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  • Oral History in Southeast Asia

    Memories and Fragments

    Edited by K. Loh, S. Dobbs, E. Koh ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Using the presence of the past as a point of departure, this books explores three critical themes in Southeast Asian oral history: the relationship between oral history and official histories produced by nation-states; the nature of memories of violence; and intersections between oral history, oral tradition, and heritage discourses. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Ned Kelly

    A short life

    by Ian Jones ...
    'the best Kelly biography by a country mile' - The AustralianThe definitive biography of Ned Kelly - and a superb description of his times.A bestseller since it was first published, Ned Kelly: A Short Life is acknowledged as being the definitive biography.Ian Jones combines years of research into all the records of the era and exhaustive interviews with living descendants of those involved, to ... Read more

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  • African History: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Parker, Richard Rathbone ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. Key themes in current thinking about Africa's history are illustrated with a range of fascinating historical examples, drawn from over 5 millennia across this vast continent. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Freedom on the Fatal Shore

    Australia’s First Colony

    by John Hirst ...
    Freedom on the Fatal Shore brings together John Hirst's two books on the early history of New South Wales. Both are classic accounts which have had a profound effect on the understanding of our history. This combined edition includes a new foreword by the author.Convicts with their "own time", convicts with legal rights, convicts making money, convicts getting drunk - what sort of prison was this? ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Journey to a Hanging

    by Peter Wells ...
    Part history, part biography, part social commentary, this fascinating book is about infamous events that shook New Zealand to its core. In 1865, Rev Carl Sylvius Volkner was hanged, his head cut off, his eyes eaten and his blood drunk from his church chalice. One name – Kereopa Te Rau (Kaiwhatu: The Eye-eater) – became synonymous with the murder. In 1871 he was captured, tried and sentenced to ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 12 Made in England

    Australia's British Inheritance

    by David Malouf ...
    Series Book 12 - Quarterly Essay
    In Made in England, David Malouf looks at Australia’s bond with Britain and wonders whether it wasn’t the Mother Country which did most of the giving. This is an essay which presents British civilisation, the civilisation of Shakespeare and the Enlightenment and the Westminster system, as the irreducible ground on which any Australian achievement is based. Britain has always been the tolerant ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The War of the Worlds

    by Noel Pearson ...
    Series Book 3 - Short Blacks
    'How many Australians born in the 137 years since Truganini's death learnt her legend and scarcely thought deeper about the enormity of the loss she represented, and the history that led to it? Her spirit casts a long shadow over Australian history, but we have nearly all of us found a way to avert our eyes from its meaning.'In The War of the Worlds, Noel Pearson considers the shadow over ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Hungry Heart

    Journeys With William Colenso

    by Peter Wells ...
    Shortlisted for the NZ Post Award this fascinating, innovative biography is of a true original and significant figure in NZ's early colonisation. "I love doubters: of a truly honest doubter I have great hope." Printer, botanist and missionary, William Colenso was a nineteenth-century maverick, a true original. He protested at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, arguing that Maori did not fully ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Memory of Genocide in Tasmania, 1803-2013

    Scars on the Archive

    by Jesse Shipway ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book presents a philosophical history of Tasmania’s past and present with a particular focus on the double stories of genocide and modernity. On the one hand, proponents of modernisation have sought to close the past off from the present, concealing the demographic disaster behind less demanding historical narratives and politicised preoccupations such as convictism and environmentalism. The ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Genocide and Settler Society

    Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History

    Edited by A. Dirk Moses ...
    Series Book 6 - War and Genocide
    Colonial Genocide has been seen increasingly as a stepping-stone to the European genocides of the twentieth century, yet it remains an under-researched phenomenon. This volume reconstructs instances of Australian genocide and for the first time places them in a global context. Beginning with the arrival of the British in 1788 and extending to the 1960s, the authors identify the moments of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Engaging Colonial Knowledge

    Reading European Archives in World History

    Edited by R. Roque, K. Wagner ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Presenting a set of rich case-studies which demonstrate novel and productive approaches to the study of colonial knowledge, this volume covers British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish colonial encounters in Africa, Asia, America and the Pacific, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Myanmar

    A Political History

    by Nehginpao Kipgen ...
    Myanmar, since its independence from the British in 1948, has witnessed decades of military dictatorship, a plethora of ethnic and political problems, and an arduous struggle to political normalcy and democracy. Reinventing its place in international trade, diplomacy, and geo-strategy, Myanmar today presents a complex picture—and how it engages with its own history plays an important part in this ... Read more

    $40.99 USD