Die Deutschen Kolonien: Deutsch-Neuguinea
1,271円 DIE DEUTSCHEN KOLONIEN: DEUTSCH NEUGUINEA Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts wollte sich das junge deutsche Kaiserreich auch seinen „Platz an der Sonne“ sichern. So begann Deutschland weltweit mit dem Erwerb von Kolonien. Unter dem Namen Deutsch-Neuguinea übernahm das Deutsche Reich 1899 das von der deuts...
The Herds Shot Round the World
2,859円 As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into bulky, quick-fattening beasts. Exp...
Mr Peacock's Possessions
871円 An intimate, intense and beautifully realised novel of possession, power and the liberating loss of innocence, this will delight fans of MISTER PIP and THE POISONWOOD BIBLE. Oceania, 1879. For two years the Peacocks, a determined family of settlers, have struggled to make a remote volcanic island...
The Ascent to Power, 1996
1,744円 The Ascent to Power, 1996 takes a critical look at the Howard Government's rise to power; its policies and priorities, successes and shortcomings in what Paul Kelly calls the 'foundational year'. This first of four volumes on the Howard Government's nearly 12 years in office draws on unpublished ...
Gaunt's Time (2nd Edition)
1,100円 Gaunt's Time had a meaning for blossoming colonial Victoria akin to that of Greenwich Time for those "back home" in England. But to remember Thomas Gaunt only as a clock maker is to do him a great disservice, for he was well known throughout the colonies - and the greater western world - as a mak...
Monash and Chauvel
1,682円 Monash and Chauvel: How Australia's two greatest generals changed the course of world history tells the story of the emergence and dominance of these brilliant Australian soldiers, who commanded the two most effective armies in defeating the Germans and the Turks in the Great War. Monash and Chau...
No Front Line
2,180円 The soldiers of the SAS, the Commandos and Special Operations Engineer Regiment are Australia's most highly trained soldiers. Their work is often secret, their bravery undeniable and for thirteen years they were at the forefront of Australia's longest war. Shunning acclaim, they are the Australia...
Great Australian Scams, Cons and Rorts
1,868円 'Australian history is...so curious and strange, that it...does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies... It is full of surprises, and adventures, and incongruities, and contradictions, and incredibilities; but they are all true, they all happened.' - Mark Twain Australia is the ...
Australian Rules Football During the Firs...
6,076円 The book explores the intersection between the Great War and patriotism through an examination of the effects of both on Australia’s most popular football code. The work is chronological, and therefore provides an easy path by which events may be followed. Ultimately it seeks to shine a light on ...
A Transnational History of the Australian...
10,331円 This book offers the first transnational historical study of the creation, contention and consequences of the Australian animal movement. Largely inspired by Peter Singer and his 1975 book Animal Liberation, a new wave of animal activism emerged in Australia and across the world. In an effort to ...
Mr Eternity
2,170円 Almost every day for 35 years, Arthur Stace spent hours writing a single word – Eternity – on and around the streets of Sydney. Sometimes his mission took him much further afield, to country New South Wales and even to Melbourne. Stace's identity was a mystery for more than two decades. Then, aft...
John Tebbutt
19,447円 This book marks the centennial of Tebbutt's death with a major biographical account surveying his scientific contributions to astronomy, prefaced with a foreword by Sir Patrick Moore. During the second half of the nineteenth century, Tebbutt was Australia's foremost astronomer. He devoted his tim...
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