Oceania
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White Fella – Black Fella: Early European Explorers and Their Engagement with Australian Aborigines [Paperback]
Wilson McOrist(Author)
$35.00ISBN: 9781922669414
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
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 ... .... Learn More -
Australia's Tasman Wars: Colonial Australia and Conflict in New Zealand, 1800–1850 [Paperback]
Craig Wilcox(Author)
$35.00ISBN: 9781922669452
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
The British settlement in eastern Australia in 1788 and the strong establishment of the British colony of New South Wales created a maritime frontier in the Tasman Sea and Southwest Pacific. Maritime frontier conflict occurred from Tonga to Tahiti... .... Learn More -
Playing With Apartheid: Racism, Australian Sport & South Africa [Paperback]
Roger Bell(Author)
$40.00ISBN: 9781922669018
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
In no country were contests over racism in sport more bitterly fought, more protracted or important than in Australia. In the wake of the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa in 1960, sport became a fault-line in international campaigns against ra... .... Learn More -
Acclimatising to higher ground: The realities of life of a Pacific Atoll People [Paperback]
Dr. Keith Dixon(Author)
$45.00ISBN: 9789464260298
Published by : Sidestone Press
Life for people on atolls is hard, affected by droughts, rough seas, and other adverse climatic conditions, and now, rise in sea level threatens their very inhabitance. No wonder kinship is the foundation of atoll societies, traditional and modern... .... Learn More -
Acclimatising to higher ground: The realities of life of a Pacific Atoll People [Hardback]
Dr. Keith Dixon(Author)
$120.00ISBN: 9789464260304
Published by : Sidestone Press
Life for people on atolls is hard, affected by droughts, rough seas, and other adverse climatic conditions, and now, rise in sea level threatens their very inhabitance. No wonder kinship is the foundation of atoll societies, traditional and modern... .... Learn More -
Douze jours à Nuku Hiva: Rencontres et révolte russe dans le Pacifique Sud [Paperback]
Dr. Elena Govor(Author); Dr. Marie-Noelle Ottino-Garanger(Editor)
$75.00ISBN: 9789464260182
Published by : Sidestone Press
La première expédition russe autour du monde, à l’aube du dix-neuvième siècle, fit suite à celles de Bougainville, Cook et La Pérouse. Menée par le commandant balte-allemand Adam von Kr... .... Learn More -
Douze jours à Nuku Hiva: Rencontres et révolte russe dans le Pacifique Sud [Hardback]
Dr. Elena Govor(Author); Dr. Marie-Noelle Ottino-Garanger(Editor)
$210.00ISBN: 9789464260199
Published by : Sidestone Press
La première expédition russe autour du monde, à l’aube du dix-neuvième siècle, fit suite à celles de Bougainville, Cook et La Pérouse. Menée par le commandant balte-allemand Adam von Kr... .... Learn More -
Ancestors, artefacts, empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish museums [Hardback]
Gaye Sculthorpe(Editor); Maria Nugent(Editor); Howard Morphy(Editor)
$95.00ISBN: 9780714124902
Published by : British Museum
Museums across Great Britain and Ireland hold Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (collectively referred to as ‘Indigenous’) cultural heritage of exceptional value, but which is largely unknown, rarely seen, and poorly understood. Gi... .... Learn More -
Objects as Insights: R.H. Codrington’s Ethnographic Collections from Melanesia [Paperback]
Nick Stanley(Author)
$30.00ISBN: 9780861592357
Published by : British Museum
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 235
Robert Codrington (1830–1922) trained to be a priest at Oxford University where he was ordained in 1857. He volunteered to work in Nelson, New Zealand, from 1860–4 and was appointed as headmaster of the Melanesian Mission training scho... .... Learn More -
The Dystopia in the Desert: The silent culture of Australia’s remotest Aboriginal communities [Paperback]
Tadhgh Purtill(Author)
$40.00ISBN: 9781925333862
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
The Ngaanyatjarra Lands, deep in Western Australia, are home to Australia’s most remote Aboriginal communities. Beset by social problems, the communities and their residents are detached from mainstream Australia by factors of distance and c... .... Learn More
