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Pacific Century - The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia (Paperback, 4th edition): Mark Borthwick Pacific Century - The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia (Paperback, 4th edition)
Mark Borthwick
R2,157 Discovery Miles 21 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the role of the international financial system in the development of Pacific Asia and, conversely, the region's growing influence on North America and the world economy. It looks at the distant future, being devoted primarily to understanding the emergence of modern Pacific Asia.

Talepakemalai - Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania (Hardcover): Patrick Vinton Kirch Talepakemalai - Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania (Hardcover)
Patrick Vinton Kirch
R3,195 Discovery Miles 31 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is a study of the Lapita Cultural Complex, a region spanning both Melanesia and Western Polynesia. The Lapita culture has been interpreted as the archaeological manifestation of a diaspora of Austronesian-speaking people (specifically of Proto-Oceanic language) who rapidly expanded from the New Guinea region into Remote Oceania. The Lapita Cultural Complex--first uncovered in the mid-20th century as a widespread archaeological complex spanning both Melanesia and Western Polynesia--has subsequently become recognized as of fundamental importance to Oceanic prehistory. Notable for its highly distinctive, elaborate, dentate-stamped pottery, Lapita sites date to between 3500-2700 BP, spanning the geographic range from the Bismarck Archipelago to Tonga and Samoa. The Lapita culture has been interpreted as the archaeological manifestation of a diaspora of Austronesian-speaking people (specifically of Proto-Oceanic language) who rapidly expanded from Near Oceania (the New Guinea-Bismarcks region) into Remote Oceania, where no humans had previously ventured. Lapita is thus a foundational culture throughout much of the southwestern Pacific, ancestral to much of the later, ethnographically-attested cultural diversity of the region.

Treaty of Waitangi (Paperback): Ross Calman Treaty of Waitangi (Paperback)
Ross Calman
R575 R454 Discovery Miles 4 540 Save R121 (21%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"The Treaty of Waitangi" is the founding document of New Zealand, a subject of endless discussion and controversy, and is at the centre of many of this nations major events, including the annual Waitangi Day celebrations and protests. Yet many New Zealanders lack the basic information on the details about the Treaty.

Lighthouse - An Illuminating History of the World's Coastal Sentinels (Hardcover): R. G Grant Lighthouse - An Illuminating History of the World's Coastal Sentinels (Hardcover)
R. G Grant
R808 R704 Discovery Miles 7 040 Save R104 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Empire of Hell - Religion and the Campaign to End Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1788-1875 (Hardcover): Hilary... Empire of Hell - Religion and the Campaign to End Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1788-1875 (Hardcover)
Hilary M. Carey
R2,514 Discovery Miles 25 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This revisionist history of convict transportation from Britain and Ireland will challenge much that you thought you knew about religion and penal colonies. Based on original archival sources, it examines arguments by elites in favour and against the practice of transportation and considers why they thought it could be reformed, and, later, why it should be abolished. In this, the first religious history of the anti-transportation campaign, Hilary M. Carey addresses all the colonies and denominations engaged in the debate. Without minimising the individual horror of transportation, she demonstrates the wide variety of reformist experiments conducted in the Australian penal colonies, as well as the hulks, Bermuda and Gibraltar. She showcases the idealists who fought for more humane conditions for prisoners, as well as the 'political parsons', who lobbied to bring transportation to an end. The complex arguments about convict transportation, which were engaged in by bishops, judges, priests, politicians and intellectuals, crossed continents and divided an empire.

A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific - The Formation of Identities (Paperback): D Denoon A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific - The Formation of Identities (Paperback)
D Denoon
R1,169 Discovery Miles 11 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides an arresting interpretation of the history of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific from the earliest settlements to the present. Usually viewed in isolation, these societies are covered here in a single account, in which the authors show how the peoples of the region constructed their own identities and influenced those of their neighbours.
By broadening the focus to the regional level, this volume develops analyses - of economic, social and political history - which transcend
national boundaries. The result is a compelling work which both describes the aspirations of European settlers and reveals how the dispossessed and marginalized indigenous peoples negotiated their own lives as best they could. The authors demonstrate that these stories are not separate but rather strands of a single history.

Rock College - An unofficial history of Mt Eden Prison (Paperback): Mark Derby Rock College - An unofficial history of Mt Eden Prison (Paperback)
Mark Derby
R806 Discovery Miles 8 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

INSIDE THE FORBIDDING STONE WALLS OF NEW ZEALANDS MOST INFAMOUS GAOL. Grim, Victorian, notorious, for 150 years Mount Eden Prison held both New Zealand's political prisoners and its most notorious criminals. Te Kooti, Rua Kenana, John A. Lee, George Wilder, Tim Shadbolt and Sandra Coney all spent time in its dank cells. Its interior has been the scene of mass riots, daring escapes and hangings. Highly regarded historian Mark Derby tells the prison's inside story with verve and compassion. .

Super Cheap New Zealand - The Ultimate Travel Guide for Budget Travelers, Backpackers, Campers, Students and Families... Super Cheap New Zealand - The Ultimate Travel Guide for Budget Travelers, Backpackers, Campers, Students and Families (Paperback)
Matthew Baxter; Illustrated by James Hernandez
R316 Discovery Miles 3 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Early Merchant Families of Sydney - Speculation and Risk Management on the Fringes of Empire (Hardcover, New): Janette Holcomb Early Merchant Families of Sydney - Speculation and Risk Management on the Fringes of Empire (Hardcover, New)
Janette Holcomb
R3,062 Discovery Miles 30 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Establishing business enterprise in a tiny, remote penal settlement appears to defy the principles of sustainable demand and supply. Yet early Sydney attracted a number of business entrepreneurs, including Campbell, Riley and Walker. If the development of private enterprise in early colonial Australia is counterintuitive, an understanding of its rationale, nature and risk strategies is the more imperative. This book traces the development of private enterprise in Australia through a study of the antecedents, connections and commercial activities of early Sydney merchants.

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
R2,150 R1,957 Discovery Miles 19 570 Save R193 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 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.

With Them Through Hell - New Zealand Medical Services in the First World War (Hardcover): Anna Rogers With Them Through Hell - New Zealand Medical Services in the First World War (Hardcover)
Anna Rogers
R1,112 Discovery Miles 11 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Voyagers - The Settlement of the Pacific (Hardcover): Nicholas Thomas Voyagers - The Settlement of the Pacific (Hardcover)
Nicholas Thomas
R613 R513 Discovery Miles 5 130 Save R100 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Pretender of Pitcairn Island - Joshua W. Hill - The Man Who Would Be King Among the Bounty Mutineers (Hardcover): Tillman... The Pretender of Pitcairn Island - Joshua W. Hill - The Man Who Would Be King Among the Bounty Mutineers (Hardcover)
Tillman W. Nechtman
R2,393 Discovery Miles 23 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Pitcairn, a tiny Pacific island that was refuge to the mutineers of HMAV Bounty and home to their descendants, later became the stage on which one imposter played out his influential vision for British control over the nineteenth-century Pacific Ocean. Joshua W. Hill arrived on Pitcairn in 1832 and began his fraudulent half-decade rule that has, until now, been swept aside as an idiosyncratic moment in the larger saga of Fletcher Christian's mutiny against Captain Bligh, and the mutineers' unlikely settlement of Pitcairn. Here, Hill is shown instead as someone alert to the full scope and power of the British Empire, to the geopolitics of international imperial competition, to the ins and outs of naval command, the vicissitudes of court politics, and, as such, to Pitcairn's symbolic power for the British Empire more broadly.

Lost Histories - Recovering the Lives of Japan's Colonial Peoples (Hardcover): Kirsten L. Ziomek Lost Histories - Recovering the Lives of Japan's Colonial Peoples (Hardcover)
Kirsten L. Ziomek
R1,656 R1,385 Discovery Miles 13 850 Save R271 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A grandson's photo album. Old postcards. English porcelain. A granite headstone. These are just a few of the material objects that help reconstruct the histories of colonial people who lived during Japan's empire. These objects, along with oral histories and visual imagery, reveal aspects of lives that reliance on the colonial archive alone cannot. They help answer the primary question of Lost Histories: Is it possible to write the history of Japan's colonial subjects? Kirsten Ziomek contends that it is possible, and in the process she brings us closer to understanding the complexities of their lives. Lost Histories provides a geographically and temporally holistic view of the Japanese empire from the early 1900s to the 1970s. The experiences of the four least-examined groups of Japanese colonial subjects-the Ainu, Taiwan's indigenous people, Micronesians, and Okinawans-are the centerpiece of the book. By reconstructing individual life histories and following these people as they crossed colonial borders to the metropolis and beyond, Ziomek conveys the dynamic nature of an empire in motion and explains how individuals navigated the vagaries of imperial life.

Illicit Love - Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia (Hardcover): Ann McGrath Illicit Love - Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia (Hardcover)
Ann McGrath
R1,174 R961 Discovery Miles 9 610 Save R213 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Illicit Love is a history of love, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and settler citizens at the heart of two settler colonial nations, the United States and Australia. Award-winning historian Ann McGrath illuminates interracial relationships from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century through stories of romance, courtship, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and colonizers in times of nation formation. Illicit Love reveals how marriage itself was used by disparate parties for both empowerment and disempowerment and how it came to embody the contradictions of imperialism. A tour de force of settler colonial history, McGrath's study demonstrates vividly how interracial relationships between Indigenous and colonizing peoples were more frequent and threatening to nation-states in the Atlantic and the Pacific worlds than historians have previously acknowledged.

The Long Search for Peace: Volume 1, The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations... The Long Search for Peace: Volume 1, The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations - Observer Missions and Beyond, 1947-2006 (Hardcover)
Peter Londey, Rhys Crawley, David Horner
R3,012 Discovery Miles 30 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Volume I of the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations recounts the Australian peacekeeping missions that began between 1947 and 1982, and follows them through to 2006, which is the end point of this series. The operations described in The Long Search for Peace - some long, some short; some successful, some not - represent a long period of learning and experimentation, and were a necessary apprenticeship for all that was to follow. Australia contributed peacekeepers to all major decolonisation efforts: for thirty-five years in Kashmir, fifty-three years in Cyprus, and (as of writing) sixty-one years in the Middle East, as well as shorter deployments in Indonesia, Korea and Rhodesia. This volume also describes some smaller-scale Australian missions in the Congo, West New Guinea, Yemen, Uganda and Lebanon. It brings to life Australia's long-term contribution not only to these operations but also to the very idea of peacekeeping.

A History of the Pacific Islands (Paperback, 2nd edition): Steven Roger Fischer A History of the Pacific Islands (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Steven Roger Fischer
R1,102 Discovery Miles 11 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This wide-ranging study of the Pacific Islands provides a dynamic and provocative account of the peopling of the Pacific, and its broad impact on world history. Spanning over 50,000 years of human presence in an area which comprises one-third of our planet - Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia - the narrative follows the development of the region, from New Guinea's earliest settlement to the creation of the modern Pacific states. Thoroughly revised and updated in light of the most recent scholarship, the second edition includes: * an overview of the events and developments in the Pacific Islands over the last decade * coverage of the latest archaeological discoveries * several new maps * an updated and expanded bibliography Steven Roger Fischer's unique text provides a highly accessible and invaluable introduction to the history of an area which is currently emerging as pivotal in international affairs. A History of the Pacific Islands traces the human history of nearly one-third of the globe over a fifty-thousand year span. This is history on a grand scale, taking the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia from prehistoric culture to the present day through a skilful interpretation of scholarship in the field. Fischer's familiarity with work in archaeology and anthropology as well as in history enriches the text, making this a book with wide appeal for students and general readers.

Implacable Foes - War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 (Hardcover): Waldo H. Heinrichs, Marc Gallicchio Implacable Foes - War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 (Hardcover)
Waldo H. Heinrichs, Marc Gallicchio
R701 Discovery Miles 7 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

On 8 May 1945, Victory in Europe Day-shortened to "V.E. Day"-brought with it the demise of Nazi Germany. But for the Allies, the war was only half-won. Exhausted but exuberant American soldiers, ready to return home, were sent to join the fighting in the Pacific, which by the spring and summer of 1945 had turned into a gruelling campaign of bloody attrition against an enemy determined to fight to the last man. Germany had surrendered unconditionally. The Japanese would clearly make the conditions of victory extraordinarily high. In the United States, Americans clamored for their troops to come home and for a return to a peacetime economy. Politics intruded upon military policy while a new and untested president struggled to strategize among a military command that was often mired in rivalry. The task of defeating the Japanese seemed nearly unsurmountable, even while plans to invade the home islands were being drawn. Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall warned of the toll that "the agony of enduring battle" would likely take. General Douglas MacArthur clashed with Marshall and Admiral Nimitz over the most effective way to defeat the increasingly resilient Japanese combatants. In the midst of this division, the Army began a program of partial demobilization of troops in Europe, which depleted units at a time when they most needed experienced soldiers. In this context of military emergency, the fearsome projections of the human cost of invading the Japanese homeland, and weakening social and political will, victory was salvaged by means of a horrific new weapon. As one Army staff officer admitted, "The capitulation of Hirohito saved our necks." In Implacable Foes, award-winning historians Waldo Heinrichs (a veteran of both theatres of war in World War II) and Marc Gallicchio bring to life the final year of World War II in the Pacific right up to the dropping of the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, evoking not only Japanese policies of desperate defense, but the sometimes rancorous debates on the home front. They deliver a gripping and provocative narrative that challenges the decision-making of U.S. leaders and delineates the consequences of prioritizing the European front. The result is a masterly work of military history that evaluates the nearly insurmountable trials associated with waging global war and the sacrifices necessary to succeed.

The Limits of Peacekeeping: Volume 4, The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War... The Limits of Peacekeeping: Volume 4, The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations - Australian Missions in Africa and the Americas, 1992-2005 (Hardcover)
Jean Bou, Bob Breen, David Horner, Garth Pratten, Miesje de Vogel
R3,700 Discovery Miles 37 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Limits of Peacekeeping highlights the Australian government's peacekeeping efforts in Africa and the Americas from 1992 to 2005. Changing world power structures and increased international cooperation saw a boom in Australia's peacekeeping operations between 1991 and 1995. The initial optimism of this period proved to be misplaced, as the limits of the United Nations and the international community to resolve deep-seated problems became clear. There were also limits on how many missions a middle-sized country like Australia could support. Restricted by the size of the armed forces and financial and geographic constraints, peacekeeping was always a secondary task to ensuring the defence of Australia. Faith in the effectiveness of peacekeeping reduced significantly, and the election of the Howard Coalition Government in 1996 confined peacekeeping missions to the near region from 1996-2001. This volume is an authoritative and compelling history of Australia's changing attitudes towards peacekeeping.

The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory - Passchendaele and the Anzac Legend (Paperback): Matthew Haultain-Gall The Battlefield of Imperishable Memory - Passchendaele and the Anzac Legend (Paperback)
Matthew Haultain-Gall
R619 Discovery Miles 6 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Kingdom and the Republic - Sovereign Hawai'i and the Early United States (Hardcover): Noelani Arista The Kingdom and the Republic - Sovereign Hawai'i and the Early United States (Hardcover)
Noelani Arista
R1,149 R1,031 Discovery Miles 10 310 Save R118 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1823, as the first American missionaries arrived in Hawai'i, the archipelago was experiencing a profound transformation in its rule, as oral law that had been maintained for hundreds of years was in the process of becoming codified anew through the medium of writing. The arrival of sailors in pursuit of the lucrative sandalwood trade obliged the ali'i (chiefs) of the islands to pronounce legal restrictions on foreigners' access to Hawaiian women. Assuming the new missionaries were the source of these rules, sailors attacked two mission stations, fracturing relations between merchants, missionaries, and sailors, while native rulers remained firmly in charge. In The Kingdom and the Republic, Noelani Arista (Kanaka Maoli) uncovers a trove of previously unused Hawaiian language documents to chronicle the story of Hawaiians' experience of encounter and colonialism in the nineteenth century. Through this research, she explores the political deliberations between ali'i over the sale of a Hawaiian woman to a British ship captain in 1825 and the consequences of the attacks on the mission stations. The result is a heretofore untold story of native political formation, the creation of indigenous law, and the extension of chiefly rule over natives and foreigners alike. Relying on what is perhaps the largest archive of written indigenous language materials in North America, Arista argues that Hawaiian deliberations and actions in this period cannot be understood unless one takes into account Hawaiian understandings of the past-and the ways this knowledge of history was mobilized as a means to influence the present and secure a better future. In pursuing this history, The Kingdom and the Republic reconfigures familiar colonial histories of trade, proselytization, and negotiations over law and governance in Hawai'i.

Men Without Country - The true story of exploration and rebellion in the South Seas (Hardcover): Harrison Christian Men Without Country - The true story of exploration and rebellion in the South Seas (Hardcover)
Harrison Christian
R577 R472 Discovery Miles 4 720 Save R105 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'What joy to be at sea again, adrift on the vast Pacific, in the clutches of a gifted storyteller. Harrison Christian and the mutineers of Men Without Country held me happily captive to the very last page.' - Dava Sobel, author of Longitude 'Men Without Country shows what a writer can produce when he has real skin in the game... Harrison Christian sets the record straight on the Bounty mutiny with forensic fervour, including the before, the during - and the after.' - Adam Courtenay, author of The Ship that Never Was Full of misadventure and mystery, Men Without Country is a sweeping history of exploration and rebellion in the South Seas - told by a direct descendant of Fletcher Christian, the man who led the infamous mutiny on the Bounty A mission to collect breadfruit from Tahiti becomes the most famous mutiny in history when the crew rise up against Captain William Bligh, with accusations of food restrictions and unfair punishments. Bligh's remarkable journey back to safety is well documented, but the fates of the mutinous men remain shrouded in mystery. Some settled in Tahiti only to face capture and court martial, others sailed on to form a secret colony on Pitcairn Island, the most remote inhabited island on earth, avoiding detection for twenty years. When an American captain stumbled across the island in 1808, only one of the Bounty mutineers was left alive. Told by a direct descendant of Fletcher Christian, Men Without Country details the journey of the Bounty, and the lives of the men aboard. Lives dominated by a punishing regime of hard work and scarce rations, and deeply divided by the hierarchy of class. It is a tale of adventure and exploration punctuated by moments of extreme violence - towards each other and the people of the South Pacific. For the first time, Christian provides a comprehensive and compelling account of the whole story - from the history of trade and exploration in the South Seas to Pitcairn Island, which provided the mutineers' salvation, and then became their grave.

Born Bad - Original Sin and the Making of the Western World (Paperback): James Boyce Born Bad - Original Sin and the Making of the Western World (Paperback)
James Boyce
R436 R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Save R46 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Original sin is the Western world's creation story." According to the Christian doctrine of original sin, humans are born inherently bad, and only through God's grace can they achieve salvation. In this captivating and controversial book, acclaimed historian James Boyce explores how this centuries-old concept has shaped the Western view of human nature right up to the present. Boyce traces a history of original sin from Adam and Eve, St. Augustine, and Martin Luther to Adam Smith, Sigmund Freud, and Richard Dawkins, and explores how each has contributed to shaping our conception of original sin. Boyce argues that despite the marked decline in church attendance in recent years, religious ideas of morality still very much underpin our modern secular society, regardless of our often being unaware of their origins. If today the specific doctrine has all but disappeared (even from churches), what remains is the distinctive discontent of Western people--the feelings of guilt and inadequacy associated not with doing wrong, but with being wrong. In addition to offering an innovative history of Christianity, Boyce offers new insights in to the creation of the West. Born Bad is the sweeping story of a controversial idea and the remarkable influence it still wields.

The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change (Paperback): Iain McCalman The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change (Paperback)
Iain McCalman
R491 R376 Discovery Miles 3 760 Save R115 (23%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Queen Liliuokalani - The Hawaiian Kingdom's Last Monarch, Hawaii History, A Biography (Paperback): Kale Makana Queen Liliuokalani - The Hawaiian Kingdom's Last Monarch, Hawaii History, A Biography (Paperback)
Kale Makana
R172 Discovery Miles 1 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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