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Fatal Contact - How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia's First Peoples by Peter Dowling
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Australian History Ser.
Fatal Contact explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788. Epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, measles and sexually transmitted diseases swept through the Indigenous populations of the ...Show more
Geoffrey Blainey: Writer, Historian, Controversialist by Richard Allsop
$34.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Australian History Ser.
Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia's 'greatest living historian', a writer whose prolific output includes such iconic books about the country's past as The Tyranny of Distance and Triumph of the Nomads. However, Blainey has also been a controversial figure. His 1984 comments about Asian im ...Show more
Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia by Tom Griffiths
$76.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Studies in Australian History
Hunters and Collectors is about historical consciousness and environmental sensibilities in European Australia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is in part a collective biography of amateur antiquarians, archaeologists, naturalists, journalists and historians: people who shaped the Aust ...Show more
I Wonder: The Life and Work of Ken Inglis by Peter Browne (Editor); Seumas Spark (Editor)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Australian History Ser.
Ken Inglis was one of Australia's most creative, wide-ranging and admired historians. During a scholarly career spanning nearly seven decades, his humane, questioning approach -- summed up by the recurring query, 'I wonder...' -- won him a large and appreciative audience. Whether he was writing about re ...Show more
Kangaroos by Terence J. Dawson
$39.95 AUD
Category: Accessories | Series: Australian Natural History Ser.
This book provides a clear and accessible account of kangaroos, showing how their reproductive patterns, social structure and other aspects of their biology make them well adapted to Australia's harsh climate and demanding environment. Since the last edition of this book nearly 20 years ago, much more i ...Show more
Koala - A Historical Biography by Ann Moyal
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Australian Natural History Ser.
Examines the koala's long seclusion from discovery (1803), its slow penetration of the European classificatory system, its distinctive history, and its emergence through observation, artistic and scientific depiction. This book covers koala destruction through settlement and hunting in the 19th century ...Show more
Making Modern Australia: The Whitlam Government's 21st Century Agenda by Jenny Hocking
$29.95 AUD
$34.99 (14% off)
Category: Australia | Series: Australian History
The Whitlam government propelled Australia out of the presumptions and certainties of twenty-three years of conservative government and changed it irrevocably. It passed a record number of bills into law and became the most successful reformist government in Australias history. This book brings to light ...Show more
Mallee Country: Land, People, History by Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor, Katie Holmes
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australia | Series: Australian History Ser.
Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening ...Show more
Retroactive 1 NSW Australian Curriculum History Stage 4 - The Ancient World to the Modern World eBookPLUS by Maureen Anderson
$84.95 AUD
$93.99 (9% off)
Category: Education | Series: Retroactive Australian Curriculum for History
The Retroactive series continues to set the standard in providing a complete resource package for the New South Wales 7-10 History Syllabus. Fully updated with engaging new content, the Retroactive series develops students? understanding of key historical concepts and inquiry skills. Students and teache ...Show more
Retroactive 10 Australian Curriculum for History by Maureen Anderson; Kate Harvey; Ian Keese; Anne Low; Brian Hoepper
$54.95 AUD
$56.99 (3% off)
Category: Education | Series: Retroactive Australian Curriculum for History Ser.
Retroactive 10 Australian Curriculum for History with eBookPLUS provides an engaging and in-depth coverage of the new Australian Curriculum for History. Designed to develop students' understanding of key historical concepts and inquiry skills, the text integrates an authoritative coverage of topic conte ...Show more
Retroactive 2 NSW Australian Curriculum History Stage 5The Making of the Modern World and Australia by Maureen Anderson
$81.95 AUD
Category: Education | Series: Retroactive Australian Curriculum for History
The Retroactive series continues to set the standard in providing a complete resource package for the New South Wales 7-10 History Syllabus. Fully updated and with engaging new content to comprehensively address the requirements of the new NSW syllabus for the Australian curriculum, the Retroactive text ...Show more