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Born in 1939? - What Else Happened? (Hardcover): Ron Williams Born in 1939? - What Else Happened? (Hardcover)
Ron Williams
R506 Discovery Miles 5 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Question of Self-Esteem - The United States and the Cold War Choices in France and Italy, 1944-1958 (Hardcover, New):... A Question of Self-Esteem - The United States and the Cold War Choices in France and Italy, 1944-1958 (Hardcover, New)
Alessandro Brogi
R4,169 Discovery Miles 41 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Using archival materials from all three nations, this first comparative study of French and Italian relations with the United States during the early Cold War shows that French and Italian ambitions of status, or prestige, crucially affected the formation of the Western Alliance. While attention to outside appearances had a long historic tradition for both European nations, the notion was compounded by their humiliation in World War II and their consequent fear of further demotion. Only by promoting an American hegemony over Europe could France and Italy aspire respectively to attain continental leadership and equality with the other great European powers. For its part, Washington carefully calibrated concessions of mere status with the more substantial issues of international roles.

A recent trend in both U.S. and European historiography of the Cold War has emphasized the role that America's allies had in shaping the post-World War II international system. Combining diplomatic, strategic, economic, and cultural insights, and reassessing the main events from post-war reconstruction to the Middle Eastern crises of the late 1950s, Brogi reaches two major conclusions: that the United States helped the two allies to recover enough self-esteem to cope with their own decline; and that both the French and the Italian leaders, with constant pressure from Washington, progressively adapted to a notion of prestige no longer based solely on nationalism, but also on their capacity to promote, or even master, continental integration. With this focus on image, Brogi finally suggests a background to today's changing patterns of international relations, as civilizational values become increasingly important at the expense of more familiar indices of economic and military power.

Na Pua Ali'i O Kaua'i - Ruling Chiefs of Kaua'i (Hardcover, New): Frederick Wichman Na Pua Ali'i O Kaua'i - Ruling Chiefs of Kaua'i (Hardcover, New)
Frederick Wichman
R1,708 Discovery Miles 17 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The stories of Kaua'i's ruling chiefs were passed from generation to generation in songs and narratives recited by trained storytellers either formally at the high chief's court or informally at family gatherings. Their chronology was ordered by a ruler's genealogy, which, in the case of the pua ali'i (flower of royalty), was illustrious and far reaching and could be traced to one of the four great gods of Polynesia - Kane, Ku, Lono, and Kanaloa. In these legends, Hawaiians of old sought answers to the questions "Who are we?" "Who are our ancestors and where do they come from?" "What lessons can be learned from their conduct?" Na Pua Ali'i o Kaua'i presents the stories of the men and women who ruled the island of Kaua'i from its first settlement to the final rebellion against Kamehameha I's forces in 1824. Only fragments remain of the nearly two-thousand-year history of the people who inhabited Kaua'i before the coming of James Cook in 1778. Now scattered in public and private archives and libraries, these pieces of Hawai'i's precontact past were recorded in the nineteenth century by such determined individuals as David Malo, Samuel Kamakau, and Abraham Fornander. All known genealogical references to the Kaua'i ali'i nui (paramount chiefs) have been gathered here and placed in chronological order and are interspersed with legends of great voyages, bitter wars, courageous heroes, and passionate romances that together form a rich and invaluable resource.

People and Change in Indigenous Australia (Hardcover): Diane Austin-Broos, Francesca Merlan People and Change in Indigenous Australia (Hardcover)
Diane Austin-Broos, Francesca Merlan; Contributions by Paul Burke, Yasmine Musharbash, Ute, …
R2,518 Discovery Miles 25 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

People and Change in Australia arose from a conviction that more needs to be done in anthropology to give a fuller sense of the changing lives and circumstances of Australian indigenous communities and people. Much anthropological and public discussion remains embedded in traditionalizing views of indigenous people, and in accounts that seem to underline essential and apparently timeless difference. In this volume the editors and contributors assume that "the person" is socially defined and reconfigured as contexts change, both immediate and historical. Essays in this collection are grounded in Australian locales commonly termed "remote." These indigenous communities were largely established as residential concentrations by Australian governments, some first as missions, most in areas that many of the indigenous people involved consider their homelands. A number of these settlements were located in proximity to settler industries including pastoralism, market-gardening, and mining. These are the locales that many non-indigenous Australians think of as the homes of the most traditional indigenous communities and people. The contributors discuss the changing circumstances of indigenous people who originate from such places. Some remain, while others travel far afield. The accounts reveal a diversity of experiences and histories that involve major dynamics of disembedding from country and home locales, and re-embedding in new contexts, and reconfigurations of relatedness. The essays explore dimensions of change and continuity in childhood experience and socialization in a desert community; the influence of Christianity in fostering both individuation and relatedness in northeast Arnhem Land; the diaspora of Central Australian Warlpiri people to cities and the forms of life and livelihood they make there; adolescent experiences of schooling away from home communities; youth in kin-based heavy metal gangs configuring new identities, and indigenous people of southeast Australia reflecting on whether an "Aboriginal way" can be sustained. The volume takes a step toward understanding the relation between changing circumstances and changing lives of indigenous Australians today and provides a sense of the quality and the feel of those lives.

Gallipoli - The War Nobody Won: Special Souvenir Edition: Special Souvenir Edition (Hardcover): Kenn Lord Gallipoli - The War Nobody Won: Special Souvenir Edition: Special Souvenir Edition (Hardcover)
Kenn Lord
R903 Discovery Miles 9 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Benevolent Colonizers in Nineteenth-Century Australia - Quaker Lives and Ideals (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Eva Bischoff Benevolent Colonizers in Nineteenth-Century Australia - Quaker Lives and Ideals (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Eva Bischoff
R2,703 Discovery Miles 27 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book reconstructs the history of a group of British Quaker families and their involvement in the process of settler colonialism in early nineteenth-century Australia. Their everyday actions contributed to the multiplicity of practices that displaced and annihilated Aboriginal communities. Simultaneously, early nineteenth-century Friends were members of a translocal, transatlantic community characterized by pacifism and an involvement in transnational humanitarian efforts, such as the abolitionist and the prison reform movements as well as the Aborigines Protection Society. Considering these ideals, how did Quakers negotiate the violence of the frontier? To answer this question, the book looks at Tasmanian and South Australian Quakers' lives and experiences, their journeys and their writings. Building on recent scholarship on the entanglement between the local and the global, each chapter adopts a different historical perspective in terms of breadth and focused time period. The study combines these different takes to capture the complexities of this topic and era.

Gallipoli (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Alan Moorehead Gallipoli (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Alan Moorehead; Introduction by Max Hastings
R1,503 Discovery Miles 15 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Gallipoli expedition was the bold and audacious plan of Winston Churchill, amongst others, to force the Dardanelles narrows, by sea and by land, to capture Constantinople from the Turks and to open the Black Sea to ships taking supplies and arms for the Russians on their immense German front. The campaign failed with catastrophic loss of life on all sides, but again and again, unbeknown to the Allies, they came close to achieving a goal that might have led to victory overall. This book, first published in 1956, is still regarded as the best and definitive account of the campaign. It won the Sunday Times Best Book of the Year Award as well as the inaugural Duff Cooper prize when the winner could choose who would present the award. Appropriately enough, Moorehead chose Churchill to make the presentation because the book demonstrated that the faults were not in the conception of the plan. Indeed, long after Churchill had resigned in disgrace, a new fleet was being assembled to again attempt to force the Dardanelles in 1919, which was cancelled when the war ceased and the Armistice was signed. Seen in the new light that Moorehead revealed, the Gallipoli campaign was no longer regarded as a blunder or a reckless gamble; it was the most imaginative conception of the war, and its potentialities were almost beyond reckoning. Certainly in its strictly military aspect its influence was enormous. It was the greatest amphibious operation which mankind had known up till then, and it took place in circumstances in which nearly everything was experimental: in the use of submarines and aircraft, in the trial of modern naval guns against artillery on the shore, in the manoeuvre of landing armies in small boats on a hostile coast, in the use of radio, or the aerial bomb, the landmine, and many other novel devices. These things lead on through Dunkirk and the Mediterranean landings to the invasion of Normandy in the Second World War. In 1940 there was very little the Allied commanders could learn from the long struggle against the Kaiser's armies in the trenches in France. But Gallipoli was a mine of information about the complexities of the modern war of manoeuvre, of the combined operation by land and sea and sky; and the correction of the errors made then was the basis of the victory of 1945. "the story of one of the great military tragedies of the twentieth century, which no writer has described better than Alan Moorehead." Sir Max Hastings.

A Voyage to Terra Australis - Volume 2 (Hardcover): Matthew Flinders A Voyage to Terra Australis - Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Matthew Flinders
R904 Discovery Miles 9 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

When Matthew Flinders set out in 1801 to carry out a 'complete examination and survey' of the coast of New Holland, little did he know that he would be away for over ten years. Although he did not coin the term 'Australia' he keenly advocated its use, rather than the clumsy 'Terra Australis', and will always be associated with its adoption. As well as his meticulous surveys and maps, he made many observations on ship-board life, flora and fauna, and the appearance and customs of the native peoples he encountered. Volume 2 deals with the second half of his Australian survey, followed by his incarceration on Mauritius for over 6 years by the French, and his eventual release and return to England.

Messages to the Antipodes - Communications to the Baha'i Communities of Australasia (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Shoghi Effendi Messages to the Antipodes - Communications to the Baha'i Communities of Australasia (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Shoghi Effendi
R1,017 Discovery Miles 10 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Voyage to Terra Australis - Volume 1 (Hardcover): Matthew Flinders A Voyage to Terra Australis - Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Matthew Flinders
R865 Discovery Miles 8 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

When Matthew Flinders set out in 1801 to carry out a 'complete examination and survey' of the coast of New Holland, little did he know that he would be away for over ten years. Although he did not coin the term 'Australia' he keenly advocated its use, rather than the clumsy 'Terra Australis' and will always be associated with its adoption. As well as his meticulous surveys and maps, he made many observations on ship-board life, flora and fauna, and the appearance and customs of the native peoples he encountered. Volume 1 starts with a thorough review of previous exploratory voyages to the great Southern continent, and then proceeds to describe the first part of his journey, from Portsmouth to Port Jackson (Sydney).

Stanley Melbourne Bruce - Australian Internationalist (Hardcover, New): David Lee Stanley Melbourne Bruce - Australian Internationalist (Hardcover, New)
David Lee
R4,926 Discovery Miles 49 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Australia's Prime Minister and premier diplomat in the 1930/1940s, this new biography presents him as a consistent internationalist and places him in a global context. Stanley Melbourne Bruce was at the centre of Imperial politics for more than two decades from the early 1920s until the end of the Second World War. This new biography presents Bruce as a consistent internationalist. Educated in Melbourne and Cambridge, Bruce, as a businessman, was alive to the importance of international commerce, and particularly Anglo-Australian trade. This lay at the core of his internationalism, which took the form in the 1920s of encouraging the political and economic integration of the British Empire. Bruce's punitive treatment of militant Australian trade unionists and his upholding of constitutionalism and law and order in the 1920s was part of an effort to defend one form of internationalism, commitment to the British Empire, against the competing international ideology of communism. While continuing to support a unified British Empire acting as a progressive force in world affairs, Bruce championed stronger international collaboration through the League of Nations and the United Nations and through cooperation between the Empire and the United States.

Korean Methodist Church in Australia and New Zealand - History and Character (Hardcover) (Microfilm, New): Yong-Sun Yang Korean Methodist Church in Australia and New Zealand - History and Character (Hardcover) (Microfilm, New)
Yong-Sun Yang
R1,739 Discovery Miles 17 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

is an important book for the study of Korean Christianity in Australia and New Zealand. This important book contains 8 articles by Korean Christian clergy and scholars who have experienced the vibrancy of Korean Christianity in Australia and New Zealand. Many of these scholars have been participants in the history-making process. This book, therefore, is an indispensable resource for scholars, pastors, lay people, and interested public who want to understand the experience of Korean Christians better. The editor, Yong-Sun Yang, is Professor of Systematic Theology at Wesley Institute in Sydney, Australia.

Walking With Chiefs (Hardcover): Ron Kendall Walking With Chiefs (Hardcover)
Ron Kendall
R853 R741 Discovery Miles 7 410 Save R112 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Born in 1958? What else happened? (Hardcover): Ron Williams Born in 1958? What else happened? (Hardcover)
Ron Williams
R474 Discovery Miles 4 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Western Historiography in Asia - Circulation, Critique and Comparison (Hardcover): Q.Edward Wang, Okamoto Michihiro, Longguo Li Western Historiography in Asia - Circulation, Critique and Comparison (Hardcover)
Q.Edward Wang, Okamoto Michihiro, Longguo Li
R3,217 Discovery Miles 32 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume provides a unique and critical perspective on how Chinese, Japanese and Korean scholars engage and critique the West in their historical thinking. It showcases the dialogue between Asian experts and their Euro-American counterparts and offers valuable insights on how to challenge and overcome Eurocentrism in historical writing.

The Voyage to Marege' - Macassan Trepangers in Northern Australia (Paperback): Campbell Macknight The Voyage to Marege' - Macassan Trepangers in Northern Australia (Paperback)
Campbell Macknight
R973 Discovery Miles 9 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Blue Water Warriors - The Early Sydney to Hobart Yacht Races (Hardcover, Casebound ed.): Craig Harris, Marsden Hordern Blue Water Warriors - The Early Sydney to Hobart Yacht Races (Hardcover, Casebound ed.)
Craig Harris, Marsden Hordern; Foreword by John Bertrand
R1,371 Discovery Miles 13 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Perth (Paperback): David Whish-Wilson Perth (Paperback)
David Whish-Wilson
R768 R544 Discovery Miles 5 440 Save R224 (29%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

... we rarely travel far to swim. We occasionally cross the river to Leighton or Cottesloe, where the white sand squeaks underfoot and the champagne foam in the shallows tingles the legs and fizzes over the shoreline and makes children giddy with delight. Mid-morning, before the sun passes overhead and shears off the ocean, the cirrus clouds above the horizon often resemble passages of perfect cursive script written in soft white lines against the bluest page. This is the picture of a Perth in harmony with the stillness and space and silence that is its truest personality, the only prick of drama being the spotter plane of the shark patrol crawling over the sky. David Whish-Wilson's Perth - the river, the coast, the plain and the light - is a place where deeper historical currents are never far beneath the surface and cannot be ignored. Like the Swan River that can flow in two directions at once, with the fresh water flowing seawards above the salty water flowing in beneath, Perth strikes perfect harmony with the city's contradictions and eccentricities. Whish-Wilson takes us beyond the near-constant sunshine, shiny glass facades, and boosterish talk of mining booms and the gloom after the bust. Lyrical and sensitive, Whish-Wilson introduces his readers to the richness of the natural world and the trailblazers, the rebels, the occasional ghost and the ordinary people that bring Australia's remotest capital city to life. He reminds us that while the city's boundaries are porous as people come and go, rates of Indigenous incarceration are high. Carefully researched and full of personal reminiscences - including many about fishing - and eye-opening facts, Perth now has a remarkable new Postscript. Here Whish-Wilson returns to the city's ghosts - some human, others the ancient jarrah trees, wildflowers and wild birds that once flourished but no longer. And, as he walks across the new Matagarup Bridge to watch the footy he reflects on the city his children will inherit. New edition of a classic with a new Postscript in which Whish-Wilson returns to the ghosts and memories of his city and reflects on how much it has changed since his book was first published in 2013 A beautiful portrait of Perth that will move outsiders to revisit their preconceptions about the place and inspire residents to renew their connections Acclaimed for its poetic writing Author's reputation as a crime writer growing with four thrillers -all set in Perth - out with Fremantle since the publication of Perth Will be supported by major media and publicity campaign

Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon (1788) (Hardcover): George B. Worgan Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon (1788) (Hardcover)
George B. Worgan
R512 Discovery Miles 5 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

George Worgan was an English naval surgeon who accompanied the First Fleet to Australia. He made expeditions to the Hawkesbury River and Broken Bay areas north of Sydney and spent a year on Norfolk Island after his was shipwrecked there. Although he kept a journal, it was not published on his return, unlike his contemporary, Watkin Tench. This book consists of letters to his brother in England, written in 1788, the second letter journaling the first six months after the First Fleet's arrival in Sydney Cove.

John Batman - An Inside Story of the Birth of Melbourne (Hardcover): Joy Braybrook John Batman - An Inside Story of the Birth of Melbourne (Hardcover)
Joy Braybrook
R676 Discovery Miles 6 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Rebellion of 1895. A Complete History of the Isurrection Against the Republic of Hawaii. List of Officers and Members of... The Rebellion of 1895. A Complete History of the Isurrection Against the Republic of Hawaii. List of Officers and Members of the National Guard of Hawaii and the Citizen's Guard (Hardcover)
Ed 1867- Towse
R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tikopia Collected: Raymond Firth and the Creation of Solomon Islands Cultural Heritage 2017 (Hardcover): Elizabeth Bonshek Tikopia Collected: Raymond Firth and the Creation of Solomon Islands Cultural Heritage 2017 (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Bonshek
R2,179 Discovery Miles 21 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

During 1928-9 the renowned anthropologist Raymond Firth visited Tikopia, a small island in the east of Solomon Islands, for the first time. This book takes the collection he made as its subject, and explores how through its acquisition, Firth ceased to be a stranger and became a respected figure incorporated into Tikopia society. The objects were originally viewed by Firth as data in a scientific record of a culture, and evidence challenging the belief that complex economic transactions could only take place in a recognizable market economy. Elizabeth Bonshek, however, revisits the collection's documentation and the ethnography of Tikopia with a different intent in mind: to highlight the social relations the collecting process illuminates and to acknowledge Tikopia voices, past and present. She argues that Firth downplayed the impact of contact with outsiders - whalers, traders and missionaries calling for the abandonment of the Work of the Gods - yet this context is vital for understanding why local people actively contributed to his collecting and research. She follows the life of the collection after leaving the island in institutions that attributed different meanings to its significance, in a failed repatriation request and in a new role in the transmission of 'cultural heritage' along with Firth's writings. She concludes that Firth's exchanges of objects with other high-ranking men were culturally appropriate to the social values dominant in that time and place. Indeed, she suggests that while Firth was acquiring Tikopia artefacts, the Tikopia were perhaps acquiring him. On what ethical and economic terms does an anthropologist acquire other people's things? Collecting Tikopia deftly applies the insights of contemporary material culture studies to a historically important case. Bonshek coaxes ethnographic documents and museum artefacts to reveal how objects both materialize cultural identities over time and mediate social relations across worlds of difference. Professor Robert Foster, University of Rochester, President of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. Richly supported by documentation this skilful and insightful analysis reveals the complexity of cross-cultural interactions and highlights important concerns for the interpretation and management of cultural heritage in museum 'treasure places' worldwide. Dr Robin Torrence, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Anthropology Research, Australian Museum.

The British World and an Australian National Identity - Anglo-Australian Cricket, 1860-1901 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Jared... The British World and an Australian National Identity - Anglo-Australian Cricket, 1860-1901 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Jared Van Duinen
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the dynamics of Anglo-Australian cricketing relations within the 'British World' in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores what these interactions can tell us about broader Anglo-Australian relations during this period and, in particular, the evolution of an Australian national identity. Sport was, and is, a key aspect of Australian culture. Jared van Duinen demonstrates how sport was used to rehearse an identity that would then emerge in broader cultural and political terms. Using cricket as a case study, this book contributes to the ongoing historiographical debate about the nature and evolution of an Australian national identity.

Anzac Labour - Workplace Cultures in the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War (Hardcover): Nathan Wise Anzac Labour - Workplace Cultures in the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War (Hardcover)
Nathan Wise
R2,428 R1,896 Discovery Miles 18 960 Save R532 (22%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Anzac Labour explores the horror, frustration and exhaustion surrounding working life in the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War. Based on letters and diaries of Australian soldiers, it traces the history of work and workplace cultures through Australia, the shores of Gallipoli, the fields of France and Belgium, and the Near East.

The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks (Hardcover): Sir Joseph Banks The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks (Hardcover)
Sir Joseph Banks
R985 Discovery Miles 9 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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