Catálogo de libros: Historia de Australasia y el Pacífico

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  • Growing Up in the 1930s
    Richard Grimmond
    'They were desperate times but the Depression created a certain breed of people who economised, ’made-do’, and ’got-by’ without spending much money, eventually surviving those difficult times.'Growing up in the 1930s is the first-hand recollections of a young Australian boy’s life during the Great Depression in Newcastle in the 1930s as told by a now old man with a long memory....
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    16,86 €

  • James Wallace
    Peter L Newman / Peter Newman
    Most Australians think they know the full Kelly story. James Wallace: The Kelly Gang Sympathiser is about a man who was complicit in keeping the Kelly gang at large for two years, but who has somehow been largely forgotten in the annals of Australian history.James Wallace was a respectable schoolteacher and lifelong friend of gang member Joe Byrne. Working away behind the scene...
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    24,08 €

  • Gun Fights, Ghosts and Goannas
    Gary Warren Wood
    This book is about adventure motorcycle riding, middle age, and chicken racing, but most of all it’s about adventure and what it means to be an adventurer. On this journey, I learn to ride an adventure motorcycle in some of Queensland’s most challenging terrain. I developed a sense of self reliance and found solitude wild camping in remote areas. This book is the beginning of m...
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    37,53 €

  • All our tracks and ways
    James Michael Fleming
    In 1862 a middle-aged couple, James and Frances Reed, accompanied by all ten of their adult children, left their established home in Sydney to restart their lives 800 kilometres away in the fledgling far western NSW town of Bourke. 'All our tracks and ways' records their life stories and those of their parents and children, three generations of ordinary working people who forge...
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    41,52 €

  • Australia’s Forgotten Soldiers in the Empire, 1939-1947
    Lee Rippon
    This book explores how Australia managed the prisoner of war issue throughout the Second World War and the immediate post-war period. It examines how the Australian government responded to the captivity of thousands of Australians in Italy and the detention of an even greater number of Italians in Australia. The war, it finds, created a series of diplomatic and political challe...
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    193,36 €

  • Birds in the Nest
    Wendy Hart
    Minnie, a timid thirteen-year-old, clutches her little sister as she cautiously descends the gangway of a migrant ship. They stand on the threshold of Brisbane, Australia-a fledgling, humid city that feels worlds away from their rural home near Belfast. The air is thick with the promise of a new beginning, yet it carries the weight of everything they have left behind. Fleeing f...
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    14,35 €

  • An Indigenous South
    From its earliest years, South Australia was the most German of the Australian colonies. As they contributed to the founding and consolidation of a British colony, Germans observed the processes of dispossession and subjugation that changed the lives of First Nations peoples around them forever. More than that, they participated in those profound and tragic changes. Importantly...
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    44,93 €

  • On Worlds End Highway
    Nancy Jackson
    Two immigrants from two countries who live at the Point Pass Butter Factory 140 years apart.On Worlds End Highway is the true story of an immigrant from Prussia who becomes the matriarch of a family that runs a successful business for seventy-five years. And a contemporary immigrant from America who renovates for the future and discovers a remarkable history.Colonial South Aust...
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    26,30 €

  • Every Requisite for a Campaign Upon the Gold-fields
    Michael Williams
    Of the many episodes that make up the oftentimes exotic impression of Chinese Australian history the 1850s walk from the small port of Robe in South Australia to the goldfields of Victoria has repeatedly taken on epic proportions. Its ’long march’ like length, tales of hardship and death, not to mention present-day outrage at the discriminatory tax the walk was designed to avoi...
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    13,52 €

  • Islamic State in Australia
    Rodger Shanahan
    This book fills a gap in our knowledge about the activities of Western supporters and members of Islamic State by examining the experience of their Australian cohort. ...
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    73,55 €

  • The Great New Zealand Lockdown
    Kimberly Stewart
    On the 28th of February 2020, New Zealand has its first confirmed case of Covid-19. By the 26th of March, the country had gone into one of the strictest lockdowns in the world. As other countries tried to keep their economies going alongside trying to quell the deadly virus, the economy in New Zealand completely shut down as five-million New Zealanders were told to stay at hom...
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    15,55 €

  • Kiwi Birds Coloring Book
    PaperLand
    Kiwi Birds Coloring Book, Adult Crafts Hobbies Books, Floral Mandala Pages, Stress Relief Rowi Zentangle Picture, Freestyle Drawing PageIt was made for Kiwi Birds lovers or someone who likes to relax while coloring.Kiwi Birds in zentangle pattern style with heartwarming quotes.It makes the perfect gift for your friends who are Kiwi Birds lovers.This book has a total of 42 pages...
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    19,02 €

  • 41 South
    Robert Bettelheim / Robert J Bettelheim
    High above Wellington, New Zealand, a sentient radar station continues to sweep the skies long after the collapse of civilisation. Ricky, Stack, Tubs and Zoz play up at the old station, imagining a world of aircraft and faraway places - better places. For Stack, Tubs and Zoz it’s just a cool escape from the relentless desperation of life in the remaining communities of Wellingt...
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    18,31 €

  • Travels in Western Australia being a description of the various cities and towns, goldfields, and agricultural districts of that state
    May Vivienne
    Travels in Western Australia being a description of the various cities and towns, goldfields, and agricultural districts of that state, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and futur...
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    19,82 €

  • Catherine’s Story
    Gail Barnes
    This nineteenth century social history is written by Gail Barnes, the great, great granddaughter of Catherine McKinnon. Catherine McKinnon’s life began on the crofting settlement of Kendram, on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. However, due to the compounding effects of the Highland Clearances and the famine of 1837, there was no future for her in Scotland. So, when Catherine was...
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    17,99 €

  • State Apologies to Indigenous Peoples
    Francesca Dominello
    This book considers the ethics and politics of state apologies made to Indigenous peoples. ...
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    240,99 €

  • Her Time Ann Jarmy
    Lisa Apfel
    Norwich was the breeding ground for revolutionary ideas that led to American and French independence, but it was also the breeding ground of criminals who were part of the new colony in New South Wales. Beginning with four convicts on the First Fleet, the Norwich convicts continued with the Second and Third Fleets. Ann was part of this third shipment. The entwining characters t...
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    17,35 €

  • Her Time, Caroline Field
    Lisa Apfel
    Raised amongst the criminals and fighters of Birmingham her path was set. Transported to New South Wales and sent out past the 'limits of location' to Wiradyuri country. It was a place where settlers were forbidden to go, a place dominated by male convicts and a few military personnel. The book follows her from her convict years in the frontier and unearths her lost story. Her ...
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    16,44 €

  • Her Time, Bridget Fox
    Lisa Apfel
    Chosen as worthy, Bridget was selected from the other young girls at the Waterford workhouse for a free passage to Australia. A victim of the great hunger that had gripped Ireland, it was her chance out of poverty. The story takes the reader to Sydney on the cusp of the gold rush and follows Bridget through one tragedy after another until the outbreak of WWI.The book delves int...
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    19,20 €

  • The Making of Australia’s Gold Coast
    Alan J. Blackman
    Blackman draws on original material and the work of many earlier researchers to paint a verbal picture of the evolution of a remarkable city. In an easy-to-read style, he highlights some of the conditions, key events, and individuals that have led to the development of Australia’s Gold Coast. ...
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    227,87 €

  • CAPE YORK THE SAVAGE FRONTIER
    RODNEY LIDDELL
    When aborigines murdered a sailor from the Dutch ship Duyfken on the west coast of Cape York in 1606, it was the beginning of Australia’s ’Race War’!Within weeks, another 9 Duyfken sailors were murdered by aborigines near Cape Keerweer. This was Australia’s first recorded massacre.The contents of this book portray history as it really happened, rather than the many fictionalise...
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    35,64 €

  • Wireless Priest
    Matthew Ryan
    Around 1910 a forward thinking Catholic priest, Archibald Shaw, was experimenting with spark-gap wireless about a decade before broadcast radio took-off. He founded an engineering factory in the Sydney suburb of Randwick. Shaw was a missionary priest and his intention was to use the wireless sets he manufactured to keep in touch with distant missionaries throughout New Guinea a...
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    24,52 €

  • The Great Blue World
    V T SREEKUMAR
    The Great Blue World: Understanding Our Oceans and Their Hidden Wonders takes readers on an enthralling journey beneath the waves, exploring the vast and mysterious depths of the world’s oceans. Covering more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, the oceans are essential to the health of our planet, yet they remain one of the least understood frontiers.This comprehensive guide delve...
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    40,28 €

  • The Travels ’n Travails of Paddy Egan
    Paul W. Mathews
    Historical or ancestral research can involve putting flesh on ancient bones of some quirky characters, providing insights into how late colonialists lived through good and hard times of NSW. Take, for example, Anthony Egan and his wife, Ann Ryan, who were originally from the Bathurst/Orange region beginning in 1855, then later moved on to Dubbo and Narromine. Their first son, G...
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    14,88 €

  • Fallen Now Forgotten
    Patricia Kennedy
    Fallen Now Forgotten tells the story of the soldiers who do not have any living descendants to remember their sacrifices during World War 1. Each Anzac Day no one wears their medals or carries a photo of them, over a hundred years later they are just a name on a memorial with no family to mourn them.This book offers just a small selection of these forgotten soldiers as research...
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    20,76 €

  • Melbourne Moments
    Andrew Watson
    This book celebrates some of the little-told and unusual stories in Melbourne’s evolution from a few houses on the banks of the Yarra river to today’s bustling metropolis.Unsolved heists, a disappearing hill, a hidden creek, the big ’bad beer’ panic, a killer elephant, a runaway lion, and trees with their own email address - Melbourne Moments bursts with these and many more tal...
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    22,10 €

  • Australian Women’s Historical Photography
    Anne Maxwell / Lucy Van
    Australian Women’s Historical Photography: Other Times, Other Views focuses on the works of six Australian women who were working as photographers in the period 1850-1950. It critically examines their works against the historical backdrop of settler violence towards Indigenous Australians, the First Women’s Movement, the Great War of 1914-1918, Australia’s imperial occupation o...
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    35,92 €

  • Joseph Byrne
    Georgina Phelan
    Joseph Byrne was born in Victoria at the height of the Victorian gold rush and his short and turbulent life would see him become one of the most notorious outlaws in the history of Australia. A talented wordsmith, expert horseman and ruthlessly pragmatic, Byrne would be remembered as Ned Kelly’s right-hand man. Through meticulous research Georgina Phelan brings Byrne out of Ned...
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    39,93 €

  • Old Woman Rock
    Maria Andreas
    The magical story of a woman in search of freedom and joy.Maria is an Australian of Greek Cypriot ancestry born and bred in Adelaide. The youngest daughter of an Orthodox family. She had avoided arranged marriages and permanent employment has evaded her.She applies for a job with a remote Aboriginal Community in the Great Western Desert in Western Australia. She believes she wi...
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    19,66 €

  • Decolonising Australian History Education
    This book provides guidance on applying practical strategies for decolonising learning and teaching, and moving beyond the ’history wars’. ...
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    241,08 €