Nurses of Australia: The Illustrated Story by Deborah Burrows
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the First Nation caregivers who healed, birthed and nursed for millennia to the untrained and ill-equipped convict men and women who cared for the sick in the fledgling colony of New South Wales, nursing has been practised in Australia since the beginning. It would take the arrival of a group of de ...Show more
O'Leary of the Underworld: The Untold Story of the Forest River Massacre by Kate Auty
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A powerful investigation that reveals the deep injustices inflicted on Aboriginal people in the Kimberley in the 1920s In June 1926, a posse of police officers and white civilians murdered at least twenty Oombulgurri people at Forrest River in the Kimberley. After the massacre, a conspiracy of silence ...Show more
OUT OF THE DESERT by BULUGARDIE HONEY
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
Out of the Desert is a compelling collection of stories, art and photographs from the Walmajarri people of the Great Sandy Desert, in north western Australia. It tells of their remarkable exodus from remote desert country to an unfamiliar modern society. Within only one generation the Walmajarri desert ...Show more
Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and encounters on Australian frontiers by Philip Jones
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
Ochre and Rust offers a fresh perspective on frontier relations between Australian Aboriginal people and European colonists. Nine museum artefacts take the reader into a fascinating zone of encounter and mutual curiosity between collectors and those indigenous people who piqued or responded to their int ...Show more
October - The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Mieville
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
In February of 1917 Russia was a backward, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had become the world's first workers' state, straining to be at the vanguard of global revolution. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? In a panor ...Show more
Official Secrets: The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War (FTI) by Marcia Mitchell; Thomas Mitchell
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLEY, MATT SMITH, RALPH FIENNES AND MATTHEW GOODE FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR In January 2003, 28-year-old GCHQ translator Katharine Gun received an email from the US National Security Agency that would turn her world upside down. Th ...Show more
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Now in paperback, an enduring work of criticism from one of the most important writers of our time. So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to autonomy, j ...Show more
On Red Earth Walking - The Pilbara Aboriginal Strike, Western Australia 1946-1949 by Anne Scrimgeour
$39.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian History Ser.
In 1946 Aboriginal people walked off pastoral stations in Western Australia's Pilbara region, withdrawing their labour from the economically-important wool industry to demand improvements in wages and conditions. Their strike lasted three years. On Red Earth Walking is the first comprehensive account of ...Show more
On Red Earth Walking: The Pilbara Aboriginal Strike, Western Australia 1946–1949 by Anne Scrimgeour
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Australian History Ser.
In 1946 Aboriginal people walked off pastoral stations in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, withdrawing their labour from the economically important wool industry to demand improvements in wages and conditions. Their strike lasted three years. On Red Earth Walking is the first comprehensive account of ...Show more
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by Caroline Dodds Pennock
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the 'Old World' encountered the 'New', when Christopher Columbus 'discovered' America in 1492. But, as Caroline Dodds Pennock conclusively shows in this groundbreaking book, for tens of thousands of Aztecs, Maya, Totonacs, Inuit a ...Show more
On This Day: Facts and Trivia for Every Day of the Year by James Owen (Editor); Times Books
$17.99 AUD
Category: History
Delve into a wealth of famous events, significant sites and momentous births and deaths. Choose a day of the year and discover the fascinating array of people, places and happenings for which it is notable. This day-by-day compendium provides a rich assortment of anniversaries from throughout the centur ...Show more
Once in Broome by Sally Bin Demin
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
In this montage of memoir, art, silk paintings, and photographs, Sally Bin Demin remembers her childhood growing up in Broome during the 1940s and 1950s.