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  • Repatriation, Exchange, and Colonial Legacies in the Gulf of Papua

    Moving Pictures

    by Lara Lamb, Christopher Lee ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the people of the Kikori River Delta, in the Gulf of Papua, as established historical agents of intercultural exchange. One hundred years after they were made, Frank Hurley’s colonial-era photographic reproductions are returned to the descendants of the Kerewo and Urama peoples, whom he photographed. The book illuminates how the movement, use, and exchange of objects can produce ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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  • Telling Tennant's Story

    The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence

    by Dean Ashenden ...
    Winner of the 2022 Australian Political Book of the Year Award 'A drily elegant, bracing work from a pained and open heart' —Helen Garner 'Refreshing and original. A unique window on Australia's past and its barbed resonance today … Essential reading for anyone interested in the challenge of truth-telling.' —Mark McKenna 'A graceful, unostentatiously scholarly, wise (and highly readable) book on a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Convincing Ground

    Learning to Fall in Love with your Country

    by Bruce Pascoe ...
    Convincing Ground is a wide ranging, personal and powerful work which resonates with historical and contemporary Australian debates about identity, dispossession, memory and community. For Pascoe, the Australian character was not forged at Gallipoli, Eureka and the back of Bourke, but in the more satanic furnace of Murdering Flat, Convincing Ground and Werribee. He knows we can't reverse the past, ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Quarterly Essay 69 Moment of Truth

    History and Australia’s Future

    by Mark McKenna ...
    Series Book 69 - Quarterly Essay
    Australia is on the brink of momentous change, but only if its citizens and politicians can come to new terms with the past.In this inspiring essay, Mark McKenna considers the role of history in making and unmaking the nation. From Captain Cook to the frontier wars, from Australia Day to the Uluru Statement, we are seeing fresh debates and recognitions. McKenna argues that it is time to move ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Indigenous Australia For Dummies

    by Larissa Behrendt ...
    A comprehensive, relevant, and accessible look at all aspects of Indigenous Australian history and cultureWhat is The Dreaming? How many different Indigenous tribes and languages once existed in Australia? What is the purpose of a corroboree? What effect do the events of the past have on Indigenous peoples today? Indigenous Australia For Dummies, 2nd Edition answers these questions and countless ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • People of the Saltwater

    An Ethnography of Git lax m'oon

    by Charles R. Menzies ...
    A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleIn People of the Saltwater, Charles R. Menzies explores the history of an ancient Tsimshian community, focusing on the people and their enduring place in the modern world. The Gitxaała Nation has called the rugged north coast of British Columbia home for millennia, proudly maintaining its territory and traditional way of life.People of the Saltwater first ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Telling Stories

    Indigenous history and memory in Australia and New Zealand

    by Bain Attwood, Fiona Magowan ...
    Recent decades have seen a tremendous upsurge of interest among the indigenous peoples of Australia and New Zealand in their history. Life stories, land claims, genealogy, song, dance and painting have all made new contributions to the recovery and representation of the past.Telling Stories looks at the place of life stories and of memory in history: who tells life stories, the purpose for which ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Troubled Waters

    Borders, boundaries and possession in the Timor Sea

    by Ruth Balint ...
    Joint winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2003.Troubled Waters tells the story of Australia's northern waters and their dramatic transformation in the twentieth century from a backwater to the most militarised and fiercely guarded region in Australia. Once a bridge between two coastlines and two cultures, the Timor Sea has become, in the last years of the twentieth century, the nation ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Historical Dictionary of Australian Aborigines

    by Mitchell Rolls, Murray Johnson ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures
    The Australian Aborigines first arrived on the continent at least 60,000 years ago. They almost certainly landed on the northwest coast by sea from the nearby islands of the Indonesian archipelago. That first arrival may have been replicated many times over. The following exploration and settlement of a vast and varied continent was a venture of heroic proportions. The new settlers had reached ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • North of Capricorn

    The untold story of the people of Australia's north

    by Henry Reynolds ...
    'This scintillating account by Henry Reynolds, a revisionist history in its best sense, is a door opening wide onto [another Australia].'- Nicolas Rothwell, The Australian'Reynolds reveals yet another forgotten aspect of our shared history.' - The Age'This is a fine book, logically and convincingly argued.' - John Bailey, The Age'This comprehensive history will add a significant dimension to our ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History

    Edited by Alfian Sa'at, Faris Joraimi, Sai Siew Min ...
    Why did independent Singapore celebrate two hundred years of its founding as a British colony in 2019? What does Merdeka mean for Singaporeans? And what are the possibilities of doing decolonial history in Singapore? Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History presents essays by historians, literary scholars and artists which grapple with these questions. The volume also reproduces some of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Indigenous and Other Australians since 1901

    by Tim Rowse ...
    As Australia became a nation in 1901, no one anticipated that 'Aboriginal affairs' would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not 'dying out' as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and – along with Torres Strait Islanders – they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority's interventions into family life and continuing dispossession. Indigenous and Other Australians ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus