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This book explores the fin de siecle, an era of powerful global
movements and turbulent transition, in Australia and beyond through
a series of biographical microhistories. From the first wave
feminist Rose Summerfield and the working class radical John Dwyer,
to the indigenous rights advocate David Unaipon and the poet
Christopher Brennan, Hearn traces the transnational identities,
philosophies, ideas and cultures that characterised this era.
Examining the struggles and aspirations of fin de siecle lives;
respect for the rights of women and indigenous peoples, the
injustices and hardship inflicted on working men and women, and the
ways in which they imagined a better world, this book examines the
transformation and renewal brought about by fin de siecle ideas. It
examines the distinctive characteristics of this 'great
acceleration' of economic, technological and cultural forces that
swept the globe at the turn of the 19th century both within an
Australian context and on the world stage. Asserting that the fin
de siecle was significant for the making of modern Australia, and
demonstrating the impact Australian fin de siecle lives had on the
transnational and global movements of the era, Mark Hearn traces
the turbulent nature of the fin de siecle imagination in Australia,
and its response to these dynamic forces.
Depicted by the man himself, The Journals of James Cook is an
intimate first-hand account, providing an uncensored and reliable
narrative of adventures spanning across the globe. The Journals of
James Cook depict three of Captain James Cook's most glorious
expeditions, starting in 1768 and leading to Cook's tragic death in
1779. Having ventured all over the Pacific, Cook encountered lands
not yet charted by the British. Though his discoveries and maps
inadvertently led to British colonization, Cook held a deep respect
for the native people he encountered. He recorded their practices
and wrote of them fondly. Cook even befriended some of the native
people he encountered, including a Tahitian man who, after hearing
of Cook's homeland, wanted to visit it as well. Per the man's
request, Cook sailed him to Britain, where the man stayed until he
and Cook sailed back to Tahiti three years later. After charting
Australia, and the whole coast of New Zealand, Cook was involved in
a plot to kidnap a Hawaiian monarch and ransom them in order to
recover stolen property. He was killed during this expedition,
leaving behind a legacy of a detailed description of the Pacific
Ocean and its coasts. James Cook's expeditions around the world and
his detailed and innovative work as a cartographer inspired
advancements in scientific, medical, historical and geological
fields. His influence has also reached the literary world,
inspiring novel series and characters, including the infamous
Captain Hook. Exuding ambition, courage, and confidence, The
Journals of James Cook provide a privileged peak into the travels
and accomplishments of an adventurous, and invaluable man. Packed
with wonder but free of imperialistic arrogance, The Journals of
James Cook serve as a valuable an intriguing primary source of a
time when places in the world were yet to be mapped. Now presented
in an easy-to-read font and redesigned with a stunning new cover,
James Cook' The Journals of James Cook is accommodating to
contemporary readers, providing a fresh version of the esteemed
literary work while preserving its wonders and adventures.
LARGE PRINT EDITION. Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is a moving
personal portrait of a girl who grew up to become Hawaii's first
and only queen, a beloved monarch who fought for the rights of her
people. Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is an autobiography by
Queen Lili'uokalani. Published in 1898, the book was written in the
aftermath of Lili'uokalani's attempt to appeal on behalf of her
people to President Grover Cleveland, a personal friend. Although
it inspired Cleveland to demand her reinstatement, the United
States Congress published the Morgan Report in 1894, which denied
U.S. involvement in the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen appeared four years later as a
final effort by Lili'uokalani to advocate on behalf of Hawaiian
sovereignty, but it unfortunately came too late. That same year,
President McKinley and the United States Congress approved the
annexation of Hawaii. In Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen,
Lili'uokalani reflects on her experiences as a young girl growing
up on Oahu, where she was raised as a member of the extended royal
family of King Kamehameha III. Born in Honolulu, she was educated
among her fellow royals from a young age. In addition to her
studies, Lili'uokalani developed an artistic sensibility early on,
and was fond of both writing and music. She crafted the lyrics to
the popular song "Aloha 'Oe" (1878), just one of the more than 100
songs she would write in her lifetime. Although her book was
unsuccessful as an attempt to advocate for Hawaiian sovereignty and
the restoration of the monarchy, it has since been recognized as a
moving personal portrait of a girl who grew up to become Hawaii's
first and only queen, a beloved monarch who fought for the rights
of her people. With a professionally designed cover and manuscript,
this edition of Lili'uokalani's Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is
a classic of Hawaiian literature designed for the modern audience.
Add this beautiful edition to your bookshelf, or enjoy the digital
edition on any e-book device.
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New York Times bestseller: The true story of the WWII naval battle
portrayed in the Roland Emmerich film is "something special among
war histories" (Chicago Sun-Times). Six months after Pearl Harbor,
the seemingly invincible Imperial Japanese Navy prepared a decisive
blow against the United States. After sweeping through Asia and the
South Pacific, Japan's military targeted the tiny atoll of Midway,
an ideal launching pad for the invasion of Hawaii and beyond. But
the US Navy would be waiting for them. Thanks to cutting-edge
code-breaking technology, tactical daring, and a significant stroke
of luck, the Americans under Adm. Chester W. Nimitz dealt Japan's
navy its first major defeat in the war. Three years of hard
fighting remained, but it was at Midway that the tide turned. This
"stirring, even suspenseful narrative" is the first book to tell
the story of the epic battle from both the American and Japanese
sides (Newsday). Miracle at Midway reveals how America won its
first and greatest victory of the Pacific war-and how easily it
could have been a loss.
This book tells the story of Bali--the "paradise island of the
Pacific"--its rulers and its people, and their encounters with the
Western world. Bali is a perennially popular tourist destination.
It is also home to a fascinating people with a long and dramatic
history of interactions with foreigners, particularly after the
arrival of the first Dutch fleet in 1597. In this first
comprehensive history of Bali, author Willard Hanna chronicles Bali
through the centuries as well as the islanders' current struggle to
preserve their unique identity amidst the financially necessary
incursions of tourism. Illustrated with more than forty stunning
photographs, A Brief History of Bali is a riveting tale of one
ancient culture's vulnerability--and resilience--in the modern
world.
Originally published in 1928, this book is a comprehensive study of
the Maori people - their inner lives, customs and beliefs - by one
who lived amongst them during a time before modern western
civilisation had much altered their existence. Many of the earliest
books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are
now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press
are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality,
modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents
Include: The Maori and his Surroundings - His Foods - Meat Foods -
His Language - Some Maori Customs, Muru - More Maori Customs, Tangi
- Maori Superstitions - The Maori and His Superstitions - More
Maori Superstitions, Makutu - The Maori as a Warrior - The Coming
of the White Man - The New Era - The New Era that Failed - Another
Era that Failed - The Maori Woman - The Haangi (Native Oven) - A
Few Closing Words - The Treaty of Waitangi - The Waitara Blunder -
Some Reasons for the Decline of the Maori - Where the White Man
Treads? - A Quaint Friendship - The Maori as a Storyteller - A Bit
of Diplomacy - Taranaki (Mount Egmont) - Where the White Man
Treads, and a Story - A Trait and an Incident - As He Saw it - A
Promise Redeemed - A Traveller's Musings - Some Native Traits - A
Maori Philosopher - A Twentieth Century Tohunga - The Pathos of it
All - His Simple Faith - Our First Steamboat - The Maori and Our
Duty - Mistaken Endeavour - The Old, Old Plea - The White Man's
Brain - Concerning Stone Axes - An Appeal - His First Romance - In
Various Moods - A New Year's Experience - A Final Word on
Tohungaism - The Maori as a Tradesman - A Native Plea - The Maori
Girls' School atTurakina - An Important Correction - Our
Half-Castle Population - Cornwall Park and It's Donor - Some
Outback Impressions - A Home in the Wilderness - A Plea for the
Pioneer - A Last Word
- 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.
In January of 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a
thousand British men and women encountered the people who will be
their new neighbours; the beach nomads of Australia. "These people
mixed with ours," wrote a British observer soon after the landfall,
"and all hands danced together." What followed would determine
relations between the peoples for the next two hundred years.
Drawing skilfully on first-hand accounts and historical records,
Inga Clendinnen reconstructs the complex dance of curiosity,
attraction and mistrust performed by the protagonists of either
side. She brings this key chapter in British colonial history
brilliantly alive. Then we discover why the dancing stopped . . .
When did Australian women first enter the advertising industry? The
stereotypical advertising executive might be a pony-tailed,
Ferrari-driving, young-ish man, but women have worked in Australian
advertising agencies from the first years of the modern industry,
and today they comprise half of the industry's workforce.
Australian Women in Advertising in the Twentieth Century rescues
these women from their obscurity. By employing a broader definition
of advertising than usual, this study reveals the important role
women have played in the development of the Australian advertising
industry, sheds light on women's struggle to reach the higher
echelons of the industry, and considers why the popular image of
the advertising executive is at such variance from the reality. The
experiences of these remarkable women across a century of
Australian advertising provide valuable information on the role of
gender in the development of this ubiquitous industry, as well as
the encroachment of consumer culture.
A study which takes the reader beyond the euphemistic and romantic popular misconceptions to reveal the often invisible past and the present subterfuge of Australia. It portrays a country of stark contrasts, of visionaries and criminals whose secrets are exposed.
The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC This was a
brutish, primitive hatred, as characteristic of the horror of war
in the Pacific as the palm trees and the islands... Landing on the
beach at Peleliu in 1944 as a twenty-year-old new recruit to the US
Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. At
Peleliu and Okinawa - two of the fiercest and filthiest Pacific
battles of WWII - he witnesses the dehumanising brutality displayed
by both sides and the animal hatred that each soldier has for his
enemy. During temporary lapses in the fighting, conditions on the
islands mean that the Marines often can't wash, stay dry, dig
latrines, or even find time to eat. Suffering from constant fear,
fatigue, and filth, the struggle of simply living in a combat zone
is utterly debilitating. Yet despite horrendous conditions Sledge
finds time to keep notes that he would later turn into a book.
Described as one of the finest memoirs to emerge from any war, With
the Old Breed tells with compassion and honesty of the cruelty,
bravery and deaths of the men he fought alongside, and of his own
journey from patriotic innocence to battle-scarred veteran. 'Eugene
Sledge became more than a legend with his memoir, With The Old
Breed. He became a chronicler, a historian, a storyteller who turns
the extremes of the war in the Pacific - the terror, the
camaraderie, the banal and the extraordinary - into terms we
mortals can grasp' Tom Hanks
During World War II Australia was under threat of invasion. Could
Australia be invaded by the Japanese? Even with the heavy
censorship by the government many certainly thought so and the
nation was gripped by fear that the danger would soon be on their
doorstep. The Japanese appeared to be looming closer; there were
submarines in Sydney Harbour, Japanese planes flying overhead and
harassment on our coastline. Australians were fearful for their
safety. Anxious parents made decisions to protect their children,
with or without government sanction. Small children were sent away,
often unaccompanied, by concerned parents to friends, relatives, or
even strangers living in `safer' parts of the country. Some had
little comprehension of what was happening and thought they were
going on holiday to the country. The history of these child
evacuees in Australia remains largely hidden and their experiences
untold. Author Ann Howard, who was evacuated with her mother from
the UK during World War II, has set the records straight. A
combination of extensive research and the first-hand stories of the
evacuees captures the mood of the time and the social and political
environment that they lived in. Unlike the sometimes sad and
horrible experiences of their UK counterparts, for many Australian
child evacuees there enforced `holiday' was a surprisingly happy
time. A Carefree War tells the story of the largest upheaval in
Australia since white settlement using oral memoirs and box camera
photos, all placed within the frameworks of history. The voices of
over one hundred contributors join together to paint a vivid
picture of wartime Australia; the fear, the chaos and civilians
floundering under the impact of a war that would change their way
of life forever.
From the acclaimed author ofThe Suitcase Baby and The Suicide
Bride, the story of a series of horrific murders that began in
1930s Sydney - and a killer who remained at large for over two
decades. In December 1932, as the Depression tightened its grip,
the body of a woman was found in Queens Park, Sydney. It was a
popular park. There were houses in plain view. Yet this woman had
been violently murdered without anyone noticing. Other equally
brutal and shocking murders of women in public places were to
follow. Australia's first serial killer was at large. Police failed
to notice the similarities between the victims until the death of
one young woman - an aspiring Olympic swimmer - made the whole city
take notice. On scant evidence, the unassuming Eric Craig was
arrested. But the killings didn't stop... This compelling story of
a city crippled by fear and a failing economy, of a killer at large
as panic abounds, is also the story of what happens when victims
aren't perfect and neither are suspects, and when a rush to
judgement replaces the call of reason.
'So tightly packed were the crowds lining Sydney's streets on 1
January 1901 that they resembled a dense well-tended hedge. Early
morning showers had followed a thunderstorm the previous evening
and many carried umbrellas as they waited for the procession.
Planning for this New Year's Day had been going on in earnest for
about three and a half months, after Queen Victoria had declared it
to be the day upon which the Commonwealth of Australia would come
into being.' Andrew Tink's superb book tells the story of Australia
in the 20th century, from Federation to the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
It was a century marked by the trauma of war and the despair of the
depression, balanced by extraordinary achievements in sport,
science and the arts. Tink's story is driven by people, whether
they be prime ministers, soldiers, shopkeepers, singers,
footballers or farmers; men or women, Australian born, immigrant or
Aborigine. He brings the decades to life, writing with empathy,
humour and insight to create a narrative that is as entertaining as
it is illuminating.
Whenever society produces a depraved criminal, we wonder: is it
nature or is it nurture? When the charlatan Alicks Sly murdered his
wife, Ellie, and killed himself with a cut-throat razor in a house
in Sydney's Newtown in early 1904, he set off a chain of events
that could answer that question. He also left behind mysteries that
might never be solved. Sociologist Dr Tanya Bretherton traces the
brutal story of Ellie, one of many suicide brides in
turn-of-the-century Sydney; of her husband, Alicks, and his family;
and their three orphaned sons, adrift in the world. From the author
of the acclaimed THE SUITCASE BABY - shortlisted for the 2018 Ned
Kelly Award, Danger Prize and Waverley Library 'Nib' Award - comes
another riveting true-crime case from Australia's dark past. THE
SUICIDE BRIDE is a masterful exploration of criminality, insanity,
violence and bloody family ties in bleak, post-Victorian Sydney.
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.
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