Australia category: 2401 books
ALBERT EDMUND COCKRAM
KING OF THE RACECOURSE
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
This is the amazing story of my great grandfather Albert Edmund Cockram who was, in his time, the largest importer of Thoroughbred Racehorses into Australia from Europe and New Zealand. The best blood lines that money could buy were purchased. In one year alone he bought in 150 horses from overseas...
Tim Carmody Affair
Australia's Greatest Judicial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
In 2014 when Tim Carmody, a former police officer, was sworn in as Chief Justice of Queensland, he had been Chief Magistrate for only nine months and had never served on the Supreme Court. It was one of the most controversial judicial appointments in Australia's history. Chaos ensued. The Tim Carmody...
Europeans in Australia
Volume One: The Beginning
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The first of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement by Britain. It tells of the political and intellectual origins of this extraordinary undertaking that began during the 1780s, a decade of extraordinary creativity and the...
by Terry Smyth
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
IN the summer of 1865, when a Confederate warship sailed into the port of Melbourne, 42 men secretly enlisted to fight for the South in the American Civil War.
On the notorious raider Shenandoah - scourge of the Yankee merchant fleet - they sailed off to adventure and controversy, and fired...
The Empire’s Patriotic Fund
Public Benevolence and the Boer War in an Australian Colony
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
This book examines the Empire’s Patriotic Fund, established in Victoria, Australia, in 1901 to assist the dependants of the men serving in the Boer War and the men invalided home because of wounds or illness. Acting as an autonomous body and drawing on funds raised through a public appeal, its work...
A Stout Pair of Boots
A guide to exploring Australia's battlefields
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Australians are becoming increasingly fascinated by their military history, and every year greater numbers visit the scenes of the battles commemorated each Anzac Day - Villers-Bretonneux, Long Tan, Kokoda, Gallipoli itself. But what can you learn from visiting a battlefield? And how do you make sure...
Illicit Love
Interracial Sex and Marriage in the United States and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Illicit Love is a history of love, sex, and marriage between Indigenous peoples and settler citizens at the heart of two settler colonial nations, the United States and Australia. Award-winning historian Ann McGrath illuminates interracial relationships from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth...
by Eva Stovern
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The Complete Caravan Chef features delicious and easy recipes for preparing satisfying, tasty meals in a caravan, campervan or cabin, or at a campsite, plus plenty of useful tips on equipment, utensils and storage. From savouries, soups and salads to pasta, rice, meat and shellfish, your on-the-road...
by Lee Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Unlike a caravan or motorhome, camper trailers can travel on rough outback tracks and to remote national parks. Explore Australia by Camper Trailer features reviews of more than 320 camper trailer sites – a mix of bush camping in national parks, free camping, station stays and caravan parks –...
Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War
Australia's Greek Immigrants after World War II and the Greek Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
In an engaging and original contribution to the field of memory studies, Joy Damousi considers the enduring impact of war on family memory in the Greek diaspora. Focusing on Australia's Greek immigrants in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Greek Civil War, the book explores the concept...
by Alan Pope
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
In the planned colony of South Australia, Aboriginal people were to be British subjects, held accountable for their actions by English law and fully entitled to its protection. The reality, however, failed to meet the high expectations of London’s reformers as British law struggled to protect the...
by Warren Bert Kimberly
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
History of West Australia is a history of the area and its famous inhabitants, written in the late 19th century. The original illustrations are included.
by George Collingridge de Toucey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
First published in 1906. According to the Preface: "Of the many books which have been published on subjects relating to Australia and Australian History, I am not aware of any, since my late friend, Mr. R. H. Major's introduction to his valuable work, "Early Voyages to Terra Australis," which has attempted...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Three forces—dwindling British power, rising American influence, and nationalism in a variety of forms—have transformed Australia, New Zealand, and the adjacent islands since 1919. In this volume, some of the most distinguished scholars of the Pacific region assess these significant historical changes....