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  • Fate of a Free People

    A radical re-examination of the Tasmanian wars

    Serie eBook 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 ... Altre info

    7,37 €

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  • The Fatal Shore

    The authoritative history of the British colonisation of Australia.

    di Robert Hughes ...
    A landmark history that confronts Britain’s colonisation of Australia.In The Fatal Shore, historian and critic Robert Hughes offers a vivid, unflinching account of Britain’s colonisation of Australia; a history built on the forced transportation of convicts and the dispossession of Indigenous peoples. Drawing on meticulous research, Hughes recreates the harsh realities of the penal system, the ... Altre info

    12,99 €

  • Australians

    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 ... Altre info

    12,99 € o Gratuito con Kobo Plus

  • The Colony

    A history of early Sydney

    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 ... Altre info

    15,80 €

  • Van Diemen's Land

    di 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 ... Altre info

    11,99 €

  • 1835

    The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia

    di 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 ... Altre info

    9,99 €

  • Forgotten War

    Winner of the 2014 Victorian Premier's Award for non-fiction!Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas. Why are there no official memorials or commemorations of the wars that were fought on Australian soil between Aborigines and white colonists? Why is it more controversial to talk about the frontier war now than it was one hundred years ago? Forgotten War ... Altre info

    12,78 €

  • Truth-Telling

    History, sovereignty and the Uluru Statement

    **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... ... Altre info

    Era 12,78 € Ora 9,04 €

  • The Other Side of the Frontier

    Aboriginal Resistance to the European invasion of Australia

    The publication of this book in 1981 profoundly changed the way in which we understand the history of relations between indigenous Australians and European settlers. It has since become a classic of Australian history. Drawing from documentary and oral evidence, the book describes in meticulous and compelling detail the ways in which Aborigines responded to the arrival of Europeans. Henry Reynolds ... Altre info

    Era 19,13 € Ora 12,78 €

  • Conspiracy of Silence

    Queensland's frontier killing times

    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 ... Altre info

    12,37 €

  • Hamilton Hume

    Our Greatest Explorer - the critically acclaimed bestselling biography

    '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 ... Altre info

    3,99 €

  • Botany Bay

    The Real Story

    di Alan Frost ...
    For the first time in two hundred years, here is a full and authentic account of the beginnings of modern Australia.We all know the conventional story. Established as a dumping ground for Britain’s criminals, Australia owes its existence simply to overcrowded jails and a daunting remoteness from everywhere else.In Botany Bay: The Real Story, Alan Frost goes beyond these clichés to shed new light ... Altre info

    8,99 €