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From The Ruins Of Colonialism - History As Social Memory

de Chris (University Of Melbourne) Healy

40,55€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book throws fresh light on the history of memory, forgetting and colonialism. It considers key moments of historical imagination, and analyses the strange ensemble of elements that constitute Australian History. It is an innovative and stimulating investigation of historical cultures and narratives.
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The Quarantined Culture - Australian Reactions To Modernism, 1913â€“1939

de John Frank Williams

33,80€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This engaging and provocative work examines the impact of the First World War on Australian attitudes to modernist art. John Williams argues that between 1914 and 1939, Australia became an inward-looking, reactionary society, in contrast with the cosmopolitan openness displayed in the media of the pre-war years.
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Governing Prosperity - Social Change And Social Analysis In Australia In The 1950s

de Nicholas (Australian National University, Canberra) Brown

45,95€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book offers a fresh and challenging interpretation of the 1950s in Australia, presenting it as a time of great change, brought about by affluence. The book examines how those overseeing society responded to these changes. This is a history of ideas as well as cultural, intellectual and institutional history.
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The Politics Of Work - Gender And Labour In Victoria, 1880â€“1939

de Raelene (University Of New South Wales, Sydney) Frances

45,95€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Australia has a strong tradition of labour historiography, which until recently has been focused on the institutions of the labour movement: trade unions and labour parties. This book shifts the focus back to the workplace and looks at how and why the nature of work changed during the period from the late nineteenth century to World War II.
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Outback Ghettos - Aborigines, Institutionalisation And Survival

de Peggy (Edith Cowan University, Western Australia) Brock

33,79€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Up until the 1970s, a large proportion of Aboriginal people in Australia had some experience in institutions as part of government assimilation and protection policies. By focusing on three communities in South Australia, Peggy Brock looks at the consequences of this institutionalisation for Aborigines and Australian society in general.
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Hunters And Collectors - The Antiquarian Imagination In Australia

de Tom (Sir Robert Menzies Centre For Australian Studies) Griffiths

63,53€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book is about historical consciousness and environmental sensibilities in European Australia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is in part a collective biography of the amateur scientists and humanists who shaped the Australian historical imagination and contributed a sense of national identity.
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The Captive Republic - A History Of Republicanism In Australia 1788â€“1996

de Mark Mckenna

55,42€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This first comprehensive history of republican thought and activity in Australia traces debate around an Australian republic from 1788 to the present. Essential reading for all with an interest in political and intellectual history. It will become the essential work on Australian republicanism.
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Knowing Women - Origins Of Women'S Education In Nineteenth-Century Australia

de Marjorie R. (University Of Melbourne) Theobald

37,84€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Knowing Women is a comprehensive study of female education in nineteenth-century Australia, placed in international perspective. Covering a wide range of topics, Theobald's study is rich in narrative detail. Writing with verve and economy, she shows how education could both open and restrict opportunities for women.
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Aboriginal Labour And The Cattle Industry - Queensland From White Settlement To The Present

de Dawn (James Cook University, North Queensland) May

44,60€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Cattle has been big business for well over a century in Australia, earning substantial export dollars. Yet the contribution that Aboriginal people have made to this key sector of the economy has not been widely acknowledged. This book uncovers the central role of Aboriginal labour in the Queensland cattle industry from first contact to the present.
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Colonial Technology - Science And The Transfer Of Innovation To Australia

de Jan Todd

44,60€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This important study examines the transfer of technology to Australia in the nineteenth century, arguing that this was not a simple relationship of dependency. Using case studies, and considering a range of economic, political and cultural factors, Jan Todd traces a process of creative adaptation to these technologies.
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Convict Maids - The Forced Migration Of Women To Australia

de Deborah (University Of New South Wales, Sydney) Oxley

47,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Convict Maids analyses the backgrounds of female convicts transported from Britain and Ireland to New South Wales between 1826 and 1840. Drawing on extensive research, the author argues that these women were skilled, literate, young and healthy - qualities that helped put the new colony on its feet.
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Convict Workers - Reinterpreting Australia'S Past

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 Convict Workers offers an interesting interpretation of Australia's convict past. The convicts sent to Australia were not professional criminals, but ordinary British and Irish men and women. They brought with them a diverse range of useful work skills, essential to the forging of a new economy and society.
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The Invisible State - The Formation Of The Australian State

de Alastair (Rutgers University, New Jersey) Davidson

78,41€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 State theory suggests that this authority is a right to speak on certain matters in certain ways and to have the audience agree with those statements. This 1991 book shows how in Australia the judiciary became the most powerful arm of government because it has the last say on all issues and in its own language.
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The Origins Of Australia'S Capital Cities

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 This survey aims to discover why Australia's eight capital cities are situated where they are, and how they were established. Pairs of chapters on each of the state capitals are accompanied by studies of Canberra as federal capital and Darwin as territorial capital.
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Colonial Technology - Science And The Transfer Of Innovation To Australia

de Jan Todd

129,78€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This important study examines the transfer of technology to Australia in the nineteenth century, arguing that this was not a simple relationship of dependency. Using case studies, and considering a range of economic, political and cultural factors, Jan Todd traces a process of creative adaptation to these technologies.
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British Imperialism And Australian Nationalism - Manipulation, Conflict And Compromise In The Late Nineteenth Century

de Luke (University Of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand) Trainor

128,43€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book examines the relationship of the Australian colonies with Britain and Empire in the late nineteenth century.
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Criminal Law And Colonial Subject - New South Wales, 1810-1830

de Paula Jane Byrne

170,34€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 1810â€"1830 was a crucial period in the development of New South Wales, when the legal foundations of a free-settler and emancipist society were laid. This book explores the relationship of a colonial people with English law and looks at the practice of law among the ordinary population.
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Single Mothers And Their Children - Disposal, Punishment And Survival In Australia

de Renate (Deakin University, Victoria) Howe e Shurlee (University Of Melbourne) Swain

110,85€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This 1996 book is a powerful and moving history of the treatment of single mothers and their children in Australia. Covering the period from the 1850s through to 1975, when the legal status of illegitimacy was abolished, the authors explore continuity and change in areas such as infanticide, abortion, sex education and marriage.
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Australia, Britain And Migration, 1915-1940 - A Study Of Desperate Hopes

de Michael (University Of Tasmania) Roe

155,47€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This 1999 book is a systematic study of assisted emigration from Britain to Australia during the inter-war years. It offers a critical analysis of the relations between the governments of the two countries, and describes an important and overlooked aspect of Australian political and social history.
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Fashioned From Penury - Dress As Cultural Practice In Colonial Australia

de Margaret (University Of Queensland) Maynard

120,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This 1994 book reveals the broader historical and cultural implications of clothes in colonial Australia. It shows that dress was central to the ways class and status were negotiated and the marking out of sexual differences. It helped define morality, the relationship between Europeans and Aboriginal people, and between convict and free.
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The Rule Of Law In A Penal Colony - Law And Politics In Early New South Wales

de David Neal

125,72€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book, written by a lawyer and unique for its perspective based in both legal and social history, illuminates the important role played by the concept of the rule of law in the transformation of New South Wales from a penal colony to a free society.
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To Constitute A Nation - A Cultural History Of Australia'S Constitution

de Helen (University Of Technology, Sydney) Irving

45,95€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In this imaginative and resonant 1997 book, Irving looks beyond the well-known events, places and figures to locate federation and the constitution in the context of broader social, political and cultural changes. Irving analyses the Constitutional Convention and considers its significance for Australia's future.
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A New Australia - Citizenship, Radicalism And The First Republic

de Bruce (University Of New South Wales, Sydney) Scates

44,61€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The 1890s were a watershed in Australian history, a time of mass unemployment, industrial confrontation and sweeping social change. They also nurtured a flourishing radical culture: anarchists, socialists, single taxers, feminists and republicans. This 1997 book, informed by feminist theory and cultural studies, recreates that political and social vision.
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Barmaids - A History Of Women'S Work In Pubs

de Diane (La Trobe University, Victoria) Kirkby

36,50€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This 1997 book is a mixture of labour history and cultural history which traces the role of the barmaid over 200 years. Kirkby examines the historical importance of pubs and public drinking culture, including its gendered nature, feminist and temparance debates about barmaids, and working conditions and women's activism.
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