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From the early Dutch explorers to the gold rushes, Federation to the wars of the last century and the Victorian bushfires of recent times this magnificently illustrated volume details sixty-five of the most defining events in Australia's history.

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Original, provocative and entertaining, Great Southern Land provides the most comprehensive one-volume history of this endlessly fascinating nation.

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This remarkable work was the first to examine the White Australia policy, and was the first book published by Melbourne University Press, in 1923. It has long been the authoritative reference on the subject, and is essential for every library. Though more than ninety years have passed since publication, the book remains invaluable.

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Explores the politics of history-making and interest in preserving the material remnants of the past in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century colonial society, looking at both indigenous pasts and those of European origin. -- .

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Taking two of the most important white minorities in the colonial era, the Irish and the Scots, the book explores how they imagined and performed their new lives as place in the landscapes of south-east Australia. -- .

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A brutally honest account of Australian armour crewmen in action in Vietnam.

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Talks about the infamous Kokoda Track campaign, from both sides of the conflict. The author recounts both the Australian and Japanese perspectives of the hellish Papuan jungle trail.

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Provides an account of the life and work of Lachlan Macquarie. We learn that Macquarie was a man of strong passions, beliefs, plans and ambitions which drove him to hobnob with polite London society, to beg for promotion and favours from his superiors, and to wangle commissions for his relatives.

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The road that led to the inauguration of the Australian nation in Centennial Park, Sydney, on 1 January 1901 was by no means smooth travelling. Alfred Deakin noted that Federation must always appear to have been secured by miracles. This work covers the individuals who made these miracles happen.

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A critical study of Marcus Clarke - arguably Australia's best known and most important nineteenth-century writer. It situates Clarke both within the bohemian culture of Melbourne and a burgeoning cosmopolitan print-culture extending beyond national borders. It also unearths the richness of Clarke's writing.

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A study of spiritualism in Melbourne between 1870 and 1890. Al Gabay explores the origins of the movement and relates its rise and fall to the wider intellectual and religious currents in Australian society. He shows that the seance was not a "scientific" enterprise but a religious event.

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A collection of pieces by Australian historian Ken Inglis, covering the years 1959-1999. It reflects the breadth of Inglis's interests: the making and remaking of national identity, war, memory and ritual; the lives of colleagues such as Manning Clark; and religion and multiculturalism.

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Oceania under steam is a lively study of empire and the Pacific in the age of steam. It connects the intimate details of shipboard life with the high politics of imperial ocean space to present a wealth of new insights into the significance of shipping and the sea in the everyday life of colonialism. -- .

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Oceania under steam is a lively study of empire and the Pacific in the age of steam. It connects the intimate details of shipboard life with the high politics of imperial ocean space to present a wealth of new insights into the significance of shipping and the sea in the everyday life of colonialism. -- .

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