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Voyages to Hawaii Before 1860; a Study Based on Historical Narratives in the Library of the Hawaiian Mission Children's... Voyages to Hawaii Before 1860; a Study Based on Historical Narratives in the Library of the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society (Paperback)
Bernice Judd; Created by Hawaiian Mission Children's Society
R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Bushman's Handbook (Paperback): H.A. Lindsay The Bushman's Handbook (Paperback)
H.A. Lindsay
R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Rulers of Hawaii, the Chiefs and Chiefesses, Their Palaces, Monuments, Portraits and Tombs; (Paperback): Albert Pierce... The Rulers of Hawaii, the Chiefs and Chiefesses, Their Palaces, Monuments, Portraits and Tombs; (Paperback)
Albert Pierce 1872-1931 Taylor
R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Littledene - a New Zealand Rural Community (Paperback): H C D (Hugh Crawford Dixon) Somerset Littledene - a New Zealand Rural Community (Paperback)
H C D (Hugh Crawford Dixon) Somerset
R474 Discovery Miles 4 740 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The New Zealand Maori in Colour (Paperback): Kenneth Bigwood The New Zealand Maori in Colour (Paperback)
Kenneth Bigwood
R474 Discovery Miles 4 740 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
People of Paradise (Paperback): David 1926- Attenborough People of Paradise (Paperback)
David 1926- Attenborough
R510 Discovery Miles 5 100 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Politics of the Kula Ring; an Analysis of the Findings of Bronislaw Malinowski (Paperback): J P Singh Uberoi Politics of the Kula Ring; an Analysis of the Findings of Bronislaw Malinowski (Paperback)
J P Singh Uberoi
R511 Discovery Miles 5 110 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Land Snails From Hawaii, Christmas Island, and Samoa (Paperback): Henry Augustus B 1862 Pilsbry Land Snails From Hawaii, Christmas Island, and Samoa (Paperback)
Henry Augustus B 1862 Pilsbry; Charles Montague 1874- Cooke; Created by Marie C (Marie Catharine) 1889- Neal
R408 Discovery Miles 4 080 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
History of Iolani Palace (Paperback): Albert Pierce 1872-1931 Taylor History of Iolani Palace (Paperback)
Albert Pierce 1872-1931 Taylor
R350 Discovery Miles 3 500 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Eureka Stockade (Paperback): Raffaello Carboni The Eureka Stockade (Paperback)
Raffaello Carboni
R376 Discovery Miles 3 760 Ships in 18 - 22 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.

Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939-45 - Queer Identities in Australia in the Second World War (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015):... Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939-45 - Queer Identities in Australia in the Second World War (Paperback, 1st ed. 2015)
Yorick Smaal
R3,205 Discovery Miles 32 050 Ships in 18 - 22 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.

The Dynamics of News and Indigenous Policy in Australia (Paperback): Kerry McCallum, Lisa Waller The Dynamics of News and Indigenous Policy in Australia (Paperback)
Kerry McCallum, Lisa Waller
R1,171 Discovery Miles 11 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Despite intense concern among academics and advocates, there is a deeply felt absence of scholarship on the way media reporting exacerbates rather than helps to resolve policy problems. This book offers rich insights into the news media's role in the development of policy in Australia, and explores the complex, dynamic and interactive relationship between news media and Australian Indigenous affairs. Spanning a twenty-year period from 1988 to 2008, Kerry McCallum and Lisa Waller critically examine how Indigenous health, bilingual education and controversial legislation were portrayed through public media. The Dynamics of News and Indigenous Policy in Australia provides evidence of Indigenous people being excluded from policy and media discussion, as well as using the media to their advantage. To that end, the book poses the question: just how far was the media manipulating the national conversation? And how far was it, in turn, being manipulated by those in power? A decade after the Australian government introduced the controversial 2007 Northern Territory Emergency Response Act, McCallum and Waller offer a ground-breaking look at the media's role in Indigenous issues and asks: to what extent did journalism exacerbate policy issues, and how far were their effects felt in Indigenous communities?

A History of New Zealand Literature (Hardcover): Mark Williams A History of New Zealand Literature (Hardcover)
Mark Williams
R3,109 Discovery Miles 31 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A History of New Zealand Literature traces the genealogy of New Zealand literature from its first imaginings by Europeans in the eighteenth century. Beginning with a comprehensive introduction that charts the growth of, and challenges to, a nationalist literary tradition, the essays in this History illuminate the cultural and political intricacies of New Zealand literature, surveying the multilayered verse, fiction and drama of such diverse writers as Katherine Mansfield, Allen Curnow, Frank Sargeson, Janet Frame, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History devotes special attention to the lasting significance of colonialism, biculturalism and multiculturalism in New Zealand literature. A History of New Zealand Literature is of pivotal importance to the development of New Zealand writing and will serve as an invaluable reference for specialists and students alike.

Anzac Battlefield - A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory (Hardcover): Antonio Sagona, Mithat Atabay, C.J. Mackie, Ian... Anzac Battlefield - A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory (Hardcover)
Antonio Sagona, Mithat Atabay, C.J. Mackie, Ian McGibbon, Richard Reid
R1,673 Discovery Miles 16 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Anzac Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory explores the transformation of Gallipoli's landscape in antiquity, during the famed battles of the First World War and in the present day. Drawing on archival, archaeological and cartographic material, this book unearths the deep history of the Gallipoli peninsula, setting the Gallipoli campaign in a broader cultural and historical context. The book presents the results of an original archaeological survey, the research for which was supported by the Australian, New Zealand and Turkish Governments. The survey examines materials from both sides of the battlefield, and sheds new light on the environment in which Anzac and Turkish soldiers endured the conflict. Richly illustrated with both Ottoman and Anzac archival images and maps, as well as original maps and photographs of the landscape and archaeological findings, Anzac Battlefield is an important contribution to our understanding of Gallipoli and its landscape of war and memory.

Decolonisation and the Pacific - Indigenous Globalisation and the Ends of Empire (Hardcover): Tracey Banivanua-Mar Decolonisation and the Pacific - Indigenous Globalisation and the Ends of Empire (Hardcover)
Tracey Banivanua-Mar
R2,658 Discovery Miles 26 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book charts the previously untold story of decolonisation in the oceanic world of the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, presenting it both as an indigenous and an international phenomenon. Tracey Banivanua Mar reveals how the inherent limits of decolonisation were laid bare by the historical peculiarities of colonialism in the region, and demonstrates the way imperial powers conceived of decolonisation as a new form of imperialism. She shows how Indigenous peoples responded to these limits by developing rich intellectual, political and cultural networks transcending colonial and national borders, with localised traditions of protest and dialogue connected to the global ferment of the twentieth century. The individual stories told here shed new light on the forces that shaped twentieth-century global history, and reconfigure the history of decolonisation, presenting it not as an historic event, but as a fragile, contingent and ongoing process continuing well into the postcolonial era.

Redfern - Aboriginal activism in the 1970s (Paperback): Johanna Perheentupa Redfern - Aboriginal activism in the 1970s (Paperback)
Johanna Perheentupa
R703 Discovery Miles 7 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Der Erste Weltkrieg in Der Australischen Geschichtskultur (German, Hardcover): Eugen Kotte Der Erste Weltkrieg in Der Australischen Geschichtskultur (German, Hardcover)
Eugen Kotte; Fabian Munch
R2,126 Discovery Miles 21 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Der Autor untersucht die ubergeordnete Rolle, die der Erste Weltkrieg in der "kurzen" Geschichte Australiens spielt. Dieser Krieg und der in seiner Folge entstandene Anzac-Mythos besitzen seit der Landung australischer Truppen auf der Gallipoli-Halbinsel am 25. April 1915 eine herausgehobene Stellung im Geschichtsbewusstsein vieler Australierinnen und Australier. Das Buch zeigt auf, wie sich dies in der Geschichtskultur des Landes manifestiert hat. Der Autor analysiert den diachronen Wandel der Objektivationen des Geschichtsbewusstseins (beispielsweise Gedenktage, Denkmale oder Filme) und ermoeglicht so ein besseres Verstandnis der Geschichte und Kultur Australiens.

Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War - Australia's Greek Immigrants after World War II and the Greek Civil War... Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War - Australia's Greek Immigrants after World War II and the Greek Civil War (Hardcover)
Joy Damousi
R2,658 Discovery Miles 26 580 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In an engaging and original contribution to the field of memory studies, Joy Damousi considers the enduring impact of war on family memory in the Greek diaspora. Focusing on Australia's Greek immigrants in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Greek Civil War, the book explores the concept of remembrance within the larger context of migration to show how intergenerational experience of war and trauma transcend both place and nation. Drawing from the most recent research in memory, trauma and transnationalism, Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War deals with the continuities and discontinuities of war stories, assimilation in modern Australia, politics and activism, child migration and memories of mothers and children in war. Damousi sheds new light on aspects of forgotten memory and silence within families and communities, and in particular the ways in which past experience of violence and tragedy is both negotiated and processed.

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 …
R2,199 R1,422 Discovery Miles 14 220 Save R777 (35%) Ships in 10 - 15 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.

The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay - With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk... The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay - With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (Paperback)
Arthur Phillip
R1,542 Discovery Miles 15 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work, first published in 1789, is an edited compilation of official papers, journals and illustrations relevant to the voyage of the First Fleet to Australia and the founding of Port Jackson on Sydney Cove, and of the penal colony of Norfolk Island. Arthur Phillip (1738-1814), a sailor of wide experience in both the Royal Navy and the Portuguese fleet, accepted the post of commander of the fleet and governor of the new colony in 1786, and the eleven ships arrived in Botany Bay in January 1788. This account begins with a note on Phillip's career, and discusses earlier British colonisation, before describing the preparations for, and progress of, the voyage. The fascinating documentation continues with materials on the founding of the colony, problems with the convict workmen, encounters with native Australians, and with the local wildlife, all illustrations of the birth of one of the world's great cities.

An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean (Paperback): Alexander Dalrymple An Historical Collection of the Several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean (Paperback)
Alexander Dalrymple
R1,552 Discovery Miles 15 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This important collection, published in two volumes in 1770-1 and reissued here in one, contains accounts of notable Iberian and Dutch voyages in the southern hemisphere, translated and edited by Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808). Hydrographer to the Admiralty from 1795, Dalrymple produced this work as part of his research into the belief at the time that there existed an undiscovered continent in the South Pacific. These volumes were intended to demonstrate the knowledge of the region to date. The first volume covers sixteenth-century Spanish and Portuguese voyages, beginning with Ferdinand Magellan and including those of Juan Fernandez, Alvaro de Mendana y Neira and Pedro Fernandes de Queiros. The second volume contains the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch voyages of Jacob Le Mair and Willem Schouten, Abel Tasman and Jacob Roggeveen. This volume also contains a chronological table of discoveries in the southern hemisphere since 1501.

Justice in Asia and the Pacific Region, 1945-1952 - Allied War Crimes Prosecutions (Paperback): Yuma Totani Justice in Asia and the Pacific Region, 1945-1952 - Allied War Crimes Prosecutions (Paperback)
Yuma Totani
R769 Discovery Miles 7 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores a cross-section of war crimes trials that the Allied powers held against the Japanese in the aftermath of World War II. More than 2,240 trials against some 5,700 suspected war criminals were carried out at 51 separate locations across the Asia Pacific region. This book analyzes fourteen high-profile American, Australian, British, and Philippine trials, including the two subsequent proceedings at Tokyo and the Yamashita trial. By delving into a large body of hitherto underutilized oral and documentary history of the war as contained in the trial records, Yuma Totani illuminates diverse firsthand accounts of the war that were offered by former Japanese and Allied combatants, prisoners of war, and the civilian population. Furthermore, the author makes a systematic inquiry into select trials to shed light on a highly complex - and at times contradictory - legal and jurisprudential legacy of Allied war crimes prosecutions.

Entanglements of Empire - Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body (Paperback): Tony Ballantyne Entanglements of Empire - Missionaries, Maori, and the Question of the Body (Paperback)
Tony Ballantyne
R879 Discovery Miles 8 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in 1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic entanglements with Maori. Tony Ballantyne shows how interest in missionary Christianity among influential Maori chiefs had far-reaching consequences for both groups. Deftly reconstructing cross-cultural translations and struggles over such concepts and practices as civilization, work, time and space, and gender, he identifies the physical body as the most contentious site of cultural engagement, with Maori and missionaries struggling over hygiene, tattooing, clothing, and sexual morality. "Entanglements of Empire" is particularly concerned with how, as a result of their encounters in the classroom, chapel, kitchen, and farmyard, Maori and the English mutually influenced each other's worldviews. Concluding in 1840 with New Zealand's formal colonization, this book offers an important contribution to debates over religion and empire.

Australian Mythology - Captivating Dreamtime Stories of Indigenous Australians (Paperback): Matt Clayton Australian Mythology - Captivating Dreamtime Stories of Indigenous Australians (Paperback)
Matt Clayton
R336 Discovery Miles 3 360 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Pozieres - Echoes of a Distant Battle (Hardcover): Christopher Wray Pozieres - Echoes of a Distant Battle (Hardcover)
Christopher Wray
R1,363 Discovery Miles 13 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From July to September 1916, some 23,000 Australians were killed or wounded in the Battle of Pozieres. It was the first strategically important engagement by Australian soldiers on the Western Front and its casualties exceeded those of any other battle of the First World War, including Gallipoli. In this important book, Christopher Wray explores the influence of Pozieres on Australian society and history, and how it is remembered today. In the opening chapters he revisits the battle and considers its aftermath, including shell shock and the psychological effects experienced by surviving soldiers. The concluding chapters examine the way in which the battle has been commemorated in literature and art, and the extent to which it has been overlooked in contemporary remembrance of the war. Generously illustrated with photographs, maps and paintings, Pozieres: Echoes of a Distant Battle is essential reading for anyone interested in the First World War and Australia's post-war society.

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