Australasian and Pacific history Books

Gold! Hidden Stories of Australia's Past, Book 5 Gold discoveries in Australia created an unprecedented population explosion and with it came crime and lawlessness. In Blood Gold Marji Hill, author of more than 70 publications,...

Here are stories that challenge the conventional views of working class women and their struggles. Strikes and demonstrations throughout the 20th century shatter traditional images of women as passive victims. From the women of Broken Hill, who fought...

'Rainbows Across the Outback' is a collection of short stories and poems written by Gwenneth Leane. For many years, Gwenneth lived in Port Augusta, rubbing shoulders with the people who make their homes and livelihood in the outback. Gwenneth has...

Existing studies of settler colonial genocides explicitly consider the roles of metropolitan and colonial states, and their military forces in the perpetration of exterminatory violence in settler colonial situations, yet rarely pay specific attention to...

Ko Te Kawenata Hou: O To Tatou Ariki Te Kai Wakaora A Ihu Karaiti (1841) he pukapuka whakapau kaha i te whakapono Karaitiana i raro i te tino whakahaere o William Williams. I tito ai tenei pukapuka i te tau 1841, me te whai i nga whakaritenga o te...

Wreck of the Glide is a non-fiction book written by James Oliver in 1848. The book recounts the author's personal experiences when he was shipwrecked on the Glide, a trading vessel, off the coast of Fiji in 1837. The book provides a detailed account of...

The Old Identities: Being Sketches And Reminiscences During The First Decade Of The Province Of Otago, New Zealand (1879) is a historical book written by James Barr. The book chronicles the early days of the Province of Otago in New Zealand, specifically...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This book traces the history of the Civil Defence in Western Australia, from the mid-1930s, to when the State Emergency Service was first formed in 1959, and the subsequent years as it passed through a number of government departments including the...

Prolific Gippsland author, Jim Connelly, digs into the past to find twenty tales of intrigue and adventure, bringing them to life with his distinctive flair. Take a journey into Gippsland's and Australia's colourful past.

Augustus Oldfield trekked throughout southern Australia from 1845 to 1862 amassing plant specimens that would be used to describe over 700 species new to science, including twenty-one that would ultimately bear his name.On the lower Murchison...

On the 25th August 1895, Ernest Alfred Hall was born into a pioneering Australian family that lived on a 313-acre property called 'Cloverdale' near the hamlet of Beech Forest, south of the Otway Ranges, some 200 kilometres south west of...

Esperanto estas movado, kiun kreas individuaj homoj de plej diversaj fonoj. Estas iliaj agoj, kiuj daŭrigas ĝian vivon. Ĉi tiu libro enhavas biografietojn de pluraj Aŭstraliaj esperantistoj, kiuj helpis antaŭenigi nian karan lingvon.

This story of William Effingham Lawrence, Tasmanian pioneer, and his family, is the completion of a sixty-five year life journey. The journey began with my father in the 1950s regaling me with stories of his great-grandfather closing his business in...

The Australian bush holds many secrets, and one of its biggest is ?about to be revealed. For decades there has been talk of big cats roaming the Australian bush. These large cats - predominantly black - have only afforded their witnesses fleeting...

Dr Paul Roe is a historian with a foot either side of Australia's Great Dividing Range. One foot planted in suburban Sydney - the other in the outback town of Bourke. In a community on a large-scale farm, he taught students how to bring the ancient...

Grasping the Horizon traces the amazing lives of three generations of a single family of squatters. Having left poverty and social disgrace in England in the early 1820s, they seized the opportunity to re-make themselves in Australia. Through...

The late C18th and early C19th disruption of Scotland through such agents of change as the industrial revolution, the changing agricultural economy and the creation of large Highland estates, replacing the old 'run rig' and crofting use of the land, was...

On Phthisis And The Supposed Influence Of Climate: Being An Analysis Of Statistics Of Consumption In This Part Of Australia is a book written by William Thomson in 1879. The book deals with the topic of phthisis, which is now known as tuberculosis, and...

My Story of Samoan Methodism is a book written by Martin Dyson in 1875. The book provides a brief history of the Wesleyan Methodist Mission in Samoa, as well as Dyson's personal experiences with the church. Dyson was a missionary who spent several years...

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Beschrijving Der Tentoonstelling To Magelang Van Producten Van Inlandsche Nijverheid Uit De Residentie Kedoe (1894) is een boek uitgegeven door Landsdrukkerij Publisher. Het boek beschrijft de tentoonstelling van lokale ambachtelijke producten uit de...

El libro ""Archivo Boliviano V1: Coleccion De Documentos Relativos A La Historia De Bolivia (1872)"" escrito por Vicente De Ballivian y Roxas es una recopilaci������n de documentos hist������ricos de Bolivia. Esta obra contiene informaci������n valiosa...

Das Buch ""Das Schulwesen der Jesuiten nach den Ordensgesetzen"" von Gustav Weicker wurde 1863 ver������ffentlicht. Es beschreibt das Schulsystem der Jesuiten und wie es durch die Gesetze des Ordens geregelt wird. Der Autor untersucht die Organisation...

The Life and Adventures of William Buckley: Thirty-Two Years a Wanderer Amongst the Aborigines of the Then Unexplored Country Round Port Phillip is a book written by John Morgan and published in 1852. The book tells the story of William Buckley, a...

""Specimens of Australian Oratory: Comprising Speeches Delivered in the Senate, at the Bar, and on the Public Platform"" is a book written by David Buchanan in 1881. This book is a collection of speeches delivered by various Australian orators, including...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...