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Georgiana: A Biography Of Georgiana McCrae: Painter, Diarist, Pioneer
Published by Melbourne University Press Melbourne 1996, 1996
ISBN 10: 0522847439 ISBN 13: 9780522847437
Language: English
23.5 x 15.5cms, 344pp, Colour Illusts, softcover, name stamps on ffep, very good This book presents Georgiana Huntly McCrae, the illegitimate daughter of a Scottish duke, as a gifted portraitist who migrated to Port Phillip Bay (Melbourne). It sees her as 'a remarkably talented, independent woman who lived in vastly different social worlds and experienced personal tragedy as well as creative achievement'.
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FAR COUNTRY. A Short History of the Northern Territory.
Published by Melbourne University Press, 1996., 1992
ISBN 10: 0522846890 ISBN 13: 9780522846898
Language: English
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
Association Member: ANZAAB ILAB
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
8vo, 274pp. A very good paperback copy.
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DROUGHT OR DELUGE. Man in the Cooper's Creek Region.
Published by Melbourne University Press, 1996. Facsimile edition., 1996
ISBN 10: 0646300946 ISBN 13: 9780646300948
Language: English
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
Association Member: ANZAAB ILAB
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
8vo, 267pp. Black & white illustrations. A very good paperback copy. Spine slightly curled.
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FROM TORIES AT PRAYER TO SOCIALISTS AT MASS. A History of St Peter's, Eastern Hill, Melbourne.
Published by Melbourne University Press, 1996, 1997
ISBN 10: 0522846823 ISBN 13: 9780522846829
Language: English
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
Association Member: ANZAAB ILAB
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
8vo, 332pp. Black & white illustrations. A good hardback copy in like dust jacket.
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Duty Free. Australian Women Abroad.
Published by Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1996, 1996
Language: English
Seller: Peter Moore Bookseller, (Est. 1970. PBFA, BCSA), Cambridge, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. pp.viii+271. 21.5cm. 16 black and white photographic plates. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Hard cover in dust jacket. A fine clean copy. Pesman's travellers include some of Australia's most celebrated women: Mabel Brookes, Nancy Cato, Charmian Clift, Nettie Palmer, Christina Stead. [536g].
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Fair Comment: The Life of Pat Jarrett, 1911-1990
Published by Melbourne; Melbourne University Press; 1996, 1996
ISBN 10: 0522847250 ISBN 13: 9780522847253
Language: English
Seller: Fine Print Books (ABA), Erskineville, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
paperback in very good condition, gift inscription on flyleaf; 192pp.
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The Cartographic Eye: How Explorers Saw Australia
Published by Cambridge University Press Melbourne 1996, 1996
ISBN 10: 0521577918 ISBN 13: 9780521577915
Language: English
22.5 x 15.0cms, 234pp, b/w & illusts, very good paperback & cover This book is about the mythologies of colonial Australia's land exploration (esp 1820 -1880). It investigates the explorers' presumptions, aesthetics and politics (esp John Oxley, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Sturt & Ludwig Leichhardt). Scarce in paperback.
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France And Botany Bay: The Lure Of A Penal Colony
Published by Melbourne University Press Carlton South, Victoria 1996, 1992
ISBN 10: 0522847153 ISBN 13: 9780522847154
Language: English
22.0 x 14.0cms 201pp, b/w & colour illusts, very good+ paperback & cover An account of the influence of convict transportation to Britain's colonies in Australia on political debate and policy in France.
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Australian Television & International Mediascapes
Published by Cambridge University Press, melbourne 1996, 1996
ISBN 10: 0521469740 ISBN 13: 9780521469746
Language: English
23.0 x 15.0cms, 284pp, very good paperback & cover This book has 3 parts: global mediascapes, theory & industry: the domestic optic, Australian industry, culture & production: the international optic, television, ecolgies & Australian programs.
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Joseph Mason: Assigned Convict 1831-1837
Published by Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996, 1992
ISBN 10: 0522847463 ISBN 13: 9780522847468
Language: English
20.0 x 13.5cms, 182pp, b/w illusts, very good+ hardcover & dustwrapper This is the recently recovered first-person account of the convict experience in Sydney, Parramatta and Campbelltown. It discusses the Aboriginal peoples, flora, fauna, farming methods, exploration.
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A Family Romance: The Deakins At Home
Published by Melbourne University Press 1996, 1992
ISBN 10: 0522847404 ISBN 13: 9780522847406
Language: English
21.5 x14cm. 182pp. B&W illustrations. Softcover. Good+ The relationship between Australia's first Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, his wife Pattie and his sister Catherine and the influence of spiritualism on their lives.
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Global Environmental Crises. An Australian Perspective
Published by Melbourne; Oxford University Press; 1996 reprint, 1995
ISBN 10: 0195536002 ISBN 13: 9780195536003
Language: English
Seller: Fine Print Books (ABA), Erskineville, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
paperback in very good condition, text unmarked; 317pp.
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East Coast Country: A North Queensland Dreaming
Published by Melbourne; Melbourne University Press; 1996, 1992
ISBN 10: 0522847412 ISBN 13: 9780522847413
Language: English
Seller: Fine Print Books (ABA), Erskineville, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
paperback in very good condition, pages tanned on edges; 284 pages.
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230x150: 225pp. black and white plates, index. Paperback, Very Good. ISBN: 0 522 84731 5 , 9780 522 84731 4 , Weight: 430g. .
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Writing In Hope & Fear: Literature As Politics in Postwar Australia
Published by Cambridge University Press, Melbourne 1996, 1996
ISBN 10: 0521561469 ISBN 13: 9780521561464
Language: English
23.0 x 15.0cms, 242pp, very good paperback & cover This book investigates the radical nationalists and cultural conervatives that shaped Australia's literary debates during the Cold War. It shows that Overland and Quadrant became a form of politics and attitudes towards the imminent revolution. Some of the players were James McAuley, Dorothy Hewett, Frank Hardy and Frank Moorehouse.
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Arguments About Aborigines: Australia & The Evolution Of Social Anthropology
Published by Cambridge University Press, Melbourne 1996, 1996
ISBN 10: 0521460085 ISBN 13: 9780521460088
Language: English
23.0 x 15.0cms, 224pp, b/w illusts very good paperback & cover (ex-library with stamps, no external library markings) The chapters are: real estates & phantom hordes; group marriage; the woman question; people without politics; high gods; conception & misconception; dangerous mothers-in-law & disfigured sisters; initiation.
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Convict Maids: The Forced Migration Of Women To Australia
Published by Cambridge University Press, Melbourne 1996, 1996
ISBN 10: 0521441315 ISBN 13: 9780521441315
Language: English
23.0 x 15.0cms, 340pp, b/w illusts, fine paperback & cover This book analyses 7000 convict indents to show that most of the women were literate, young & healthy and often domestic servants (1928-1840). The chapters are: the crimes of convict women; Irish & English offenders; the skills of convict women; working life in Ireland; working lofe in England; coerced & free immigrants; misconceptions and various statistical appendices.
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Queer Theory
Published by Melbourne University Press Melbourne 1996, 1996
ISBN 10: 0522846238 ISBN 13: 9780522846232
Language: English
Very Good Demy 8vo, 154pp Very Good Soft Cover The author outlines pro- and anti-queer arguments and concludes that queer's strength lies in its potential to question the idea of sexual identities.
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Duty Free: Australian Women Abroad
Published by Oxford University Press Melbourne 1996, 1996
ISBN 10: 0195536398 ISBN 13: 9780195536393
Language: English
22.0 x 15.0cms, 272pp, b/w Illusts, very good+ hardback & dustwrapper (author's inscription) Pesman explores the worlds of those Australian women who travelled to Europe between 1870s and the 1960s, when aeroplanes democratised international travel.
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Menders Of The Mind: A History Of The Royal Australian & New Zealand College Of Psychiatrists 1946-1996
Published by Oxford University Press, Melbourne 1996, 1997
ISBN 10: 0195539532 ISBN 13: 9780195539530
Language: English
24.0 x 16.0cms, 276pp, b/w illusts, fine hardback & dustwapper The section headings are: the Association & the College, an outline history: the internal workings of the College; the College & the wider society.
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John Curtin: A Biography
Published by Melbourne; Melbourne University Press; 1996 reprint, 1992
ISBN 10: 052284734X ISBN 13: 9780522847345
Language: English
Seller: Fine Print Books (ABA), Erskineville, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
paperback in good condition, pages tanned; 422pp, b/w photos.
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A Place Apart. The University of Melbourne: Decades of Challenge
Published by Melbourne; Melbourne University Press; 1996, 1996
ISBN 10: 0522845843 ISBN 13: 9780522845846
Language: English
Seller: Fine Print Books (ABA), Erskineville, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
hardcover and dustwrapper in very good condition, corner of front endpaper smudged where price erased; 546 pages, heavy book which will require excess postage outside Australia.
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Prehistory to Politics: John Mulvaney, The Humanities and the Public Intellectual
Published by Melbourne; Melbourne University Press; 1996, 1992
ISBN 10: 052284748X ISBN 13: 9780522847482
Language: English
Seller: Fine Print Books (ABA), Erskineville, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
paperback in very good condition; 271 pages, b/w photos.
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Robert Menzies - A Life. Volume 1: 1894-1943
Published by Melbourne; Melbourne University Press; 1996 reprint, 1996
ISBN 10: 0522847110 ISBN 13: 9780522847116
Language: English
Seller: Fine Print Books (ABA), Erskineville, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
paperback in very good condition; 441 pages, b/w photos.
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Australian Poets and Their Works: A Reader's Guide
Published by Melbourne; Oxford University Press; 1996, 1995
ISBN 10: 0195537696 ISBN 13: 9780195537697
Language: English
Seller: Fine Print Books (ABA), Erskineville, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
paperback in very good condition, pages tanned; 294pp.
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George Robinson / Black Robinson: Protector Of Aborigines
Published by Melbourne University Press, Melbourne 1996 (first published 1988), 1992
ISBN 10: 0522847447 ISBN 13: 9780522847444
Language: English
23.0 x 15.0cms, 308pp, b/w illusts, very good+ paperback & cover The chapters are: the fugitive; the Friendly Mission, Van Diemen's Land; the Flinders Island fraud; chief protector of the Aborigines.
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Hunters & Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination In Australia
Published by Cambridge University Press Melbourne 1996, 1997
ISBN 10: 0521483492 ISBN 13: 9780521483490
Language: English
23.0 x 15.5cms, 416pp, b/w Illusts, very good+ paperback This book explores the antiquarian's, naturalist's, ethnologist's, archaeologist's and collector's imagination. In the process, it searches for European Australians' historical consciousness and environmental sensibilities. Scarce title.
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At The Front Line: Experiences Of Australian Soldiers In World War II
Published by Cambridge University Press, Melbourne 1996, 1996
ISBN 10: 0521560373 ISBN 13: 9780521560375
Language: English
22.0 x 14.0cms, 264pp, b/w illusts, very good+ hardback & dustwrapper The chapters are: the unnatural life at the Front; experiences of fear & death; major sources of front-line stress; when fear becomes unbearable; taking the strians of the front line; callous bigwigs & boredom; army muck-ups; resentment of inequality; discipline and making the most of army life; a band of brothers? aftermath & conclusions.
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The Outlaw Legend: A Cultural Tradition In Britain, America & Australia
Published by Cambridge University Press, Melbourne, 1996, 1996
ISBN 10: 0521557402 ISBN 13: 9780521557405
Language: English
23.0 x 15.0cms, 246pp, b/w illusts, very good paperback and cover This book looks at legendary and mythical bad guy heroes. It shows that Robin Hood, Dick Turpin, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Ben Hall and Ned Kelly share many characteristics. They help the poor in their battles against authority and appear at moments of class, ethnic and national struggle.
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The Yellow Lady: Australian Impressions Of Asia
Published by Oxford University Press Melbourne 1996 Second Edition, 1996
ISBN 10: 0195539214 ISBN 13: 9780195539219
Language: English
Fine Roy 8vo, 292pp, b/w Illust Fine Soft Cover This was the first Australian cultural history that 'did not neglect Asia'. It surveys the work of novelists, sculptors, film-makers, composers, architects, poets, potters, playwrights, photographers and choreographers. This revised and expanded edition focuses on 'Australian - Asian hybridity in literature, theatre and the visual arts.and considers the Asianisation of urban Australian culture'.
