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  • Travelling Home, 'Walkabout Magazine' and Mid-Twentieth-Century Australia

    by Mitchell Rolls, Anna Johnston ...
    Series series Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture
    'Travelling Home' provides a detailed analysis of the contribution that the mid twentieth-century 'Walkabout' magazine made to Australia’s cultural history. Spanning five central decades of the twentieth century (1934-1974), 'Walkabout' was integral to Australia’s sense of itself as a nation. By advocating travel—both vicarious and actual—'Walkabout' encouraged settler Australians to broaden their ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Historical Dictionary of Australian Aborigines

    by Mitchell Rolls, Murray Johnson ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures
    The Aboriginal Australians first arrived on the continent at least 60,000 years ago, occupying and adapting to a range of environmental conditions—from tropical estuarine habitats, densely forested regions, open plains, and arid desert country to cold, mountainous, and often wet and snowy high country. Cultures adapted according to the different conditions and adapted again to environmental ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Australian Indigenous Studies

    Research and Practice

    by Terry Moore, Carol Pybus, Mitchell Rolls, David Moltow ...
    This book provides a guide to research and teaching in an Australian Indigenous Studies that is oriented toward the diverse, contemporary world. Central to this perspective is a sensibility to the intercultural complexity of that world – particularly its Indigenous component – and an awareness of the interactional capabilities that the Indigenous (and others) need to successfully negotiate it. ... Read more

    $52.89 USD

  • Travelling Home, 'Walkabout Magazine' and Mid-Twentieth-Century Australia

    by Mitchell Rolls, Anna Johnston ...
    Series series Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture
    'Travelling Home' provides a detailed analysis of the contribution that the mid twentieth-century 'Walkabout' magazine made to Australia’s cultural history. Spanning five central decades of the twentieth century (1934-1974), 'Walkabout' was integral to Australia’s sense of itself as a nation. By advocating travel—both vicarious and actual—'Walkabout' encouraged settler Australians to broaden their ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Travelling Home, 'Walkabout Magazine' and Mid-Twentieth-Century Australia

    by Mitchell Rolls, Anna Johnston ...
    Series Book 2 - Anthem Studies in Australian History
    'Travelling Home' provides a detailed analysis of the contribution that the mid twentieth-century 'Walkabout' magazine made to Australia’s cultural history. Spanning five central decades of the twentieth century (1934-1974), 'Walkabout' was integral to Australia’s sense of itself as a nation. By advocating travel—both vicarious and actual—'Walkabout' encouraged settler Australians to broaden their ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Australian Aborigines

    by Mitchell Rolls, Murray Johnson ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures
    The Australian Aborigines first arrived on the continent at least 60,000 years ago. They almost certainly landed on the northwest coast by sea from the nearby islands of the Indonesian archipelago. That first arrival may have been replicated many times over. The following exploration and settlement of a vast and varied continent was a venture of heroic proportions. The new settlers had reached ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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  • Deep Time Dreaming

    Uncovering Ancient Australia

    by Billy Griffiths ...
    With a historian's inquiring mind, Billy Griffiths excavates two absorbing twentieth century histories: the reassertion of Aboriginal identity and the uncovering of traces of ancient Australia by pioneering archeologists.Deep Time Dreaming is the passionate product of that journey. In this original, important book, Griffiths investigates a twin revolution- the reassertion of Aboriginal identity in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • This Horrid Practice

    by Paul Moon ...
    'Though stronger evidence of this horrid practice prevailing among the inhabitants of this coast will scarcely be required, we have still stronger to give.' - Captain James Cook This Horrid Practice uncovers an unexplored taboo of New Zealand history - the widespread practice of cannibalism in pre-European Maori society. Until now, many historians have tried to avoid it and many Maori have ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Books that Made Us: The companion to the ABC TV series

    by Carl Reinecke ...
    A cultural history of Australia told through our fiction.Australia's novels lie at the heart of the country. Capturing everyday lives and exceptional dreams, they have held up a mirror to the nation, reflecting the good and the bad. In this companion book to the ABC TV series, Carl Reinecke looks at the history of Australian culture through the books we have read and the stories we have told ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • The Art of Time Travel

    Historians and Their Craft

    by Tom Griffiths ...
    No matter how practised we are at history, it always humbles us. No matter how often we visit the past, it always surprises us.Winner of the Ernest Scott Prize and shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-fiction'A rare feat of imagination and generosity.'– Mark McKennaWith every sentence they write, historians must walk the tightrope between discipline and imagination, empathy and ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • Telling Tennant's Story

    The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence

    by Dean Ashenden ...
    Winner of the 2022 Australian Political Book of the Year Award 'A drily elegant, bracing work from a pained and open heart' —Helen Garner 'Refreshing and original. A unique window on Australia's past and its barbed resonance today … Essential reading for anyone interested in the challenge of truth-telling.' —Mark McKenna 'A graceful, unostentatiously scholarly, wise (and highly readable) book on a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Making Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders From Polynesian

    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

    $17.99 USD