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  • Blue China

    Single female migration to Colonial Australia

    af Jan Gothard ...
    Serier Bog 139 - Untapped
    Blue China is an award-winning examination of the emigration of single working-class British women to the Australian colonies in the latter half of the nineteenth century.This form of emigration was voluntary and extensive—with the number of female emigrants outnumbering convicts almost four to one—yet stigmatised, as distinguished historian Jan Gothard reveals in this meticulously researched work ... Læs mere

    55,06 kr.

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  • Caroline Chisholm

    An Irresistible Force - How Caroline Chisholm Helped Shape a Nation

    af Sarah Goldman ...
    A fresh, spirited and engaging biography of a fascinating and influential woman who was absolutely instrumental in shaping modern Australia - but whose influence and importance has largely been forgotten.Caroline Chisholm was a take-no-prisoners game-changer of colonial Australia - as well as a charming, wholly committed, and utterly determined force of nature. Arriving in Australia in 1838, she ... Læs mere

    168,29 kr.

  • Truth-Telling

    History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement

    af Henry Reynolds ...
    **Winner, Educational Publishing Australia Awards 2021, Non-Fiction Book of the Year****Winner, Tasmanian Literary Awards 2022, Premier’s Prize for Non-fiction at the People's Choice Award****Shortlisted, Queensland Literary Awards 2021 , Non-Fiction Book Award****Longlisted, Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History 2022****Shortlisted, Ernest Scott Pri... ... Læs mere

    52,12 kr.

  • Spider Woman

    A Life – by the former President of the Supreme Court

    af Lady Hale ...
    Lady Hale is an inspirational figure admired for her historic achievements and for the causes she has championed. Spider Woman is her story.As 'a little girl from a little school in a little village in North Yorkshire', she only went into the law because her headteacher told her she wasn't clever enough to study history. She became the most senior judge in the country but it was an unconventional ... Læs mere

    111,85 kr.

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  • A Century of Female Revolution

    From Peterloo to Parliament

    af Glynis Cooper ...
    This dramatic social history follows the struggle for women's rights in England from the Industrial Revolution to the Suffragist victory after WWI.The 100 years from 1819-1919 saw remarkable change for women in England. From the early nineteenth century, when women were not even considered 'persons' under the law, they achieved full legal rights and status. The doors of education and employment ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Great Australian Speeches

    af Pamela Robson ...
    Great Australian Speeches brings together a diverse and often moving collection of more than 40 speeches ranging from colonial times to the present day. Some have resonated with power enough to shape the nation; others encapsulate the best and worst of the Australian character. This selection proves that stirring oratory is not simply the preserve of politicians and military figures. Bushranger ... Læs mere

    101,99 kr.

  • The Luck of the Irish

    How a shipload of convicts survived the wreck of the Hive to make a new life in Australia

    af Babette Smith ...
    The author of the bestselling Cargo of Women and Australia's Birthstain tracks the lives of Irish convicts who arrived in Australia the mid-1800s, uncovering a long-lasting influence of the Irish convicts on our national character.The luck of the Irish was chronic bad luck, as their sad history attests. That's how it looked for 250 Irish convicts when their ship, the Hive, sank ignominiously off ... Læs mere

    129,81 kr.

  • Tasmania's Convicts

    How felons built a free society

    af Alison Alexander ...
    The story of the 72,000 convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land from 1803 to 1853, and the colony they built.To the convicts arriving in Van Diemen's Land, it must have felt as though they'd been sent to the very ends of the earth. In Tasmania's Convicts Alison Alexander tells the history of the men and women transported to what became one of Britain's most notorious convict colonies.Following ... Læs mere

    122,43 kr.

  • Australia's Birthstain

    The startling legacy of the convict era

    af 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 ... Læs mere

    129,89 kr.

  • Turning Points

    Chapters in South Australian history

    Redigeret af Robert Foster, Paul Sendziuk ...
    How distinctive is South Australia after all? South Australia has often been represented as "different": free of convicts, more enlightened in its attitudes toward Aboriginal people, established on rational economic principles, and progressive in its social and political development. Some of this is true, some of it is not, but mostly the story is more complex. In this book, eminent historians ... Læs mere

    91,36 kr.

  • Adventurers And Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus

    The Great Scottish Exodus

    af Margery Harper, Dr Marjory Harper ...
    'The Scots have always been a restless people', says leading Scottish historian Marjory Harper 'but in the nineteenth century their restlessness exploded into a sustained surge of emigration that carried Scotland almost to the top of a European league table of emigrant exporting countries.' This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of that 'Great Exodus'. In many ways it challenges ... Læs mere

    96,76 kr.

  • The English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi

    af Ned Fletcher ...
    A masterful exegesis … the quality of Dr Fletcher’s research and the power of his reasoning demands attention and respect. There will be those who differ; as I have said, contestation is the Treaty’s only consistent companion. But Dr Fletcher has shifted the debate’s centre of gravity, and for that, Treaty law, history and scholarship owe him a debt of gratitude. The Hon. Justice Sir Joe Williams ... Læs mere

    75,27 kr.