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By: Paul Moon

ISBN: 9781350116641
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Graeme Davison

ISBN: 9780522851236
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2004
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Looks beyond public events to discover how the experience of boom and depression touched the lives of ordinary Melbournians, at work and at home, and reshaped their society and their sense of urban identity. This work examines Melbourne, among the surburbanised of nineteenth-century cities, in its pursuit of 'suburbanism as a way of life'.


(Paperback)

By: Grace Karskens

ISBN: 9780522848441
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1994
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Winner of the NSW Premier's Award for nonfiction 1997. Shows the Rocks as a place very different from the usual images of a brutal colony. Showing rather a preindustrial town, a face-to-face society, marked more by movement and opportunity than coercion, discipline and punishment. Hardcover ISBN 0522847226 $34.95.


(Paperback)

By: Graham Seal

ISBN: 9781760111076
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Remarkable stories from the dangerous early voyages to Australia - long before Captain Cook claimed it for the English - reveal a very different history than the triumphal British version we learnt at school.


(Paperback)

By: John Connor

ISBN: 9781742234748
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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There are also the individuals who shaped the history of the Australian Army in the 20th century, as intellectuals, strategists and administrators, who are largely invisible in popular memory. The Shadow Men brings together some of Australia's best military historians to shed light on ten of these men and to bring their achievements and influence into the foreground.


(Paperback)

By: Michael McKernan

ISBN: 9781741754452
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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A compelling and passionate account of Australians in World War II, both on the home front and on the battle fronts.


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By: Paul Terry

ISBN: 9781760110871
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Using science, history and family lore to unearth a new understanding of how a legend was made this is the full story of the most famous siege in Australian history - the man and the myth; the people great and small.


(Paperback)

By: Cal Flyn

ISBN: 9781460750506
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Graeme Davison

ISBN: 9781742378664
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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From student radicalism to global expansion, this is the story of Australia's largest and most international university.


(Paperback)

By: Gordon L. Rottman

ISBN: 9781841766515
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The year 1944 saw a great deal of Marine Corps activity. The early defeats suffered by America in the Pacific were past; the pivotal naval battle for Midway had been won, and the Solomon Islands had fallen once again to the Allies.


(Hardback)

By: Peter Hobbins

ISBN: 9781526101440
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Presents a radically new view of the role of science and scientific methodology in the colonies. It explores the role of snakes, snakebite and snake venom in the emerging science of nineteenth-century Australia and India, the neglected significance of inter-colony exchanges and conflicts and the importance of vivisection to science. -- .


(Paperback)

By: A. G. L. Shaw

ISBN: 9780049090262
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1986
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Victoria's 150th anniversary celebrations have put the spotlight on the state, and on its cultural and environmental development. In Victoria's Heritage, leading historians survey that development across a number of important areas including literature, painting, environmental control, drama and architecture.


(Paperback)

By: Fiona Farrell

ISBN: 9781775537519
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Random House New Zealand Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Danny Keenan

ISBN: 9780143774938
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: Penguin Group (NZ)
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(Paperback)

By: Stuart Macintyre

ISBN: 9780522851748
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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In the same vein as the Robert Cowley book on British hypothetical histories, What if asks the same questions about Australia's past. Leading Australian historians including Stuart Macintyre, presents counterfactual history.


(Paperback)

By: Patricia Crawford

ISBN: 9780522849080
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 1997
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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An exploration of what it means to be a female citizen in Australia. The authors show how women from different backgrounds, have, over centuries, rewritten their own citizenship. They argue that the legacies of these historical debates underlie understandings of modern Australian citizenship.


(Hardback)

By: Kevin Hutchison

ISBN: 9780313291302
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1994
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This work provides day-to-day records, from August 1943 to September 1945, covering a third of the Pacific war. It reveals the activities of the Allies; identifies the location and activities of the various units, their landings, and battles; and gives information about prisoners of war.


(Hardback)

By: Gordon Rottman

ISBN: 9780313313950
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Covering the Pacific islands involved in World War II military operations, this book looks at geo-military aspects of the Pacific Theatre. The entries are arranged regionally and detail the island names, code names, location and wartime time zones, along with the island's physical characteristics.


(Paperback)

By: Hardy Spoehr

ISBN: 9798350944532
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: BookBaby
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This book traces the history of bagpipes, bagpipers, and pipe bands in Hawai`i with accounts of Hawai`i's King David Kalakaua's Visit to Scotland and the relationships between the Hawaiian and British Monarchies.


(Hardback)

By: Tony Abbott

ISBN: 9781460768297
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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(Paperback)

By: Graham Seal

ISBN: 9781761472107
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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Australia's master storyteller uncovers stories of hauntings and uncanny events in the bush and in our towns - and maybe in your own neighbourhood too.


(Paperback)

By: David Riley

ISBN: 9781923352117
Publication Date: Oct 2025
Publisher: Signs Publishing Company
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(Paperback)

By: Ann McGrath

ISBN: 9781761170300
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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In Deep History: Country and Sovereignty, edited by Jackie Huggins and Ann McGrath, leading historians and thinkers explore the First Nations histories of caring for places and people over millennia.


(Hardback)

By: John Faulkner

ISBN: 9781761470677
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The complete and fascinating history of a beloved Sydney institution

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