Australasian & Pacific History
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A Wild History
Monash University Publishing£19.99| /The frontiersmen who came to the Victoria River District of Australia's Northern Territory included cattle and horse thieves, outlaws, capitalists,...
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Echoes from Hawaiki
Otago University Press£24.45| /Echoes from Hawaiki is a comprehensive account of taonga pūoro ancestral musical traditions and instrument-playing techniques. In this thoroughly r...
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Gardens of History and Imagination
Sydney University Press£40.00| /Whether on the ground or in the mind gardens carry meaning. They reflect social and aesthetic values and may express hope, anticipation or grief. T...
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Gender Violence in Australia
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /In 2015, the Australian federal government proclaimed that violence against women had become a national crisis. Despite widespread social and econo...
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Geoffrey Blainey
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia's 'greatest living historian', a writer whose prolific output includes such iconic books about the...
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Half the Perfect World
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /"The years in the Aegean may have been, at best, half perfect, but it was on Hydra that they connected to a place, a lifestyle and a community that...
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Hanged Man & the Body Thief
Monash University Publishing£13.99| /1860. An Aboriginal labourer named Jim Crow is led to the scaffold of the Maitland Gaol in colonial New South Wales. Among the onlookers is the Sco...
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Hauturu
Massey University PressOriginal price £46.99Current price £40.99| /Often described as the most intact native ecosystem in the country, Te Hauturu-o-Toi/Little Barrier Island holds a special place in the minds of al...
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Hidden Lives
Interactive Press Australia£27.99| /A dark chapter in Australias wartime history has often been minimised or overlooked in mainstream history books. This collection of five scholarly...
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Historian for all Seasons
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /Geoffrey Bolton was the most versatile and widely travelled of his generation of Australian historians. As a scholar, teacher and commentator he en...
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Hocken
Otago University Press (NZ)£32.00| /Dr. Thomas Morland Hocken (1836--1910) arrived in Dunedin in 1862 at the age of 26. Throughout his busy life as a medical practitioner he amassed b...
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Holding on to Home
Te Papa Press£38.99| /A powerfully human and emotional illustrated history of New Zealand's war experience, focusing on material culture and social history. From trenche...
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Horouta
Oratia Books£92.99| /Horouta is the definitive history of the descendants of the voyaging canoes that brought the first settlers from Polynesia to the lands that stretc...
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I'm the One That Know This Country
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£19.99| /Matutjara woman, Jessie Lennon, was born on a sheep station near Kingoonya in the 1920s. Aged six, she accompanied her father on a ceremonial journ...
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Jean Blackburn
Monash University Publishing£23.99| /Jean Blackburn devoted much of her working life to the development of socially just education policy. From the early 1970s she worked with Peter Ka...
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Ka Taoka Hakena
Otago University Press (NZ)£22.50| /In 1907 Dr T.M. Hocken of Dunedin - historian, bibliographer and collector - undertook to gift to the University of Otago his magnificent collectio...
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Kalimpong Kids
Otago University Press£15.00| /In the early 20th century, 130 young Anglo-Indians were sent to New Zealand in an organised immigration scheme from Kalimpong, in the Darjeeling di...
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Kangkushot
Aboriginal Studies Press (AUS)£23.99| /An updated edition of an epic and remarkable story. In this powerful memoir, Peter Coppin's story emerges; told in fragments, moments of time and m...
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Kate Edger
Otago University Press£21.00| /In 1877, Kate Edger became the first woman to graduate from a New Zealand university. The New Zealand Herald enthusiastically hailed her achievemen...
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Kath Williams
Spinifex Press£19.95| /Kath Williams, who emerges as a feisty and quietly determined woman, was the major force behind the struggle for equal pay for women. She was elect...
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Kerikeri Mission and Kororipo Pa
Otago University Press (NZ)£11.50| /A concise guide to the Kerikeri mission from its inception in 1819 until 1845, when it became a secular settlement and the Stone Store was sold to ...
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Kitchens
Otago University Press (NZ)£22.50| /This engrossing history of the domestic kitchen in New Zealand covers 10 decades that saw culinary traditions accommodate extraordinary changes in ...
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Let My People Go
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£20.99| /For 50 years, until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the Soviet Union ran a campaign of repression, imprisonment, political trials and terror against ...
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