Empire, War, Tennis and Me by Peter Doherty
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
In this personal yet unsentimental memoir, Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty unearths the revealing and unique history of tennis and its ties to culture and nationalism. For those who look, and think deeply, new connections emerge. Peter Doherty, one of the world's foremost authorities on immunology, recipi ...Show more
Forgotten War: new edition by Henry Reynolds
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
‘We are at war with them,’ wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. ‘What we call their crime is what in a white man we should call patriotism.’Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas. So why are there no official memorials or commemorations of the wars that were fought on A ...Show more
Consent of the People: Human Dignity through Freedom and Equality 1966-2022 by David Kemp
$59.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Australian Liberalism Ser.
David Kemp's masterly account of the story of Australian liberalism after MenziesConsent of the People- Human Dignity through Freedom and Equality 1966-2021 explores how Australia's founding Enlightenment ideals were embodied in democratic institutions and shared values, and shaped into a unique nationa ...Show more
White Fella - Black Fella - Early European Explorers and Their Engagement with Australian Aborigines by Wilson McOrist
$49.95 AUD
Category: Australian
The early European explorers of Australia, from the early 1600s to the mid-1800s, narrated the bewilderment, misunderstandings, affection, and hostility that arose in their encounters with the Indigenous peoples. Of their reports, many are little known today. They are, however, culturally revealing and ...Show more
O'Leary of the Underworld: The Untold Story of the Forest River Massacre by Kate Auty
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A powerful investigation that reveals the deep injustices inflicted on Aboriginal people in the Kimberley in the 1920s In June 1926, a posse of police officers and white civilians murdered at least twenty Oombulgurri people at Forrest River in the Kimberley. After the massacre, a conspiracy of silence ...Show more
Everywhen: Australia and the Language of Deep History by Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, Jakelin Troy (eds)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Everywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history. Looking beyond the linear documentary past of Western or academic history, this collection asks how knowledge systems of Australia's Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders can broade ...Show more
Convict Orphans by Lucy Frost
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian
Many thousands of abandoned children were treated as free labour in late 19th century Australia, yet their stories have been hidden until now, even to their descendants. Lucy Frost's painstaking research has uncovered what really happened to the convict orphans. 'This moving story of thousands of cast ...Show more
The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism: White Nation, Against Paranoid Nationalism & Later Writings by Ghassan Hage
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
A groundbreaking collection of seminal works by renowned anthropologist and cultural critic, Ghassan Hage. Praised by internationally acclaimed author of Complaint!, Sara Ahmed, as 'a new way of accounting for race, its affective grammars, its holds and habits.'The Racial Politics of Australian Multicul ...Show more
The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins by Donald Horne
$14.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "This often-oversimplified classic raises difficult questions about Australia's elites that are still worth asking. Are Australians, for example, still 'a largely non-contemplative people' who have "a limited view of the pos ...Show more