Australia Oceania category: 2401 books
War Time Poetry & Stories
from Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Greg Writes:
'These poems and short stories, including the letters to my wife Robyn, were written while I was at Forward Operating Base Tinsley in Afghanistan in 2011. I was a member of the Force Communications Unit and part of Australia's commitment to the War on Terrorism.
'Writng...
by Gordon Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2015
In 1914 Australia joined England and declared war on Germany and it's allies.
In the small New South Wales town of Cootamundra 6 young Australians, all from the same family, individually joined the fight.
This saga follows their journeys through Gallipoli and the Western Front. The saga also covers...
by Bain Attwood
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
'Lucid, restrained, persuasive. If there is such a thing as the history wars, then Bain Attwood has struck a major blow for the peace process. Telling the Truth About Aboriginal History is unflinchingly fair, scholarly, and refreshingly accessible.'
Hugh Mackay, social researcher and author
'Genuinely...
Bad Colonists
The South Seas Letters of Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In Bad Colonists Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves provide a window into the fantasies and realities of colonial life by presenting separate sets of letters by two late-nineteenth-century British colonists of the South Pacific: Vernon Lee Walker and Louis Becke. Thomas and Eves frame the letters—addressed...
Pacific Exploration
Voyages of Discovery from Captain Cook's Endeavour to the Beagle
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2018
Captain Cook is generally acknowledged as the first great European scientific explorer. His voyage of exploration to the Pacific in HM bark Endeavour, commencing in 1768, lasted almost three years, recorded thousands of miles of uncharted lands and seas – including New Zealand, the east coast of...
In Our Time
Socialism and the rise of Labor, 1885 -1905
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1985
For many Australian working men and women in the closing days of the nineteenth century, SOCIALISM IN OUR TIME was no mere slogan. The deepening economic depression cut living standards, increased class conflict and tested the newborn trade unions to breaking point. In this climate, the message of...
The Herds Shot Round the World
Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800–1900
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into bulky, quick-fattening beasts. Exploring...
The Welsh in an Australian Gold Town
Ballarat, Victoria 1850-1900
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
This book’s focus is the Welsh immigrant community in the Ballarat/Sebastopol gold mining district of Victoria, Australia during the second half of the nineteenth century. The book provides an analysis of a Welsh community as it existed in a particular area and the ways in which it changed during a specific period of time and considers all aspects of the Welsh immigrant experience.
Island Nation
A history of Australians and the sea
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
The story of the Australian people is a story of the interaction of land, cities and the sea. Land and cities have received ample attention but the role of the sea as an integral part of our national experience has remained largely unexplored. Island Nation sets out to restore the sea to its rightful...
Dan Desbois (1836 -1898)
A Life of Spiritual, Educational & Military Service
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Dan Desbois was for much of his adult life a member of the ‘front line infantry in the colonial “armies of education”’ in Australia. He was untrained, learning how to teach and manage a school through firsthand experience. Dan was Head Teacher at five Queensland schools from 1873 to 1896 –...
Serving Our Country
Indigenous Australians, war, defence and citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's participation in the Australian defense forces. While Indigenous Australians have enlisted in the defense forces since the Boer War, for much of this time they defied...
Developments in Australian Buddhism
Facets of the Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This book examines the adaptation of Buddhism to the Australian sociocultural context. To gain insight into this process of cross-cultural adaptation, issues arising in the development of Diamond Sangha Zen Buddhist groups (one of the largest Zen lineages in the West) in Australia are contextualised...
Calling the Shots
Aboriginal Photographies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Historically, photographs of Indigenous Australians were often produced under unequal and exploitative circumstances. Today, however, such images represent a rich cultural heritage for descendants who can use this archive to explore Aboriginal history, to identify relatives, and to reclaim culture....
by MIchael Bogle
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Shooters, Trappers & Poisoners explores the rapidly receding world of Australian doggers and rabbiters as they wage war on two of Australia’s most familiar feral animals, the dingo, its mixed-breed descendants and the feral rabbit. Beginning in the 19th century and continuing to the present, two...