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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'.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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From student radicalism to global expansion, this is the story of Australia's largest and most international university.

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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.

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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. -- .

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The complete and fascinating history of a beloved Sydney institution