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The Home Front - New Zealand Society and the War Effort 1914-1919 (Hardcover): James Watson, Steven Loveridge The Home Front - New Zealand Society and the War Effort 1914-1919 (Hardcover)
James Watson, Steven Loveridge
R1,097 Discovery Miles 10 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Camera in the Crowd - Filming New Zealand in Peace and War, 1895-1920 (Hardcover): Christopher Pugsley The Camera in the Crowd - Filming New Zealand in Peace and War, 1895-1920 (Hardcover)
Christopher Pugsley
R1,741 R1,396 Discovery Miles 13 960 Save R345 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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 18 - 22 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 18 - 22 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.

Introducing Maori Culture (Paperback): Don Stafford Introducing Maori Culture (Paperback)
Don Stafford
R577 Discovery Miles 5 770 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

- When was Aotearoa discovered? - How was Maori society organised in pre-European times? - What is traditional Maori art? - How does the Treaty of Waitangi affect us today? History and culture, from the great Polynesian migration to present-day sport and politics, are explored in this introduction to the world of the Maori.

Horror In The East (Paperback): Laurence Rees Horror In The East (Paperback)
Laurence Rees 1
R367 R332 Discovery Miles 3 320 Save R35 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The question is as searing as it is fundamental to the continuing debate over Japanese culpability in World War II and the period leading up to it: "How could Japanese soldiers have committed such acts of violence against Allied prisoners of war and Chinese civilians?" During the First World War, the Japanese fought on the side of the Allies and treated German POWs with respect and civility. In the years that followed, under Emperor Hirohito, conformity was the norm and the Japanese psyche became one of selfless devotion to country and emperor; soon Japanese soldiers were to engage in mass murder, rape, and even cannibalization of their enemies. Horror in the East examines how this drastic change came about. On the basis of never-before-published interviews with both the victimizers and the victimized, and drawing on never-before-revealed or long-ignored archival records, Rees discloses the full horror of the war in the Pacific, probing the supposed Japanese belief in their own racial superiority, analyzing a military that believed suicide to be more honorable than surrender, and providing what the Guardian calls "a powerful, harrowing account of appalling inhumanity...impeccably researched."

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 18 - 22 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.

The Innocent Crusaders - An ANZAC Story (Paperback, Annotated edition): William S Degaris The Innocent Crusaders - An ANZAC Story (Paperback, Annotated edition)
William S Degaris
R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Ships in 18 - 22 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 18 - 22 working days
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 18 - 22 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 Pacific (The Official HBO/Sky TV Tie-In) (Paperback, Main): Hugh Ambrose The Pacific (The Official HBO/Sky TV Tie-In) (Paperback, Main)
Hugh Ambrose 1
R495 R451 Discovery Miles 4 510 Save R44 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In this companion to the HBO(r) miniseries-executive produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman-Hugh Ambrose reveals the intertwined odysseys of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot during World War II.
Between America's retreat from China in late November 1941 and the moment General MacArthur's airplane touched down on the Japanese mainland in August of 1945, five men connected by happenstance fought the key battles of the war against Japan. From the debacle in Bataan, to the miracle at Midway and the relentless vortex of Guadalcanal, their solemn oaths to their country later led one to the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot and the others to the coral strongholds of Peleliu, the black terraces of Iwo Jima and the killing fields of Okinawa, until at last the survivors enjoyed a triumphant, yet uneasy, return home.
In "The Pacific," Hugh Ambrose focuses on the real-life stories of the five men who put their lives on the line for our country. To deepen the story revealed in the miniseries and go beyond it, the book dares to chart a great ocean of enmity known as The Pacific and the brave men who fought. Some considered war a profession, others enlisted as citizen soldiers. Each man served in a different part of the war, but their respective duties required every ounce of their courage and their strength to defeat an enemy who preferred suicide to surrender. The medals for valor which were pinned on three of them came at a shocking price-a price paid in full by all.

Kokoda (Paperback): Paul Ham Kokoda (Paperback)
Paul Ham
R795 Discovery Miles 7 950 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

For the first time ever, the compelling story of the infamous Kokoda Track campaign has been told from both sides of the conflict. In a unique and balanced portrayal, renowned journalist Paul Ham recounts both the Australian and Japanese perspectives of the events on the hellish Papuan jungle trail where thousands fought and died during World War II. Based on extensive research in Australia and Japan, and including previously unpublished documents, Kokoda intimately relates the stories of ordinary soldiers in 'the world's worst killing field', and examines the role of commanders in sending ill-equipped, unqualified Australian troops into battles that resulted in near 100 per cent casualty rates. It was a war without mercy, fought back and forth along 90 miles (145 km) of river crossings, steep inclines and precipitous descents, with both sides wracked by hunger and disease, and terrified of falling into enemy hands. Defeat was unthinkable: the Australian soldier was fighting for his homeland against an unyielding aggressor; the Japanese ordered to fight to the death in a bid to conquer 'Greater East Asia'. Paul Ham captures the spirits of those soldiers and commanders who clashed in this war of exceptional savagery, and tells of the brave souls on both sides of the campaign whose courage and sacrifices must never be forgotten.

The Wentworth Lectures - Honouring fifty years of Australian Indigenous Studies (Paperback): Robert Tonkinson The Wentworth Lectures - Honouring fifty years of Australian Indigenous Studies (Paperback)
Robert Tonkinson
R884 R725 Discovery Miles 7 250 Save R159 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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
R790 Discovery Miles 7 900 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
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 18 - 22 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 18 - 22 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.

New Zealand's Naval - Story About Adventure Of Naval In New Zealand: Heroism And Struggle Of Naval In New Zealand... New Zealand's Naval - Story About Adventure Of Naval In New Zealand: Heroism And Struggle Of Naval In New Zealand (Paperback)
Shane Gonzalis
R322 Discovery Miles 3 220 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Australia and the World - A Festschrift for Neville Meaney (Paperback): Joan Beaumont, Matthew Jordan Australia and the World - A Festschrift for Neville Meaney (Paperback)
Joan Beaumont, Matthew Jordan; Foreword by Dennis Richardson
R609 Discovery Miles 6 090 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Australia and the World celebrates the pioneering role of Neville Meaney in the formation and development of foreign relations history in Australia and his profound influence on its study, teaching and application.The contributors to the volume - historians, practitioners of foreign relations and political commentators, many of whom were taught by Meaney at the University of Sydney over the years - focus especially on the interaction between geopolitics, culture and ideology in shaping Australian and American approaches to the world.Individual chapters examine a number of major themes informing Neville Meaney's work, including the sources and nature of Australia's British identity; the hapless, if dedicated, efforts of Australian politicians, public servants and intellectuals to reconcile this intense cultural identity with Australia's strategic anxieties in the Asia-Pacific region; and the sense of trauma created when the myth of 'Britishness' collapsed under the weight of new historical circumstances in the 1960s. They survey relations between Australia and the United States in the years after World War Two. Finally, they assess the US perceptions of itself as an 'exceptional' nation with a mission to spread democracy and liberty to the wider world and the way in which this self-perception has influenced its behaviour in international affairs.

A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories - Ten Design Principles (Hardcover): Matt K. Matsuda A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories - Ten Design Principles (Hardcover)
Matt K. Matsuda
R2,870 Discovery Miles 28 700 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching Pacific histories for the first time or for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses. It can also serve those who are training future teachers to prepare their own syllabi, as well as teachers who want to incorporate Pacific histories into their world history courses. Matt K. Matsuda offers design principles for creating syllabi that will help students navigate a wide range of topics, from settler colonialism, national liberation, and warfare to tourism, popular culture, and identity. He also discusses practical pedagogical techniques and tips, project-based assignments, digital resources, and how Pacific approaches to teaching history differ from customary Western practices. Placing the Pacific Islands at the center of analysis, Matsuda draws readers into the process of strategically designing courses that will challenge students to think critically about the interconnected histories of East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, the Pacific Islands, and the Americas within a global framework.

The Mo'olelo Hawai'i of Davida Malo Volume 2 - Hawaiian Text and Translation (Hardcover): Davida Malo The Mo'olelo Hawai'i of Davida Malo Volume 2 - Hawaiian Text and Translation (Hardcover)
Davida Malo; Edited by Charles Langlas; Translated by Charles Langlas; Commentary by Charles Langlas; Edited by Jeffrey Lyon; Translated by …
R1,745 Discovery Miles 17 450 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Davida Malo's Mo'olelo Hawai'i is the single most important description of pre-Christian Hawaiian culture. Malo, born in 1795, twenty-five years before the coming of Christianity to Hawai'i, wrote about everything from traditional cosmology and accounts of ancestral chiefs to religion and government to traditional amusements. The heart of this two-volume work is a new, critically edited text of Malo's original Hawaiian, including the manuscript known as the "Carter copy," handwritten by him and two helpers in the decade before his death in 1853. Volume 1 provides images of the original text, side by side with the new edited text. Volume 2 presents the edited Hawaiian text side by side with a new annotated English translation. Malo's text has been edited at two levels. First, the Hawaiian has been edited through a careful comparison of all the extant manuscripts, attempting to restore Malo's original text, with explanations of the editing choices given in the footnotes. Second, the orthography of the Hawaiian text has been modernized to help today's readers of Hawaiian by adding diacritical marks ('okina and kahako, or glottal stop and macron, respectively) and the punctuation has been revised to signal the end of clauses and sentences. The new English translation attempts to remain faithful to the edited Hawaiian text while avoiding awkwardness in the English. Both volumes contain substantial introductions. The introduction to Volume 1 (in Hawaiian) discusses the manuscripts of Malo's text and their history. The introduction to Volume 2 contains two essays that provide context to help the reader understand Malo's Moolelo Hawaii. "Understanding Malo's Moolelo Hawaii" describes the nature of Malo's work, showing that it is the result of his dual Hawaiian and Western education. "The Writing of the Moolelo Hawaii" discusses how the Carter copy was written and preserved, its relationship to other versions of the text, and Malo's plan for the work as a whole. The introduction is followed by a new biography of Malo by Kanaka Maoli historian Noelani Arista, "Davida Malo, a Hawaiian Life," describing his life as a chiefly counselor and Hawaiian intellectual.

Tooth and Veil - The life and times of the New Zealand dental nurse (Paperback): Noel O'Hare Tooth and Veil - The life and times of the New Zealand dental nurse (Paperback)
Noel O'Hare
R916 Discovery Miles 9 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean 2 Volume Hardback Set (Hardcover): Paul D'Arcy The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean 2 Volume Hardback Set (Hardcover)
Paul D'Arcy; Edited by Ryan Tucker Jones, Matt K. Matsuda, Anne Perez Hattori, Jane Samson
R6,808 R6,263 Discovery Miles 62 630 Save R545 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

These volumes present a comprehensive survey of the history of the Pacific Ocean, an area making up around one third of the Earth's surface, from initial human colonization to the present day. Reflecting a wide range of cultural and disciplinary perspectives, this two-volume work details different ways of telling and viewing history in a Pacific world of exceptionally diverse cultural traditions, over time spans that require multidisciplinary and multicultural collaborative perspectives. The central importance of nations touched by the Pacific in contemporary world affairs cannot be understood without recourse to the deep history of interactions on and across the Pacific. In reflecting the diversity and dynamism of the societies of this blue hemisphere, these volumes seek to enhance world histories and broaden readers' perspectives on forms of historical knowledge and expression. Volume I explores the history of the Pacific Ocean pre-1800 and Volume II examines the period from 1800 to the present day.

Progressive New World - How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform (Hardcover): Marilyn Lake Progressive New World - How Settler Colonialism and Transpacific Exchange Shaped American Reform (Hardcover)
Marilyn Lake
R1,220 Discovery Miles 12 200 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The paradox of progressivism continues to fascinate more than one hundred years on. Democratic but elitist, emancipatory but coercive, advanced and assimilationist, Progressivism was defined by its contradictions. In a bold new argument, Marilyn Lake points to the significance of turn-of-the-twentieth-century exchanges between American and Australasian reformers who shared racial sensibilities, along with a commitment to forging an ideal social order. Progressive New World demonstrates that race and reform were mutually supportive as Progressivism became the political logic of settler colonialism. White settlers in the United States, who saw themselves as path-breakers and pioneers, were inspired by the state experiments of Australia and New Zealand that helped shape their commitment to an active state, women's and workers' rights, mothers' pensions, and child welfare. Both settler societies defined themselves as New World, against Old World feudal and aristocratic societies and Indigenous peoples deemed backward and primitive. In conversations, conferences, correspondence, and collaboration, transpacific networks were animated by a sense of racial kinship and investment in social justice. While "Asiatics" and "Blacks" would be excluded, segregated, or deported, Indians and Aborigines would be assimilated or absorbed. The political mobilizations of Indigenous progressives-in the Society of American Indians and the Australian Aborigines' Progressive Association-testified to the power of Progressive thought but also to its repressive underpinnings. Burdened by the legacies of dispossession and displacement, Indigenous reformers sought recognition and redress in differently imagined new worlds and thus redefined the meaning of Progressivism itself.

Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All - A New Zealand Story (Paperback): Christina Thompson Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All - A New Zealand Story (Paperback)
Christina Thompson
R459 Discovery Miles 4 590 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"A multilayered, highly informative and insightful book that blends memoir, historical and travel narrative...vivid and meticulously researched."--"San Francisco Chronicle

"In this involving, compassionate memoir, Christina Thompson tells the story of her romance and eventual marriage to a Maori man, interspersing it with a narrative history of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand.

The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics (Hardcover): Jenny M. Lewis, Anne Tiernan The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics (Hardcover)
Jenny M. Lewis, Anne Tiernan
R5,010 Discovery Miles 50 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics is a comprehensive collection that considers Australia's distinctive politics- both ancient and modern- at all levels and across many themes. It examines the factors that make Australian politics unique and interesting, while firmly placing these in the context of the nation's Indigenous and imported heritage and global engagement. The book presents an account of Australian politics that recognizes and celebrates its inherent diversity by taking a thematic approach in six parts. The first theme addresses Australia's unique inheritances, examining the development of its political culture in relation to the arrival of British colonists and their conflicts with First Nations peoples, as well as the resulting geopolitics. The second theme, improvization, focuses on Australia's political institutions and how they have evolved. Place-making is then considered to assess how geography, distance, Indigenous presence, and migration shape Australian politics. Recurrent dilemmas centres on a range of complex, political problems and their influence on contemporary political practice. Politics, policy, and public administration covers how Australia has been a world leader in some respects, and a laggard in others, when dealing with important policy challenges. The final theme, studying Australian politics, introduces some key areas in the study of Australian politics and identifies the strengths and shortcomings of the discipline. The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics is an opportunity for others to consider the nation's unique politics from the perspective of leading and emerging scholars, and to gain a strong sense of its imperfections, its enduring challenges, and its strengths.

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