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  • The Stained Man

    a crime, a scandal, and the making of a nation

    by Patrick Mullins ...
    The extraordinary tale — ‘A two-volume mystery!’ Mark Twain called it — of the solicitor who incited a campaign to free a man he knew was guilty of attempted murder, who lost his reputation and ability to practise, and who embarked on a decades-long political career to regain it all.Sydney, 1895. Richard Meagher is a brilliant criminal defence solicitor with ambitions in politics. Into his life ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Trials of Portnoy

    how Penguin brought down Australia’s censorship system

    by Patrick Mullins ...
    Fifty years after the event, here is the first full account of an audacious publishing decision that — with the help of booksellers and readers around the country — forced the end of literary censorship in Australia.For more than seventy years, a succession of politicians, judges, and government officials in Australia worked in the shadows to enforce one of the most pervasive and conservative ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Tiberius with a Telephone

    the life and stories of William McMahon

    by Patrick Mullins ...
    Winner of the 2020 Australian National Biography Award and the 2020 NSW Premier’s Non-Fiction Award.The oddly compelling story of a man regarded as Australia’s worst prime minister.William McMahon was a significant, if widely derided and disliked, figure in Australian politics in the second half of the twentieth century. This biography tells the story of his life, his career, and his doomed ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Mercury Extraction: Amalgamation Logistics of Ancient Silver Mining

    Quicksilver, Toxicity, and the Brutal Labor Systems in Colonial Potosi Operations, 1545–1800

    by Patrick Mullins ...
    The Spanish Empire's absolute dominance of the global economy hinged on the sprawling silver deposits of Potosí. Yet, the raw ore was too low-grade to process using traditional thermal smelting. The empire's wealth was unlocked by a singular, deadly chemical phenomenon: the patio process. By mixing crushed rock with liquid mercury, metallurgists could extract microscopic silver particles through ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Who Needs the ABC?

    why taking it for granted is no longer an option

    by Matthew Ricketson, Patrick Mullins ...
    For the past nine years, the ABC has been besieged. Its funding has been slashed. It has been assailed by complaints from ministers and prime ministers. Its board has been stacked with political appointees. It has been relentlessly attacked by commercial media outlets. And it has endured crisis after crisis.Who Needs the ABC? charts how, in its 90th year, the best-trusted news organisation in ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Prophecies

    The Founders and America's Future

    by Joanne B. Freeman, Kenneth Russell Bowling, Professor Todd Estes, PhD, Robert A. Ferguson, John Craig Hammond, Professor Drew R. McCoy, PhD, Patrick Mullins, Paul Douglas Newman, David Andrew Nichols ...
    Series series Jeffersonian America
    The America of the early republic was built on an experiment, a hopeful prophecy that would only be fulfilled if an enlightened people could find its way through its past and into a future. Americans recognized that its promises would only be fully redeemed at a future date. In Revolutionary Prophecies, renowned historians Robert M. S. McDonald and Peter S. Onuf summon a diverse cast of characters ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Women Waging War in the American Revolution

    by Benjamin Carp, Patrick Mullins, Professor Barbara Mann, PhD, Professor Lauren Duval, Steven Elliott, Sean Heuvel, Don Hagist, Martha J. King, Professor Lorri Glover, Carin Bloom, Todd W. Braisted, Jacqueline Beatty, Alisa Wade ...
    America’s War for Independence dramatically affected the speed and nature of broader social, cultural, and political changes including those shaping the place and roles of women in society. Women fought the American Revolution in many ways, in a literal no less than a figurative sense. Whether Loyalist or Patriot, Indigenous or immigrant enslaved or slave-owning, going willingly into battle or ... Read more

    Was $38.99 USD Now $28.09 USD

  • Dartmouth and the World

    Religion and Political Economy circa 1769

    by Henry C. Clark, Kristen Beales, Emma Griffin, J. Patrick Mullins, Steve Pincus, Ivy Schweitzer, Jack A. Goldstone, Mark Valeri ...
    For the 250th anniversary of the founding of Dartmouth College, the Political Economy Project at Dartmouth assembled a stellar cast of junior and senior scholars to explore the systemic conditions facing those seeking to found a new college two hundred fifty years ago.What were the key political, economic and religious parameters operating in the Atlantic world at the time of the College’s ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Father of Liberty

    Jonathan Mayhew and the Principles of the American Revolution

    by Patrick Mullins ...
    Series series American Political Thought
    Choice Outstanding Academic TitleDr. Jonathan Mayhew (1720–1766) was, according to John Adams, a “transcendental genius . . . who threw all the weight of his great fame into the scale of the country in 1761, and maintained it there with zeal and ardor till his death.” He was also, J. Patrick Mullins contends, the most politically influential clergyman in eighteenth-century America and the ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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  • Canada Lives Here

    The Case for Public Broadcasting

    by Wade Rowland ...
    Canada Lives Here tells the tumultuous story of public broadcasting in Canada, from its inception in 1933 to the CBC’s current, controversial attempts to adapt to collapsing revenues and new technologies. It explores in detail the struggle to preserve public space and foster community in an environment devoted to profit-making, arguing that the ideals of public service broadcasting are more ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Revolutionary Mothers

    Women in the Struggle for America's Independence

    by Carol Berkin ...
    **A groundbreaking history of the American Revolution that “vividly recounts Colonial women’s struggles for independence—for their nation and, sometimes, for themselves.... [Her] lively book reclaims a vital part of our political legacy" (**Los Angeles Times Book Review).The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

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  • Quarterly Essay 60 Political Amnesia

    How We Forgot How To Govern

    by Laura Tingle ...
    Series Book 60 - Quarterly Essay
    Whatever happened to good government? What are the signs of bad government? And can Malcolm Turnbull apply the lessons of the past in a very different world?In this crisp, profound and witty essay, Laura Tingle seeks answers to these questions. She ranges from ancient Rome to the demoralised state of the once-great Australian public service, from the jingoism of the past to the tabloid scandals of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD