Søkt på: Serie australian history
totalt 17 treff
The China Breakthrough
On the fortieth anniversary of Australia-China diplomatic relations, The China Breakthrough reflects on the political adventure story that propelled this relationship into being. …
Dunera Lives
The story of the 'Dunera Boys' is an intrinsic part of the history of Australia in the Second World War and in its aftermath. The injustice these 2000 men suffered through British …
The Hanged Man and the Body Thief
It is 1860 in Australia. An Aboriginal laborer named Jim Crow is led to the scaffold of the Maitland Gaol in colonial New South Wales. Among the onlookers is the Scotsman A.S. …
Geoffrey Blainey
Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia's "greatest living historian." However, Blainey has also been a controversial figure. His 1984 comments about Asian immigration …
The Conscription Conflict and the Great War
Now available in paperback While the Great War raged, Australians were twice asked to vote on the question of military conscription for overseas service. The recourse to popular …
Making Modern Australia
The changes we have made will remain-like all great Labor legislation-permanent landmarks in our history.--Gough Whitlam ***The Whitlam government propelled Australia out of the …
Contesting Australian History
The Fountain of Public Prosperity
Eilean Giblin
Englishwoman Eilean Giblin arrived in Australia in 1919 with a shipload of war brides, almost certainly the only woman not wearing a wedding ring. An unconventional feminist, …
The Australian Archaeologist's Book of Quotations
"I used to begin a course on Australian economic history in the accepted manner with the European explorations of the eighteenth century until one day the archaeologist, John …