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By: Susan Priestley

ISBN: 9780522846645
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1991
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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By: Mark Johnston

ISBN: 9781741146431
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2005
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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A comprehensive illustrated history of the Australian 9th Division during WWII.


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By: A. W. Martin

ISBN: 9780522853872
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2007
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Brings together a major essay on Sir Henry Parkes, Father of Federation, and several significant studies of particular aspects of Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest serving prime minister's long career. This work also includes an analyses of the development of historical research in Australia.


(Paperback)

By: Mark Johnston

ISBN: 9781846031236
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Australian divisions made a large and distinctive contribution to victory both in the deserts of the Middle East and the jungles of the South-West Pacific. This book recounts the organization and deployment of one of the most important fighting armies of World War II.


(Paperback)

By: Julie Carr

ISBN: 9780522849301
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1997
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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During the 1840s, in the fledgling settlement of Port Phillip, a rumour arose that a white woman was being held captive by Aborigines in the Gipps Land bush. This book explores contemporary concerns about Australian identity and black-white relationships, and provides a valuable case study of "settler society".


(Paperback)

By: Thomas James Rogers

ISBN: 9780522870602
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Tracks the violent history of the first years of British settlement in the Port Phillip District, now the state of Victoria. It illuminates the underlying free-settler rhetoric that advocated and abetted violence on the frontier. For the first time, we hear the settlers tell us in their own words what the civilisation of Port Phillip really involved.


(Hardback)

By: Mark Hearn

ISBN: 9781350291393
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: James Waghorne

ISBN: 9780522872897
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Examines how the technical and conceptual advances that occurred during World War I transformed Australian society. It traces the evolving role of universities and their graduates in the 1920s and 1930s, the increasing government validation of research, the expansion of the public service, and the rise of modern professional associations and international networks.


(Paperback)

By: Michael Veitch

ISBN: 9780143569381
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)

By: Laurie Field

ISBN: 9780522846553
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1991
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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(Paperback, New edition)

By: Peter Walker

ISBN: 9780747558057
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In 1869, After an English defeat in battle in the Taranaki forest, one Maori boy, aged 5, was captured and adopted by the Prime Minister. Educated to become a lawyer and an 'English gentleman', Ngataua Omahuru had played a crucial role in New Zealand's history. This book gives an historical account of the Maori boy raised as an English gentleman.


(Paperback)

By: Geoffrey Serle

ISBN: 9780522841435
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1991
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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An outstanding account of a decade whose highlights included separation from New South Wales, the gold rushes, the Eureka Stockade, the establishment of parliamentary government, and the attempts to unlock the land .


(Paperback)

By: David Hill

ISBN: 9781742751108
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
Publisher: Random House Australia
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(Paperback)

By: Stuart Macintyre

ISBN: 9780522851397
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2004
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Focuses on historians and the history profession. This work not only asks but also answers the questions about writing and researching history such as: How do historians choose their histories What sort of emotional investment do they make in their subjects, and how do they control their sympathies How do they deal with unpalatable discoveries


(Hardback)

By: Frank G. Clarke

ISBN: 9780313314988
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Australia has its foundations in aboriginal history and the white colonial history. Intertwined with this are the impact of colonialism and federalism, indentured servitude and convict transportation, the effects of El Nino on European-style farming, gold rushes, ethnicity and religious tolerance.


(Hardback)

By: Tom Brooking

ISBN: 9780313323560
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The volume includes a timeline of historical events, biographical entries of notable people in the history of New Zealand, a glossary of Maori terms, and a bibliographic essay.

With its closest neighbor some 1,200 miles away, New Zealand is one of the most geographically isolated countries in the world.


(Paperback, Second Edition)

By: Stuart Macintyre

ISBN: 9780522851281
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2004
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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The nation's history is highly politicised. Politicians, journalists, columnists, academics and Australians from all walks of life argue passionately about the significance of the national story. This book explores how this intense public debate has polarised the nation and paralysed history departments.


(Paperback)

By: Hains

ISBN: 9780522850369
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2002
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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A study of how the frontier became etched in the Australian imagination in the early-20th century in the image of folk heroes. It focuses on the mythology surrounding two such heroes - Douglas Mawson, legendary Antarctic explorer, and John Flynn, founder of the outback Flying Doctor Service.


(Paperback)

By: Anna Clark

ISBN: 9780522875423
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Does history provide us with cautionary tales or does it highlight the contested nature of our understanding of the past In The Knowledge Solution, the country's most compelling writers and historians offers insight into the challenging and diverse perspectives of Australia's past, and illuminates how we may better step into the future.


(Paperback)

By: Paul Sinclair

ISBN: 9780522849400
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2001
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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A picture of Australia's major river, the Murray. The focus is on shifts and changes: the heyday of the riverboats and their transformation into a tourist attraction; the decline of the Murray cod; the alteration of flow patterns and species; and the changing fortunes of the river towns.


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By: John Molony

ISBN: 9780522849035
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2000
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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This work tells the story of the first white native-born Australians and their struggle for recognition. Against the odds of contempt, landlessness, lack of education and the stain of convictism, they fought back and shaped Australia.


(Hardback)

By: Alan Levine

ISBN: 9780275951023
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1995
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Nineteen ninety-five is a year of celebration and remembrance of the Axis collapse that signaled the end of the Second World War. Particularly important, then, is this new historical study o the Pacific phase of World War War II that coers not just the military, but also the political side of the war.


(Paperback)

By: Stephen Gray

ISBN: 9781741759914
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Powerful and provocative, this is a beautifully written and very personal search to understand the men who were the protectors of Aboriginal people in Australia's north - their moral ambiguities, their good intentions and the devastating consequences of their decisions.


(Paperback)

By: Iain McCalman

ISBN: 9780143783350
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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