists. It’s also a story of courage, resilience, tolerance, compassion. And though the pub has a real theatre, it’s the cast of real-life characters that are the stars of this show. Woolloomooloo’s past wraps around its present. Louis – often accompanied by Coco the Chihuahua and other two-legged locals, often walks the streets, uncovering history – some official, some never revealed. He stumbles across pockets of beauty and charm, and the derelict and abandoned. Unforgettable – and unspellable – Woolloomooloo in this book is a place as fascinating as its name.
£17.95
NewSouth Publishing The Europeans in Australia: Volume One - The
Book SynopsisThe Beginning, the first of three volumes in the awardwinningseries The Europeans in Australia, available together for the first time, gives an account of earlysettlement by Britain that began during the 1780s, a decade of extraordinary creativity and the climax of the European Enlightenment.In this period, the penal colony at Port Jackson wasestablished. As it grew, this community of convicts andex-convicts posed profound questions about the commonrights of the subject, the responsibility of power, andthe possibility of imaginative attachment to a land ofexile. Europeans were not just conquerors motivated bybrutal colonising imperatives. Their culture was ancientand infinitely complex, thickly woven with ideas aboutspirituality, authority, self, and land, all of which hadimplications for the way Australians live now. Conflictand possession of Aboriginal land were at issue, as werethe ancient habits of Europeans themselves.
£25.16
NewSouth Publishing The Europeans in Australia: Volume Two -
Book SynopsisDemocracy, the second of three volumes in the awardwinningseries The Europeans in Australia, shows whatthe Europeans did with Australia and why during thefirst four or five generations of invasion and settlement,so as to secure great wealth and the beginnings ofdemocracy.During the period from around 1815 to the early 1870sAustralia began to find its place. The pace of colonialexpansion accelerated while a kind of democracyemerged. More than a story of geography and politics,Democracy describes the way people thought and felt –what drove them, what troubled them. By analysing thelives of both powerful and ordinary men and women,Atkinson sets out the ideas that moved and marked them,in a history of ‘common imagination’.
£25.16
NewSouth Publishing The Honest History Book
Book SynopsisThe passionate historians of the recently formed Honest History group argue that while war has been important to Australia – mostly for its impact on our citizens and our ideas of nationhood – we urgently need to question the stories we tell ourselves about our history. We must separate myth from reality – and to do that we need to reassess the historical evidence surrounding military myths.In this lively collection, renowned writers including Paul Daley, Mark McKenna, Peter Stanley, Carolyn Holbrook, Mark Dapin, Carmen Lawrence, Frank Bongiorno and Larissa Behrendt explore not only the militarisation of our history but the alternative narratives swamped under the khakiwash – Indigenous history, frontier conflict, multiculturalism, the myth of egalitarianism, economics and the environment.Trade Review‘The Honest History group announced its arrival in 2013 with a clear, urgent purpose: to challenge the dominance of the Anzac legend in Australian popular memory. As the centenary of World War I approached, it seemed more important than ever to remind Australians not just of heroism and sacrifice, but of the social and political costs of war. The Honest History Book distils this approach to our history in a series of compelling, highly readable essays by some of Australia’s most distinguished historians. Mythbusting and questioning, this book will challenge readers to think not only about the ways our national stories are told, but who funds them and for what purpose … It will also encourage Australians to demand more from the media, government and cultural institutions that shape our views of our past.’– Michelle Arrow‘This book not only offers a vital corrective to the flimflams and taradiddles of Anzackery, but also gives us a new collection of fascinating essays on Australian history. Complex, inclusive, balanced, disruptive and – crucially – evidence-based, The Honest History Book is destined to provide a much-needed talking point for teachers, journalists, general readers and, with any luck, politicians and policy makers. A timely reminder that there is no such thing as post-truth history.’ – Clare Wright‘An important book, both timely and compelling: timely because it provides a powerful and much needed riposte to the current practice of elevating military history above all other aspects of the nation’s past.’ – Henry Reynolds‘Mark Twain once said that Australia’s history read like “the most beautiful lies”. The Honest History Book introduces some inconvenient truths. With so many contemporary debates involving appeals to history, the book concerns the present and future as well as the past, and invites the kind of contention that a confident country should welcome.’ – Gideon Haigh‘For the past 30 years Australians have been enchanted by the story of the heroic landing of our soldiers at Gallipoli and by a highly romanticised version of the century-long Anzac military tradition. The fascinating and vital question this outstanding and highly readable collection poses is whether an honest version of history can displace or modify the comforts and dangers of state-cultivated and politically-motivated myth. The book would be excellent for high school students and undergraduates.’ – Robert Manne‘This is collective history at its finest. In promoting non-khaki stories of our history, The Honest History Book provides us with an invaluable perspective and a balanced approach to the past. Highly recommended.’ – Melanie Oppenheimer‘Fake history is as dangerous as fake news … This has never been more apparent in Australia than during the Anzac revival, where the relentless focus on Australian military history has overshadowed the past contributions and experiences of other Australians. Honest history – and The Honest History Book – demands better.’ – Martin Crotty ‘The Honest History Book delves into issues that are pertinent, painful and part of our wider story. It demands that we activate our critical thinking, not dull it down and accept what is written. I would be happy to recommend this book to any of my students, which is the greatest praise I can give.’ – Matthew Esterman‘The Honest History Book is an inspiration to think more broadly, to challenge preconceptions and serially authorised misrepresentations of our past. This is vital work as Australia rattles around trying to define some agreed notion of national self. It’s a must-read for thinking Australians, for the great truth is that until we acknowledge, understand and face up to our past, we’ll all be living a bit of a lie.’ – Jonathan Green‘Being honest about our own country is essential so that we can properly assess both our achievements and our shortcomings, our strengths and weaknesses. We cannot be a harmonious, confident Australia unless we are honest with ourselves about our history.’ – John Menadue‘For some years now the Honest History website has been doing historians a great service by presenting alternative views and encouraging debate about many aspects of Australian history that become obfuscated by myths and half-truths. The publication of The Honest History Book is timely during both the centenary of World War I and debates about the appropriateness of celebrating “Australia Day”. Here is a book that should be on the reading list in every tertiary Australian History course.’ – Bobbie Oliver‘What really matters in Australian history? Why has Anzac wielded such influence in our national conversation about the past? This book puts Anzac in its place, and offers stories and analysis that account for so much of Australian history that the “Anzac spirit” cannot explain.’ – Christina Twomey
£999.99
NewSouth Publishing Serving our Country: Indigenous Australians, war,
Book SynopsisAfter decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s participation in the Australian defence forces. While Indigenous Australians have enlisted in the defence forces since the Boer War, for much of this time they defied racist restrictions and were denied full citizenship rights on their return to civilian life. In Serving Our Country Mick Dodson, John Maynard, Joan Beaumont, Noah Riseman and Alison Cadzow and others reveal the courage, resilience and trauma of Indigenous defence personnel and their families, and document the long struggle to gain recognition for their role in the defence of Australia.
£20.66
NewSouth Publishing For Valour: Australians Awarded the Victoria
Book SynopsisThe Victoria Cross is the highest award given to members of the Commonwealth military forces for acts of extreme bravery in battle. There is no greater honour, award or accolade.For Valour tells the fascinating story of the 100 Australians who have been awarded the Victoria Cross. From Albert Jacka to Mark Donaldson, heroic actions from Australians serving in the Boer War appear alongside those from the First World War, North Russia, the Second World War, Vietnam and Afghanistan. Vivid descriptions of events on the battlefield are matched with biographical profiles on each of the recipients to provide an insight into their lives outside wartime service.Trade Review‘For Valour commemorates the extraordinary actions and characterthat the Victoria Cross honours. Vital leadership in times of mortal danger. Rescuing comrades at the risk of one’s own life. Standing fast against overwhelming odds.It is right that we recognise these transcendent human qualities; that we draw courage and inspiration from them; that they are our touchstones and our source of eternal hope.’ — Dame Quentin Bryce
£44.06
NewSouth Publishing Australia & the Pacific: A history
Book SynopsisThere are many ways to present a history of Australia and its Pacific neighbourhood, though there have been remarkably few attempts to do so. Had I worked as a reporter, administrator, aid worker or entrepreneur my insights would be very different. So, too, if I were a missionary or the son of the same. Instead, I am a historian… Australia & the Pacific is a revealing new way of looking at Australian history. Ian Hoskins, award-winning author of Sydney Harbour and Coast, expands his gaze to examine Australia's story in a Pacific context; from our relationship with neighbours Papua New Guinea, Tahiti and New Zealand to our complex ties with China, Japan and the United States. Beginning with the shifting of the continents, this sweeping narrative goes on to describe the coming of the first Australians and, thousands of years later, the arrival of the Europeans who dispossessed them. Hoskins explores the colonists' attempts to exploit the riches of the region while keeping 'white Australia' separate from the Asians, Melanesians and Polynesians who surrounded them, and how the advent of modern human rights and the creation of the UN after World War Two changed Australia. And, more recently, the offshore detention of asylum seekers, the current debates over climate change and Australia's responsibilities towards its threatened neighbours.
£22.46
NewSouth Publishing Radicals: Remembering the Sixties
Book SynopsisThe Sixties — an era of protest, free love, civil disobedience, duffel coats, flower power, giant afros and desert boots, all recorded on grainy black and white footage — marked a turning point for change. A time when radicals found their voices and used them. While the initial trigger for protest was opposition to the Vietnam War, this anger quickly escalated to include Aboriginal Land Rights, Women’s Liberation, Gay Liberation, Apartheid, and ‘workers’ control’.In Radicals some of the people doing the changing – including Meredith Burgmann, Nadia Wheatley, David Marr, Geoffrey Robertson and Gary Foley – reflect on how the decade changed them and society forever.Trade ReviewThere’s a war going on, we’re seeing it on television every night ... It is 1968 – things are changing around the world… And you are telling us not to think about things, not to discuss politics!""- Helen Voysey
£22.46
NewSouth Publishing The Politics of the Common Good: Dispossession in Australia
Book Synopsis‘The Earth is a Common Treasury’, proclaimed the English Revolutionaries in the 1640s. Does the principle of the commons offer us ways to respond now to the increasingly destructive effects of neoliberalism?With insight, passion and an eye on history, Jane Goodall argues that as the ravages of neo-liberalism tear ever more deeply into the social fabric, the principle of the commons should be restored to the heart of our politics. She looks in particular at land and public institutions in Australia and elsewhere. Many ordinary citizens seem prepared to support governments that increase national debt while selling off publicly owned assets and cutting back on services. In developed countries, extreme poverty is becoming widespread yet we are told we have never been so prosperous.This important book calls for a radically different kind of economy, one that will truly serve the common good. Topical and constructive – this book argues for the restoration of the principle of the commons as a way of reclaiming the social fabric from the ravages of neo-liberalism Questions why so many citizens support governments that increase national debt while selling off publicly owned assets Asks how and why our political culture and economic policies have become so hostile to communal resources and public ownership Has an eye on the history of the commons as well as those who advocate for it in a modern form: Bill Shorten and Sally McManus for example in Australia; Jeremy Corbyn in the UK and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the US.
£999.99
NewSouth Publishing World War Noir: Sydney's unpatriotic war
Book SynopsisIt seems that not even world war could stop crime in Sydney. In fact, World War Noir confirms that war and crime – in the form of sex, drugs, alcohol, racketeering and other illicit activities – go hand in hand. A companion book to the later glory days of the Sydney underworld from Sydney Noir, here Michael Duffy and Nick Hordern tell the story of a time when many Australians were not as patriotic as we have been told. With soldiers’ pockets full of cash and the freedom of being on leave, criminal possibilities opened up during World War II. Told from the ground – or the gutter – up, World War Noir is a raw and broad-ranging tale that confounds expectations and reveals a grittier truth. Sales Points Vividly describes the leading characters of the Sydney underworld during World War II including corrupt cops, prostitutes, gunmen, sly grog traders and bookmakers Provides an alternative history of Sydney during World War II, depicting a city far less patriotic, and far more hell bent on pleasure, than we have been led to believe Taps into the popular non-fiction crime genre Written in the same bold, engaging style as their successful book Sydney Noir Duffy and Hordern are experienced journalists known for their interest in Sydney’s crime history A new way of thinking about war on the homefront, especially around Anzac Day Duffy and Hordern created and run the Sydney Crime Museum website and its associated Facebook page. [Duffy is about to start posting on the blog and FB again] Table of Contents Introduction: Sydney in wartime Important people 1939: Phoney war 1940: Waiting gaily here 1941: A lot of gazelles 1942: In the mood 1943: As bad as can be conceived 1944: Normal, banal, familiar 1945: You’ll come out the other side of Christmas Epilogue: Don’t fence me in List of illustrations Bibliography
£18.86
NewSouth Publishing Honeysuckle Creek: The Story of Tom Reid, a
Book SynopsisHoneysuckle Creek reveals the pivotal role that the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra, played in the first moon landing. Andrew Tink gives a gripping account of the role of its director Tom Reid and his colleagues in transmitting some of the most-watched images in human history as Neil Armstrong took his first step.Part biography and part personal history, this book makes a significant contribution to Australia’s role in space exploration and reveals a story little known until now.As Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr, the director of flight operations for Apollo 11, acknowledged: ‘The name Honeysuckle Creek and the excellence which is implied by that name will always be remembered and recorded in the annals of manned space flight’.
£19.76
NewSouth Publishing British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians,
Book Synopsis‘Commonwealth, curry and cricket’ has become the belaboured phrase by which Australia seeks to emphasise its shared colonial heritage with India and improve bilateral relations in the process. Yet it is misleading because the legacy of empire differs in profound ways in both countries. Indians may be the fastest-growing group of migrants to Australia, but they have long been present.British India, White Australia explores connections between Australia and India through the lens of the British Empire, by tracing the lives of people of Indian descent in Australia, from Australian Federation to Indian independence. The White Australia Policy was firmly in place while both countries were part of the British Empire. Australia was nominally self-governing but still attached very strongly to Britain; India was driven by the desire for independence. The racist immigration policies of dominions like Australia, and Britain’s inability to reform them, further animated nationalist sentiments in India.Kama Maclean has undertaken extensive archival research in all three countries and the book includes cartoons and photographs, many of them shocking, that reflect attitudes of the time. In this original, landmark work she calls for more meaningful dialogue and acknowledgment of the constraints placed upon Indians in Australia and those attempting to immigrate. The force of white imperialism was strong: some Australians may have found solidarity with the cause of Indian nationalism, but at the point British India ceased to exist, White Australia remained steadfast. Indians are now the fastest-growing group of migrants in Australia, yet their presence has a long history, as told in this book.Table of ContentsAt last a history of the triangular relations between the United Kingdom, India and Australia that locates the tensions around the White Australia policy within the British imperial context. Even as Australians and Indians enjoyed a common status as British subjects, the superior rights accorded white colonies belied the myth of imperial equality. As this brilliant book shows, only by escaping empire can Australians and Indians forge independent relations based on reciprocity and mutual respect."" — Professor Marilyn Lake
£19.76
NewSouth Publishing Into the Loneliness: The unholy alliance of
Book SynopsisBoth famous in their day, Daisy Bates and Ernestine Hill were bestselling writers who told of life in the vast Australian interior. Daisy Bates, dressed in Victorian garb, malnourished and half-blind, camped with Aboriginal people in Western Australia and on the Nullarbor for decades, surrounded by her books, notes and artefacts. A self-taught ethnologist, desperate to be accepted by established male anthropologists, she sought to document the language and customs of the people who visited her camps. In 1935, Ernestine Hill, journalist and author of the bestselling book, The Great Australian Loneliness, coaxed Daisy Bates to Adelaide to collaborate on a newspaper series for The Advertiser. Their collaboration resulted in the 1938 international bestseller, The Passing of the Aborigines. This book informed popular opinion about Aboriginal people for decades, though Bates’s failure to acknowledge Hill as her co-author strained their friendship. Traversing great distances in a campervan, Eleanor Hogan reflects on the lives and work of these indefatigable women. From a contemporary perspective, their work seems quaint and sentimental, their outlook and preoccupations dated, paternalistic and even racist. Yet Hogan is reminded that Bates and Hill took a genuine interest in Aboriginal people and their cultures long before they were considered worthy of the Australian mainstream’s attention. With sensitivity and insight, she wonders whether their work speaks to us today and what their legacies as fearless female outliers might be.
£19.76
NewSouth Publishing Caroline's Dilemma: A colonial inheritance saga
Book SynopsisCaroline Kearney’s husband bequeathed her a heart-breaking dilemma. Writing his will as he lay dying in Melbourne in 1865, Edward Kearney promised his wife £100 a year and more to educate their sons, but only if she moved to Ireland with their six children and lived in a house that her brothers-in-law would choose and furnish. Caroline (née Bax) had never been to Ireland. Edward had left as a young man. Why were these his final wishes?How did this young widow respond to such a draconian exercise of male power from the grave? Could a husband legally force his widow to migrate against her wishes? Caroline’s Dilemma follows Caroline and Edward’s migration histories from Britain and Ireland to Australia, their marriage, and their experiences running sheep stations on Aboriginal land in South Australia and Victoria. Caroline did not want to leave Australia, leaving her own parents and siblings behind. She contested his will in the courts and struggled against the growing influence of his Irish Catholic family. Feisty, determined and sometimes devious, she drew on the support of her family, drink and his estate to try to shape her future and that of her children.This extraordinary book combines story telling with an historian’s detective work required to bring it to light. Pieced together from evidence in archives, newspapers, genealogical sites and legal records, this book sheds new light on the workings of nineteenth-century gender and male power, family lives that span imperial sites, inheritance, migration, settler colonialism, the Irish diaspora and sectarian conflict. It shows how one middle-class woman and her family fought to shape their own lives within the British Empire and its colonies.
£19.76
NewSouth Publishing Gudyarra: The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance —
Book SynopsisIn mid-1824, the Bathurst district was under siege. Local Wiradjuri people had broken off contact with colonists and vowed to kill all invading white men. Warriors raided outstations, killing people and stock with impunity while large warbands threatened convict stock-workers who either fled or cowered in their huts. Wealthy Sydney-based landholders clamoured for military intervention and threatened to abandon the Bathurst Plains entirely.Gudyarra (war) unearths what lead to this point, beginning with the occupation of Wiradjuri lands by Europeans following Governor Macquarie's push to expand the colony west over the Blue Mountains to generate wealth from sheep and cattle.Award-winning author Stephen Gapps traces the coordinated resistance warfare by the Wiradjuri under the leadership of Windradyne, and others such as Blucher and Jingler, that occurred in a vast area across the central west of New South Wales. Detailing the drastic counterattacks by the colonists and the punitive expeditions led by armed parties of settlers and convicts that often ended in massacres of Wiradjuri women and children, Gudyarra provides an important new historical account of the fierce Wiradjuri resistance.If any single frontier conflict has all the hallmarks of war, this is it.
£19.76
NewSouth Publishing Truth-Telling: History, sovereignty and the Uluru
Book SynopsisIf we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our history, we must start at first principles. What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole continent was not seen as acceptable at the time and the colonial office in Britain understood that ‘peaceful settlement’ was a fiction? If the 1901 parliament did not have control of the whole continent, particularly the North, by what right could the new nation claim it? The historical record shows that the argument of the Uluru Statement from the Heart is stronger than many people imagine and the centuries long legal position about British claims to the land far less imposing than it appears. In Truth-Telling, influential historian Henry Reynolds pulls the rug from legal and historical assumptions, with his usual sharp eye and rigour, in a book that’s about the present as much as the past. His work shows exactly why our national war memorial must acknowledge the frontier wars, why we must change the date of our national day, and why treaties are important. Most of all, it makes urgently clear that the Uluru Statement is no rhetorical flourish but carries the weight of history and law and gives us a map for the future.
£19.76
NewSouth Publishing Perth
Book Synopsis… we rarely travel far to swim. We occasionally cross the river to Leighton or Cottesloe, where the white sand squeaks underfoot and the champagne foam in the shallows tingles the legs and fizzes over the shoreline and makes children giddy with delight. Mid-morning, before the sun passes overhead and shears off the ocean, the cirrus clouds above the horizon often resemble passages of perfect cursive script written in soft white lines against the bluest page. This is the picture of a Perth in harmony with the stillness and space and silence that is its truest personality, the only prick of drama being the spotter plane of the shark patrol crawling over the sky. David Whish-Wilson’s Perth – the river, the coast, the plain and the light – is a place where deeper historical currents are never far beneath the surface and cannot be ignored. Like the Swan River that can flow in two directions at once, with the fresh water flowing seawards above the salty water flowing in beneath, Perth strikes perfect harmony with the city’s contradictions and eccentricities. Whish-Wilson takes us beyond the near-constant sunshine, shiny glass facades, and boosterish talk of mining booms and the gloom after the bust. Lyrical and sensitive, Whish-Wilson introduces his readers to the richness of the natural world and the trailblazers, the rebels, the occasional ghost and the ordinary people that bring Australia’s remotest capital city to life. He reminds us that while the city’s boundaries are porous as people come and go, rates of Indigenous incarceration are high. Carefully researched and full of personal reminiscences – including many about fishing – and eye-opening facts, Perth now has a remarkable new Postscript. Here Whish-Wilson returns to the city’s ghosts – some human, others the ancient jarrah trees, wildflowers and wild birds that once flourished but no longer. And, as he walks across the new Matagarup Bridge to watch the footy he reflects on the city his children will inherit. New edition of a classic with a new Postscript in which Whish-Wilson returns to the ghosts and memories of his city and reflects on how much it has changed since his book was first published in 2013 A beautiful portrait of Perth that will move outsiders to revisit their preconceptions about the place and inspire residents to renew their connections Acclaimed for its poetic writing Author’s reputation as a crime writer growing with four thrillers –all set in Perth – out with Fremantle since the publication of Perth Will be supported by major media and publicity campaign Trade ReviewPoetic and lyrical …""– Sally Webb, The Sydney Morning Herald
£17.06
NewSouth Publishing French Connection: Australia's cosmopolitan ambitions
Book SynopsisThe French have long been part of the Australian story. From talented gold fields photographer Antoine Fauchery and infighting in the upper echelons of Melbourne society as to who should run Alliance Française to the Playoust family whose Australian-born sons enlisted with the French army in the First World War. French Connection paints an intricate portrait of the complex connections between the two nations. Alexis Bergantz provides a fascinating insight into how the idea of France influenced a new colony anxious to prove itself. Eager to demarcate themselves from Britain, many Australians saw France as a more cosmopolitan – and decadent – alternative to a stodgy Victorian world order. Ironically, many of the French in Australia were not exactly the crème de la crème and they too navigated a world of lofty dreams and ideas that were often a far cry from reality. But what exactly did Australian colonists see when they looked to France? How much did the French presence in the Pacific loom over such ideas? And what did the French in Australia themselves make of it all?
£999.99
NewSouth Publishing Australia’s China Odyssey: From euphoria to fear
Book SynopsisAlarmist stories about Australia's relationship with China, and concerns about whether China is plotting to take control, insidiously or overtly, are regular front-page news. In Australia's China Odyssey, acclaimed historian James Curran explores this crucial and complicated relationship through the prism of the prime ministers who have handled relations with Beijing since Whitlam in 1972.Much recent analysis assumes that managing China has been difficult only since 2017. Yet this relationship has always been difficult. And while there have been moments of euphoria and uplift – moments, even, when some believed Australia could have a 'special relationship' with China – high anxiety and fear have often trailed closely in that slipstream. This book provides historical ballast to a debate so often mired in the parochialism of the present.The task of adjusting to China's rise is the greatest challenge Australian diplomacy has faced since Japan's revisionist attempts to remake East Asia in the 1930s. Ultimately, while China under Xi Jinping has indeed changed, and while there is justifiable alarm concerning the course of Beijing's aggressive and authoritarian nationalism, Australia's China Odyssey asks whether we have the courage to look in the mirror and see what this debate also reveals about Australia.
£19.76
NewSouth Publishing The Long Shadow: Australia's Vietnam Veterans
Book SynopsisThe medical and psychological legacies of the Vietnam War are major and continuing issues for veterans, their families and the community, yet the facts about the impact of Agent Orange, post-traumatic stress disorder and other long-term health aspects are little understood. The Long Shadow sets the record straight about the health of Vietnam veterans and reveals a more detailed and complex picture. Profiling the stories of the veterans themselves, this comprehensive and authoritative book is a pioneering work of history on the aftermath of war. It takes a broad approach to the medical legacies, exploring the post-war experiences of Vietnam veterans, the evolution and development of the repatriation system in the post-Vietnam decades and the evolving medical understanding of veterans’ health issues. The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the medical legacies of the Vietnam War. This pioneering work from an esteemed historian sets the record straight on the aftermath of the Vietnam War. Foreword by Vietnam veteran and former Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove. Trade ReviewIn this major work, a defining account of those men and women who served in the Vietnam War and their challenges in its aftermath, Peter Yule has combined empathy, insight and forensic research of the highest order.""- General Sir Peter Cosgrove;""Most veterans were either alcoholics or workaholics and I fitted into the latter category.""- Chris Cannin (6RAR, 1967; 7RAR, 1967–68);""When I look back and I see what I used to do ... there were a lot of things wrong that I would never ever admit to at the time ... I thought I was fine, but I wasn’t.""- Alan Thornton (17 Construction Squadron, 1968–69)
£27.86
UNSW Press Everything You Need to Know About the Uluru
Book SynopsisWe leave base camp and start our trek across this vast country. We invite you to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future.On 26 May 2017, after a historic process of consultation, the Uluru Statement from the Heart was read out. This clear and urgent call for reform to the community from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples asked for the establishment of a First Nations Voice to Parliament protected in the constitution and a process of agreement-making and truth-telling. Voice. Treaty. Truth.What was the journey to this point? What do Australians need to know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart? And how can these reforms be achieved?Everything You Need to Know about the Uluru Statement from the Heart, written by Megan Davis and George Williams, two of Australia's best-known constitutional experts, is essential reading on how our Constitution was drafted, what the 1967 referendum achieved, and the lead-up and response to the Uluru Statement. Importantly, it explains how the Uluru Statement offers change that will benefit the whole nation.
£16.16
NewSouth Publishing Lessons from History: Leading historians tackle
Book SynopsisIn Lessons from History, leading historians tackle the biggest challenges that face Australia and the world and show how the past provides context and knowledge that can guide us in the present.Does history repeat itself in meaningful ways, or is each problem unique? Does a knowledge of Australian history enhance our understanding of the present and prepare us for the future?Lessons from History is written with the conviction that we must see the world, and confront its many challenges, with an understanding of what has gone before. Leading historians including Yves Rees, Michelle Arrow, Mahsheed Ansari, Joan Beaumont, Claire Wright and Frank Bongiorno tackle the biggest challenges that face Australia and the world – climate change, social cohesion, migration, our relationship with China, tensions in the federation, economic crisis, trade relations — and show how the past provides context and knowledge that can guide us in the present and future.
£22.46
NewSouth Publishing Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth
Book SynopsisA landmark and revealing joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, from one of Australia's most respected historians. Arriving in 1790, Elizabeth and John Macarthur, both aged 23, were the first married couple to travel voluntarily from Europe to Australia, within three years of the initial invasion. John Macarthur soon became famous in New South Wales and beyond as a wool pioneer, a politician, and a builder of farms at Parramatta and Camden. For a long time, Elizabeth's life was regarded as contingent on John's and, more recently, John's on Elizabeth's.In Elizabeth and John, Alan Atkinson, the prizewinning author of Europeans in Australia, draws on his work on the Macarthur family over the last 50 years to explore the dynamics of a strong and sinewy marriage, and family life over two generations. With the truth of John and Elizabeth Macarthur's relationship much more complicated and more deeply human than other writers have suggested, Atkinson provides a finely drawn portrait of a powerful partnership.
£999.99
NewSouth Publishing Tongerlongeter: First Nations Leader and
Book SynopsisHenry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements uncover the extraordinary story of one of Australia's greatest military leaders.Tongerlongeter is an epic story of resistance, sorrow and survival. Leader of the Oyster Bay nation of south-east Tasmania in the 1820s and '30s, Tongerlongeter and his allies prosecuted the most effective frontier resistance ever mounted on Australian soil, in?icting some 354 casualties. His brilliant campaign inspired terror throughout the colony, forcing Governor George Arthur to counter with a massive military operation in 1830. Tongerlongeter escaped but the cumulative losses had taken their toll. On New Year's Eve 1831, having lost his arm, his country, and all but 25 of his people, the chief agreed to an armistice. In exile on Flinders Island, Tongerlongeter united remnant tribes and became the settlement's 'King' — a beacon of hope in a hopeless situation.Trade Review'A masterpiece of military history' — Michael McKernan, The Canberra Times'The astonishing story of Tongerlongeter's valiant struggle to defend his Country, whatever the cost.' — Mark McKenna, Sydney Morning Herald'Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements have worked some powerful historical magic to conjure out of a dark and foggy Tasmanian past the image of a tall, handsome, noble warrior named Tongerlongeter...' — Charles Wooley, The Weekend Australian'Raw and engaging, Reynolds and Clements have rescued this forgotten history from obscurity. Despite being stripped of their lore and having British law imposed upon them, Tongerlongeter and his allies fought fiercely for their country. I admire them greatly.' — Dianne Baldock, CEO of Circular Head Aboriginal Corporation'This book does not remedy injustice, but it recognises it. It offers Tongerlongeter, his people and his allies respect, recognition and regret.' — Emeritus Professor Bill Gammage, author of The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia'Reynolds and Clements have given Tasmania a new hero — Tongerlongeter. Australians should revere him as much as their Anzac heroes — he defended his country to the death.' — Professor Peter Stanley, UNSW Canberra'I felt proud reading the story of Tongerlongeter and his epic resistance who, in 19th century words, "held their ground bravely for 30 years against the invaders of their beautiful domains". Reynolds and Clements reveal the guardians of empire in turmoil. Did we know? We do now.' — John Pilger, journalist, writer and documentary filmmaker'...the authors draw on colonial archival and newspaper sources to construct a detailed and compelling account of Tongerlongeter's guerrilla war against the settlers.' — Lyndall Ryan, History Australia
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NewSouth Publishing Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the revolution
Book SynopsisThe Whitlam government transformed Australia. And yet the scope and scale of the reforms for Australian women are often overlooked.The Whitlam government of 1972–75 appointed a women's advisor to national government — a world first — and reopened the equal pay case. It extended the minimum wage for women, introduced the single mother's benefit and paid maternity leave in the public service, ensured cheap and accessible contraception, funded women's refuges and women's health centres, introduced accessible, no-fault divorce and the Family Court, and much more.Women and Whitlam brings together three generations — including Elizabeth Evatt, Eva Cox, Patricia Amphlett, Elizabeth Reid, Tanya Plibersek, Heidi Norman, Blair Williams and Ranuka Tandan — to revisit the Whitlam revolution and to build on it for the future.
£19.76
NewSouth Publishing Uprising
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NewSouth Publishing The Chipilly Six: Unsung heroes of the Great War
Book SynopsisIn late 2023 Australians will vote in a referendum on enshrining an Indigenous Voice to parliament in the constitution. What benefits will the Voice bring? And what was the journey to this point? Everything You Need to Know About the Voice to Parliament, written by co-author of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, Cobble Cobble woman Megan Davis,and fellow constitutional expert George Williams is essential reading on the Voice to parliament and government, how our Constitution was drafted, what the 1967 referendum achieved, and the Uluru Statement. It charts the journey of this nationbuilding reform from the earliest stages of Indigenous advocacy and, importantly, explains how the Voice offers change that will benefit the whole nation.
£14.36
NewSouth Publishing Tiwi Story: Turning history downside up
Book SynopsisTiwi people have plenty to be proud of. This little tropical island community has more than its fair share of surprising stories that turn ideas of Australian history upside down.The Tiwi claim the honour of having defeated a global superpower. When the world's most powerful navy attempted to settle and invade the Tiwi Islands in 1824, Tiwi guerrilla warriors fought the British and won. The Tiwi remember the fight and oral histories reveal their tactical brilliance.Later, in 1911, Catholic priest Francis Xavier Gsell styled himself as the 'Bishop with 150 wives'. Gsell said he 'purchased' Tiwi women and 'freed' them from traditional Tiwi marriage, and Tiwi girls grew up into devoted Catholics. But Tiwi women had more power in their marriage negotiations than the missionaries realised. They worked out how to be both Tiwi and Catholic. And it was the missionaries who came around to Tiwi thinking, not the other way around.Then there are stories of the Tiwis' 'number one religion': Aussie Rules Football; the eldest living Tiwi woman, Calista Kantilla, remembers her time growing up in the mission dormitory; and Tiwi Traditional Owner Teddy Portaminni explains the importance of Tiwi history and culture, as something precious, owned by Tiwi and the source of Tiwi strength.Tiwi Story showcases stories of resilience, creativity and survival, as told by the Tiwi people.
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NewSouth Publishing Unfinished Revolution
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UNSW Press Deep History
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Liverpool University Press Migration, Ethnicity, and Madness: New Zealand,
Book SynopsisThis book provides a social, cultural, and political history of migration, ethnicity, and madness in New Zealand between 1860 and 1910. Its key aim is to analyse the ways that patients, families, asylum officials, and immigration authorities engaged with the ethnic backgrounds and migration histories and pathways of asylum patients and why. Exploring such issues enables us to appreciate the difficulties that some migrants experienced in their relocation abroad, hardships that are often elided in studies of migration that focus on successful migrant settlement. Drawing upon lunatic asylum records (including patient casebooks and committal forms), immigration files, surgeon superintendents reports, asylum inspector reports, medical journals, and legislation, the book highlights the importance of examining antecedent experiences, the migration process itself, and settlement in the new land as factors that contributed to admission to an asylum. The study also raises broader themes beyond the asylum of discrimination, exclusion, segregation, and marginalisation, issues that are as evident in society today as in the past.Trade ReviewReviews 'Angela McCarthy's Migration, Ethnicity and Madness sheds considerable light on the under-researched but important area of the mental health of migrants with special reference to those who settled in the Antipodes from around the world. The book, though historical in focus, resonates powerfully with aspects of the current crisis in global migration.Sir Tom Devine, Herald Scotland'McCarthy has added important dimensions to the history of insanity in Australia and New Zealand, but even more significant is the depth of insight [this] work offers historians of immigration. [It] deserves a wide readership.' Stephen Garton, Australian Historical Studies‘A masterly and deeply insightful study … exhaustively researched … lucidly argued … illuminates brilliantly what has sometimes been seen as a shadowy part of the country’s history.’Paul Moon, New Zealand Books, Autumn 2016.‘McCarthy is meticulous in presenting statistics … [and] eloquent … in the presentation and interpretation of specific personal “stories”. … [H]er book adds a further dimension that may well influence scholars far beyond Australasia … as a source of migration in its own right. … All students of international migration will benefit from McCarthy’s unveiling of an unfamiliar paper trail that invites us to reconstruct the movements and motives of a hitherto undocumented and “marginal” stratum. The fact that those identified as lunatics were at the margin of respectable society actually enhances their historical interest, providing extreme illustrations of issues that united and divided societies at large.’David Fitzpatrick, Immigrants and Minorities.Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. New Zealand Asylums in the British World 2. Exporting and Repatriating the Insane 3. The Voyage out, Motives, Migration Pathways, Asylum Transfers 4. The New Land and Local Ties 5. Transnational Ties to Home 6. ‘Race’, Ethnicity, and Cross-Cultural Encounters Conclusion Bibliography Index
£109.50
Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Scots in Australia, 1788-1938
Book SynopsisThe experience of immigration to Australia from Scotland is outlined here, from daily life and occupation, to interactions with the indigenous inhabitants. Despite their significant presence, Scots have often been invisible in histories of Australian migration. This book illuminates the many experiences of the Scots in Australia, from the first colonists in the late-eighteenth century until the hopeful arrivals of the interwar years. It explores how and why they migrated to Australia, and their lives as convicts, colonists, farmers, families, workers, and weavers of culture and identity. It also investigatestheir encounters with the Australian continent, whether in its cities or on the land, and their relationship with its first peoples; and their connections to one another and with their own collective identities, looking at diversity and tension within the Scottish diaspora in Australia. It is also a book about the challenges of finding a place for oneself in a new land, and the difficulties of creating a sense of belonging in a settler colonial society. Dr Benjamin Wilkie is a Lecturer in Australian Studies and Early Career Development Fellow at Deakin University, Australia.Trade ReviewWill be welcomed by historians of the Scottish diaspora and those interested in Australian migration....A book that will be read with profit. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *A highly readable book [which] makes a significant contribution to the field of Scottish migration, revealing without doubt the extent to which it must be regarded as an entirely separate and distinctive diaspora. * JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES *[This] book offers important new insights into the settlement of Scots in Australia, their networks, their culture, and, in a particularly important chapter, their interactions with, and impact on, indigenous Australians. . . . Wilkie's study is a well-written and nicely presented examination of one of Australia's most significant foundational migrant groups. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *A fresh and engaging excursion through the gloaming of Scottish Australia. * AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction From Scotland to Australia: Convicts, Free Settlers, and Encounters with Australia Caledonia Australis: Imperial Commerce, Migrant Networks, and Australian Pastoralism Scottish Migrants and Indigenous Australians Imagining Home: Scottish Culture in Australia Warriors of Empire: A Case Study of Popular Imperialism The Empire Builders: Imperial Commerce and Migration Between the Wars New Scots: Industry, Settlement, and Working-Class Migration At the Edge of Scotland's Diaspora: Diversity and Tension in the Twentieth Century Conclusion: The Imperial Legacy Bibliography
£66.50
Liverpool University Press Migration, Ethnicity, and Madness: New Zealand,
Book SynopsisThis book provides a social, cultural, and political history of migration, ethnicity, and madness in New Zealand between 1860 and 1910. Its key aim is to analyse the ways that patients, families, asylum officials, and immigration authorities engaged with the ethnic backgrounds and migration histories and pathways of asylum patients and why. Exploring such issues enables us to appreciate the difficulties that some migrants experienced in their relocation abroad, hardships that are often elided in studies of migration that focus on successful migrant settlement. Drawing upon lunatic asylum records (including patient casebooks and committal forms), immigration files, surgeon superintendents reports, asylum inspector reports, medical journals, and legislation, the book highlights the importance of examining antecedent experiences, the migration process itself, and settlement in the new land as factors that contributed to admission to an asylum. The study also raises broader themes beyond the asylum of discrimination, exclusion, segregation, and marginalisation, issues that are as evident in society today as in the past.Trade ReviewReviews 'Angela McCarthy's Migration, Ethnicity and Madness sheds considerable light on the under-researched but important area of the mental health of migrants with special reference to those who settled in the Antipodes from around the world. The book, though historical in focus, resonates powerfully with aspects of the current crisis in global migration.Sir Tom Devine, Herald Scotland'McCarthy has added important dimensions to the history of insanity in Australia and New Zealand, but even more significant is the depth of insight [this] work offers historians of immigration. [It] deserves a wide readership.' Stephen Garton, Australian Historical Studies‘A masterly and deeply insightful study … exhaustively researched … lucidly argued … illuminates brilliantly what has sometimes been seen as a shadowy part of the country’s history.’Paul Moon, New Zealand Books, Autumn 2016.‘McCarthy is meticulous in presenting statistics … [and] eloquent … in the presentation and interpretation of specific personal “stories”. … [H]er book adds a further dimension that may well influence scholars far beyond Australasia … as a source of migration in its own right. … All students of international migration will benefit from McCarthy’s unveiling of an unfamiliar paper trail that invites us to reconstruct the movements and motives of a hitherto undocumented and “marginal” stratum. The fact that those identified as lunatics were at the margin of respectable society actually enhances their historical interest, providing extreme illustrations of issues that united and divided societies at large.’David Fitzpatrick, Immigrants and Minorities.Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. New Zealand Asylums in the British World 2. Exporting and Repatriating the Insane 3. The Voyage out, Motives, Migration Pathways, Asylum Transfers 4. The New Land and Local Ties 5. Transnational Ties to Home 6. ‘Race’, Ethnicity, and Cross-Cultural Encounters Conclusion Bibliography Index
£31.81
UNSW Press Turning Points in Australian History
Book Synopsis'If only', 'what if' and 'why didn't we' are phrases that often come to mind when we look back to the past. This exciting and stimulating book looks back at turning points and crucial moments in Australian history. Rather than arguing that there have been forks on a pre-determined road, the book challenges us to think about other paths or better paths that might have led to different outcomes. It shows that a decisive event often becomes so only in retrospect and that what seemed like a major turning point at the time often had no real impact at all.
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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
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Steele Roberts Aotearoa Ltd Niihau - Peles Hawaiian Landfall: a History
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de Gruyter Die Ersten Fünfzig Jahre Der SongDynastie in
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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.
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ISEAS Dalley and the Malayan Security Service, 1945-48: MI5 vs. MSS
Book SynopsisThis book fills an important gap in the history and intelligence canvas of Singapore and Malaya immediately after the surrender of the Japanese in August 1945. It deals with the establishment of the domestic intelligence service known as the Malayan Security Service (MSS), which was pan-Malayan covering both Singapore and Malaya, and the colourful and controversial career of Lieutenant Colonel John Dalley, the Commander of Dalforce in the WWII battle for Singapore and the post-war Director of MSS. It also documents the little-known rivalry between MI5 in London and MSS in Singapore, which led to the demise of the MSS and Dalley’s retirement.
£22.95
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.
£23.19
Forgotten Books A Handbook of the British Colonial Empire Based Upon the Colonial Office List Classic Reprint
£26.38
Forgotten Books The Constitution of New Zealand Despatch From Sir George Grey to the Right Hon. Earl Grey Classic Reprint
£24.48
University of Washington Press Endeavouring Banks
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£42.48
Hardpress Publishing A Geographical Dictionary or Gazetteer of the Australian Colonies Their Physical and Political Geography Together With a Brief Notice of All the Capitals Principal Towns and Villages 1
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Hardpress Publishing Two Expeditions Into the Interior of Southern Australia During the Years 828 829 830 and 83 With Observations on the Soil Climate and General Resources of the Colony of New South Wales 1
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Hardpress Publishing Australia Twice Traversed the Romance of Exploration Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions Into and Through and Western Australia from 872 to 876 1
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Hardpress Publishing The Hawaiian Islands Their Progress and Condition Under Missionary Labors With Illustrations Mit Dem Portrte Des Kniges Der HawaiiInseln Kamehamecha Iii 1
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