Australia Oceania category: 2401 books
Elizabeth Macarthur
A Life at the Edge of the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
‘An intimate portrait of a woman who changed herself and Australia…Michelle Scott Tucker makes Elizabeth Macarthur step off the page.’ David Hunt , Author of Girt
In 1788 a young gentlewoman raised in the vicarage of an English village married a handsome, haughty and penniless army officer....
Germans
Travellers, settlers and their descendants in South Australia
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
From Beehive Corner and Bert Flugelman's polished balls in Rundle Mall to the vineyards, churches and cemeteries of the Barossa Valley, tangible signs of South Australia's Germans are everywhere to be seen. Too often, however, "the Germans" are regarded as a single group in the state's history....
The Patriarchs
A History of Australian Lutheran Schooling 1839-1919
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
There have been Lutheran schools in Australia for more than 170 years. This book examines the first 80 years of that history through a series of biographies of the patriarchs, those educational leaders who established the rich traditions which still influence the church and its approach to formal...
by Mathew Radcliffe
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The Royal Australian Air Force base at Butterworth was Australia's largest and most enduring overseas military garrison in post-war Southeast Asia.Home to the majority of Australian airpower for over three decades, Butterworth was also home to a vibrant Australian community. From 1955 until 1988,...
by Richard G Tomkies
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This new book "True Stories of Early Australia" is the result of a great deal of research and is complete with old photographs both black and white and color. The author has endeavored to record some fascinating stories of an earlier era many of which have been obscured over time from the general...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This study of Australian business institutions and practices places the rise of big business in Australia in a comparative context through a study of its 100 largest firms in the first six and a half decades of the 20th century.
Unlike many of the wealthy economies of the northern hemisphere, Australia's...
by Trevor McClaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
The women of Ireland, bond or free, have left a distinctive mark on Australia's population and culture.
Irish Women in Colonial Australia provides an intriguing picture of the richness and variety of the Irish experience in the making of a new nation. Ireland provided the majority of female...
Australian Gypsies
Their Secret History
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Today, roughly 100,000 Gypsies call Australia home, yet until now their experiences have been hidden from our history, and from our present.Here, award-winning memoirist and novelist Mandy Sayer weaves together a wide-ranging and exuberant history of Gypsies in Australia. She begins with the roots...
Adelaide & Northern Territory Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2015
Named by Lonely Planet as one of its ‘Top 10 Must-Visit Cities of 2014’, the city of Adelaide is an emerging international tourist destination in South Australia. Adelaide has also been ranked as the most liveable city in Australia and as one of the ‘Top 10 Most Liveable Cities in the World’...
The Migrants Part II
The remarkable Mertins and other honorable migrants
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Part 2: More storys about successfull Migrants from Europe to Australia. Incluing the family-tree from the Martin/Mertin-Family from Nekla-Hauland, Poland. Most Migrants are trying to change their often-oppressed past lives and many manage to do so. Parting from loved ones is never easy, but leave...
Red Dust in Her Veins
Women of the Pilbara
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The twelve women interviewed in this book all share a strong attachment to the physical and spiritual beauty of the Pilbara, in the northwest of Western Australia. A common bond between the four indigenous and eight non-indigenous women whose stories we have read is not only the love of the landscape...
by Damien Fellows
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Australia is a beautiful place to live and to raise a family it is also one of the most highly regulated and bureaucratic countries on the planet.If you are looking to move to Australia (and you won’t regret it once you do) there are many considerations that you take into account from a compliance...
Australia and the New World Order: Volume 2, The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations
From Peacekeeping to Peace Enforcement: 1988–1991
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
This volume of the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations is the first comprehensive study of Australia's role in the peacekeeping and peace enforcement operations that developed at the end of the Cold War. It recounts vital missions including Namibia...
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
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2018
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...