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Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939-45 - Queer Identities in Australia in the Second World War (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015):... Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939-45 - Queer Identities in Australia in the Second World War (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Yorick Smaal
R3,091 Discovery Miles 30 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939-45 explores the queer dynamics of war across Australia and forward bases in the south seas. It examines relationships involving Allied servicemen, civilians and between the legal and medical fraternities that sought to regulate and contain expressions of homosex in and out of the forces.

Sea Edge - Where the Waitemata Meets Auckland (Hardcover): Bob Harvey Sea Edge - Where the Waitemata Meets Auckland (Hardcover)
Bob Harvey
R1,334 Discovery Miles 13 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
False Start in Paradise - Cook Islands Self-government (Hardcover): Iaveta Short False Start in Paradise - Cook Islands Self-government (Hardcover)
Iaveta Short
R1,010 Discovery Miles 10 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Sound Communities in the Asia Pacific - Music, Media, and Technology (Hardcover): Lonan O Briain, Min-Yen Ong Sound Communities in the Asia Pacific - Music, Media, and Technology (Hardcover)
Lonan O Briain, Min-Yen Ong
R3,800 Discovery Miles 38 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The popularization of radio, television, and the Internet radically transformed musical practice in the Asia Pacific. These technologies bequeathed media broadcasters with a profound authority over the ways we engage with musical culture. Broadcasters use this power to promote distinct cultural traditions, popularize new music, and engage diverse audiences. They also deploy mediated musics as a vehicle for disseminating ideologies, educating the masses, shaping national borders, and promoting political alliances. With original contributions by leading scholars in anthropology, ethnomusicology, sound studies, and media and cultural studies, the 12 essays this book investigate the processes of broadcasting musical culture in the Asia Pacific. We shift our gaze to the mechanisms of cultural industries in eastern Asia and the Pacific islands to understand how oft-invisible producers, musicians, and technologies facilitate, frame, reproduce, and magnify the reach of local culture.

Mata Austronesia - Stories from an Ocean World (Paperback): Tuki Drake Mata Austronesia - Stories from an Ocean World (Paperback)
Tuki Drake
R555 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R61 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Mata Austronesia is a collection of illustrated stories told by Austronesians past and present-an (ethno)graphic novel. Mata, the word for "eye" in numerous Austronesian languages, represents the common origin of the many distinctive Austronesian peoples spread throughout their vast oceanic realm. The tales in this book immerse us in the beauty of this shared heritage, ancestral memory, and cultural legacy. Millennia before the first Europeans ventured into the Pacific, Austronesian explorers sailing aboard their outrigger and double-hulled voyaging canoes had already found, settled, and succeeded in thriving on thousands of islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. From Madagascar to Rapa Nui, Austronesia is a diverse, complex, and extensive ethnolinguistic region stretching across more than half of the Earth's saltwater expanse. This work showcases the abundance of unique identities, histories, ethnicities, cultures, languages, and storytelling traditions among people of Austronesian descent. Modern-day storytellers weave the past and present into a tapestry of tales passed down orally through generations and contextualize the staggering immensity of the cosmos, imparting meaning to visible and invisible realms. Formed over thousands of years, the wisdom of Indigenous Austronesians teaches us vital and contemporarily applicable lessons on living in harmony with each other and our planet. Mata Austronesia opens fresh avenues of connection and conversation between Austronesian peoples who live on their native islands and in diaspora, who are both unified and long-separated by oceans of time, space, and Western colonial and cartographic impositions. It includes stories from Ka Pae 'Aina o Hawai'i, Rapa Nui, Tahiti, Taha'a, Kanaky (New Caledonia), Guahan (Guam), Aotearoa (New Zealand), Viti (Fiji), Bali, Sulawesi (Celebes), Bohol (Visayas), Tutuila (American Samoa), Kiritimati (Christmas Island), Banaba (Ocean Island), and Madagasikara (Madagascar). With each hand-painted watercolor brushstroke, Tuki Drake invites friends and family of all heritages to fall in love with our shared ocean world.

Bondi Beach - Representations of an Iconic Australian (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Douglas Booth Bondi Beach - Representations of an Iconic Australian (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Douglas Booth
R2,796 Discovery Miles 27 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Bondi Beach is a history of an iconic place. It is a big history of geological origins, management by Aboriginal people, environmental despoliation by white Australians, and the formation of beach cultures. It is also a local history of the name Bondi, the origins of the Big Rock at Ben Buckler, the motives of early land holders, the tragedy known as Black Sunday, the hostilities between lifesavers and surfers, and the hullabaloos around the Pavilion. Pointing to a myriad of representations, author Douglas Booth shows that there is little agreement about the meaning of Bondi. Booth resolves these representations with a fresh narrative that presents the beach's perspective of a place under siege. Booth's creative narrative conveys important lessons about our engagement with the physical world.

The Eureka Stockade (Hardcover): Raffaello Carboni The Eureka Stockade (Hardcover)
Raffaello Carboni
R964 Discovery Miles 9 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

The Battles of Coral Sea and Midway, 1942 - A Selected Bibliography (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Myron J. Smith The Battles of Coral Sea and Midway, 1942 - A Selected Bibliography (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Myron J. Smith
R3,401 Discovery Miles 34 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

1992 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the great Pacific naval battles in the Coral Sea and off Midway Island. Occuring within a month of each other, these turning Point engagements brought an end to Japan's military expansion and six months of Allied defeat and retreat in the Pacific. Fought mostly over the ocean by airmen flying primarily from aircraft carriers, the battles were marked on both sides by courage and luck, forewarning and foreboding, skill and ineptitude. In this first book-length, partially-annotated bibliography, Smith provides more than 1,300 citations to the growing literature on these major battles. Materials in seven languages are cited as well as information provided on many of the repositories located in the United States or abroad that have holdings necessary for the continuing reinterpretation of the battles. Following an overview and introduction, the volume contains sections devoted to reference works and sites, general histories, hardware, biography, combatants, and special studies, and separate section for both battles. Access is augmented by author and name indexes. This volume will be a required reference guide for all those concerned with the War in the Pacific and modern military studies.

Cooking with the Oldest Foods on Earth - Australian Bush Foods Recipes and Sources Updated Edition (Paperback): John Newton Cooking with the Oldest Foods on Earth - Australian Bush Foods Recipes and Sources Updated Edition (Paperback)
John Newton
R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Interest in bush foods is booming. From Warrigal greens and saltbush, to kangaroo and yabbies, more and more growers' markets and local supermarkets are stocking these foods, and restaurants are serving them on their menus. This short companion book to the award-winning The Oldest Foods on Earth shows you how to cook with Australian ingredients, where to find them and how to grow them. Organised by ingredient, each chapter includes a brief history, a practical guide, and recipes for you to make in your very own kitchen. This updated edition includes brand new recipes from First Nations chefs and an updated resources section with nurseries and suppliers. It promises to broaden Australians' culinary horizons in every way.

The Last Maori Wars - Two Accounts of the Conflicts in New Zealand During the 1860s-The Last Maori War in New Zealand with A... The Last Maori Wars - Two Accounts of the Conflicts in New Zealand During the 1860s-The Last Maori War in New Zealand with A Sketch of the New Zealand War (Hardcover)
George S Whitmore, Morgan S Grace
R710 Discovery Miles 7 100 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Contributions of a Venerable Savage to the Ancient History of the Hawaiian Islands. (Hardcover): Jules 1826-1893 Remy Contributions of a Venerable Savage to the Ancient History of the Hawaiian Islands. (Hardcover)
Jules 1826-1893 Remy; Created by William Tufts 1841-1926 Tr Brigham
R787 Discovery Miles 7 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Imagined Destinies - Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory, 1880-1939 (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large... Imagined Destinies - Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory, 1880-1939 (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Russell McGregor
R1,843 Discovery Miles 18 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Talking Like Children - Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands (Hardcover): Elise Berman Talking Like Children - Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands (Hardcover)
Elise Berman
R2,781 Discovery Miles 27 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Children in the Marshall Islands do many things that adults do not. They walk around half naked. They carry and eat food in public without offering it to others. They talk about things they see rather than hiding uncomfortable truths. They explicitly refuse to give. Why do they do these things? Many think these behaviors are a natural result of children's innate immaturity. But Elise Berman argues that children are actually taught to do things that adults avoid: to be rude, inappropriate, and immature. Before children learn to be adults, they learn to be different from them. Berman's main theoretical claim therefore is also a novel one: age emerges through interaction and is a social production. In Talking Like Children, Berman analyzes a variety of interactions in the Marshall Islands, all broadly based around exchange: adoption negotiations, efforts to ask for or avoid giving away food, contentious debates about supposed child abuse. In these dramas both large and small, age differences emerge through the decisions people make, the emotions they feel, and the power they gain. Berman's research includes a range of methods - participant observation, video and audio recordings, interviews, children's drawings - that yield a significant corpus of data including over 80 hours of recorded naturalistic social interaction. Presented as a series of captivating stories, Talking Like Children is an intimate analysis of speech and interaction that shows what age means. Like gender and race, age differences are both culturally produced and socially important. The differences between Marshallese children and adults give both groups the ability to manipulate social life in distinct but often complementary ways. These differences produce culture itself. Talking Like Children establishes age as a foundational social variable and a central concern of anthropological and linguistic research.

The Cross in the Sky (Hardcover): Charles Stuart Eaton The Cross in the Sky (Hardcover)
Charles Stuart Eaton
R777 Discovery Miles 7 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Replenishing the Earth - The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld (Hardcover): James Belich Replenishing the Earth - The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Angloworld (Hardcover)
James Belich
R2,173 Discovery Miles 21 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Why are we speaking English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a "settler revolution" that took place from the early nineteenth century that led to the explosive settlement of the American West and its forgotten twin, the British West, comprising the settler dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
Between 1780 and 1930 the number of English-speakers rocketed from 12 million in 1780 to 200 million, and their wealth and power grew to match. Their secret was not racial, or cultural, or institutional superiority but a resonant intersection of historical changes, including the sudden rise of mass transfer across oceans and mountains, a revolutionary upward shift in attitudes to emigration, the emergence of a settler "boom mentality," and a late flowering of non-industrial technologies--wind, water, wood, and work animals--especially on settler frontiers. This revolution combined with the Industrial Revolution to transform settlement into something explosive--capable of creating great cities like Chicago and Melbourne and large socio-economies in a single generation.
When the great settler booms busted, as they always did, a second pattern set in. Links between the Anglo-wests and their metropolises, London and New York, actually tightened as rising tides of staple products flowed one way and ideas the other. This "re-colonization" re-integrated Greater America and Greater Britain, bulking them out to become the superpowers of their day. The "Settler Revolution" was not exclusive to the Anglophone countries--Argentina, Siberia, and Manchuria also experienced it. But it was the Anglophone settlers who managed to integrate frontier and metropolis most successfully, and it was this that gave them the impetus and the material power to provide the world's leading super-powers for the last 200 years.
This book will reshape understandings of American, British, and British dominion histories in the long 19th century. It is a story that has such crucial implications for the histories of settler societies, the homelands that spawned them, and the indigenous peoples who resisted them, that their full histories cannot be written without it.

A History of Regional Commercial Television in Australia (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Michael Thurlow A History of Regional Commercial Television in Australia (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Michael Thurlow
R3,712 Discovery Miles 37 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is the first history of commercial television in regional Australia, where diverse communities are spread across vast distances and multiple time zones. The first station, GLV Latrobe Valley, began broadcasting in December 1961. By the late 1970s, there were 35 independent commercial stations throughout regional Australia, from Cairns in the far north-east to Bunbury in the far south-west. Based on fine-grained archival research and extensive interviews, the book examines the key political, regulatory, economic, technological, industrial, and social developments which have shaped the industry over the past 60 years. Regional television is often dismissed as a mere extension of - or footnote to - the development of Australia's three metropolitan commercial television networks. Michael Thurlow's study reveals an industry which, at its peak, was at the economic and social heart of regional communities, employing thousands of people and providing vital programming for viewers in provincial cities and small towns across Australia.

From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima - The Second World War in Asia and the Pacific, 1941-45 (Hardcover): Saki Dockrill From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima - The Second World War in Asia and the Pacific, 1941-45 (Hardcover)
Saki Dockrill
R4,446 Discovery Miles 44 460 Ships in 10 - 15 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.

Men of Hawaii; a Biographical Reference Library, Complete and Authentic, of the Men of Note and Substantial Achievement in the... Men of Hawaii; a Biographical Reference Library, Complete and Authentic, of the Men of Note and Substantial Achievement in the Hawaiian Islands ... V. 1-5 (Hardcover)
John William Ed Siddall, George Ferguson Mitchell 18 Nellist
R1,036 Discovery Miles 10 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Tongan Double Canoes (Paperback, New edition): Peter Suren The Tongan Double Canoes (Paperback, New edition)
Peter Suren
R1,008 Discovery Miles 10 080 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The double canoe constituted the backbone of Polynesian culture, since it enabled the Polynesians to enter and conquer the Pacific. In Tonga, a center of Polynesian navigation, two types were known: the tongiaki and the kalia. Contrary to most contributions, the author argues that the Tongans were not only the Western Pacific masters of navigation, but also of canoe designing. Typical of Polynesian canoes was the sewing technique which can be traced back to ancient India but was also practiced in Pharanoic Egypt and southern Europe. The legend of the magnetic mountain is to be viewed in this context. Oceanic navigation, which declined during the 19th century, had developed its own means of orientation at sea, including astronomy and meteorology.

Truncated Travel - Life in the Migration Exclusion Zone on Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Australia (Hardcover, New): Simone... Truncated Travel - Life in the Migration Exclusion Zone on Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Australia (Hardcover, New)
Simone Dennis
R2,410 Discovery Miles 24 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Christmas Island is a small territory of Australia located in the Indian Ocean. It is home to three main ethnic groups, the smallest of which are European Australians. Christmas Island is also where those who arrive "illegally" to seek asylum in Australia are accommodated. Christmas Island has played a key role in Australian security, located as it is at the northern extremity of Australian territory; much closer to Indonesia than to the nation to which it belongs, and from whose territory it has recently been excised for migration purposes. As a migration exclusion zone, Christmas is both within and without of the nation, and has gone from a place known among nature lovers for its unique red crabs and bird life to the highly politicised subject of national concern and heated debate. But what is it like to be at home on Christmas Island? How do locals make and come to be at home in a place both within and without of the nation? This anthropological exploration--the very first one ever undertaken of this strategically important island--focuses closely on the sensual engagements people have with place, shows how Christmas Islanders make recourse to the animals, birds and topographic features of the island to create uniquely islandic ways of being at home--and ways of creating "others" who will never belong--under volatile political circumstances. This original ethnography reveals a complex island society, whose presence at the very edge of the nation reveals important information about a place and a group of people new to ethnographic study. In and through these people and their relationships with their unique island place, this ethnographic exploration reveals a nation caught in the grip of intensive national angst about its borders, its sense of safety, its struggles with multiculturalism, and its identity in a world of unprecedented migratory movement. As the first book in the discipline of anthropology to study Christmas Island in ethnographic terms, Christmas Island is a critical work for all collections in anthropology and Australian Studies. "Christmas Island is described by Simone Dennis as 'the last outpost of the nation', that is, a multicultural microcosm of contemporary Australia, worried by a search for a national identity in touch with the past but not limited by it...In Simone Dennis, Christmas Island has its consummate ethnographer and analyst." - Professor Nigel Rapport, University of St. Andrews

Records Relating to the Gold Coast Settlements from 1750 to 1874 (Hardcover, New Ed): Major J.J. Crooks Records Relating to the Gold Coast Settlements from 1750 to 1874 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Major J.J. Crooks
R4,093 Discovery Miles 40 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 1973. Forming part of a collection on general African studies, this text presents records of the Gold Coast Settlements from 1750 to 1874, by the Colonial Secretary of Sierra Leone, Major Crooks. It covers the period from the formation of the last African Company of Merchants in 1750 until the conclusion of the third Ashantee War in 1874.

Industrious, Innovative, Altruistic - The 20th Century Boat Builders of Battery Point (Hardcover): Nicole L Mays Industrious, Innovative, Altruistic - The 20th Century Boat Builders of Battery Point (Hardcover)
Nicole L Mays
R1,312 Discovery Miles 13 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
When We Dead Awaken: Australia, New Zealand, and the Armenian Genocide (Hardcover): James Robins When We Dead Awaken: Australia, New Zealand, and the Armenian Genocide (Hardcover)
James Robins
R2,297 R1,401 Discovery Miles 14 010 Save R896 (39%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

On April 25th 1915, during the First World War, the famous Anzacs landed ashore at Gallipoli. At the exact same moment, leading figures of Armenian life in the Ottoman Empire were being arrested in vast numbers. That dark day marks the simultaneous birth of a national story - and the beginning of a genocide. When We Dead Awaken - the first narrative history of the Armenian Genocide in decades - draws these two landmark historical events together. James Robins explores the accounts of Anzac Prisoners of War who witnessed the genocide, the experiences of soldiers who risked their lives to defend refugees, and Australia and New Zealand's participation in the enormous post-war Armenian relief movement. By exploring the vital political implications of this unexplored history, When We Dead Awaken questions the national folklore of Australia, New Zealand, and Turkey - and the mythology of Anzac Day itself.

Strike and Strike Again (Hardcover, 2nd Second Hardcove ed.): Ian Gordon Strike and Strike Again (Hardcover, 2nd Second Hardcove ed.)
Ian Gordon; Illustrated by Catherine Gordon
R698 Discovery Miles 6 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Unfree Workers - Insubordination and Resistance in Convict Australia, 1788-1860 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Hamish... Unfree Workers - Insubordination and Resistance in Convict Australia, 1788-1860 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Michael Quinlan
R3,210 Discovery Miles 32 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines how convicts played a key role in the development of capitalism in Australia and how their active resistance shaped both workplace relations and institutions. It highlights the contribution of convicts to worker mobilization and political descent, forcing a rethink of Australia's foundational story. It is a book that will appeal to an international audience, as well as the many hundreds of thousands of Australians who can trace descent from convicts. It will enable the latter to make sense of the experience of their ancestors, equipping them with the necessary tools to understand convict and court records. It will also provide a valuable undergraduate and postgraduate teaching tool and reference for those studying unfree labour and worker history, social history, colonization and global migration in a digital age.

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