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Cambridge University Press Convict Maids
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Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of Australias History
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Cambridge University Press Gender and War
Book SynopsisThis exciting 1995 collection of essays explores the inter-relationship of gender and war in Australia. Its focus is women's and men's experiences in WWI, WWII and the Vietnam War. Challenging the traditional images of men and women in wartime, this book shows that war offers opportunities that erode gender boundaries.Table of ContentsIntroduction: warfare, history and gender Marilyn Lake and Joy Damousi; Part I. Femininities: 1. Heroines and heroes: sexual mythology in Australia 1914–1918 Carmel Shute; 2. Day mothers and night sisters: World War I nurses and sexuality Katie Holmes; 3. Female desires: the meaning of World War II Marilyn Lake; 4. Lesbians and loose women: female sexuality and the women's services during World War II Ruth Ford; 5. Consuming passions: romance and consumerism during World War II Lyn Finch; 6. Remembering romance: memory, gender and World War II Kate Darian-Smith; Part II. Masculinities: 7. A crisis of masculinity? Australian military manhood in the Great War Alistair Thomson; 8. The gendered battlefield: sex and death in Gallipoli Rose Lucas; 9. The gendered figuring of the dysfunctional serviceman in the discourses of military psychiatry Joseph Pugliese; 10. In a cloud of lust: black GIs and sex in World War II Kay Saunders; 11. Return home: war, masculinity and repatriation Stephen Garton; 12. Comrades-in-arms: World War II and male homosexuality in Australia Garry Wotherspoon; 13. A bit of the other: touring Vietnam Robin Gerster; Part III. Mobilisations: 14. 'All the passion of our womanhood': Margaret Thorp and the Battle of the Brisbane School of Arts Raymond Evans; 15. Socialist women and gendered space: anti-conscription and anti-war campaigns 1914–1918 Joy Damousi; 17. Feminists, food and the fair price: the cost-of-living demonstrations in Melbourne, August–September 1917 Judith Smart; 18. 'Shut up, you bourgeois bitch': sexual identity and political action in the anti-Vietnam war movement Ann Curthoys; Contributors; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Work
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Cambridge University Press Fashioned from Penury
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Cambridge University Press Aboriginal Labour and the Cattle Industry Queensland from White Settlement to the Present Studies in Australian History
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Cambridge University Press People of the Great Ocean
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Cambridge University Press Single Mothers and Their Children
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Cambridge University Press The Quarantined Culture
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Cambridge University Press Governing Prosperity
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Cambridge University Press Cultural Liberalism in Australia
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Cambridge University Press Hunters and Collectors The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia Studies in Australian History
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Cambridge University Press Australias China Changing Perceptions from the 1930s to the 1990s
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Cambridge University Press Australia Reshaped
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Cambridge University Press The Invisible State
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Cambridge University Press Land Settlement in Early Tasmania Creating an Antipodean England Studies in Australian History
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Cambridge University Press The Rule of Law in a Penal Colony
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Cambridge University Press Australian Women in Papua New Guinea
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Cambridge University Press Labour and Gold in Fiji
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Cambridge University Press The Price of Health
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Cambridge University Press White Flour White Power
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Cambridge University Press The Italians in Australia
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Cambridge University Press The English in Australia
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Cambridge University Press One Big Union
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Cambridge University Press From the Ruins of Colonialism History as Social Memory Studies in Australian History
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Cambridge University Press A New Australia Citizenship Radicalism and the First Republic Studies in Australian History
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Cambridge University Press The Cartographic Eye
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Cambridge University Press Imagining the Antipodes
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Cambridge University Press Citizens Without Rights
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Cambridge University Press Citizens Without Rights
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Cambridge University Press Australias Forgotten Prisoners Civilians Interned By The Japanese In World War Two
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Cambridge University Press White Flour White Power
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Cambridge University Press A Military History of Australia Cambridge Concise Histories
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Cambridge University Press Pacific Worlds A History of Seas Peoples and Cultures
Book SynopsisAsia, the Pacific Islands and the coasts of the Americas have long been studied separately. This essential single-volume history of the Pacific traces the global interactions and remarkable peoples that have connected these regions with each other and with Europe and the Indian Ocean, for millennia. From ancient canoe navigators, monumental civilisations, pirates and seaborne empires, to the rise of nuclear testing and global warming, Matt Matsuda ranges across the frontiers of colonial history, anthropology and Pacific Rim economics and politics, piecing together a history of the region. The book identifies and draws together the defining threads and extraordinary personal narratives which have contributed to this history, showing how localised contacts and contests have often blossomed into global struggles over colonialism, tourism and the rise of Asian economies. Drawing on Asian, Oceanian, European, American, ancient and modern narratives, the author assembles a fascinating PacifiTrade Review'Finally - a coherent portrayal of the immense Pacific. Matsuda narrates brilliantly the communities that traded and warred among islands, mainland, and currents; he illustrates beautifully the cultural exchanges and social struggles of this vast region. This book will ensure that the Pacific becomes central to discussion of global historical patterns.' Patrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh'This is a daring and thought-provoking read, as the author weaves together individual life experiences to demonstrate the complex interplay between transcultural connectedness and power contestations. Reminiscent of Sugata Bose's A Hundred Horizons, which focused on the Indian Ocean, Matsuda's book has managed to transcend local, regional and world history in literary-quality tales of 'overlapping transits' that challenge our conventional categories and highlight larger historical issues.' David Chappell, University of Hawai`i'The range of Matt Matsuda's Pacific Worlds is extraordinary. This book breaks down longstanding distinctions between the histories of the Pacific Islands and those of east and southeast Asia and America's Pacific coast. Broad-brush in the best sense, it offers a superb distillation of changing economies, societies, and imaginations. Taking the reader from ancient migrations to current political conflicts, it's a fine introduction to the human history of the world's largest ocean.' Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge'[This] book interweaves a fascinating network of tales and episodes that illuminate the diversity of Pacific localities and lives through history. Matsuda's narrative, revealing a remarkable breadth and depth of research and understanding, is both forcefully polemical and eloquently - even entertainingly - readable.' Harriet Guest, University of York'Matsuda has produced a rarity: a theoretically sophisticated work that is a real pleasure to read.' BBC History Magazine'Many in the huge surrounding landmasses of South-East Asia, East Asia, the Americas and Australia see 'the Pacific' as being the countries bordering the Pacific Ocean. Matt Matsuda's splendid history shatters the basin and, with it, the rim … For those most interested in the Pacific Islands, this book addresses and contextualizes the substantial contacts of south Asia and China with the western Pacific, especially northern Australia and New Guinea, a prolonged relationship that some notable Pacific historians have largely ignored to privilege later English and French interactions on Tahiti in the late eighteenth century.' Judith A. Bennet, Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction: encircling the ocean; 1. Civilization without a center; 2. Trading rings and tidal empires; 3. Straits, sultans and treasure fleets; 4. Conquered colonies and Iberian ambitions; 5. Island encounters and the Spanish lake; 6. Sea changes and spice islands; 7. Samurai, priests and potentates; 8. Pirates and raiders of the eastern seas; 9. Asia, America, and the age of the galleon; 10. Navigators of Polynesia and paradise; 11. Gods and sky piercers; 12. Extremities of the Great Southern Continent; 13. The world that Canton made; 14. Flags, treaties, and gunboats; 15. Migrations, plantations, and the people trade; 16. Imperial destinies on foreign shores; 17. Traditions of engagement and ethnography; 18. War stories from the Pacific theater; 19. Prophets and rebels of decolonization; 20. Critical mass for the earth and ocean; 21. Specters of memory, agents of development; 22. Repairing legacies, claiming histories; Afterword: world heritage.
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Cambridge University Press To Salamaua Australian Army History Series
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Cambridge University Press Belonging Australians Place and Aboriginal Ownership
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Cambridge University Press Fighting the Enemy Australian Soldiers and Their Adversaries in World War II
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Cambridge University Press Hawaiki Ancestral Polynesia An Essay in Historical Anthropology
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Cambridge University Press Gold
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Cambridge University Press The Collins Class Submarine Story Steel Spies and Spin
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Cambridge University Press The Battle for Wau New Guineas Frontline 19421943 Australian Army History Series
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Cambridge University Press Being the Heart of the World
Book SynopsisBeing the Heart of the World offers a timely reflection on the relationship between mobility and identity-making in the Spanish colonial world. It will be of value to historians of colonial Mexico and the Spanish empire.Trade Review'Nino Vallen has written an indispensable study about how the Spanish transpacific expansion into Asia from New Spain radically impacted the fashioning of socially mobile identities. Well-sourced, convincingly argued, and nuanced, it reveals that the rise of the notion of the colonial 'deserving self' is intrinsically tied to conflicting ideas of the literal and figurative place of Mexico as 'the heart of the world'.' Christina Hyo-Jung Lee, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University'The waves of Spanish exploration that crashed across the South Sea after the conquest of Tenochtitlán were not just echoes of that foundational event. In this deft study, Nino Vallen demonstrates that they played a crucial role in the ongoing development of creole society in New Spain. A must read for anyone interested in the role played by the Pacific in colonial Spanish America.' Ricardo Padrón, author of The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West'The men in this important book fought in wars, arranged transpacific shipments, adjudicated criminal cases, compiled reports, and more. Military and administrative competency warranted royal favor. Nino Vallen delves into the interior lives of imperial agents to shed new light on the meritocratic ideals of the Spanish Hapsburg empire.' Tatiana Seijas, author of Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: From Chinos to IndiansTable of ContentsFigures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Discoverer: Legal Struggles over the Pacific Northwest; 2. The Veteran: Capitalizing on Knowledge of the Routes Between the Indies; 3. The Meritorious: Rootedness and Mobility in the Pacific Basin; 4. The Creole: Distributing Royal Patronage on the Western Religious Itinerary to Asia; 5. The Merchant: Debating Transpacific Trade and the Functioning of the Economy of Favor; Glossary; Sources and bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Regional Politics in Oceania
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Cambridge University Press Regional Politics in Oceania
Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive study of regional politics in Oceania produced to date. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary sources and providing a systematic account of major issues facing the region, this book will appeal to anyone engaged in any aspect of regional studies in Oceania and beyond.
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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 Story of New Zealand
Book SynopsisArthur S. Thomson (181660) was a Scottish military surgeon and medical scientist, posted to New Zealand in the late 1840s. His two-volume account of the islands' history was published in 1859. In Volume 2 Thomson justifies the British colonisation of the country, as promoting progress and civilisation.Table of ContentsPart II continued. History of the Discovery of New Zealand by Europeans: 5. Commencement of colonisation, 1839 to 1842; 6. New Zealand in 1842; 7. Mr. Shortland's rule, September 1842 to October 1843; 8. Governor Fitzroy's rule, December 1843 to November 1845; 9. Governor Grey's rule, November 1845 to December 1853; 10. Colonel Wynward's rule, January 1854 to September 1855; 11. Governor Browne's rule, October 1855 to June 1859; Part III. On the Decrease of the New Zealanders: 1. Are the New Zealanders decreasing in numbers?; 2. Progress of civilisation among the New Zealanders, and means requisite to promote it; 3. Hints to emigrants; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The King Country or Explorations in New Zealand
Book SynopsisThis 1884 account of a journey into the 'King Country' in New Zealand by 'gentleman explorer' J. H. Kerry-Nicholls (d. 1888) includes not only a history of MaoriEuropean relations, but a geographical survey of the beautiful landscapes he encountered and his meeting with Maori King Tawhiao.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; The Frontier of the King Country: 1. The King's camp; 2. The Korero; 3. Ascent of Pirongia; The Lake Country: 4. Auckland to Ohinemutu; 5. Hot-spring life; 6. Tradition, idolatry, and romance; 7. En route to the terraces; 8. The terraces; 9. Ohinemutu to Wairakei; 10. Wairakei; Exploration of the King Country: 11. The start; 12. The region of Lake Taupo; 13. Eastern shore of Lake Taupo; 14. Tokanu; 15. The Rangipo Table Land; 16. Ascent of Tongariro; 17. Ascent of Ruapehu, first day; 18. Ruapehu, second day. Ascent of the Great Peak; 19. The Kaimanawa Mountains; 20. Second ascent of Ruapehu. Sources of the Whagaehu and Waikato rivers; 21. Karioi; 22. Forest country; 23. Ruakara; 24. Ngatokorua Pa; 25. Hot springs of Tongariro; 26. Western Taupo; 27. The Northern Table-land; 28. The Aukati Line; Appendix; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cruise of H.M.S. Galatea
Book SynopsisPrince Alfred, Queen Victoria's second son, made the first royal visit to Australia in 18678 during a world tour. Published in 1869, this illustrated chronicle includes scenes from a South African elephant hunt and an account of the assassination attempt in Sydney which necessitated an early return to England.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. England to Rio; 2. Tristan d'Acunha; 3. Cape of Good Hope; 4. Adelaide; 5. Colony of South Australia; 6. Melbourne; 7. Colony of Victoria; 8. Tasmania; 9. Colony of Tasmania; 10. Sydney; 11. Colony of New South Wales; 12. Passage home; List of officers.
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