Adrift in Melbourne: Seven Walks with Robyn Annear by Robyn Annear
$27.99 AUD
Category: New History
Melbourne's streets have always been marvellous--but the proud facades of the nineteenth-century boom aren't the half of it. What about the stories behind them? The great corset scandal of Melbourne's belle epoque; The heritage-listed toilets out the back of the Rialto; The exploits of the women who ra ...Show more
Fashioned from Penury - Dress as Cultural Practice in Colonial Australia by Margaret Maynard
$47.95 AUD
Category: New History | Series: Studies in Australian History Ser.
From the first white settlement clothing was of vast social significance to Australians. It was central to the ways class and status were negotiated and equally significant for marking out sexual differences. Dress was implicated in definitions of morality, in the relationship between Europeans and Abor ...Show more
Broken Spear: The untold story of Black Tom Birch, the man who sparked Australia's bloodiest war by Robert Cox
$39.95 AUD
Category: New History
Black Tom Birch was the most feared and hated man in Van Diemen's Land. For four years he kept the colony in a state of terror. He was responsible for the deaths of dozens of settlers. He burnt their buildings and destroyed their livestock and crops. Newspapers raged against him. One demanded he be lync ...Show more
Young Dark Emu: A Truer History by Bruce Pascoe
$24.99 AUD
Category: New History | Reading Level: Eve Pownall Award
Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers. Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsiderati ...Show more
Slow Catastrophes: Living with Drought in Australia by Rebecca Jones
$34.95 AUD
Category: New History | Series: Australian History
Dead sheep, dry dams, cracked earth and economic devastation: we feel we understand drought and yet there is more to this story. Australias long history of drought has goaded people to adapt and respond creatively. This book explores the way people have lived and worked with drought from the nineteenth ...Show more
Harry Readford Alias Captain Starlight by John Morrison
$39.99 AUD
Category: New History
The story of Harry Readford, born in 1841 on the frontier of the infant colony of New South Wales, who became a proficient bushman, stockman, drover, explorer, pioneer and above all, a renowned cattle duffer, has passed into Australian folklore. The pivotal event in the story was the famous cattle theft ...Show more
Innovation : Knowledge and Ingenuity (First Knowledges) by Ian J McNiven, Lynette Russell
$24.99 AUD
Category: New History | Series: First Knowledges Ser.
'Deeply insightful, sensitive and passionate. An inspiring, meticulous picture of the innovations that have made us the world's oldest living culture.' - Larissa Behrendt'Another fascinating volume in this landmark Australian publishing series.' - Richard FlanaganWhat do you need to know to prosper as a ...Show more
Blake's Australian History Guide – Primary by Pascal Press
$27.95 AUD
Category: New History
This guide is a vital reference for anyone wanting a basic understanding of Australian History for primary students. This book covers all of the key topics in the primary Australian History curriculum, as well as other interesting facts. It has been written to capture the imaginations of young learners, ...Show more
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory
$37.99 AUD
Category: New History
One of our foremost historical novelists, Philippa Gregory, makes history. We have fallen into the belief that women were absent from great events, and ineffectual in normal times. Through a radical reframing of the conventional eras of our history, Normal Women tells the story of our nation - not ...Show more
Beyond the Big Run: The Mandandanji Land War Southern Queensland 1842-52 by Darrell Lewis
$32.99 AUD
Category: New History
'I'll be lucky to last a bloody year,' was the prediction of nineteen year old Charlie Schultz. That was 1928, when he first arrived to take up the management of Humbert River Station. A tiny run-down property in a tangle of wild ranges, neighbour to the vast and legendary Victoria River Downs, Humbert ...Show more
The Beat : Policing a Victorian City by Dean Wilson
$36.95 AUD
Category: New History
A police officer in Melbourne at the end of the nineteenth century had to be male, well set up physically and with an attitude that commanded respect. This thoroughly absorbing book enters the daily lives of those early colonial policemen.
Country, Kin And Culture by Smith Claire
$29.95 AUD
Category: New History
Outlines how one Aboriginal community drew upon their sense of country, kin and culture to survive the incursions of British colonisation. It outlines their histories from before contact to the present, through protectionism and assimilation, to self- determination and reconciliation.