Beautiful Balts: From Displaced Persons to New Australians by Jayne Persian
$47.99 NZD
Category: Prize for Australian History
170,000 Displaced Persons arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952 - the first non-Anglo-Celtic mass migrants. Australia's first immigration minister, Arthur Calwell, scoured post-war Europe for refugees, Displaced Persons he characterised as 'Beautiful Balts'. Amid the hierarchies of the White Austra ...Show more
Hidden in Plain View - The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney by Paul Irish
$54.99 NZD
Category: Prize for Australian History
Contrary to what you may think, local Aboriginal people did not lose their culture and die out within decades of Governor Phillip's arrival in Sydney in 1788. Aboriginal people are prominent in accounts of early colonial Sydney, yet we seem to skip a century as they disappear from the historical record, ...Show more
Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901 by Tim Rowse
$54.99 NZD
Category: Prize for Australian History
As Australia became a nation in 1901, no one anticipated that 'Aboriginal affairs' would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not 'dying out' as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and - along with Torres Strait Islanders - they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority's ...Show more
John Curtin's War: The Coming of War in the Pacific and Reinventing Australia by John Edwards
$55.00 NZD
Category: Prize for Australian History
John Curtin became Australia's Prime Minister eight weeks before Japan launched war in the Pacific.Curtin's struggle for power against Joe Lyons and Bob Menzies, his dramatic use of it when he took office in October 1941, and his determination to be heard in Washington and London as Japan advanced, is a ...Show more
The Enigmatic Mr Deakin by Judith Brett
$40.00 NZD
Category: Prize for Australian History
Alfred Deakin - scholar, spiritualist, prime minister - was instrumental in creating modern Australia. In the first biography of Deakin in more than half a century, the acclaimed political historian Judith Brett deftly weaves together his public, private and family lives. She brings out from behind the ...Show more
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