Search Results: aust-history from Adelaide Booksellers

Sydney: The 1788-1820 Association. 1981. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket - as issued. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. Unpaginated [400pp approx]. Contents include List of Pioneers; The Pioneer Families; Spouse Supplement; Son & Daughter-in-Law Index; Church Chronology and 1788-1820 Chronology . 1st Edition. Hardback.

North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2019. MINT - a NEW copy. Several black & white photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 149 pages. Nine historians from the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne examine the year 1919. After the worst war in history, there were hopes for a lasting peace and a better world. 1919 was to be the year for recovery, peace-making and the healing of wounds. Instead the world was afflicted by a terrible influenza pandemic that took more lives than the Great War itself. The huge death toll from the war and the pandemic excited fears of national decay. Soldiers returning home were often ill and restive, and sometimes radical and violent. Across the world there were race riots, prolonged industrial disputes, political protests, revolutions and counter-revolutions, and in Europe the first stirrings of fascism. At the Versailles Peace Conference, the victors' attempts to define… Read More

Millers Point: Pier 9. 2010. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 320 pages. This book reveals the role models that we can indeed be proud of and will perhaps inspire future Australians of the Year. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Reprint. Softcover.

Sydney: Westpac Banking Corporation. 2017. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. This is a heavy book and will cost more to ship internationally. Please contact us for a precise quote for your part of the world. 298 pages. A history of Australia's first bank. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Adelaide: Rigby Limited. 1967. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Small amount of chipping to top of DJ spine and DJ spine a little sunned. Previous owner's details to front free end paper. Illustrated with Black and White plates. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 266pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Sydney: ACP Books. 2008. Large, Square Quarto Size [26cm x 30cm.]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ spine and upper edge gently sunned. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 303 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2018. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with colour plates. Black and white maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 301 pages. Flinders wanted to be an explorer 'second only to Cook', Bass a naturalist, another Sir Joseph Banks, and a rich Sydney trader. For eight years these two pursued their destiny. Their voyages changed the map of Australia, and Flinders gave it its name. They were ready for even greater ventures. Their incredible story is all true – everything in it did happen. This book is historically rigorous, yet its protagonists' fascinating and contrasting characters, the powerful background of the Napoleonic War, and the extraordinary events of their lives make it as gripping as any novel. Shortlisted for both the Prime Minister's Literary Awards (2017) and NSW Premier's Literary Awards (2018). . New. Reprint. Trade Paperback.

Carlton: Melbourne University Press. 1981. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. 232 pages. An early examination of the role of the ABC in Australian culture and politics. The author was a former Deputy General Manager at the ABC. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Melbourne: Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. 2005. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 80 pages. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

NSW Australia: New Holland. 2007. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 288 pages. . Reprint. Softcover.

Victoria: Scribe Publications. 2003. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Small amount of discolouration to bottom edge. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 288 pages. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.

North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2023. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Includes Bibliography and Index. Several illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 173 pages. What is military history? How do historians reason about conflict? What evidence do they use? What does it mean that the Anzac legend, the core tenet of Australian military history, professes to be a legend? This book examines the ideas and inspirations that shape the history of conflict, and the spirit of inquiry that drives it. . New. 1st Edition. Softcover.

St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. 1996. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good+ condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Previous owner's details and cataloguing information to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 151 pages. Recreates McDouall Stuart's expeditions across the centre of Australia. . Reprint. Hardback.

Melbourne: Greenhouse Publications. 1979. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Small date in ink to preliminary pages. Colour frontis. 91pages.. Being a letter sent from Mrs E. of England to Maria Macarthur in the Colony of N.S. Wales in 1812. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Sydney: Weldon Publishing. 1988. Octavo Size [approx 14x22cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Staple bound. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 76 pages. As Australian as a kangaroo or meat pie, the Akubra hat has become part of Australian folklore. . 1st Edition. Softcover.

North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2015. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. 366 pages. Alias Blind Larry is a convict story, an adventure story, a colonial story, a Jewish story, a theatrical story. A story of cruelty, resilience, cheek and humour, and it is (mostly) true. James Laurence was transported to NSW in 1814 for jewel theft. He served time in every penal settlement in NSW, singing and thieving when he was free. He wrote his memoir on Norfolk Island in 1842, just before his release. Then even more adventures followed. A fascinating piece of history, untold until now. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . New. 1st Edition. Softcover.

North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2017. MINT - a NEW copy. 212 pages. Australia's war-time Prime Minister, John Curtin, has a heroic status in Australian political history folklore. He stood up to British Prime Minister Churchill and American President Roosevelt courageously, insisting that Australian troops be brought home to defend their nation against the expected Japanese invasion. However, the praise and adulation that is heaped upon Curtin for creating the American Alliance is not justified. James Prior argues that the credit is rightly owed to Richard Casey, who as Australia's first ambassador to the United States did more to secure American engagement with Australia in Pacific security than Curtin or anyone else. . New. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.

North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2023. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 357 pages. Dr Fanny Reading arrived in Australia in 1889 as a migrant child and felt the loneliness of the newcomer. A brilliant musician and compassionate medical doctor, she created the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia, mentoring thousands of women, bringing them out of their kitchens into the worlds of public debate and policies. A leader on Australia's home-front during World War II, she was a trailblazer, feminist and courageous activist for the disadvantaged at home and abroad. . New. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.

Sydney: Angus & Robertson. 1987. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy DJ spine a little sunned. Previous owner's blindstamp to half-title page. Colour and black & white illustrations. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 221 pages. Life in the 1830's and 1840s. . 1st thus. Hardback.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1993. Small Quarto Size [approx 18x24cm]. Near Fine condition - an excellent copy. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 176 pages. . Reprint. Softcover.