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Forming a Colonial Economy - Australia 1810-1850 (Paperback): Noel George Butlin Forming a Colonial Economy - Australia 1810-1850 (Paperback)
Noel George Butlin
R1,212 Discovery Miles 12 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This broad-ranging 1995 book provides a comprehensive account of the development of Australia's colonial economy before the gold rushes. Noel Butlin's analysis of the developing economy includes background discussion of eighteenth-century British social, economic, and military history and a detailed demographic analysis of the Australian population over a period of sixty years. He goes on to explore the role of private investment in the economy and the way in which dependence on the British public purse was replaced by dependence on private British capital inflow. A key focus of the book is the extent to which the Australian economy was independent or externally driven, that is, the level of synergism between Australia and Britain. Within this framework, Noel Butlin discusses the central issues of human capital and funding and their impact on the formation of the Australian economy. Forming a Colonial Economy does for the period to the 1840s what Noel Butlin's previous landmark economic histories have done for Australia from the 1860s to the 1890s. It is an ambitious and imaginative book that marks the culmination of a life's work.

The Archaeology of Australia's History (Paperback, New Ed): Graham Connah The Archaeology of Australia's History (Paperback, New Ed)
Graham Connah; Foreword by John Mulvaney; Illustrated by Douglas Hobbs
R1,106 Discovery Miles 11 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The material world of European settlement in Australia has been uncovered not only by historians but by the work of archaeologists as well. These archaeological enquiries have revealed new and direct pictures of the public and private lives of Australians at home and at work. This book, now in paperback, presents the insights gained from such investigations and makes them available to a wide audience. Historical archaeology is broad ranging and this book discusses the first European towns including those settlements that failed, the archaeology of convicts and archaeological evidence of the agricultural, maritime, industrial and manufacturing activities of early Australia. Graham Connah also examines the evidence of earliest external contact, contact between Europeans and Aboriginal people and looks at the diverse cultural forms of modern Australia. The book also suggests ways people can become involved in studying and protecting Australia's historical heritage.

From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima - The Second World War in Asia and the Pacific, 1941-45 (Paperback, 1st ed. 1994): Saki Dockrill From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima - The Second World War in Asia and the Pacific, 1941-45 (Paperback, 1st ed. 1994)
Saki Dockrill
R3,990 Discovery Miles 39 900 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

'The most significant issue that Dockrill addresses is that of how Japan views the war in retrospect, a question which not only tells us a lot about how events were seen in Japan in 1941 but is also, a matter still of importance in contemporary East Asian politics.' Antony Best, London School of Economics This multi-authored work, edited by Saki Dockrill, is an original, unique, and controversial interpretation of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific. Dr Dockrill, the author of Britain's Policy for West German Rearmament, has skilfully converted the proceedings of an international conference held in London into a stimulating and readable account of the Pacific War. This is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the subject.

The Politics of Work - Gender and Labour in Victoria, 1880-1939 (Paperback, Revised): Raelene Frances The Politics of Work - Gender and Labour in Victoria, 1880-1939 (Paperback, Revised)
Raelene Frances
R1,045 Discovery Miles 10 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Australia has a strong tradition of labour historiography, which until recently has been focused on the institutions of the labour movement: trade unions and labour parties. This book shifts the focus back to the workplace and looks at how and why the nature of work changed during the period from the late nineteenth century to World War II. The book focuses on three industries in the state of Victoria: clothing, bootmaking, and printing. Concerned with the complex relationship between economic and technological change, the nature of sexual division in the workforce, and the role of union, employer and state activists, it carefully traces the impact of all of these factors on wage levels for men and women. The treatment of these themes touches on wide historical issues, as we follow the fortunes of Victorian manufacturing, and consider the political strategies of the trade unions of the time and the state's response to them. The study is also an important piece of social history, evoking the nature of work for many Australians of the period.

The Cost of War - War, Return and the Re-Shaping of Australian Culture (Paperback): Stephen Garton The Cost of War - War, Return and the Re-Shaping of Australian Culture (Paperback)
Stephen Garton
R607 Discovery Miles 6 070 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

War has shaped Australian society profoundly. When we commemorate the sacrifices of the Anzacs, we rightly celebrate their bravery, but we do not always acknowledge the complex aftermath of combat.In The Cost of War, Stephen Garton traces the experiences of Australia's veterans, and asks what we can learn from their stories. He considers the long-term effects of war on returned servicemen and women, on their families and communities, and on Australian public life. He describes attempts to respond to the physical and psychological wounds of combat, from the first victims of shellshock during WWI to more recent understandings of post-traumatic stress disorder. And he examines the political and social repercussions of war, including debates over how we should commemorate conflict and how society should respond to the needs of veterans.When the first edition of The Cost of War appeared in 1996, it offered a ground-breaking new perspective on the Anzac experience. In this new edition, Garton again makes a compelling case for a more nuanced understanding of the individual and collective costs of war.

The Anzac Illusion - Anglo-Australian Relations during World War I (Paperback): Eric Montgomery Andrews The Anzac Illusion - Anglo-Australian Relations during World War I (Paperback)
Eric Montgomery Andrews
R1,031 R875 Discovery Miles 8 750 Save R156 (15%) Ships in 10 - 17 working days

The myth of Anzac has been one of Australia's most enduring. The belief in the superior fighting qualities of Australia's soldiers in the First World War is part of the national consciousness, and the much touted 'special' relationship between Britain and Australia during the war accepted as fact. This provocative and wide-ranging book is a reassessment of Australia's role in World War I and its relations - military, economic, political and psychological - with Britain. Eric Andrews shows that it suited all parties to propagate the myth of Anzac for their own purposes. It was widely assumed that Britain and Australia were countries with similar interests united by Empire. The book considers this assumption in the light of Australia's actual military experience in the War and finds that it was false. It also discusses the impact of the War on the Australian attitude to Empire. The book is a fresh - and at times controversial - consideration of issues of abiding interest and significance.

The Rule of Law in a Penal Colony - Law and Politics in Early New South Wales (Hardcover): David Neal The Rule of Law in a Penal Colony - Law and Politics in Early New South Wales (Hardcover)
David Neal
R2,630 Discovery Miles 26 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ironically, the first civil case to be heard in Australia occurred at the behest of two convicts under sentence. Of course, convicts had first-hand experience of criminal law, but all the settlers were part of a culture which emphasised the rule of law as the guarantee of its fundamental political value, British liberty. This book, written by a lawyer and unique for its perspective based in both legal and social history, illuminates the important role played by the concept of the rule of law in the transformation of New South Wales from a penal colony to a free society. Dr Neal lucidly outlines the interaction between law and politics in early New South Wales and shows that because there were no official political structures, the courts served as a de facto parliament and a means of political expression.

Hoarding New Guinea - Writing Colonial Ethnographic Collection Histories for Postcolonial Futures (Hardcover): Rainer F.... Hoarding New Guinea - Writing Colonial Ethnographic Collection Histories for Postcolonial Futures (Hardcover)
Rainer F. Buschmann
R1,540 Discovery Miles 15 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Hoarding New Guinea provides a new cultural history of colonialism that pays close attention to the millions of Indigenous artifacts that serve as witnesses to Europe's colonial past in ethnographic museums. Rainer F. Buschmann investigates the roughly two hundred thousand artifacts extracted from the colony of German New Guinea from 1870 to 1920. Reversing the typical trajectories that place ethnographic museums at the center of the analysis, he concludes that museum interests in material culture alone cannot account for the large quantities of extracted artifacts. Buschmann moves beyond the easy definition of artifacts as trophies of colonial defeat or religious conversion, instead employing the term hoarding to describe the irrational amassing of Indigenous artifacts by European colonial residents. Buschmann also highlights Indigenous material culture as a bargaining chip for its producers to engage with the imposed colonial regime. In addition, by centering an area of collection rather than an institution, he opens new areas of investigation that include non-professional ethnographic collectors and a sustained rather than superficial consideration of Indigenous peoples as producers behind the material culture. Hoarding New Guinea answers the call for a more significant historical focus on colonial ethnographic collections in European museums.

The Origins of Australia's Capital Cities (Paperback, Revised): Pamela Statham The Origins of Australia's Capital Cities (Paperback, Revised)
Pamela Statham
R1,346 Discovery Miles 13 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Origins of Australia's Capital Cities is a comprehensive survey, well illustrated with maps and plans, which aims to answer two questions. First, why Australia's eight capital cities are situated where they are, and second, how they were established. Pairs of chapters on each of the State capitals - Sydney, Hobart, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane - are accompanied by studies of Canberra as the federal capital and Darwin as a territorial capital. A capital is the administrative centre of a political entity, and in Australia, unlike many overseas countries, a uniquely high proportion of the population resides in the capitals. Companion chapters examine the causes of initial European settlement in each area, and reasons for the actual establishment of each capital city. Attention is given to such topics as planning and layout, the basis of growth, potential rivals, the social nature of the cities and the nature of their spread. While there have been no other volume covering all the capitals to seek answers to the same basic questions. This will therefore be an invaluable source book, and provide a stimulus to further enquiry in the social history of Australia. An introduction by the editor pulls together the general strands which link the chapters, and highlights the ways in which the Australian experience contrasts with the urban experience overseas.

Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon (Esprios Classics) (Paperback): George B. Worgan Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon (Esprios Classics) (Paperback)
George B. Worgan
R479 R436 Discovery Miles 4 360 Save R43 (9%) Ships in 10 - 17 working days
The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842-1940 (Paperback, 1st ed. 1990): Robert Aldrich The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842-1940 (Paperback, 1st ed. 1990)
Robert Aldrich
R1,417 Discovery Miles 14 170 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

An examination of France's presence in the South Pacific after the takeover of Tahiti. It places the South Pacific in the context of overall French expansion and current theories of colonialism and imperialism and evaluates the French impact on Oceania.

Islands, Islanders and the World - The Colonial and Post-colonial Experience of Eastern Fiji (Hardcover, New): Tim... Islands, Islanders and the World - The Colonial and Post-colonial Experience of Eastern Fiji (Hardcover, New)
Tim Bayliss-Smith, Richard Bedford, Harold Brookfield, Marc Latham
R3,210 Discovery Miles 32 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Fiji is a country whose recent political instability can be directly traced to its distinctive colonial and post-colonial experience. For one particular region of Fiji the authors examine the environmental, social and economic aspects of this experience, at scales ranging from national and regional to island, village and household. Discussions in Third World geography, regional economics and development planning have been full of rhetoric about 'underdevelopment', 'centre-periphery relations' and 'dependency', but seldom are the actual processes which give rise to these phenomena examined in detail. In this book the authors explore in depth the interrelations between the island landscape, the cultural geography of the islanders and the intrusive values and opportunities of the market economy. Some important lessons are to be learnt from the gap between what might be predicted from abstract theories of development and what is actually happening in the real world of politicians, planners, farmers and fishermen.

Social Welfare, 1850-1950 - Australia, Argentina and Canada Compared (Paperback, 1st ed. 1989): Desmond Christopher St.Martin... Social Welfare, 1850-1950 - Australia, Argentina and Canada Compared (Paperback, 1st ed. 1989)
Desmond Christopher St.Martin Platt
R1,491 Discovery Miles 14 910 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

This historical study of the development of social welfare systems in divergent countries draws on a variety of essays to examine the work of each country in turn, followed by a comparison of all three and an examination of social experiments in regions of recent settlement.

Prehistory in the Pacific Islands (Paperback, Revised): John E. Terrell Prehistory in the Pacific Islands (Paperback, Revised)
John E. Terrell
R1,230 Discovery Miles 12 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How, asks John Terrell in this richly illustrated and original book, can we best account for the remarkable diversity of the Pacific Islanders in biology, language, and custom? Traditionally scholars have recognized a simple racial division between Polynesians, Micronesians, Melanesians, Australians, and South-east Asians: peoples allegedly differing in physical appearance, temperament, achievements, and perhaps even intelligence. Terrell shows that such simple divisions do not fit the known facts and provide little more than a crude, static picture of human diversity.

Our First Foreign War - The impact of the South African War 1899-1902 on New Zealand (Paperback): Nigel Robson Our First Foreign War - The impact of the South African War 1899-1902 on New Zealand (Paperback)
Nigel Robson
R993 Discovery Miles 9 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Limits of Location - Creating a Colony (Paperback): Gretchen Poiner, Sybil Jack Limits of Location - Creating a Colony (Paperback)
Gretchen Poiner, Sybil Jack
R1,026 Discovery Miles 10 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1826, partly as a means of curbing disorder and brutality in bush living, Governor Darling established the area known as the 'limits of location' within which colonists could see land grants, but beyond which they could not. The line on the map, however, presented no real restraint. The contributors to this book reveal different approaches to creating a colony. Using the rich collections of the Mitchell Library, the authors go beyond the traditional sources of history, highlighting the personal stories revealed through family letters, and creative interaction with the landscape through poetry and drawings. The roles of Aborigines, missionaries, women and migrant workers are explored, and all stories return to the way the newcomers created a sense of place as they settled in this new world. This publication is supported by the NSW Chapter of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia.

The Pretender of Pitcairn Island - Joshua W. Hill - The Man Who Would Be King Among the Bounty Mutineers (Hardcover): Tillman... The Pretender of Pitcairn Island - Joshua W. Hill - The Man Who Would Be King Among the Bounty Mutineers (Hardcover)
Tillman W. Nechtman
R2,427 Discovery Miles 24 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Pitcairn, a tiny Pacific island that was refuge to the mutineers of HMAV Bounty and home to their descendants, later became the stage on which one imposter played out his influential vision for British control over the nineteenth-century Pacific Ocean. Joshua W. Hill arrived on Pitcairn in 1832 and began his fraudulent half-decade rule that has, until now, been swept aside as an idiosyncratic moment in the larger saga of Fletcher Christian's mutiny against Captain Bligh, and the mutineers' unlikely settlement of Pitcairn. Here, Hill is shown instead as someone alert to the full scope and power of the British Empire, to the geopolitics of international imperial competition, to the ins and outs of naval command, the vicissitudes of court politics, and, as such, to Pitcairn's symbolic power for the British Empire more broadly.

Respectable Radicals - A history of the National Council of Women in Australia, 1896 - 2006 (Paperback): Marion Quartly, Judith... Respectable Radicals - A history of the National Council of Women in Australia, 1896 - 2006 (Paperback)
Marion Quartly, Judith Smart
R894 R735 Discovery Miles 7 350 Save R159 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Native Tribes of Central Australia (Paperback): Baldwin Spencer, Francis J Gillen The Native Tribes of Central Australia (Paperback)
Baldwin Spencer, Francis J Gillen
R1,525 Discovery Miles 15 250 Ships in 10 - 17 working days
Medical Officers and Dispensers in the Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate, 1841-1849 (Paperback): Ian D. Clark Medical Officers and Dispensers in the Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate, 1841-1849 (Paperback)
Ian D. Clark
R415 Discovery Miles 4 150 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
One Day That Shook the Communist World - The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its Legacy (Hardcover): Paul Lendvai One Day That Shook the Communist World - The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its Legacy (Hardcover)
Paul Lendvai; Translated by Ann Major
R636 R592 Discovery Miles 5 920 Save R44 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On October 23, 1956, a popular uprising against Soviet rule swept through Hungary like a force of nature, only to be mercilessly crushed by Soviet tanks twelve days later. Only now, fifty years after those harrowing events, can the full story be told. This book is a powerful eyewitness account and a gripping history of the uprising in Hungary that heralded the future liberation of Eastern Europe.

Paul Lendvai was a young journalist covering politics in Hungary when the uprising broke out. He knew the government officials and revolutionaries involved. He was on the front lines of the student protests and the bloody street fights and he saw the revolutionary government smashed by the Red Army. In this riveting, deeply personal, and often irreverent book, Lendvai weaves his own experiences with in-depth reportage to unravel the complex chain of events leading up to and including the uprising, its brutal suppression, and its far-reaching political repercussions in Hungary and neighboring Eastern Bloc countries. He draws upon exclusive interviews with Russian and former KGB officials, survivors of the Soviet backlash, and relatives of those executed. He reveals new evidence from closed tribunals and documents kept secret in Soviet and Hungarian archives. Lendvai's breathtaking narrative shows how the uprising, while tragic, delivered a stunning blow to Communism that helped to ultimately bring about its demise.

"One Day That Shook the Communist World" is the best account of these unprecedented events.

USN Destroyer vs IJN Destroyer - The Pacific 1943 (Paperback): Mark Stille USN Destroyer vs IJN Destroyer - The Pacific 1943 (Paperback)
Mark Stille; Illustrated by Ian Palmer, Giuseppe Rava
R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book covers the fierce night naval battles fought between the US Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy during late 1943 as the Allies advanced slowly up the Solomons Islands toward the major Japanese naval base at Rabaul. During this period, several vicious actions were fought featuring the most modern destroyers of both navies. Throughout most of 1942, the Imperial Navy had held a marked edge and a key ingredient of these successes was their destroyer force, which combined superior training and tactics with the most capable torpedo in the world. Even into 1943 mixed Allied light cruiser/destroyer forces were roughly handled by Japanese destroyers. After these battles, the Americans decided to stop chasing Japanese destroyers with cruisers so the remainder of the battles in 1943 (with one exception) were classic destroyer duels. The Americans still enjoyed the technical edge provided to them by radar, and now added new, more aggressive tactics. The final result was the defeat of the Imperial Navy's finely trained destroyer force and the demonstration that the Japanese were unable to stop the Allies' advance.

Broken Decade - Prosperity, Depression & Recovery in New Zealand, 1928-39 (Paperback): Malcolm McKinnon Broken Decade - Prosperity, Depression & Recovery in New Zealand, 1928-39 (Paperback)
Malcolm McKinnon
R669 Discovery Miles 6 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Politics of the Common Good - Dispossession in Australia (Paperback): Jane R. Goodall The Politics of the Common Good - Dispossession in Australia (Paperback)
Jane R. Goodall
R752 Discovery Miles 7 520 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

'The Earth is a Common Treasury', proclaimed the English Revolutionaries in the 1640s. Does the principle of the commons offer us ways to respond now to the increasingly destructive effects of neoliberalism? With insight, passion and an eye on history, Jane Goodall argues that as the ravages of neo-liberalism tear ever more deeply into the social fabric, the principle of the commons should be restored to the heart of our politics. She looks in particular at land and public institutions in Australia and elsewhere. Many ordinary citizens seem prepared to support governments that increase national debt while selling off publicly owned assets and cutting back on services. In developed countries, extreme poverty is becoming widespread yet we are told we have never been so prosperous. This important book calls for a radically different kind of economy, one that will truly serve the common good. Topical and constructive - this book argues for the restoration of the principle of the commons as a way of reclaiming the social fabric from the ravages of neo-liberalism Questions why so many citizens support governments that increase national debt while selling off publicly owned assets Asks how and why our political culture and economic policies have become so hostile to communal resources and public ownership Has an eye on the history of the commons as well as those who advocate for it in a modern form: Bill Shorten and Sally McManus for example in Australia; Jeremy Corbyn in the UK and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the US.

Tribal Papuan Freedom Fighters - Crisis Balanced Precariously: Human Rights Situation In West Papua (Paperback): Ruthann Benje Tribal Papuan Freedom Fighters - Crisis Balanced Precariously: Human Rights Situation In West Papua (Paperback)
Ruthann Benje
R313 Discovery Miles 3 130 Ships in 10 - 17 working days
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