For more than a century, Queensland's volatile political scene has been dominated by tough, uncompromising leaders - by larrikins, wowsers and visionaries. Beginning with the premiership of Robert Ph
Staniforth, (Flinders U., Australia) has been involved personally in excavating many shipwreck sites in Australia, but here he offers synthesis, analysis, interpretation, and explanation rather than a
Australian history has been written for over two centuries beginning with European explorers and colonists attempting to convey something of the complexity of the strange upside-down world they encou
A lively collection of extraordinary stories of adventure and discovery, The Explorers tells the epic saga of the conquest and settlement of Australia. Editor Tim Flannery selects sixty-seven account
A narrative history of one of the world's great cities traces the development of Sydney, Australia, from its eighteenth-century origins as a remote penal colony of the British Empire to its role as th
Burke (anthropology, U. of New England, Australia) develops a set of definitions for capitalism and ideology which he uses to explain the expression of ideological information, such as class conscious
Caging the Rainbow explores the lives of Aborigines in the small regional town of Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia. Francesca Merlan combines ethnography and theory to grapple with issues surr
Caging the Rainbow explores the lives of Aborigines in the small regional town of Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia. Francesca Merlan combines ethnography and theory to grapple with issues surr
John McEwen was leader of the Federal Country Party from 1958 to 1971. Thirty-seven years a politician, 23 days Prime Minister and always a farmer, he was an extraordinary man. His staff slaved for hi
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 t
East Coast Country beautifully evokes the landscape, history and culture of the sugarcane region of Queensland, the adjacent islands and the Great Barrier Reef, showing the region's distinctiveness wi
