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The first of three volumes in the award winning series The Europeans in Australia, available together for the first time, gives an account of early settlement by Britain that began during the 1780s, a decade of extraordinary creativity and the climax of the European Enlightenment.

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This is the third and final volume of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia that gives an account of settlement by Britain. It tells of the various ways in which that experience shaped imagination and belief among the settler people from the eighteenth century to the end of World War I.

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During the period from around 1815 to the early 1870s Australia began to find its place. The pace of colonial expansion accelerated while a kind of democracy emerged. More than a story of geography and politics, this title describes the way people thought and felt - what drove them, what troubled them.

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In this original and highly illustrated book Jane Lydon uses photography to tell the story of the struggle for Aboriginal rights in Australia. While many of the images are shocking, the book tells the positive story of the way in which photography has been used as a tool for change and as recognition of our shared humanity.

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Blunders, stuff-ups and misjudgements are a part of any country's history. Dwelling on what might have been isn't always helpful, but recognising our mistakes and learning from them is important. This book attempts to do just that. It explores many stories, scenarios and situations. It is an account of where we might have got it wrong.

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1860. An Aboriginal labourer named Jim Crow is led to the scaffold of the Maitland Gaol in colonial New South Wales. Among the onlookers is the Scotsman AS Hamilton, who will take bizarre steps in the aftermath of the execution to exhume this young man's skull. Hamilton is a lecturer who travels the Australian colonies teaching phrenology, a popula

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Includes 'The Vagabond in Virginia' by Robert G. Flippen and 'The Vagabond in New Caledonia' by Willa McDonald.

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Based on the diaries of district pioneers that forged open the Gippsland country, They Came to a Rainforest is a novel with Australian heart. In the 1870s, bush pioneers Miles and Maggie Ford established their freehold Rock Allen in the lush Gippsland rainforest, with a wilful determination to both work with the land and make it work for them.

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'If only', 'what if' and 'why didn't we' are are phrases that often come to mind when we look back to the past. This exciting and stimulating book looks back at turning points and crucial moments in Australian history.

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"First published as Bali profile: people, events, circumstances (1001-1976) by American Universities Field Staff, New York, 1976; first Periplus edition as Bali chronicles, 2004"--Colophon.

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This is a guide to the Vietnam war that Australia fought and provides a good overview of the events that unfolded over ten years.

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Eureka Stockade: A ferocious and bloody battle, is the epic account of the battle for the Eureka Stockade, an iconic moment in Australian history. This book, for the first time, examines in great detail the actual military events that unfolded during the twenty minutes of deadly fighting at Eureka.

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Offers a look at Australia's Third Mainland Settlement, 1793-1802. This book discusses about Australia's beginnings, and about the third mainland settlement which grew at the River Hawkesbury. It deals with controversial themes, including the meeting of Indigenous and European cultures, and the results of the influence of the French Revolution.

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The Maori canoes arrived to a precarious landscape, prone to tectonic upheaval, earthquakes, landslides, volcanic activity and tsunami. This book presents a study of the effects of these catastrophic events on the New Zealand coastal landscape and its people from the time of first Polynesian settlement until the sixteenth century.

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The book is a comprehensive, up-to-date, authoritative but readable account of Tongan society from its origins 3000 years ago to the present. It discusses its archaeology, the development of traditional society, and the transition of that society to modernity. Social change, economic development and political change are dominant themes.

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Using letters between soldiers and their loved ones, parents, sweethearts, wives or children, this book traces the emotional and psychological ways by which New Zealanders made sense of the upheavals of war.

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A tribute to the invaluable role John Dunmore played in advancing the historical knowledge of, and scholarly interest in the region, this collection celebrates the work of a man who was raised in France and Britain, emigrated to New Zealand in 1950, and pursued a distinguished career as academic, publisher, and writer.

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