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“dan holliday”

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  • The Raffle Gods

    An Aussie bloke goes bush, to shake off the stress of city life.

    by Dan Holliday ...
    When Beastly nearly kills a friend, he knows it is time to take a rest from his job, as a Kings Cross night club bouncer, and get out of town for a while.Travel with Beastly as he heads out bush to find his sense of self again.In a sense, a 'coming of age' story, with a difference, set in Australia in the 70s or 80s, you will find yourself drawn in from the first page!Warm and philosophical, full ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    by James Belich ...
    A new paperback reprint of this best-selling and ground-breaking history. When first published in 1996 Making Peoples was hailed as redefining New Zealand history. It was undoubtedly the most important work of New Zealand history since Keith Sinclair's classic A History of New Zealand.Making Peoples covers the period from first settlement to the end of the nineteenth century. Part one covers ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Alice Springs

    by Eleanor Hogan ...
    Series series The City Series
    A personal, evocative, and unflinching account, this book reveals the texture of everyday life in Alice Springs, Australia, through the passage of the local seasons. Alice Springs, the most talked about yet least familiar place in Australia, is isolated and has extreme seasonal weather: searingly hot and bitterly cold. It is the heart of black Australia and the headquarters of the controversial ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mining Towns

    Making a Living, Making a Life

    by Erik Eklund ...
    A history of iconic Australian towns that have emerged as a result of mining booms—including Broken Hill, Mount Isa, Queenstown, Mount Morgan, Port Pirie, and Kambalda—this book is a unique attempt to introduce urban readers to those communities, past and present. Unlike many mining books, this is not limited to a single material such as coal or gold, but traces the fortunes of a range of towns. ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Boundary Markers

    Land Surveying and the Colonisation of New Zealand

    by Giselle Byrnes ...
    In a country where land disputes were the chief cause of conflict between the coloniser and the colonised, surveying could never be a neutral, depoliticised pastime.In a groundbreaking piece of scholarship, Giselle Byrnes examines the way surveyors became figuratively and literally ‘the cutting edge of colonisation’. Clearing New Zealand’s vast forests, laying out town plans and deciding on place ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Beyond the Imperial Frontier

    The Contest for Colonial New Zealand

    by Vincent O'Malley ...
    Marianne Williams recorded that soon after her arrival in New Zealand she was greeted by three young Māori girls who had welcomed her with ‘How do you do Ma’m’ in English, in answer to her own greeting of ‘Tena ra koe’.'Frontiers in colonial New Zealand were not simply lines on maps, but zones of contact and encounter. Beyond the Imperial Frontier explores these zones to discover the different ... Read more

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  • Up from Under

    Women and Liberation in New Zealand, 19701985

    by Christine Dann ...
    Christine Dann was an early participant in the women’s movement that swept through New Zealand in the 1970s and 80s. Up from Under is a detailed and fascinating study of the achievements and aspirations of women at that time.Dann chronicles the upheavals and events of that time, examining developments across the political philosophy of the women’s movement, fertility control, paid and unpaid work, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • People Power

    The History and Future of the Referendum in Australia

    by George Williams, David Hume ...
    A full history of constitutional change in Australia, this analysis examines the nation's referendum record and explains why referendum approvals have been so rare. Including interviews with leading proponents for constitutional change as well as political cartoons and brochures from key campaigns, this account provides a thorough analysis of each referendum campaign, the public's response, and ... Read more

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  • Meat Pies and Mumbling Blokes

    by Margitta Acker ...
    Born in Germany, Margitta Acker came to Australia in June 1962. Five weeks later, she was married at St Peter's Lutheran Church in Reid. For her, it was a wedding among strangers. Her memories of settling in Canberra, exploring her new surroundings, finding work, making friends and raising a family give a fascinating insight into everyday life in the national capital half a century ago, when Lake ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Transnational Protest, Australia and the 1960s

    by Jon Piccini ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Australia is rarely considered to have been a part of the great political changes that swept the world in the 1960s: the struggles of the American civil rights movement, student revolts in Europe, guerrilla struggles across the Third World and demands for women’s and gay liberation. This book tells the story of how Australian activists from a diversity of movements read about, borrowed from, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Frontiers of Taste

    Food Sovereignty, Sustainability and Indigenous–Settler Relations In Australia

    by Zane Ma Rhea ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a critical, multiperspective, sociohistorical analysis of the role of food in postcolonial Indigenous, British and French settler relations. Drawing on archival resources from Australian explorers, settlers and nation builders, the book argues that contemporary issues of food security, sovereignty and sustainability have been significantly shaped by the colonial impact on human ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Protest, Land Rights and Riots

    Postcolonial struggles in Australia in the 1980s

    by Barry Morris ...
    The 1970s was a period of unprecedented political agency and legislative change in Aboriginal people's struggles for therecognition of postcolonial rights. What is significant is that they didn't just seek rights to be granted to them, but for some measure of rights to be restored to them.Against this background, rural communities where large Aboriginal populations lived, were in foment as a ... Read more

    $26.19 USD