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Rosalie Gascoigne (1917–1999) was a highly regarded Australian artist whose assemblages of found materials embraced landscape, still life, minimalis...
A life of Rosalie Gascoigne
Widely regarded as a major Australian artist, Rosalie Gascoigne first exhibited in 1974 at the age of fifty-seven. She rapidly achieved critical accla...
Sport in Australian Drama, first published in 1992, provides an intelligent view of Australian society at play....
This book contains entries on people, institutions, places, ideas, movements, events, artifacts, and documents generally considered to be of significa...
Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia
This book provides the first comprehensive study of diverse migrant memories and what they mean for Australia in the twenty-first century. Drawing on ...
Space, Narrative, and Knowledge in Aboriginal Australia and Papua New Guinea
Australia and Papua New Guinea share a number of important social, cultural, and historical features, making a sustained comparison between the two es...
1991–1995 (A–Z)
Volume 19 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) contains concise biographies of individuals who died between 1991 and 1995. The first of two...
Percy Leason's Aboriginal Portraits
Exhibition catalogue; portraits of individuals originally created and exhibited in 1934 as 'The last of the Victorians'; Aboriginal people from Lake T...
They Aspired to Create the Victorian Arts Centre
Vicki Fairfax's account of the struggle to build an Arts Centre for all Victorians located in the heart of Melbourne makes for very exciting reading. ...
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Stories of People and Phosphate from Banaba
Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosp...
A History of the Art Auction in Australia
"Art auctions have long captured the public imagination. They regularly make news headlines and have become synonymous with glamour, money and social ...
In Australian Battalion Commanders in the Second World War, Garth Pratten explores, for the first time, the background, role and conduct of the comman...
Frank Hardy's famous novel Power Without Glory was printed and published secretly in Melbourne in 1950. The subsequent legal battle, in which Hardy wa...
The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission
Focusing on the archaeological investigation of a Moravian mission in southeastern Australia, the traditional country of the Wergaia-language speakers...
Missing, Lost and, Uncreated Archives
Archival Silences demonstrates emphatically that archival absences exist all over the globe. The book questions whether benign ‘silence’ is an app...
From Rations to Citizenship in Central Australia
This cultural study of rationing in Central Australia develops a new narrative of colonisation....
Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870
The most comprehensive dictionary on the topic ever produced, this reference contains over a million words describing some 3000 artists. Focusing on t...
la 4è de couverture indique : " The voyage and the people - The perils - The route - The Ships - Life at home - Departure - Accommodation - Surgeons ...
A Pre-Lapita to Post-Lapita Site from Caution Bay, South Coast of Mainland Papua New Guinea
Presenting results from Tanamu 1, the first site to be published in detail in the Caution Bay Studies in Archaeology series. Yielding well-provenanced...
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 14TH BIENNIAL LABOUR HISTORY CONFERENCE
These proceedings carry some of the papers delivered at the 14th Biennial Labour History Conference, 11-13 February 2015. Titled Fighting Against War:...
Race, Labour and Christian Humanitarianism in the South-west Pacific, 1870-1930
The Explorations of Ivan Champion of Papua : a Record of Geographical Exploration in Australia's Territory of Papua Between 1926 and 1940
Value, materiality and place
Tides of Innovation in Oceania is directly inspired by Epeli Hau‘ofa’s vision of the Pacific as a ‘Sea of Islands’; the image of tides recalls...
Art, Politics and Identity
Crossing Cultures is an exciting demonstration of the quality of new research being undertaken in Canberra and Darwin. Covering seemingly diverse topi...
The Fortunes and Follies of Hugh D. McIntosh
Starting as a humble pie delivery boy, Hugh D. McIntosh, otherwise known as ‘Huge Deal’, rose to amazing heights of wealth through investments in ...
Perspectives on Race, Place and Identity
Charts the making of colonial spaces in settler colonies of the Pacific Rim during the last two centuries. Contributions journey through time, place a...
A Biography
"The result is an engrossing narrative that highlights Herbert's compulsion to write and illuminates his abiding themes, including those related to se...
Lists all names that have been used for plants discovered in Australia (62,000+) from genus level downwards. Each entry includes bibliographic and typ...
A Critique of Western Sanctions Policy
Since 1988, when Burma's military rulers crushed a popular uprising, Western governments have promoted democracy as a panacea for the country's manifo...
New Zealand in the World Since 1935
Independence and Foreign Policy is the first interpretive study of New Zealand foreign policy to cover the period 1935-91. Based on years of detailed ...