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A comprehensive illustrated history of the Australian 9th Division during WWII.

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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.

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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.

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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".

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 .

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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