History : Australia & Oceania

In the early postwar era, Britain enjoyed a very close economic relationship with Australia and New Zealand through their common membership of the Sterling Area and the Commonwealth Preference Area. This book examines the breakdown of this relationship in the 1950 and 1960s. Britain and Australasia were driven apart by disputes over industrial protection, agriculture, capital supplies, and relations with other countries. Special emphasis is given to the implications for Australia and New Zealand of Britain's growing interest in European integration. more...

Price: $99.00

Investigates how European colonists in Australia represented the indigenous peoples they found there, and how they governed them using Western political thought. more...

Price: $99.00

Correspondence between the famous historian Manning Clark and other key public figures reveals much about 20th century Australia. more...

Price: $52.00

This book traces the interaction of war and diplomacy and analyses why the Falklands conflict of 1982 engaged the British and Argentine people in a deeply personal way. It also examines the interpretation of the war in Britain, revealing how the war - a successful one - was seen by its critics as an example of 'Thatcher's Britain'. This 'small war' exemplified what one historian calls 'the myriad faces of war' and had - and has - resonances larger than its size. more...

Price: $110.00

A ripping yarn about bush ranging in Australia in the 19th century told through the eyes of the quintessential Australian bushranger, Frank Gardiner - the only one who wasn't killed by gunshot or hanging. more...

Price: $23.95