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The Road from Coorain
Conway, Jill Ker
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One women's journey from a childhood in Australia's outback to adulthood as a successful American career woman. The Road From Coorain is about Everywoman, for it is about childhood loneliness, anguished parent-child relationships, dawning sensibility,... [More...]


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Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story
Thompson, Christina
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"A multilayered, highly informative and insightful book that blends memoir, historical and travel narrative...vivid and meticulously researched."—"San Francisco Chronicle
"In this involving, compassionate memoir, Christina Thompson tells the story... [More...]


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The Fatal Shore
Hughes, Robert
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The history of the birth of Australia which came out of the suffereing and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system. With 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps.


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The Royal Australian Navy
Stevens, David M.
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This volume examines the military obligation of government during the first century of the Commonwealth of Australia. During this time, the defense has endured two world wars as well as a series of other military engagements. Although the reputation of... [More...]


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Material Culture and Consumer Society: Dependent Colonies in Colonial Australia
Staniforth, Mark
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Throughout history, material goods have been valued for more than their usefulness; they have also been symbols of status and wealth. During the colonial period of Australia, material goods took on an even more important role for the new arrivals to the... [More...]


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A History of the Pacific Islands
Fischer, Steven Roger
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"A History of the Pacific Islands traces the human history of nearly one-third of the globe over a 50,000 year span. This is history on a grand scale, taking the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia from prehistoric culture to the present day... [More...]


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True Gardens of the Gods
Tyrrell, Ian
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One of the most critical environmental challenges facing both Californians and Australians in the 1860s involved the aftermath of the gold rushes. Settlers on both continents faced the disruptive impacts of mining, grazing, and agriculture; in response to... [More...]


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Recovery from the Depression: Australia and the World Economy in the 1930s
Gregory, R. G.
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In Australian economic history, as in the nation's politics and culture, the Great Depression is a dominant theme. In this volume, an international group of economists and economic historians has collaborated to examine the ways in which Australia survived... [More...]


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Prehistory in the Pacific Islands
Terrell, John E.
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In a fresh and stimulating study that brings to bear a wide range of data drawn from anthropology, archaeology, geography, biogeography, human ecology and linguistics, Dr. Terrell poses a whole series of unfolding and interlinked questions about prehistoric... [More...]


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The Origins of Australia's Capital Cities
Statham, Pamela
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This comprehensive survey aims to answer two questions. First, why Australia's eight capital cities are situated where they are, and second, how they were established. Pairs of chapters on each of the state capitals—Sydney, Hobart, Perth, Adelaide,... [More...]


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