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Unnamed Desires A Sydney Lesbian History by Rebecca Jennings
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Australian History Ser.
The first in-depth study of female same-sex desire in twentieth-century Australia, this book explores the compelling stories of ordinary women who struggled to build lives and express their love for other women in a hostile society. Focusing on Sydney and country New South Wales in the mid-twentieth-cen ...Show more
Victory over Death - The Art of Colin McCahon by Rex Butler; Laurence Simmons
$50.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Art History Ser.
Perhaps at the origin of all thinking about culture lies the question of the afterlife. The artist makes their work hoping that it will live on after their death. The critic reads or looks at the work wondering whether a future audience will engage with it. Victory over Death: The Art of Colin McCahon t ...Show more
Wanted: The Outlaw Lives of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly by Robert M. Utley
$30.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The Lamar Series in Western History
A renowned biographer compares the lives and times of American outlaw Billy the Kid and his Australian counterpart Ned Kelly The oft-told exploits of Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly survive vividly in the public imaginations of their respective countries, the United States and Australia. But the outlaws' re ...Show more
Why Australia Prospered - The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth by Ian W. McLean
$58.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: The\Princeton Economic History of the Western World Ser.
This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Why Australia Prospered is a fascinating historical examination of how Aus ...Show more
Why Did Europe Conquer the World? by Philip T. Hoffman
$40.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Princeton Economic History of the Western World Ser.
Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations ...Show more