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(Paperback, Large Print Edition)

(Paperback, Large Print Edition)

(Paperback, Large Print Edition)

(Paperback, Large Print Edition)

(Paperback, Large Print Edition)

(Paperback, Large Print Edition)

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The last two volumes in Manning Clark's classic six-volume history of Australia. These two texts cover Federation, the Boer War and World War I's Gallipoli. They finish with the story of an emerging Australian identity at the point of its greatest trial - the outbreak of World War I.

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Steven Fischer traces the human history of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia from prehistoric culture to the present day. The second edition has been revised throughout in the light of recent scholarship and brings the story right up-to-date in terms of events and developments. Additional maps also enhance this established text.

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The period from the first temporary convict camp of 1803 to the formal separation of Victoria from New South Wales in 1851 encompasses years of struggle and adversity. They saw the future of the territory shaped by Aborigines, whalers, adventurers, squatters, speculators and immigrants.

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A memoir of a young man's coming of age in wartime. This work presents an account of his childhood growing up in Sydney through his years serving in the Royal Australian Navy from 1942 to 1947. It details his rise from a callow sublieutenant to a lieutenant in command of his own ship, as he patrolled the shores of Japanese-held territory.

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Tells the extraordinary story - lost for two centuries - of how a failed British attempt to establish a penal colony in West Africa led to their eventual decision to abandon their African plans and establish a new colony in the recently discovered colony known as New South Wales

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In 1835 a renegade group of Tasmanians wishing to expand their landholdings disembarked in what was to become Melbourne. This colonising expedition was funded by a group of investors including the Jewish convict Joseph Solomon. Thus, in Melbourne, as in the settlement of the continent itself, Jews were at the foundation of colonisation.

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Using archival materials from all three nations, this first comparative study of French and Italian relations with the United States during the early Cold War shows that French and Italian ambitions of status, or prestige, crucially affected the formation of the Western Alliance.

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Explores the colourful debates and anxieties that were prevalent from the 1890s to the 1930s and the responses of the key women's organisations whose leadership and campaigns acknowledged that - outside of parliament and party politics - women's connection to political matters could be both innovative and socially influential.

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This work tells the strange story of almost a hundred United States citizens who were transported to Van Diemen's land in 1839-40. These exiles endured years of harsh treatment before they were eventually pardoned. Not being British subjects, their transportation was almost certainly illegal.

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In this volume, the authors have moved beyond biography and histories of individual congregations to create a broad, complex and layered history of Anglicanism in Australia. They assess Anglicanism's contribution to Australian social, political and cultural life.

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The full story of Australia's democracy from one of our leading historians.

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Before becoming the prime ministers who led Australia in moments of extraordinary crisis and transformation, John Curtin and James Scullin were two young working-class men who dreamt of changing their country for the better. Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin tells the tale of their intertwined early lives.