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  • From Convict Printers to Book Arcades

    A History of the Book in Australia Volume I: 1788-1890

    Edited by Judy Donnelly, Elizabeth Webby, Wallace Kirsop ...
    European printing technology came in the 1790s to a continent where there were - and still are - age-old modes of communication developed by Indigenous Australians. The present volume, while recognising this essential prehistory, is devoted to the print civilisation imported by the newcomers. Throughout the nineteenth century books, magazines and newspapers arrived in great quantities from ... Read more

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  • People of the River

    Lost worlds of early Australia

    by Grace Karskens ...
    A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Award-winning historian Grace Karskens uncovers the everyday lives of ordinary people in the early colony, both Aboriginal and British.Winner of the Prime Minister's Award for Australian History 2021Winner of the NSW Premier's Australian History Prize 2021Co-winner of the Ernest Scott ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Conspiracy of Silence

    Queensland's frontier killing times

    by 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 ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Telling Tennant's Story

    The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence

    by Dean Ashenden ...
    Winner of the 2022 Australian Political Book of the Year Award 'A drily elegant, bracing work from a pained and open heart' —Helen Garner 'Refreshing and original. A unique window on Australia's past and its barbed resonance today … Essential reading for anyone interested in the challenge of truth-telling.' —Mark McKenna 'A graceful, unostentatiously scholarly, wise (and highly readable) book on a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Australia's Birthstain

    by Babette Smith ...
    A groundbreaking history of convicts in Australia which lays bare the distortions and myths that caused the nation to deny its own past.; 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 ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Tasmania's Convicts

    How felons built a free society

    by 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 ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Kerry Girls

    Emigration and the Earl Grey Scheme

    by Kay Moloney Caball ...
    As part of the controversial Earl Grey Scheme, this is the true story of the Kerry girls who were shipped to Australia from the four Kerry workhouses of Dingle, Kenmare, Killarney and Listowel in 1849 and 1850.Leaving behind scenes of destitution and misery, the girls, some of whom spoke only Irish, set off to the other side of the world without any idea of what lay ahead. This book tells of their ... Read more

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  • The Luck of the Irish

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

    by 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 ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Turning Points

    Chapters in South Australian history

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Australia's Birthstain

    The startling legacy of the convict era

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Heiresses

    Marriage, Inheritance, and Slavery in the Caribbean

    by Miranda Kaufmann ...
    From Jamaica to Charleston, Sierra Leone to India, Australia and back to England, this is the story of the heiresses—and the role they played in the history of enslavement.Through the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, it was a fact universally acknowledged that any man in want of a great fortune ought to find himself a Caribbean heiress. Their assets, the product of the exploitation of ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Surveying the Wild Abyss

    Unravelling settler memory

    by Barry Corr ...
    A unique record of the Hawkesbury’s Frontier War and a powerful contemplation on memory and atonement.In this groundbreaking history of colonisation and frontier conflict in the Hawkesbury region, historian Barry Corr navigates the gaps and silences in the primary records to reveal settler amnesia, the cataclysmic nature of colonisation and the way history is remembered, or not remembered. Driven ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD