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Australia Under Attackby Douglas Lockwood
New Holland Publishers (Australia) 2005; US$ 9.95The first ever attack on Australia by a foreign power occurred at Darwin on 19 February 1942. To this day, Australia Under Attack remains the most reliable and accurate account of the Darwin bombings. more...
Scars in the Landscapeby Ian Clark
Aboriginal Studies Press 1995; US$ 20.00Scars in the Landscape is a register of massacres and killings of Aboriginal people during 1803?1859. Deliberately challenging the ideology that the colonisation of Western Victoria was peaceful, the register reveal that violence was widespread. Through searching contemporary archival material, utilising Aboriginal oral history and local histories, and by studying place names in the region, Ian Clark presents a detailed, meticulously research study of massacres on one Australian region. more...
Australiansby Thomas Keneally
Allen & Unwin 2009; US$ 54.53The first volume of a unique history of Australia where people are always centre stage, from bestselling author Thomas Keneally who brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story. more...
Speaking from the Heartby Sally Morgan; Tjalaminu Mia; Blaze Kwaymullina
Fremantle Press 2007; US$ 16.95Eighteen Aboriginal Australians from across the country share powerful stories that are central to their lives, family, community or country. Stories which provide readers with a very personal picture of the history, culture and contemporary experience of Aboriginal Australia. more...
The Use and Abuse of Australian Historyby Graeme Davison
Allen & Unwin 2000; US$ 29.08How do Australians use, and sometimes misuse, the past? What are the private and public purposes it serves, and what dangers attend its abuse? This collection of essays explores these debates, and the ways in which the past enters everyday life in Australia, with a plea for the imaginative study of history. more...
Americanization and Australiaby Philip Bell; Roger Bell
University of NSW Press 1998; US$ 10.75America has been seen by the rest of the world as fulfilling the gleaming promise of modernity and, paradoxically, as the nightmarish fate threatening to undermine global diversity. Rather than emphasising American hegemony and Australian cultural vulnerability, this collection of essays explores the negotiation of influence and power involved in Americanisation abroad. more...
Australia-Japan Political Alignmentby Alan Rix
RoutledgeCurzon 1998; US$ 195.00Examining the renewal of post-war contacts between Australia and Japan and the resolution of wartime issues in the 1950s this book makes an original contribution to studies of Australia's foreign relations and Japan's place in the post-war world. more...
Michi's Memoriesby Keiko Tamura
Pandanus Books 2001; US$ 28.00The story of a Japanese war bride. Michi tells of the difficulties war brides faced in Australia when general hostility towards Japan as an enemy nation was still strong. more...
Weaving A Double Clothby Myra J Bourke; Susanne Holzknecht; Annie Bartlett
Pandanus Books 2002; US$ 24.00A collection of interviews with women from the Asia-Pacific region living in Australia. I provides lively and moving personal accounts of the joys and heartaches of migratin. more...
Nation, Culture, Textby Graeme Turner
Routledge 1993; US$ 42.95The first collection of cultural studies essays from Australia, selected and introduced for an international readership. more...