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Random House Australia 2010; US$ 18.08An extraordinary narrative history of the First Fleet, by the bestselling author of The Forgotten Children.Never before or since has there been an experiment quite as bold as this. Set against the backdrop of Georgian England with its peculiar mix of elegance, prosperity, progress and squalor, the story of the First Fleet is one of courage, of short-sightedness,... more...
The 1967 Referendum
Aboriginal Studies Press 2007; US$ 28.00The 1967 Referendum explores the legal and political significance of the referendum and the long struggle by black and white Australians for constitutional change. more...
The A to Z of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia
Scarecrow Press 2009; US$ 33.99All aspects of the discovery of Australia are revealed in this reference work. It is especially useful for its comprehensive gallery of the exploits and achievements of the key figures in Australian Exploration. more...
ANZAC's Dirty Dozen
University of New South Wales Press 2012; US$ 27.99Australian military history is a landscape of legends, yet across the length and breadth of military heritage, accuracy and objectivity are often shunted aside so that tales and myths bent on commemoration, veneration, and the idealization of Australian virtues can thrive. In this book, a team of renowned historians resume the battle to expose a host... more...
The Abandoned Narcotic
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 44.00In this book, Ron Brunton attempts to explain the strange geographical distribution of kava, a narcotic drink once widely consumed by south-west Pacific islanders. more...
Aboriginal Convicts
UNSW Press 2012; US$ 31.99Bulldog and Musquito, Aboriginal warriors from the Hawkesbury, were captured and sent to Norfolk Island following frontier skirmishes in New South Wales. Eventually, Bulldog seems to have made it home. Musquito was transported to Van Diemens Land, where he laboured as a convict servant. He never returned. Hohepa Te Umuroa was arrested near Wellington... more...
Aboriginal Family and the State
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 124.95With a rich discussion of the production, practice and inscription of social relations, Aboriginal Family and the State examines everyday expressions of 'family', and events such as meetings and funerals, demonstrating that kinship is formed and reformed through a complicated social practice of competing demands on identity. more...
Aboriginal Suicide Is Different
Aboriginal Studies Press 2007; US$ 24.99Adopting a historical and anthropological approach to suicide in Australia and New Zealand, this study documents the rate of suicide among Aboriginal people, which is among the worlds highest. more...









