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  • From Convict Printers to Book Arcades

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

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $25.00 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Eliza Hamilton Dunlop

    Writing from the Colonial Frontier

    de Katie Hansord, Jason Rudy, Stuart Gibson, Dr Peter Minter, Dr Graeme Skinner, Dr James Wafer, Professor Duncan Wu ...
    Series series Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
    Eliza Hamilton Dunlop (17961880) arrived in Sydney in 1838 and became almost immediately notorious for her poem "The Aboriginal Mother," written in response to the infamous Myall Creek massacre. She published more poetry in colonial newspapers during her lifetime, but for the century following her death her work was largely neglected. In recent years, however, critical interest in Dunlop has ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Elizabeth Harrower

    Critical Essays

    de Nicholas Birns, New York University, Professor Robert Dixon, Megan Nash, Ivor Indyk, Michelle de Kretser, Dr Fiona McFarlane, Elizabeth Webby, Brigid Rooney, Julian Murphet, Kate Livett ...
    Series series Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
    Elizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays is the first sustained study of this acclaimed Australian author. It brings together two celebrated novelists and ten noted critics of Australian literature to consider the legacy and continuing importance of this major literary figure.The essays examine all of Harrower's published fiction, from her first short story to the long-delayed publication of In Certain ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Threads

    The University of Sydney Student Anthology 2007

    Loose threads that are dropped on one journey are picked up on another and woven into the delicate fabric we each wrap around ourselves. University of Sydney students have each taken up a strand and woven it into these stories, poems and essays. ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This book introduces in a lively and succinct way the major writers, literary movements, styles and genres that, at the beginning of a new century, are seen as constituting the field of 'Australian literature'. The book consciously takes a perspective that sees literary works not as aesthetic objects created in isolation by unique individuals, but as cultural products influenced and constrained by ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

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  • People of the River

    Lost worlds of early Australia

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Conspiracy of Silence

    Queensland's frontier killing times

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Telling Tennant's Story

    The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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  • Australia's Birthstain

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • The Origins of an Experimental Society

    New Zealand, 1769–1860

    de Erik Olssen ...
    In this major work, one of our leading historians offers a new account of the origins of New Zealand: how Pakeha settlers – nurtured on Enlightenment thought and evangelical humanitarianism – encountered Maori, and how the two peoples together developed a distinctively experimental society. With James Cook's arrival in 1769 and the subsequent colonisation, New Zealand became one of the few post ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Tasmania's Convicts

    How felons built a free society

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Luck of the Irish

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD