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  • Letters from Belsen 1945

    An Australian nurse's experiences with the survivors of war

    When British troops arrived at Belsen concentration camp in April 1945 they found 40,000 desperately ill men, women and children and 10,000 unburied dead bodies. In a final act of cruelty the Germans had withheld food and water from the inmates for a week. Typhus was raging and conditions were chaotic.Muriel Knox Doherty arrived soon after as Chief Nurse with the task of creating a hospital, ... Read more

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  • Time to Listen

    An Indigenous Voice to Parliament

    Series series In the National Interest
    In 2023, debate about an Indigenous Voice to Parliament swirls around us as Australia heads towards a referendum on amending the Constitution to make this Voice a reality. The idea of a 'First Nations Voice' was famously raised in 2017, when Indigenous leaders drafted the Uluru Statement from the Heart. It was envisioned as a representative body, enshrined in the Constitution, that would advise ... Read more

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  • A Trip to the Dominions

    The Scientific Event that Changed Australia

    Series series Australian Studies
    Explore the scientific expedition that transformed Australia.In 1914, the Australian Federal Government sponsored the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) to travel to Australia for its annual conference. This book delves into this pivotal event, where over 150 scientists explored Australian natural sciences, geology, botany, and anthropology. The congress uniquely showcased ... Read more

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  • First Knowledges Innovation

    Knowledge and Ingenuity

    Deeply insightful, sensitive and passionate. An inspiring, meticulous picture of the innovations that have made us the world's oldest living culture.' - Larissa Behrendt 'Another fascinating volume in this landmark Australian publishing series.' - Richard Flanagan What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History

    Edited by Ann McGrath, Lynette Russell ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History presents exciting new innovations in the dynamic field of Indigenous global history while also outlining ethical, political, and practical research.Indigenous histories are not merely concerned with the past but have resonances for the politics of the present and future, ranging across vast geographical distances and deep time periods. The ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Archaeological Theories

    This handbook gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists to compile the latest thinking about archaeological theory. The authors provide a comprehensive picture of the theoretical foundations by which archaeologists contextualize and analyze their archaeological data. Student readers will also gain a sense of the immense power that theory has for building interpretations ... Read more

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  • Roving Mariners

    Australian Aboriginal Whalers and Sealers in the Southern Oceans, 1790–1870

    Series series SUNY series, Tribal Worlds: Critical Studies in American Indian Nation Building
    A comprehensive history of Australian Aboriginal whaling and sealing.For most Australian Aboriginal people, the impact of colonialism was blunt-dispossession, dislocation, disease, murder, and missionization. Yet there is another story of Australian history that has remained untold, a story of enterprise and entrepreneurship, of Aboriginal people seizing the opportunity to profit from life at sea ... Read more

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  • Appropriated Pasts

    Indigenous Peoples and the Colonial Culture of Archaeology

    Series series Archaeology in Society
    This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic. Bloomsbury Academic publish acclaimed resources for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as the general reader, across a broad range of subjects including Archaeology, Art & Visual Culture, Biblical Studies, Business & Management, Drama & Performance Studies, Economics, Education, Film & Media, History, Linguistics, Literary Studies, ... Read more

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    The Way of the Ancestors

    Our Laws are forever present and provide the pathways for all Australians to truly learn how to belong to this continent.' - June Oscar 'No other current work has been able to so comprehensively explain the significance of traditional law in all its manifestations.' - Henry Reynolds Law is culture, and culture is law. Given by the ancestors and cultivated over millennia, Indigenous law defines ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • First Knowledges Astronomy

    Sky Country

    What do you need to know to prosper for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the oldest scientists in human history. Many First Peoples regard the land as a reflection of the sky and the sky a reflection of the land. Sophisticated astronomical ... Read more

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  • First Knowledges Country

    Future Fire, Future Farming

    What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmental and economic solutions. Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe demonstrate how Aboriginal people ... Read more

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  • First Knowledges Design

    Building on Country

    Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and ... Read more

    $7.19 USD