Against the Grain: Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark in Australian history and politics, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Stuart Macintyre and Sheila Fitzpatrick (eds)
Against the Grain examines the dual careers of Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark and shows the political and personal difficulties that beset them both during their careers.
Academic Monograph
Against the Grain: Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark in Australian history and politics, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Stuart Macintyre and Sheila Fitzpatrick (eds)
Against the Grain examines the dual careers of Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark and shows the political and personal difficulties that beset them both during their careers.
Academic Monograph
American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony, 1839-1850 [PB] Available
Cassandra Pybus and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
This book tells the strange story of almost a hundred United States citizens who were transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1839-40.
Arab-Australians Today: Citizenship and Belonging [PB] Available
Ghassan Hage (ed.)
Arab-Australians Today raises important questions about immigration, settlement, marginalisation and participation in Western societies.
Architecture on Campus: A Guide to the University of Melbourne and its Colleges [PB] Available
Philip Goad and George Tibbits
Offers a unique insight into the rich array of buildings, public artworks and landscapes of the University of Melbourne.
The Artificial Horizon: Imagining the Blue Mountains [PB] Available
Martin Thomas
Awards: Winner of The Gleebooks Prize, 2004 NSW Premier's Literary Awards
Shortlisted for the Award for Non-Fiction, 2004 Festival Awards for Literature
Shortlisted for the Award for Innovation in Writing, 2004 Festival Awards for Literature
The author leads his readers through the cultural history of the Blue Mountains west of Sydney in order to probe the 'dreamwork of imperialism'.
Australian Citizenship [PB] Available
Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts
This lucid and accessible book invites the reader to think beyond simplistic answers to the question of what it means to be an Australian in 2004.
The Australian Constitution: A Documentary History [HB] Available
John Williams
This book brings together all the critical documents which formed the Commonwealth Constitution of 1901.
Australian Dictionary of Biography: 1940-1980 Kem-Pie, Volume 15 [HB] Available
General Editor John Ritchie
Volume 15 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography is the third of four to deal with the 1940-1980 period, recording the lives of Australians whom many of us remember from the recent past.
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Australian Dictionary of Biography: 1940-1980 Pik-Z, Volume 16 [HB] Available
John Ritchie and Diane Langmore (eds)
The Australian Dictionary of Biography is THE classic Australian work of reference. Volume 16--the last of four volumes to deal with the period 1940-1980--is used by writers, scholars, researchers and many general readers.
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Australian Republicanism: A Reader [PB] Available
Mark McKenna and Wayne Hudson (eds)
This collection of readings is designed to transform the way Australians understand republicanism.
Australia's Bid for the Atomic Bomb [PB] Available
Wayne Reynolds
This important work reveals that Australian post-war defence policy was based on plans for joint nuclear weapons development between Australia and the United Kingdom.
Australia's First Rotary Club: A History of the Rotary Club of Melbourne [HB] Available
Owen Parnaby
The story of the Rotary Club of Melbourne--the first Rotary Club in Australia.
Australia's Own Cold War: The Waterfront Under Menzies, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Tom Sheridan
Tom Sheridan goes beyond the propaganda of the era to reveal for the first time the true causes of waterfront unrest.
Academic Monograph
Australia's Own Cold War: The Waterfront Under Menzies, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Tom Sheridan
Tom Sheridan goes beyond the propaganda of the era to reveal for the first time the true causes of waterfront unrest.
Academic Monograph
Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans [PB] Available
Clare Wright
Awards: Commendation, Victorian Community History Awards 2004
Special Mention, Centre for Australian Cultural Studies Awards 2003
Beyond the Ladies Lounge challenges the myth of the Australian pub as a male domain by documenting the central role that women have historically played in hotelkeeping from colonial times to the present.
Brenda Niall on Arthur Boyd, MUP Masterworks #3 [PB] Available
Brenda Niall
The brilliant painter Arthur Boyd (1920-99) was a member of Australia's most famous artistic dynasty.
MUP Masterworks
Britishness Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw and Stuart Macintyre (eds)
Britishness Abroad explores the cultural, economic and political aspects of Britishness in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Canada and South Africa, as well as in the United States and within Britain itself.
Academic Monograph
Britishness Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Cultures, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw and Stuart Macintyre (eds)
Britishness Abroad explores the cultural, economic and political aspects of Britishness in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Canada and South Africa, as well as in the United States and within Britain itself.
Academic Monograph
Canvas Documentaries: Panoramic Entertainments in Nineteenth-century Australia and New Zealand [HB] Available
Mimi Colligan
Long before cinema was invented, people went to picture shows. Canvas Documentaries captures the artistic, civic and social preoccupations of popular culture in nineteenth-century Australia.
Carlton: A History, Paperback [PB] Available
Peter Yule
'This lavishly produced volume provides a fitting tribute to a much-loved suburb.'
Charles Conder: The Last Bohemian [PB] Available
Ann Galbally
Awards: The Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2003
A fascinating biography of one of the youngest, most original and most talented members of the Heidelberg School of impressionist painters. Beautifully illustrated.
Clearings: Six Colonial Gardeners and Their Landscapes [HB] Available
Paul Fox
A collection of beautifully illustrated stories of six colonial gardeners and their making of the Australian landscape.
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Clearings: Six Colonial Gardeners and Their Landscapes [PB] Available
Paul Fox
A collection of beautifully illustrated stories of six colonial gardeners and their making of the Australian landscape.
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The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition [HB] Available
Susan Solomon
The tragic story of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his British team who trekked across the snows of Antarctica, striving to be the first to reach the South Pole.
Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy [PB] Available
Peter Cochrane
Awards: Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History 2007
The Age Book of the Year 2007
The Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2007
Peter Cochrane tells of the fight for responsible government and democracy through a memorable cast of characters.
The Colonial Earth [HB] Available
Tim Bonyhady
Awards: NSW Premier's History Prize 2001
Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2001
Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2001
Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year 2001
A story of activism and idealism, of intense appreciation of Australia's remarkable environment, and of sharp awareness of the limits to colonial growth.
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The Colonial Earth, New Paperback Edition [PB] Available
Tim Bonyhady
Awards: NSW Premier's History Prize 2001
Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2001
Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award 2001
Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year 2001
A superb, award-winning book, Colonial Earth challenges the widespread belief that Australia's early colonial settlers despised their environment and were blind to their own destructiveness. Now in paperback.
Constructing Australia [PB] Available
Richard Evans and Alex West
The Sydney Harbour Bridge
The Perth-Kalgoorlie Pipeline
The Overland Telegraph
Constructing Australia tells the dramatic story of political turmoil, private tragedy and conflict that lie at the heart of three epic engineering events in Australia's history: the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Perth-Kalgoorlie Pipeline and the Overland telegraph line.
The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia [PB] Available
Warwick Anderson
Awards: Winner of the Australian Historical Association W.K. Hancock Prize 2004
This is the first comprehensive history of Australian medical and scientific ideas about race and place.
Diary of a Lady's Maid: Government House in Colonial Australia, Journals of Emma Southgate, 'Between Stairs' Servant, 1884-1886 [HB] Available
Edited by Helen Vellacott
The reliable, hard-working and loyal Emma Southgate began her diary when she journeyed across rough seas and under stormy skies from England to Australia in 1884.
Digging People Up for Coal: A History of Yallourn [PB] Available
Meredith Fletcher
Awards: Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's History Awards, Community and Regional History Prize 2002
This book is about the birth, life and loss of a community.
Diversity and Discovery: The History of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1965-1996 [HB] Available
Sir Gustav Nossal
The history one of Australia's foremost medical research centres from 1965 to 1996, related by it then director, Sir Gustav Nossal.
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The Enduring Rip: A History of Queenscliffe [PB] Available
Barry Hill
Awards: Winner - Victorian Community History Awards - The Best Print/Publication
This substantial and richly illustrated text by an award-winning author brings the fascinating story of old Queenscliffe to life.
Eureka, NEW ILLUSTRATED EDITION [PB] Available
John Molony
The story of the Eureka Stockade, Australia's first and only armed rebellion for democratic rights.
The Eureka Stockade: SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION [HB] Available
Raffaello Carboni
Raffaello Carboni, an active participant in the Eureka Stockade, relates the story behind the myth.
The Facing Island: A Personal History [PB] Available
Jan Bassett
This imaginative and moving memoir uses letters sent by a young New Zealand soldier to the author's maternal grandmother during World War I as a springboard for an account of her own life.
Facing North: A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia, Volume 1, 1901 to the 1970s [HB] Available
David Goldsworthy (ed.)
Facing North is the first substantial history of Australia's relations with Asia since Federation.
Facing North: A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia, Volume 1, 1901 to the 1970s [PB] Available
David Goldsworthy (ed.)
Facing North is the first substantial history of Australia's relations with Asia since Federation.
Facing North: A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia, Volume 2, 1970s to 2000 [HB] Available
Peter Edwards and David Goldsworthy (eds)
Foreword by Alexander Downer
Narrative history tracing the development of Australia's broad political, strategic, economic and people-to-people links with Asia over the century since the federation of Australian colonies.
Facing North: A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia, Volume 2: 1970s to 2000 [PB] Available
Peter Edwards and David Goldsworthy (eds)
Foreword by Alexander Downer
Narrative history tracing the development of Australia's broad political, strategic, economic and people-to-people links with Asia over the century since the federation of Australian colonies.
First Australians: An Illustrated History [HB] Available
Edited by Rachel Perkins and Marcia Langton with Wayne Atkinson, James Boyce, RG Kimber, Steve Kinnane, Noel Loos and Bruce Pascoe
The companion book to the epic SBS TV series, First Australians tells the story that gave birth to the nation.
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First Australians UNILLUSTRATED [PB] Available
Edited by Rachel Perkins and Marcia Langton with Wayne Atkinson, James Boyce, RG Kimber, Steve Kinnane, Noel Loos and Bruce Pascoe
The companion book to the epic SBS TV series, First Australians tells the story that gave birth to the nation.
A Forester's Log: The Story of John La Gerche and the Ballarat-Creswick State Forest 1882-1897 [HB] Available
Angela Taylor
Awards: Victorian Community and Local History Awards 1999
A Forester's Log tells the story of John La Gerche, a pioneering forester in the Ballarat-Creswick area.
Fresh Water: New Perspectives on Water in Australia, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Emily Potter, Alison Mackinnon, Stephen McKenzie and Jennifer McKay (eds)
Is water a resource or is it the source?
Academic Monograph
Fresh Water: New Perspectives on Water in Australia, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Emily Potter, Alison Mackinnon, Stephen McKenzie and Jennifer McKay (eds)
Is water a resource or is it the source?
Academic Monograph
The Fuss that Never Ended: The Life and Work of Geoffrey Blainey [PB] Available
Deborah Gare, Geoffrey Bolton, Stuart Macintyre and Tom Stannage (eds)
A lively and distinguished assembly of fellow historians take a fresh look at Geoffrey Blainey's distinguished career.
A Future in Flames [PB] Available
Danielle Clode
A Future in Flames is a personal journey of discovery that attempts to understand why, after so many years, people are still dying in bushfires.
Gardenesque: A Celebration of Australian Gardening [HB] Available
Richard Aitken
A visual tour of stunning images of more than 200 years of gardening and garden making, from the State Library of Victoria's extensive collections.
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The Golden Age: A History of the Colony of Victoria 1851-1861 [PB] Available
Geoffrey Serle
Outstanding account of a decade whose highlights included separation from New South Wales and the Eureka Stockade.
Good Things Came From Glass: A History of Glass Making in Australia 1812--1987 [PB] Available
Mal Harrop
Awards: Shortlisted for the Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature, 2008.
'An obituary for the golden era of manufacturing in Australia' Professor John Poynter, University of Melbourne
Green Pens: A Collection of Garden Writing [HB] Available
Katie Holmes, Susan K. Martin, Kylie Mirmohamadi
A charming selection of clippings from gardeners who love to write and writers who love their garden.
Growing Good Catholic Girls: Education and Convent Life in Australia [PB] Available
Christine Trimingham Jack
Growing Good Catholic Girls offers an illuminating study of life in a convent boarding school from the mid-1940s to 1965.
The Henty Journals: A Record of Farming, Whaling and Shipping in Portland Bay, 1834-1839 [HB] Available
Edited by Lynnette Peel
Awards: Australian Society of Indexers Medal 1996
These journals, some of the most valuable items in the La Trobe Library, State Library of Victoria, have never before been published.
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Hill End: An Historic Australian Goldfields Landscape [PB] Available
Alan Mayne
Awards: Special Mention, Centre for Australian Cultural Studies Awards 2003
The Hill End Historic Site is one of first cultural heritage sites to be reserved in Australia.
A Historian's Apprenticeship [PB] Available
Manning Clark
The story of the writing of Clark's life's work, his six-volume A History of Australia.
An Historian's Life: Max Crawford and the Politics of Academic Freedom, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Fay Anderson
Max Crawford was one of Australia's pre-eminent historians. As both a participant in and observer of many decisive episodes of the era, Crawford was regarded as a radical and outspoken defender of intellectual autonomy.
Academic Monograph
An Historian's Life: Max Crawford and the Politics of Academic Freedom, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Fay Anderson
Max Crawford was one of Australia's pre-eminent historians. As both a participant in and observer of many decisive episodes of the era, Crawford was regarded as a radical and outspoken defender of intellectual autonomy.
Academic Monograph
Historical Records of Australia: Resumed Series III, Volume VIII, Series III, Volume VIII [HB] Available
Peter Chapman (ed.)
Historical Records of Australia is a basic and vital source for early Australian history.
Historical Records of Australia, Series III, Volume IX [HB] Available
Peter Chapman (ed.)
Historical Records of Australia is a basic and vital source for early Australian history.
Historical Records of Victoria: Beginnings of Permanent Government, Volume 1 [HB] Available
Michael Cannon (ed.)
Describes how all aspects of the life of the Port Phillip District developed between 1836 and 1839.
Foundation Series
Historical Records of Victoria: Public Finance of Port Phillip 1836-1840, Volume 7 [HB] Available
Edited by Ian MacFarlane
Details the economic scenario within which all other events connected with the establishment of the Port Phillip District unfolded.
Foundation Series
Historical Records of Victoria: Cumulative Index, Volume 8 Index [HB] Available
Edited by Ian MacFarlane
The cumulative index to The Historical Records of Victoria is an essential search tool for this important historical reference work.
Foundation Series
A History for a Nation: Ernest Scott and the Making of Australian History [PB] Available
Stuart Macintyre
Awards: Highly commended in the Ernest Scott History Prize 1997
Scott laid the foundations of a historical profession in this country and trained Australians to understand their colonial past as a guide to nationhood.
A History of Australia: New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land 1822-1838, Volume 2 [HB] Available
Manning Clark
Second volume of Manning Clark's monumental work deals with an increasingly settled society and the expeditions of the great inland explorers.
A History of Australia: The Beginning of an Australian Civilization 1824-1851, Volume 3 [HB] Available
Manning Clark
Awards: The Age Book of the Year 1974
Takes the story of Australia to the momentous discovery of gold and the separation of Victoria from New South Wales.
A History of Australia: The Earth Abideth for Ever 1851-1888, Volume 4 [HB] Available
Manning Clark
Awards: NSW Premier's Literary Award 1979
FAW Wilke Award 1981
Continues the story of Australia from the discovery of gold to the centenary of the coming of European civilization.
A History of Australia: The People Make Laws 1888-1915, Volume 5 [HB] Available
Manning Clark
The fifth volume of Clark's monumental work covers Federation, the Boer War and Gallipoli.
A History of Australia, Six volume set [HB] Available
Manning Clark
Manning Clark's dramatic account of white Australian history, voted the most influential work of Australian non-fiction by 68 per cent of leading Australians in August 1999.
A History of Australia: Volumes III & IV 1824-1888, Volumes 3 & 4 [PB] Available
Manning Clark
Melbourne University Press is proud to present Manning Clark's six-volume series, A History of Australia, published here for the first time in three paperback volumes.
A History of The Port Phillip District: Victoria before Separation [PB] Available
A. G. L. Shaw
This major work is an account of the establishment of European settlement in what is now the State of Victoria.
The History Wars, Second Edition [PB] Available
Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark
Awards: Winner of the 2004 QLD Premiers Harry Williams Award - Literary Work Advancing Public Debate.
A new edition of the 2003 publication that sparked months of intense debate about the way historians, politicians and others choose to interpret the Australian story.
Horse and Rider in Australian Legend [HB] Available
Nanette Mantle
An engrossing exploration of the myth of the stockworker, the bushranger and other heroic horseback figures through Australian literature and art.
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The Ice and the Inland: Mawson, Flynn, and the Myth of the Frontier [HB] Available
Brigid Hains
Awards: Shortlisted for 2003 NSW Premier's History Awards--Australian History Prize
The frontier mythology of the early twentieth-century is epitomised in the stories of these two extraordinary--and very different--men.
Invisible Invaders: Smallpox and Other Diseases in Aboriginal Australia 1780-1880 [e-book] Available
Judy Campbell
In Invisible Invaders, Judy Campbell argues that epidemics of smallpox among Australian Aboriginals preceded European settlement.
Joseph Mason: Assigned Convict, 1831-1837 [HB] Available
Edited by David Kent and Norma Townsend
This is a fresh and unique first-person account of the convict experience--a new and invaluable primary source.
A Journey to Cooper's Creek [HB] Available
Hermann Beckler
Edited and with an Introduction by Stephen Jeffries
Translated by Stephen Jeffries and Michael Kertesz
The account of Hermann Beckler, German medical officer and botanical collector with the Burke and Wills expedition, translated and published for the first time.
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Keeper of the Faith: A Biography of Jim Cairns [HB] Available
Paul Strangio
Both highly readable and carefully researched, Keeper of the Faith reassesses the part Cairns played in shaping Australian public life.
La Trobe: The Making of a Governor, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Dianne Reilly Drury
Charles Joseph La Trobe was Superintendent of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales and Victoria's first Lieutenant-Governor (1851-54). His administration, which coincided with the turbulent challenges of the Victorian gold rushes, was highly controversial.
Academic Monograph
La Trobe: The Making of a Governor, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Dianne Reilly Drury
Charles Joseph La Trobe was Superintendent of the Port Phillip District of New South Wales and Victoria's first Lieutenant-Governor (1851-54). His administration, which coincided with the turbulent challenges of the Victorian gold rushes, was highly controversial.
Academic Monograph
The Land Boomers: The Complete Illustrated History [PB] Available
Michael Cannon
Michael Cannon's extraordinary study of boomtime Australia, now profusely illustrated with contemporary, photographs, cartoons and etchings.
Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines: Edited by Stephen Muecke and Adam Shoemaker [HB] Available
David Unaipon
In producing this edition, Muecke and Shoemaker have at last righted the injustices done to David Unaipon by the brazen appropriation of his stories and by the patronising editorial changes effected by Ramsay Smith.
Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines: Edited by Stephen Muecke and Adam Shoemaker [PB] Available
David Unaipon
In producing this edition, Muecke and Shoemaker have at last righted the injustices done to David Unaipon by the brazen appropriation of his stories and by the patronising editorial changes effected by Ramsay Smith.
A Little History of Australia [HB] Available
Mark Peel
Illustrated by Andrew Weldon
Highly readable, often surprising and always enjoyable, A Little History of Australia tells the whole story of this Great Southern Land, from its Aboriginal origins to the present day.
A Little History of Australia [HB] Available
Mark Peel
Highly readable, often surprising and always enjoyable, A Little History of Australia tells the whole story of this Great Southern Land.
A Little History of Australia [PB] Available
Mark Peel
Highly readable, often surprising and always enjoyable, A Little History of Australia tells the whole story of this Great Southern Land.
Losing the Blanket: Australia and the End of Britain's Empire [PB] Available
David Goldsworthy
Losing the Blanket shows how Australia's foreign policy during the 1950s and 1960s was affected by the end of empire.
Lost Waters, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Erica Nathan
Lost Waters is a history of one rural waterscape, but with implications that extend to our wider understanding of how water resource conflict is framed and how our waterways are managed. It shows that water has been distilled from its past to produce a resource removed from history and landscapes disconnected from community.
Academic Monograph
Lost Waters, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Erica Nathan
Lost Waters is a history of one rural waterscape, but with implications that extend to our wider understanding of how water resource conflict is framed and how our waterways are managed. It shows that water has been distilled from its past to produce a resource removed from history and landscapes disconnected from community.
Academic Monograph
Lucky City: The First Generation at Ballarat 1851-1901 [HB] Available
Weston Bate
Awards: FAW Local History Award 1978
Ballarat was a makeshift boom town that matured to become a 'Golden City', a 'City of Gardens and Sculptures'.
Lucky City: The First Generation at Ballarat 1851-1901, Paperback Edition [PB] Available
Weston Bate
Ballarat was a makeshift boom town that matured to become a 'Golden City', a 'City of Gardens and Sculptures'.
The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Nicolas Peterson, Lindy Allen and Louise Hamby (eds)
The essays in this volume raise issues about representation, institutional policies, the periodisation of collecting, intellectual history, material culture studies, Aboriginal culture and the idea of a 'collection'.
Academic Monograph
The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Nicolas Peterson, Lindy Allen and Louise Hamby (eds)
The essays in this volume raise issues about representation, institutional policies, the periodisation of collecting, intellectual history, material culture studies, Aboriginal culture and the idea of a 'collection'.
Academic Monograph
Malaria Frontline: Australian Army Research during World War II [PB] Available
Tony Sweeney
Malaria Frontline chronicles the Australian search to find a cure for malaria and the scientific breakthroughs.
Manning Clark's History of Australia [PB] Available
Abridged by Michael Cathcart
A seamless version of a classic work which will inspire and challenge Australians for decades to come.
Manning Clark's History of Australia: Special Anniversary Edition, Limited abridged edition [HB] Available
Abridged and brought up to date by Michael Cathcart
A collector's edition of a classic work which will inspire and challenge Australians for decades to come.
Marcus Clarke's Bohemia: Literature and Modernity in Colonial Melbourne, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Andrew McCann
An in-depth study that unearths the richness of Marcus Clarke's writing and brings nineteenth-century Melbourne to life.
Academic Monograph
Marcus Clarke's Bohemia: Literature and Modernity in Colonial Melbourne, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Andrew McCann
An in-depth study that unearths the richness of Marcus Clarke's writing and brings nineteenth-century Melbourne to life.
Academic Monograph
Mariners Are Warned!: John Lort Stokes and H.M.S. Beagle in Australia 1837-1843, paperback Edition [PB] Available
Marsden Hordern
Awards: Victorian Premier's Literary Award, A. A. Phillips Prize for Australian Studies 1989
The Age Book of the Year Award 1989
Braille Book of the Year 1990
Maritime History Prize 1992
First full account of the third and last great hydrographic survey of the Australian coastline undertaken by the British Hydrographic Office.
Mawson: A Life [PB] Available
Philip Ayres
A biography covering the full range of Sir Douglas Mawson's life and work, his character and attainments, his virtues and faults, his place in the past and his significance for the present.
Melbourne's Monuments [HB] Available
Ronald T. Ridley
Informative guide to the provenance and history of Melbourne's monuments based on two walking tours around the city.
Memory, Monuments and Museums: The Past in the Present [PB] Available
Marilyn Lake
'At a time when we are continually urged to move on, to put the past behind us, the perverse persistence of the past is everywhere evident . . .
The Men of the Line: Stories of the Thai-Burma Railway Survivors [HB] Available
Pattie Wright
The story of the extraordinary engineering feat of the Thai-Burma Railway, told by the men of the Line.
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The Minerva Journal of John Washington Price: A Voyage from Cork, Ireland, to Sydney, New South Wales, 1798-1800 [HB] Available
Transcribed and edited with an introduction by Pamela Jeanne Fulton
The journal of John Washington Price, the surgeon of the transport Minerva which sailed from Cork for Sydney in 1799 carrying 200 convicts.
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Ministers, Mandarins and Diplomats: Australian Foreign Policy Making, 1941-1969 [PB] Available
Joan Beaumont, Christopher Waters, David Lowe with Garry Woodard
The story of the people, the events and the ideas that shaped Australian foreign policy and gave Australia its identity in the eyes of the rest of the world.
Murdoch's Flagship: Twenty-five Years of the Australian Newspaper, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Denis Cryle
Murdoch's Flagship provides the first in-depth overview of the
Australian newspaper, mapping its uneven and uncharted progress across
its first three decades.
Academic Monograph
Murdoch's Flagship: Twenty-five Years of the Australian Newspaper, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Denis Cryle
Murdoch's Flagship provides the first in-depth overview of the
Australian newspaper, mapping its uneven and uncharted progress across
its first three decades.
Academic Monograph
The Murray: A River and its People [PB] Available
Paul Sinclair
An original and subtly conceived work, The Murray offers a unique picture of Australia's major river.
The Native-Born: The First White Australians [PB] Available
John Molony
The story of white Australians born in this land before 1850; most were the children of convicts, had no access to land and no education, and the free settlers generally treated them as second-rate.
Ned Kelly, New Illustrated Edition [PB] Available
John Molony
In this evocative recreation of the Kelly story, John Molony unravels a life over which legend has cast a spell.
A New City: Photographs of Melbourne's Land Boom [HB] Available
Ian Morrison (ed.)
Foreword by Michael Cathcart
Awards: Commendation, Victorian Community History Awards 2004
A New City is a collection of photography by Charles B. Walker of Melbourne and its suburbs in the 1880s.
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Observing Australia: 1959 to 1999 [PB] Available
K. S. Inglis
Edited and Introduced by Craig Wilcox
Ken Inglis is one of Australia's most admired and warmly regarded historians. Written with style and wit, Observing Australia is a collection of his short pieces.
On the Home Front (Second edition): Melbourne in Wartime: 1939-1945 [PB] Available
Kate Darian-Smith
A classic and evocative study of Melbourne in wartime.
Once a Jolly Swagman: The Ballad of Waltzing Matilda [HB] Available
Matthew Richardson
Once a Jolly Swagman takes readers off the score sheet into the story of the one song that belongs to all Australians.
One Continuous Picnic: A Gastronomic History of Australia [PB] Available
Michael Symons
Foreword by Gay Bilson
A frequently acclaimed Australian classic on the history of eating in Australia. It now contains a major new section on developments over the past quarter-century.
The Origins of Multiculturalism in Australian Politics 1945-1975 [PB] Available
Mark Lopez
This is the first systematic study of the historical origins of multiculturalism in Australian politics.
Owen Dixon [HB] Available
Philip Ayres
The first biography ever written of Australia's most eminent judge, Sir Owen Dixon (1886-1972).
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Owen Dixon, New Edition [HB] Available
Philip Ayres
Foreword by Chief Justice J. J. Spigelman
The first biography ever written of Australia's most eminent judge, Sir Owen Dixon (1886-1972).
Per l'Australia: The Story of Italian Migration [HB] Available
Julia Church
'Pushing that handcart I didn't know whether to laugh or cry; laugh because I was happy to go anywhere, with the hope of starting a new life; cry with the fear of never returning to my beloved Fiume.'
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Per L'Australia: The Story of Italian Migration [PB] Available
Julia Church
'Pushing that handcart I didn't know whether to laugh or cry; laugh because I was happy to go anywhere, with the hope of starting a new life; cry with the fear of never returning to my beloved Fiume.'
Picturesque Pursuits: Colonial Women Artists and the Amateur Tradition [HB] Available
Caroline Jordan
Picturesque Pursuits explores the breadth and diversity of colonial women artists, including Mary Morton Allport, Annabella Boswell, Georgiana McCrae, Fanny Macleay, Louisa Anne Meredith and Harriet and Helena Scott
A Place Apart: The University of Melbourne: Decades of Challenge [HB] Available
John Poynter and Carolyn Rasmussen
A highly readable history of the University of Melbourne.
Political Tourists: Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Sheila Fitzpatrick and Carolyn Rasmussen (eds)
Few Australians travelled to the Soviet Union in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s; it was a distant place with a notoriously cold winter and harsh living conditions, even for visitors. But it did have one tourist attraction: its politics.
Academic Monograph
Political Tourists: Travellers from Australia to the Soviet Union in the 1920s-1940s, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Sheila Fitzpatrick and Carolyn Rasmussen (eds)
Few Australians travelled to the Soviet Union in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s; it was a distant place with a notoriously cold winter and harsh living conditions, even for visitors. But it did have one tourist attraction: its politics.
Academic Monograph
possession: Aborigines and Protectors 1838-1839, Volume 2B [HB] Reissued
Edited by Michael Cannon
Continues the story of early relations between Aborigines and Europeans in Port Phillip--the appointment and role of Protectors of Aborigines.
Foundation Series
The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image [PB] Available
James Curran
Foreword by Paul Kelly
Awards: Shortlisted for the 2004 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Prize for a First Book of History.
A highly original study of prime ministerial rhetoric that exposes the sources of our most powerful leaders' beliefs about Australia.
The Power of Speech: Australian Prime Ministers Defining the National Image [PB] Available
James Curran
Foreword by Paul Kelly
Awards: Shortlisted for the 2004 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, Prize for a First Book of History.
A highly original study of prime ministerial rhetoric that exposes the sources of our most powerful leaders' beliefs about Australia.
The Pursuit of Wonder: How Australia's landscape was explored, nature discovered and tourism unleashed [HB] Available
Julia Horne
Imagine an Australia before the tour buses and well-trodden bushwalks, a wild and often daunting country that did not easily yield the secrets of its natural beauty.
Miegunyah
Radical Students: The Old Left at Sydney University [HB] Available
Alan Barcan
Radical Students will stir the blood of those who were there, and make stimulating reading for those Australians who care about education, politics and liberal thought.
Ray Parkin On A POW's Survival, MUP Masterworks #2 [PB] Available
Ray Parkin
At risk of death, prisoner of war Ray Parkin secretly kept a journal of the months in 1943-44 he spent working on the Thai-Burma Railway.
MUP Masterworks
Rural Australia and the Great War: From Tarrawingee to Tangambalanga [PB] Available
John McQuilton
Conscription debates, recruiting, fund-raising, homecoming, and design of the war memorial -- as experienced across North Eastern Victoria.
The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining, New Edition [PB] Available
Geoffrey Blainey
This classic history of Australian mining now appears in its fifth edition, updated to bring the story up to the twenty-first century.
Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape, Second Edition [PB] Available
K. S. Inglis
Foreword by Dr Tom Frame
Awards: The Age Book of the Year 1999
The Age Book of the Year Non-Fiction Prize 1999
NSW Premier's Literary Awards, History Prize 1999
FAW Literature Award 1998
Ernest Scott History Prize 1999
Centre for Australian Cultural Studies Award, Individual Prize 1999
Distinguished historian Ken Inglis argues that Australian war memorials are the shrines of a civil religion.
Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape, Third Edition [PB] Available
K. S. Inglis
New introduction by Jay Winter
Awards: The Age Book of the Year 1999
The Age Book of the Year Non-Fiction Prize 1999
NSW Premier's Literary Awards, History Prize 1999
FAW Literature Award 1998
Ernest Scott History Prize 1999
Centre for Australian Cultural Studies Award, Individual Prize 1999
Distinguished historian Ken Inglis argues that Australian war memorials are the shrines of a civil religion.
Sand in Our Souls: The Beach in Australian History [PB] Available
Leone Huntsman
Awards: Independent Scholars Assocation of Australia Book Prize 2002
Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize 2002
In Sand in Our Souls Leone Huntsman describes the forces and pressures that encouraged or impeded Australians' enjoyment of sand and surf.
Scandal in the Colonies: Sydney and Cape Town, 1820-1850 [PB] Available
Kirsten McKenzie
The hidden stories of two port towns reveal colonial societies rife with gossip and dubious reputations.
The Shop: The University of Melbourne, 1850-1939 [HB] Available
R. J. W. Selleck
A vivid social, educational and cultural history of the University of Melbourne from 1850 to 1939.
Speaking Out of Turn: Lectures and Speeches 1940-1991 [PB] Available
Manning Clark
Selected speeches by Manning Clark, revealing changes and recurring themes in his thoughts on politics, history, literature and friends over fifty years.
Steel Town: The Making and Breaking of Port Kembla [HB] Available
Erik Eklund
Awards: Winner of 2003 NSW Premier's History Awards--Community and Regional History Prize.
The story of Port Kembla illuminates our understanding of the processes of industrial and social change.
Stirring Australian Speeches: The definitive collection, from Botany to Bali [HB] Available
Michael Cathcart and Kate Darian-Smith (eds)
A definitive collection of speeches and public addresses from Australian public life that vividly capture the essence of the moment, providing fresh glimpses into Australian society in the making.
Strangers in a Foreign Land: The Journal of Niel Black and Other Voices from the Western District [HB] Available
Maggie MacKellar
Drawing on the extensive collections of the State Library of Victoria, Strangers in a Foreign Land provides rare insight into the realities of early settlement in Victoria.
Miegunyah
Transitions: 150 Years of the Royal Women's Hospital [PB] Available
Peter Garnick (photographer)
A collection of photographs of the Royal Women's Hospital that chronicles the old hospital, the construction of the new hospital, and the move in 2008 to the hospital's new site.
The Unknown Nation: Australia After Empire [PB] Forthcoming
James Curran and Stuart Ward
The Unknown Nation unravels the origins, influence and implications of our hesitant coming of age.
Voyage to Australia and the Pacific 1791-1793: Bruni d'Entrecasteaux [HB] Available
Edited and translated by Edward & Maryse Duyker
First English translation of de Rossel's transcription of d'Entrecasteaux's journal, with introductory essay and explanatory notes.
Miegunyah
Voyage to Australia and the Pacific 1791-1793: Bruny d'Entrecasteaux, new edition [PB] Available
Edited and translated by Edward & Maryse Duyker
First English translation of de Rossel's transcription of d'Entrecasteaux's journal, with introductory essay and explanatory notes.
Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes [HB] Available
Danielle Clode
Awards: Winner of the 2007 Victorian Premier's Nettie Palmer Prize
Voyages to the South Seas recounts the epic journeys of French explorers to Australia and encompasses a remarkable period of French and Australian history--when Australia was France's Mars and marsupials were her aliens.
Miegunyah
Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes [PB] Available
Danielle Clode
Awards: Winner of the 2007 Victorian Premier's Nettie Palmer Prize
Voyages to the South Seas is a swashbuckling adventure of ambition and discovery.
War and Words: The Australian Press and the Vietnam War, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Trish Payne
Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War presented moral dilemmas that divided the nation.
Academic Monograph
War and Words: The Australian Press and the Vietnam War, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Trish Payne
Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War threw up moral dilemmas that divided the nation.
Academic Monograph
Weary: King of the River [HB] Available
Sue Ebury
In a wartime nightmare of starvation, disease, brutality and death, Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop's courage and compassion made him an Australian legend.
Miegunyah
What If?: Australian history as it might have been [PB] Available
Edited by Stuart Macintyre and Sean Scalmer
What if key episodes in Australia's past had turned out differently?
The 'Whig' View of Australian History and Other Essays, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Allan Martin
This collection of key essays by the late Allan Martin illustrates the range and diversity of the eminent Australian historian's scholarship and his contribution to the study of Australian history.
Academic Monograph
The 'Whig' View of Australian History and Other Essays, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Allan Martin
This collection of key essays by the late Allan Martin illustrates the range and diversity of the eminent Australian historian's scholarship and his contribution to the study of Australian history.
Academic Monograph
Your Most Obedient Servant: B.A. Santamaria Selected Letters: 1938-1996 [HB] Available
Patrick Morgan (ed.)
Bob Santamaria was involved in Australian public life from before World War II until his death in 1998.
Miegunyah
