[PDF] The History Of Australasia eBook

Author : John H. Chambers
Publisher : Interlink Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :

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A Traveller's History of New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands gives the curious tourist not only a modern day portrait of New Zealand and the far flung islands, their political systems and economic diversity, but also looks at the early settling of this massive area which covers about a fifth of the whole surface of the earth. When European navigators first sailed into the region, they were astonished at the exotic shared culture and language of the natives, separated in many cases by terrifying stretches of open ocean. The story of the peopling of the South Pacific Islands and New Zealand is one of the world's great epics. The book also has practical information for visitors, an Historical Gazetteer, and is illustrated with relevant maps plus a Chronology of Events. Special topics covered include Firewalking in Fiji, the Musket Wars, the Haka, Polynesian Tattooing and the Jon Frum Cargo Cult of Vanuatu. Book jacket.

Author : Donald Denoon
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 21,42 MB
Release : 2000-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780631179627

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This book provides an arresting interpretation of the history of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific from the earliest settlements to the present. Usually viewed in isolation, these societies are covered here in a single account, in which the authors show how the peoples of the region constructed their own identities and influenced those of their neighbours. By broadening the focus to the regional level, this volume develops analyses - of economic, social and political history - which transcend national boundaries. The result is a compelling work which both describes the aspirations of European settlers and reveals how the dispossessed and marginalized indigenous peoples negotiated their own lives as best they could. The authors demonstrate that these stories are not separate but rather strands of a single history.

Author : Geoffrey Blainey
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 085798439X

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A broad, concise and inclusive vision of Australia and Australians by one our most renowned historians. After a lifetime of research and debate on Australian and international history, Geoffrey Blainey is well-placed to introduce us to the people who have played a part and to guide us through the events that have created the Australian identity: the mania for spectator sport; the suspicion of the tall poppy; the rivalries of Catholic and Protestant, Sydney and Melbourne, new and old homelands and new and old allies; the conflicts of war abroad and race at home; the importance of technology; defining the outback; the rise and rise of the mining industry; the recognition of our Aboriginal past and Native Title; the successes and failures of the nation. For this enlarged edition Blainey has rewritten or expanded on various episodes and themes and updated relevant matter. He has described significant events and trends of the early-20th century. A ready-reference timeline of major events in Australian history is also included. The Shorter history of Australia is a must for every home and library.

Author : Stuart Macintyre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,94 MB
Release : 2004-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521601016

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Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands of years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and brought technology, institutions and ideas to make it their own. It relates the advance from penal colony to a prosperous free nation and illustrates how, in a nation created by waves of newcomers, the search for binding traditions has long been frustrated by the feeling of rootlessness. This revised edition incorporates the most recent historical research and contemporary historical debates on frontier violence between European settlers and Aborigines and the Stolen Generations. It covers the Sydney Olympics, the refugee crisis and the 'Pacific solution'. More than ever before, Australians draw on the past to understand their future.

Author : Charles Manning Hope Clark
Publisher : [Carlton, Victoria] : Melbourne University Press ; London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1962] i.e.
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 16,96 MB
Release : 1963
Category : History
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Manning Clark's History of Australia.

Author : Jeffrey Grey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1139468286

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A Military History of Australia provides a detailed chronological narrative of Australia's wars across more than two hundred years, set in the contexts of defence and strategic policy, the development of society and the impact of war and military service on Australia and Australians. It discusses the development of the armed forces as institutions and examines the relationship between governments and military policy. This book is a revised and updated edition of one of the most acclaimed overviews of Australian military history available. It is the only comprehensive, single-volume treatment of the role and development of Australia's military and their involvement in war and peace across the span of Australia's modern history. It concludes with consideration of Australian involvement in its region and more widely since the terrorist attacks of September 11 and the waging of the global war on terror.

Author : Tim M. Berra
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Nature
ISBN :

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It also deals with the country's colorful history, its laidback lifestyle and the quirky and entertaining brand of English that Australians speak.