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Learn About The History Of World Power In A Fraction Of The Time It Takes To Read The Actual Book!!!Diamond says that twenty-five years ago he met a politician in what is now Papua New Guinea, Yali, who asked why white people had so many things, but black people did not. The book attempts to...

Edited and introduced by Raimond Gaita, with contributions by Robert Manne, Guy Rundle, Eva Sallis, Raimond Gaita, Hilary Charlesworth, Peter Coghlan and Mark McKenna. The war in Iraq is over, so we are told, but huge questions remain unanswered. Why were we lied to about the existence of weapons...

Arthur Grimble was sent to the Gilbert and Ellice islands as a colonial administrator in the twilight of the Edwardian era. He lived there for the next twenty-five years and developed a rare passion for the language, life and landscape of the place. Fortunately his island neighbours, a fascinating...

Despite sickness in the final years of his life, Dos Passos presses on for adventure. He and his wife journey to Easter Island, where they explore the history behind the famous statues—called maois.   “When I was a small boy,” Dos Passos says, “some kind person took me to the British Museum....

The arrival of European missionaries in New Zealand had an immeasurable impact on Maori society. Like Them That Dream tells the intriguing story of early interaction between Maori and missionary, leading to the many distinctive responses to the arrival of Christianity.

Almost every day for 35 years, Arthur Stace spent hours writing a single word – Eternity – on and around the streets of Sydney. Sometimes his mission took him much further afield, to country New South Wales and even to Melbourne. Stace’s identity was a mystery for more than two decades. Then,...

Australian travelogue by Canadian novelist, first published in 1921. ccording to Wikipedia: "Sara Jeannette Duncan, (22 December 1861 22 July 1922), was a Canadian author and journalist… Sara Jeannette Duncan published 22 books, including two volumes of personal sketches and a collection of short...

“ Dans les derniers jours du mois de mars 1842, la frégate la Reine-Blanche, l’aile ouverte aux brises alizées, quittait Valparaiso et se dirigeait vers le couchant. Elle avait à son bord un brave amiral que ses goûts et ses antécédents préparaient à toutes les entreprises glorieuses,...

THE CHILDREN OF MU By James Churchward Synopsis In "Children of Mu", James Churchward expands his research of the lost continent of Mu. He speaks of the colonial expansion of Mu and the direct influence of the culture of Mu on the rest of the world. From the first colonies if North America...

Canberra residents have little reason to know Charles Daley’s name or be aware of the details of his life in Victoria as a teacher, botanist, writer and historian. But they might be more familiar with the name of his eldest son, Charles Studdy (C.S.) Daley, whose close connection with the story...

Spread across the nineteenth-century colonial world was a tangled web of cultural and economic networks. In groundbreaking research, Tony Ballantyne positions New Zealand within these ‘webs of empire’, connecting Gore and Chicago, Māori and Asia, India and newspapers, whalers and writing. His work...

This study treats the Victorian Antipodes as a compelling site of romance and satire for middle-class writers who went to New Zealand between 1840 and 1872. Blythe's research fits with the rising study of settler colonialism and highlights the intersection of late-Victorian ideas and post-colonial theories.

Short poems by Elzabeth Hockins - a poet from the Australian Outback

This book is a collection of essays arising out of the Zealandias Great War conference organised by the New Zealand Military History Committee in November 2003. In 32 essays by distinguished military historians from New Zealand and around the world, various aspects of New Zealands involvement in World...