The Disputed Country (Vic, SA Boarder) by Dunn Robert J
$32.95 AUD
Category: New History
The South Australian / Victorian boundary, was delimited by proclamation on 19 February 1836 when South Australia, the fourth incipient State, was separated from New South Wales. The line coincided with longitude 141[degrees] E. It was demarcated in three progressively shorter stages. Between March and ...Show more
CONTENDING VISIONS OF THE MIDDLE EAST THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF ORIENTALISM by LOCKMAN ZACHARY
$60.95 AUD
Category: New History | Series: The\Contemporary Middle East Ser.
Zachary Lockman's informed and thoughtful history of European Orientalism and US Middle East studies, the 'clash of civilizations' debate and America's involvement in the region has become a highly recommended and widely used text since its publication in 2004. The second edition of Professor Lockman's ...Show more
FALL OF THE BIG TOP THE VANISHING AMERICAN CIRCUS by HAMMARSTROM DAVID LEWIS
$43.00 AUD
Category: New History
Once an eagerly awaited spectacle, the traveling circus--that miracle of red wagons, trumpeting elephants and spangled trapeze artists that slipped into town at dawn and disappeared by midnight--has all but vanished from the American landscape. This work explores circus history from 1793 to the present ...Show more
Australia: William Blandowski's Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Life by Harry Allen
$60.00 AUD
Category: New History
William Blandowski was an explorer, natural scientist and artist who led an expedition to the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers from 1856 to 1857. Australia is the first publication in English of his illustrated encyclopaedia of Aboriginal life. Blandowski explores the potential of images to por ...Show more
The Wealth Beneath Their Feet: A Family on the Castlemaine Goldfields by Marjorie R. Theobald
$39.95 AUD
Category: New History
Told through the lives of six families, from the colourful goldfields' era to the Second World War, The Wealth Beneath Their Feet is a social history of the central goldfields of Victoria. These stories of immigrant families with limited or no financial resources are, at times, heart-rending, and we suf ...Show more
Heading South by Tim Richards
$29.99 AUD
Category: New History
Featuring some of Australia's most iconic rail journeys, Heading South celebrates the unique joys of train travel and is the perfect book for the armchair traveller. Freelance travel writer and Lonely Planet guidebook contributor Tim Richards decides to shake up his life by taking an epic rail journey a ...Show more
The Inner History of the Kelly Gang by J.J. Kenneally
$29.95 AUD
Category: New History
I have read your book with a great deal of satisfaction, and I must congratulate you on having rendered a great service in the cause of Truth and Justice… You are the only author who has the courage to do justice to the Kelly Gang; you have liberated the truth, so long supressed, regarding the policy an ...Show more
The Greatest Gift: A 200-Year Chronicle Of My Australian Jewish Family by Trevor Cohen
$119.99 AUD
Category: New History
Trevor Cohen’s The Greatest Gift uncovers the remarkable 200-year story of his Jewish family and its uniquely Australian journey, from convicts to prosperity. Cohen’s vivid tales of his family’s history are complemented by his significant collection of photographs, documents and memorabilia, which hel ...Show more
Australian History Live by Ian Warden
$60.00 AUD
Category: New History
This book is a collection of virtual time-travellings back to Australiae(tm)s past. AustralianHistory Live! is a compelling look at Australian history using first person accounts asreported in the press and in journals and diaries. Included in the collection are grippingaccounts of occasions both great ...Show more
Around the Bend I Go - The True Story of a Boy Surviving Childhood in a Bendigo City Hotel in the 1950s And 1960s by Max Beck
$42.99 AUD
Category: New History
After World War II, Reg Beck buys The Crown Hotel, then one of 72 pubs in Bendigo, 12 of which were within 300 metres. In the days before motels, his wife Madge manages the accommodation side of the business catering for many important VIPs including County and Supreme Court judges. Their children Max ( ...Show more
The East Indian by Brinda Charry
$32.99 AUD
Category: New History
Meet Tony- the first Indian to set foot on American soil.Among the settlers, slaves, and indentured servants that make the treacherous journey across the Atlantic to the New World in the early 1600s - for some, an exciting opportunity, for others, a brutal abduction - there is also Tony. As a child, his ...Show more
Bitter Roots, Sweet Fruit: a History of Schools in Collingwood, Abbotsford and Clifton Hill by Karen T. Cummings
$39.99 AUD
Category: New History
Aims to identify and locate every school that has ever existed in the area covered by the former city of Collingwood, comprising the suburbs of Abbotsford, Collingwood and Clifton Hill. It also placed the schools within the Melbourne and Victorian educational context as well as within the wider context ...Show more