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  • Black and Proud

    The Story of an Iconic AFL Photo

    by Matthew Klugman, Gary Osmond ...
    On April 17, 1993, after an Australian Football League match between St. Kilda and Collingwood marred by racist chanting, victorious St. Kilda star Nicky Winmar faced the opposition fans, lifted his shirt and, pointing to his chest, declared, "I'm black and I'm proud to be black." The moment was immortalized by photographers Wayne Ludbey and John Feder and forced Australian football and its fans ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Old-Timers: Magnificent stories from mighty Australians

    Magnificent stories from mighty Australians

    by Sandy Thorne ...
    An earthy, entertaining collection of yarns about twenty larger-than-life outback characters. Meet Ron Canlin, who one day began sculpting the sandstone walls of his opal mine. Ten years later, every drive and tunnel in Ron's claim is full of wonderful sculptures - the eighth wonder of the world. Or Peter Venables, with his flowing white beard, puffing his pipe like a character from the pioneering ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • W.E.H. Stanner

    Selected Writings

    by W.E.H. Stanner ...
    One of Australia’s finest essayists, the first to cut through ‘the great Australian silence’ to convey the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture to settler Australians‘The most literate and persuasive of all contributions on Australia’s Indigenous people’ —Marcia LangtonW.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. In his 1968 Boyer Lectures he exposed a ‘cult of forgetfulness practised on a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Brave Ones

    East Timor, 1999

    by John Birmingham ...
    Series Book 5 - Short Blacks
    'As the convoy growled and squeaked to a halt in the dark, angry militiamen and soldiers began to shout and wave at the Australians, demanding they move aside. The Brave Ones' vanguard presented as a B-movie vision of some pirate biker gang from Hell, a rat bastard outfit in black tee-shirts, camouflage pants, long hair and bandanas, with axes in their eyes and guns at the ready.'The Brave Ones ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Australia's Birthstain

    The startling legacy of the convict era

    by Babette Smith ...
    Why is it that Australians are still misled by myths about their convict heritage? Why are so many family historians surprised to find a convict ancestor in their family trees? Why did an entire society collude to cover up its past?Babette Smith traces the stories of hundreds of convicts over the 80 years of convict transportation to Australia. Putting a human face on the convicts' experience, she ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Racisms

    From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century

    by Francisco Bethencourt ...
    " Racisms impresses the reader by its author's vast reading, his thoroughness and precision . . . intellectual ambition, and [its] visual and textual sources." —Peter Burke, University of CambridgeRacisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism, Francisco Bethencourt shows that ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Shall Not Die

    Titokowaru’s War, 18681869

    by James Belich ...
    Leading historian James Belich presents Titokowaru, a Taranaki chief in the 1860s, as one of the great figures of New Zealand history. A leader in peace and war, he ran a stunning military campaign against colonial forces as he sought to save his people and their lands from European invasion.In a powerfully written, compelling book, Belich restores the image of a man who, after winning numerous ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Shadow of the Guns

    by Joan Harvey, James Harvey, Keith Harvey ...
    In The SHADOW OF THE GUNS Joan Harvey recounts a unique life as an independent-minded girl growing up in the late 1800s. Although born in Bangalore, India, her early childhood was spent in Hobart, Tasmania. Left in the care of relatives in Hobart at a young age when her parents returned to India where her father was serving in the Indian Army, Joan penned these memories partly to record for her ... Read more

    $1.96 CAD

  • An Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi

    by Claudia Orange ...
    This book builds on Claudia Orange’s award-winning Treaty of Waitangi, using a wonderful range of photographs, maps and paintings to bring the Treaty’s history to life.Depictions of key players and moments sit alongside a clear and informative text that helps explain the history of this key document. Two peoples meeting, agreements made and broken, claims and protests: all are a part of the story ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Concise History of New Zealand

    by Philippa Mein Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    New Zealand was the last major landmass, other than Antarctica, to be settled by humans. The story of this rugged and dynamic land is beautifully narrated, from its origins in Gondwana some 80 million years ago to the twenty-first century. Philippa Mein Smith highlights the effects of the country's smallness and isolation, from its late settlement by Polynesian voyagers and colonisation by ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Across the Seas

    Australia's Response to Refugees: A History

    by Klaus Neumann ...
    In this eloquent and informative book, historian Klaus Neumann examines both government policy and public attitudes towards refugees and asylum seekers since Federation. He places the Australian story in the context of global refugee movements, and international responses to them.Today, Australia's response to asylum-seeking 'boat people' is a hot-button issue that feeds the political news cycle. ... Read more

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  • Rogue Nation

    Fascinating, relevant, compelling – the one book about Australian politics you must read

    by Royce Kurmelovs ...
    Reporting from the backrooms and corridors of Parliament House in Canberra to the streets of post-industrial Burnie in Tasmania, the struggling rural communities of Gippsland and the Queensland heartland, Royce Kurmelovs captures with perceptive, real-time analysis the rise of Australian populism.The people and places he profiles tell the story of those independent political figures who have tried ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD