History : Australia & Oceania

Examining the renewal of post-war contacts between Australia and Japan and the resolution of wartime issues in the 1950s this book makes an original contribution to studies of Australia's foreign relations and Japan's place in the post-war world. more...

Price: $190.00

The post-war period in Australian cultural history sparked critical debate over notions of nation-building, multiculturalism and internationalization. Australian Post-War Documentary Film tackles all these issues in a considered and wide-ranging analysis of government, institutional and also radical documentaries. On one level, the book is a selective history of Australian documentary film in the immediate post-war years. It also charts the rise of a progressive film culture. As a whole it is a thorough study of the international flows of film culture. Williams illustrates these themes by critiquing the key films of the era, including the seminal The Back of Beyond, often cited as the greatest Australian film of all time. Australian Post-War Documentary Film retells film history by reading these documentaries as part of a nexus of international, and particularly Australian filmic, written and dramatic texts, with close attention to textual analysis. The book will appeal to anyone interested in international cinema, the way that it theorizes the period and offers a host of international comparisons, widening its ideas to the fabric of cultural production that surrounds all art works. more...

Price: $20.00

This book explores the war effort of Aboriginal and Islander Australians during the Second World War and the reasons their contribution has gone unrecognised for so long. This is a comprehensive account of the work black Australians during the years when their country faced the threat of invasion by the Japanese. Despite suspicion and prejudice, they earned a place within the digger legend. more...

Price: $22.00

This remarkable book brings together in one volume most aspects — geological, environmental, archaeological, ethnic, linguistic, ethnographic and historical - of one of the most beautiful island groups of the Pacific, Bougainville. more...

Price: $60.00

The definitive story of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, one of the world's most amazing engineering feats - a structure that has become a national icon. more...

Price: $26.00