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  • Fate of a Free People

    A radical re-examination of the Tasmanian wars

    par Henry Reynolds ...
    Collections Livre 111 - Untapped
    This award-winning and critically acclaimed book from one of Australia’s best known historians challenges the myth about the fate of Tasmania’s Indigenous people, vividly describing the extent of their resistance to colonisation, discussing the terms of the peace agreement under which they called themselves the ‘free Aborigines of Van Diemen’s Land’, and arguing that they weren’t defeated—but ... En savoir plus

    $11.80 CAD

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  • Australians

    Thomas Keneally

    par Thomas Keneally ...
    In this volume of a unique history of Australia where people are always centre stage, bestselling author Thomas Keneally brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story.Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and soldiers, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers, it is from their lives and their stories that he has woven a vibrant history to do full justice to ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Fatal Shore

    The epic of Australia's founding

    par Robert Hughes ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This incredible true history of the colonization of Australia explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today."One of the greatest non-fiction books I’ve ever read ... Hughes brings us an entire world." —Los Angeles Times**Digging deep into the dark history of England's infamous efforts to move 160,000 men and women thousands of miles to the ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Colony

    A history of early Sydney

    par Grace Karskens ...
    The Colony is the story of the marvellously contrary, endlessly energetic early years of Sydney. It is an intimate account of the transformation of a campsite in a beautiful cove to the town that later became Australia's largest and best-known city.From the sparkling beaches to the foothills of the Blue Mountains, Grace Karskens skilfully reveals how landscape shaped the lives of the original ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Van Diemen's Land

    par James Boyce ...
    The acclaimed history of colonial Tasmania'A brilliant book and a must-read for anyone interested in how land shapes people' —Tim FlanneryAlmost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life.In this multi-award-winning history of colonial Tasmania, James Boyce shows how the ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • 1835

    The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia

    par James Boyce ...
    The Award-Winning History of Colonial Melbourne'James Boyce tells the true history of this country with rare clarity and an eye for the essential that never fails.' —David MarrWith the founding of Melbourne in 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent. In three years more land – and more people – was conquered than in the preceding fifty.In 1835 James Boyce ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Truth-Telling

    History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement

    par Henry Reynolds ...
    If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our history, we must start at first principles. What if the sovereignty of the First Nations was recognised by European international law in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What if the audacious British annexation of a whole continent was not seen as acceptable at the time and the colonial office in Britain understood that ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Conspiracy of Silence

    Queensland's frontier killing times

    par Timothy Bottoms ...
    As Europeans moved into new lands in Queensland in the 19th century, violent encounters with local Aboriginals mostly followed. Drawing on extensive original research, Timothy Bottoms tells the story of the most violent frontier in Australian colonial history.'This is an important, well researched book: challenging, compelling and controversial. It is a must read for anyone interested in ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Hamilton Hume

    Our Greatest Explorer - the critically acclaimed bestselling biography

    par Robert Macklin ...
    'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy Mountains and more. Macklin covers Hume's public and private life, emphasising his affinity with the country and rapport with the Indigenous people, as well as providing a portrait of the evolving colony.' SYDNEY MORNING HERALDThe stirring untold story ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Sydney Wars

    Conflict in the early colony, 1788-1817

    par Stephen Gapps ...
    The Sydney Wars tells the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians—described as "this constant sort of war" by one early colonist—around the greater Sydney region. Telling the story of the first years of colonial Sydney in a new and original way, this provocative book is the first detailed account of the warfare that occurred across the Sydney region from the ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Closing Hell's Gates

    The death of a convict station

    Based on an elaborate reconstruction of day-to-day life at Macquarie Harbour, one of Australia's most notorious sites of convict punishment, this is the true story of how, in 1827, nine convicts opted for 'state-assisted' escape (the death sentence) rather than endure the hardships and privations of the penal settlement on Sarah Island.In October 1827, nine convicts who had endured years of ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Convincing Ground

    Learning to Fall in Love with your Country

    par Bruce Pascoe ...
    Convincing Ground is a wide ranging, personal and powerful work which resonates with historical and contemporary Australian debates about identity, dispossession, memory and community. For Pascoe, the Australian character was not forged at Gallipoli, Eureka and the back of Bourke, but in the more satanic furnace of Murdering Flat, Convincing Ground and Werribee. He knows we can't reverse the past, ... En savoir plus

    $32.79 CAD