Author
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Title
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Publication
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Abbott, G.J.
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The Pastoral Age: A Re-Examination
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South Melbourne:
Macmillan, 1971
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1822-51 were “the years of pastoral
ascendancy” on which Abbott focuses. During this time came shift from coarse to fine wool production; a “rapid increase in
sheep numbers;” and a “vast and spectacular geographic expansion.”
Distinctive methods of shepherding characteristic of this period were
succeeded by transition to fenced sheep runs in the 1850.
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ILL
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Allen, H.C.
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Bush and Backwoods: A Comparison of the
Frontier in Australia
and the United States
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Sydney:
Angus & Robertson, 1959
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Strictly a Turnerian
work, useful mainly to cite as an example of comparative frontiers.
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TC
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Andrews, E.M.
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Anzac Illusion
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Melbourne:
Cambridge U. Press, 1993
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A solid work for interpretation of the
Australian experience in the Great War. Although Andrews debunks much of
the Anzac Legend, such as the fixation on Gallipoli, he situates the war as
a signal event in the disaffection of Australia
from Britain,
leading toward the present, when, “The great dream of imperial unity . . .
has now finally ended.”
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SU
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Arnold, Rollo
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The Farthest Promised Land: English
Villagers, New Zealand
Immigrants of the 1870s
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Wellington:
Victoria U. Press, 1981
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TI
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Arnold, Rollo
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New
Zealand's
Burning: The Settlers' World in the Mid 1880s
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Wellington:
Victoria U. Press, 1994
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TI
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Attwood, Bain
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The Making of the Aborigines
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North Sydney:
Allen & Unwin,
1989
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Attwood is a self-proclaimed
revisionist in Aboriginal history; that is, he strives to move the
historical image of Aborigines away from victim status and toward agency.
(He cites Henry Reynolds as linchpin of this school of writing.) Attwood
makes the case that the construction of “Aborigine” identity was an adaptive
response to the suppression of tribal and familial identities by
colonization. The final chapter, devoted to “the making of this book,” is
particularly instructive as to historiography.
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Bain
Attwood at Monash University
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ILL
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Ballara, Angela
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Taua: ‘Musket
Wars’, ‘land wars’ or tikanga? Warfare in Maori
Society in the Early Nineteenth Century
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Auckland: Penguin, 2003
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ILL
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Barlow, Cleve
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Tikanga
Whakaaro: Key Concepts in Maori Culture
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Auckland:
Oxford U. Press, 1991
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Written in both Maori and English, the
book takes a liberal approach to the meaning of words, dealing with them as
concepts in context. If you accept language as an index to culture, then you’ll
find the book a fascinating read.
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Maori Words &
Concepts
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ILL
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Barnard, A.
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The Australian Wool Market, 1840-1900
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Melbourne:
Melbourne U.
Press, 1958
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The primary focus of this work is on
marketing and the
international
demand for wool. One chapter deals with wool production.
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ILL
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Bassett, Michael
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Coates of Kaipara
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Auckland:
Auckland U. Press, 1995
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This is a sound political biography of
a Reform minister and Prime Minister who, having been defeated in 1928, returned to serve in the Coalition that ruled New Zealand during the first half of the
Great Depression and to head New Zealand armed forces for most
of World War II.
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SU
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Bassett, Michael
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Sir Joseph Ward: A Political Biography
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Auckland:
Auckland
U. Press, 1993
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Bassett argues that there is more to
Ward than just political longevity (twice prime minister, more than
twenty-three years in cabinet); also that his later career, when he delayed
the advent of Labour by helping the Liberal Party
hold on, has obscured his earlier importance; and that Ward imprinted most
of the important Liberal policies of Balance and Seddon.
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ILL
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Beaglehole,
J.C.
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The Discovery of New Zealand
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London:
Oxford U. Press, 1939
2d ed., 1961
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A slim book, fascinating for its
myth-making efforts in the cause of New Zealand identity, and
especially for its elevation of Kupe to hero
status. Beagle portrays Kupe as a master
navigator and the Great Fleet as a colonizing venture both to establish an
epic past and also to absolve the English for taking the land.
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J.C. Beaglehole Room, Victoria University Library
Biographical Sketch of
John Cawte Beaglehole
Chronology of Beaglehole’s Career
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ILL
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Beaglehole,
J.C.
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The Exploration of the Pacific
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2d Ed., London: Adam &
Charles Black, 1947
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Beaglehole’s
early work that lays out his theory of exploration (a great-man emphasis that
privileges British exploration) and creates a periodization
of discovery, reflected in his intricate maps.
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SU
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Beaglehole,
J.C.
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The Life of Captain James Cook
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Stanford: Stanford U.
Press, 1974
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This monumental work was Beaglehole’s finale, left in typescript on his death in
1971. It is classic exploration narrative of the armchair-historian type.
Detailed, deliberative, this biography of Cook is for those who desire an
immersion experience.
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TC
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Beaglehole,
J.C.
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New
Zealand:
A Short History
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London:
Allen & Unwin, 1936
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An extended, interpretive essay,
valuable for defining the state of national identity as of the time of
writing.
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ILL
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Beaglehole,
Tim
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A Life of J.C. Beaglehole,
New Zealand Scholar
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Wellington: Victoria University Press,
2006
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Biography of J.C., New Zealand’s great
scholar of exploration, by Tim, his son. Includes insights about the
development of J.C.’s self-conscious identity as a New Zealander.
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Belich,
James
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I Shall Not Die: Titokowaru's
War, New Zealand, 1868-1869
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Wellington:
Allen & Unwin NZ Ltd., 1989
Reprint, Wellington: Bridget Williams
Books, 1993
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SU
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Belich,
James
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Making
Peoples: A History of the New Zealanders from Polynesian Settlement to the End of the Nineteenth
Century
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Auckland:
Penguin Books, 1996
Reprint, Honolulu:
U. of Hawaii Press, 1996
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The book is divided into two sections,
"Making Maori" and "Making Pakeha."
This is History that is hard to characterize, but it's darned good—working
methodically through cultural and national mythologies, deliberately
dealing with not only the narratives of the
nation
but also how they have been passed down and used.
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SU
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Belich,
James
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The New Zealand Wars and the
Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict
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Auckland:
Auckland U. Press, 1986
Reprint, Auckland: Penguin Books, 1988
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Meticulous and powerful revisionist
history of the New Zealand Wars, notable for its reconstruction of Maori
strategy and of British-colonial
mythology
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The New Zealand Wars
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TI
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Belich,
James
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Paradise
Reforged: A History of the New Zealanders from
the 1880s to the Year 2000
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Honolulu:
U. of Hawaii Press, 2001
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Bell, Claudia
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Inventing New Zealand: Everyday Myths of Pakeha Identity
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Auckland:
Penguin Books, 1996
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A wonderfully readable discussion of
the modern New Zealand
identity, by a sociologist with an observant eye. From the nature myth to
hokey-pokey ice cream.
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TI
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Bell,
Claudia, and John Lyall
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Putting Our Town on the Map: Local
Claims to
Fame in New Zealand
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Auckland:
HarperCollins NZ, 1995
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Bell, Leonard
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Colonial Constructs: European Images of
Maori, 1840-1914
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Auckland:
Auckland U. Press, 1992
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SU
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Belshaw,
Horace, Ed.
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New Zealand
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Berkeley:
U. of California Press, 1947
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SU
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Bennett, Bruce, Ed.
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The Literature of Western Australia
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Perth:
U. of Western
Australia
Press, 1979
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SU
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Bentley,
Trevor
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Captured
by Maori: White Female Captives, Sex and Racism on the Nineteenth-century New Zealand
Frontier
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Auckland: Penguin, 2004
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ILL
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Bioletti,
Harry
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The Yanks Are Coming: The American
Invasion of New Zealand,
1942-1944
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Auckland:
Random House NZ, 1987
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ILL
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Blackburn, Julia
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Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's
Life Among the Aborigines
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Martin Sacker & Warburg, 1994
New
York: Pantheon, 1994
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Partly a biography, partly a reflective
essay on the life of the author of The Passing of the Aborigines. It
turns out Ms. Bates was a fraud (as well as a bigamist, married early to
and never divorced from Breaker Morant), but may
be all the more interesting as an individual (if less respectable as an
ethnologist) for all that.
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Blainey,
Geoffrey
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A Game of Our Own: The Origins of
Australian Football
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Melbourne:
Information Australia,
1990
Reprint, Melbourne: Black, 2003
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ILL
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Blainey,
Geoffrey
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A Land Half Won
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Rev. Ed.,
Melbourne:
Sun Australia, 1995
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SU
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Blainey,
Geoffrey
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Triumph of the Nomads: A History of
Aboriginal Australia
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Sydney:
Macmillan, 1975
Woodstock:
Overlook Press, 1976
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This was a breakthrough book in the
reinterpretation of the aboriginal experience. Somewhat speculative, Blainey's attempts to reconstruct aboriginal origins,
cultures, and interactions with environment were important steps in
transforming historical Aborigines from two-dimensional drawings into
three-dimensional people.
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TC
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Blainey,
Geoffrey
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The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance
Shaped Australia's
History
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New York:
St. Martin's Press, 1968
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SU
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Boissery,
Beverley
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A Deep Sense of Wrong: The Treason,
Trials, and
Transportation to New South Wales of the Lower Canadian
Rebels after the 1838 Rebellion
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Toronto:
Dundern Press, 1995
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Background to the 1838 rebellion;
good
detail and analysis of the trials of those accused of treason; and
follow-up on the 56 rebels transported to New South Wales.
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TI
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Bolton, Geoffrey
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A Fine Country to Starve In
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Nedlands:
U. of Western
Australia
Press, 1972
New Ed., 1994
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A classic account of the background
(especially group settlement and agricultural expansion) to the Great
Depression, and the response of Western
Australia to the depression, leading up to the
secession vote in 1933.
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TI
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Bolton,
Geoffrey, Ed.
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The Oxford
History of Australia
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5 vols., Melbourne:
Oxford
U.
Press, 1986-
Vol
1, Aboriginal Australia—not yet appeared
Vol. 2, 1770-1860, by Jan Kociumbas, 1992
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TC
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Bowman, Isaiah
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The Pioneer Fringe
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New
York: American Geographical Society,
Special Publication No. 13, 1931
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Work derives from an intercontinental
geographic
study of "the pioneer fringe," or frontier settlement, in various
countries. Chapter 11 is "The Prospect in Australia." Good as a
comparative work; also good for the epigrams it coins.
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SU
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Brady, E.J.
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Australia Unlimited
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Melbourne:
George Robertson, 1918
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Bridge, Carl, Ed.
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Manning Clark:
Essays on His Place in History
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Melbourne:
Melbourne
U.
Press, 1994
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A remarkable collection of comment on
Clark and his
work,
especially his 6-volume History. "Was ever such nonsense
written?" writes one critic. Others are more kind; most are
ambivalent.
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SU
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Brock, Peggy
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Outback Ghettos: Aborigines, Institutionalisation and Survival
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New York:
Cambridge U. Press, 1993
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ILL
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Brooking, Tom
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Lands for the People?
The Highland Clearances and the Colonisation of New
Zealand: A Biography of John McKenzie
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Dunedin:
U. of Otago Press,
1996
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This is a solid biography of the great
Liberal land
Reformer—notable in that it considers
not only McKenzie's contributions to bursting up the great estates but also
his part in acquisition of Maori lands.
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TI
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Broome, Richard
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Aboriginal
Australians: Black Responses to White Dominance, 1788-1994
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2d Ed., St. Leonard's, 1994
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SU
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Brown, Nicholas
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Governing Prosperity: Social Change and
Social Analysis in Australia
in the 1950s
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New York:
Cambridge U. Press, 1995
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Brown, Patricia M.
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The Merchant Princes of Fremantle: The
Rise and Decline of a Colonial Elite, 1870-1900
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Nedlands:
U. of Western Australia Press, 1996
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Despite its focus on the economic
elite, or perhaps because of it, the book is an effective exploration of
the society and economy of Fremantle, port city for Perth, Western Australia.
Also interesting for its eastern orientation;
Fremantle faces the Indian
Ocean, considered by the British a “great imperial lake.”
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SU
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Burdon, R.M.
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King Dick: A Biography of Richard John Seddon
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Christchurch:
Whitcombe
& Tombs, 1955
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Burns, Patricia
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Fatal Success: A History of the New
Zealand Company
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Auckland:
Heinemann Reed, 1989
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ILL
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Burns, Patricia
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Te Rauparaha:
A New Perspective
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Wellington:
A.H. & A.W.
Reed, 1980
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Buxton, G.L.
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The Riverina,
1861-1891: An Australian Regional Study
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Melbourne:
Melbourne
U.
Press, 1967
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A history of settlement in the Murray-Murrumbidgee
river
region. Emphasis is on the succession of squatters by selectors.
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Cameron, W.J.
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New Zealand
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Englewood
Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1965
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SU
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Carter, Paul
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The Road to Botany
Bay: An Exploration of Landscape and History
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New
York: Knopf, 1988
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ILL
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Chatwin,
Bruce
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The Songlines
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New
York: Viking, 1987
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A travel narrative that transforms into
a commonplace book in midstream. Perhaps a bit self-indulgent, but
nevertheless an intriguing encounter with aboriginal belief and geography.
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SU
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Chesterman,
John, and Brian Galligan
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Citizens Without Rights: Aborigines and
Australian Citizenship
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New York:
Cambridge U. Press, 1997
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TC
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Clark, Manning
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The Puzzles of Childhood
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Ringwood: Viking, 1989
Reprint,
Penguin, 1990
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The first half of Clark's
autobiography, detailing the family
roots
and early life of Australia's
great nationalist historian.
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Manning Clark and the
History of Australia
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SU
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Clark, Manning
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The Quest for Grace
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Ringwood: Viking Books, 1990
Reprint,
Penguin, 1991
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The second half of Clark's
autobiography, detailing his
education,
professional associations, and intellectual growth.
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SU
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Clark, Manning
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A Short History of Australia
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Ringwood: Penguin Books, 1963
4th Rev. Ed., 1995
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Text for the course
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Clark,
C.M.H.
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A History of Australia
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6 vols., Carlton: Melbourne U. Press,
1962-87
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SU
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Clarke, Marcus
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For the Term of His Natural Life
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London:
Penguin Books, 1970
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TC
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Cleary, Jon
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The Sundowners
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New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952
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One of the best-loved novels of the
Australian bush, featuring a sheep-shearing Irish
family.
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TC
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Condliffe,
J.B.
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New Zealand in the Making: A Survey of Economic and Social Development
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London:
George Allen & Unwin, 1930
2d Imp. of 2d Ed., 1963
|
The early standard economic history,
highly influential in shaping interpretations of New Zealand development,
economic determinist in viewpoint.
|
Economic
Determinism in the History of New Zealand
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TC
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Conway, Jill Ker
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The Road from Coorain
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New
York: Knopf, 1989
Reprint, Vantage, 1990
|
A splendid memoir of childhood on a
station on the plains of New South Wales; adolescence in the suburbs of
Sydney; university life at Sydney; and Conway's own intellectual journey,
grounded in her Australian experience, but leading her to academic life in
America.
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SU
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Cowan, James
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Settlers and Pioneers
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Wellington:
Department of Internal
Affairs, 1940
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TI
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Crawford, J.G., et al.
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Wartime Agriculture in Australia
and New Zealand, 1939-50
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Stanford: Stanford U.
Press, 1954
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SU
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Critchett,
Jan
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A "Distant Field of Murder":
Western District Frontiers,
1834-1848
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Carleton: Melbourne U.
Press, 1990
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ILL
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Crosby, R.D.
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The
Musket Wars: A History of Inter-Iwi Conflict,
1806-45
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Wellington: Reed, 1999
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ILL
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Cullity,
Maurice
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A History of Dairying in Western Australia
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Nedlands:
U. of Western Australia Press, 1980
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|
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SU
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Cumberland, Kenneth B.
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Southwest Pacific: A Geography of Australia,
New
Zealand, and Their Pacific Island
Neighbors
|
American Ed., New
York: Frederick
A. Praeger,
1968
|
Excellent regional geography—good maps,
solid sections on agriculture.
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SU
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Davidson, B.R.
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Australia,
Wet or Dry? The Physical and Economic Limits to the Expansion of Irrigation
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Melbourne:
Melbourne U. Press, 1969
|
Argues that irrigation projects are
uneconomical, and that resources should be used for improvement of dryland farming instead.
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SU
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Davidson, B.R.
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The Northern Myth: A Study of the
Physical and Economic Limits to Agricultural and Pastoral Development in
Tropical Australia
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Melbourne:
Melbourne
U.
Press, 1965
|
A study critical of proposals for the
economic development of northern Australia. The work is mainly
concerned with the agricultural potential of the area.
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SU
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Davison, Graeme
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The Use and Abuse of Australian History
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St. Leonards:
Allen
& Unwin,
2000
|
A thoughtful work by a historian who
has been engaged with the public application of history—essays treating
myth, monument, and heritage. Particularly recommended for students
entering public history as a profession.
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SU
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Day, David
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Claiming a Continent: A New History of Australia
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Sydney:
Angus &
Robertson, 1996
Reprint, 1999
|
A new synthesis of national history
that places race at the center of national development, beginning with
Aboriginal
occupation
of the continent and continuing through the abandonment of the White
Australia policy and the influx of Asian immigration in the late twentieth
century. Besides focusing on racial tensions, the author also develops the
imperative
to occupy and populate the continent as a strong theme in national history.
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TC
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Day, David
|
The Great Betrayal: Britain, Australia and the Onset of the
Pacific War, 1939-42
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1st American Ed., New York: Norton, 1989
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SU
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Denoon,
Donald
|
Settler Capitalism: The Dynamics of
Dependent Development in the Southern Hemisphere
|
New York:
Oxford U. Press, 1983
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Dependency,
Development, and Denoon
|
ILL
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Dixson,
Miriam
|
The Real Matilda: Woman And Identity In
Australia,
1788 To The Present
|
Ringwood: Penguin, 1976
4th Ed., Sydney:
U. of New South Wales Press, 1999
|
Dixson
writes women into the national identity debate in
Australia.
|
The Real Matilda
|
SU
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Dominy, Michele
|
Calling
the Station Home: Place and Identity in New Zealand’s High Country
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Lanham:
Rowman & Littlefield, 200
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ILL
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Duff, Alan
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Once Were Warriors
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Auckland:
Tandem Press, 1990
Reprint, 1995
|
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TC
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Dunmore,
John
|
Storms and Dreams: Louis de Bouganville: Soldier, Explorer, Statesman
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Auckland: Exisle,
2005
|
|
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ILL
|
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Dunsdorfs,
Edgars
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The Australian Wheat-Growing Industry,
1788-1948
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Melbourne:
Melbourne U. Press, 1956
|
An authoritative work for the economic
history of wheat raising, especially good for periodization
of such history. Little here on cultural, environmental, or technological
questions.
|
|
SU
|
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Dunlap, Thomas R.
|
Nature and the English Diaspora:
Environment and History in the United States,
Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
|
Cambridge:
Cambridge U.
Press, 1999
|
|
|
SU
|
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Elkin, A.P.
|
The Australian Aborigines
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Angus & Robertson, 1938
Natural History Library Ed., Garden
City: Doubleday, 1964
|
|
|
SU
|
|
Evans, B.L.
|
A History of Agricultural Production
and Marketing in New
Zealand
|
Palmerston
North: Keeling & Mundy Ltd., 1969
|
|
|
SU
|
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Facey,
A.B.
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A Fortunate Life
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Ringwood: Penguin, 1981
|
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TC
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Fairburn, Miles
|
The Ideal Society and Its Enemies: The
Foundations of Modern New
Zealand Society
|
Auckland:
Auckland U. Press, 1989
|
A startling and revisionist
interpretation of New
Zealand's settlement. Fairburn argues
that the predominant characteristic of settler society was atomisation, that is, the lack of any coherent social
organization or sense of community
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Ideal Society?
|
TI
|
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Fingleton,
David
|
Kiri Te Kanawa: A Biography
|
London:
Collins, 1982
|
|
|
TI
|
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Finkelstein, Dave and Jack London
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Greater Nowheres: A Journey Through the Australian
Bush
|
New
York: Harper and Row, 1988
|
A traveler's account of the more remote
parts of the continent.
|
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Fitzgerald, Ross
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A History of Queensland: From 1915 to the 1980s
|
Brisbane:
U.
of Queensland
Press, 1985
|
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Fitzpatrick, Brian
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British Imperialism and Australia,
1783-1833
|
London:
George Allen and Unwin,
1939
|
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Fitzpatrick, Brian
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The British Empire in Australia: An Economic HIstory, 1834-1949
|
2d Ed., Carlton:
Melbourne U. Press, 1941
|
|
|
TC
|
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Flannery, Tim
|
The Future Eaters
|
Reed Books, 1994
US Ed., New York: George Braziller,
1995
|
|
Main Points from The
Future Eaters
|
TC
|
|
Frost, Alan
|
Botany Bay Mirages: Illusions of Australia's
Convict Beginnings
|
Melbourne:
Melbourne U. Press, 1994
Reprint, 1995
|
A self-consciously revisionist work
that methodically addresses what the author contends are common
misconceptions about Australia's
history—misconceptions about the motives for colonizing Australia,
about the competence of officials managing the transportation and
settlement, about aboriginal relations, and other issues.
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|
SU
|
|
Garden, Donald S.
|
Australia, New
Zealand, and the Pacific: An
Environmental History
|
Santa
Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2005
|
|
|
SU
|
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Gardner,
W.J.
|
The Amuri: A County History
|
Culverson:
Amuri County Council,
1956
2d Ed., 1983
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TI
|
|
Gardner,
W.J.
|
A Pastoral Kingdom
Divided: Cheviot, 1889-94
|
Bridget Williams Books Ltd., 1992
|
A close (and
revisionist) look at the Liberal acquisition and resettlement of the
Cheviot estate, a major advance in the movement for closer settlement.
|
|
TI
|
|
Garner, Jean
|
By His Own Merits: Sir John
Hall—Pioneer, Pastoralist and
Premier
|
Christchurch:
Dryden Press, 1995
|
|
|
ILL
|
|
Goodman, David
|
Gold Seeking: Victoria
and California
in the 1850s
|
Leonard's: Allen & Unwin, 1994
|
|
|
ILL
|
|
Grey, Jeffrey
|
A Military History of Australia
|
Cambridge:
Cambridge U. Press,
1990
|
|
|
TC
|
|
Gunn, Mrs. Aeneas
|
We of the Never-Never
|
London:
Hutchison, 1907
|
|
A Classic of the Northern
Territory
|
TI
|
|
Guthrie-Smith, H.
|
Tutira:
The Story of a New
Zealand Sheep Station
|
Reprint, Seattle:
University of
Washington Press,
1999
|
|
|
SU
|
|
Hatch, Elvin
|
Respectable Lives: Social Standing in
Rural New Zealand
|
Berkeley:
U. of California Press, 1992
|
|
|
ILL
|
|
Hawke, G.R.
|
The Making of New Zealand:
An Economic History
|
Cambridge
U.
Press, 1985
|
The standard economic history.
|
|
TC
|
|
Heathcote,
R.L.
|
Back of Bourke: A Study of Land
Appraisal and Settlement in Semi-Arid Australia
|
Melbourne:
Melbourne U. Press, 1965
|
A historical geography that examines
pastoral occupation of the plains of eastern Australia
(Queensland and New South Wales). Excellent for
appraisal of capacity of the land to support pastoral industries and for periodization of the history of same. Surprisingly,
advocates an opportunistic, "exploitive" approach to land use.
|
|
|
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Hirst,
John B.
|
Convict Society and Its Enemies
|
Sydney,
1983
|
|
|
|
|
Horne, Donald
|
The Lucky Country
|
Ringwood: Penguin, 1964
5th Ed., 1998
|
This well-known commentary on the
Australian national character and prospects is highly critical of the
country's leadership; the "lucky country," Horn argues, cannot
depend on being lucky forever.
|
|
|
|
Hough, Richard
|
James Cook: A Biography
|
London:
Hodder & Stoughton, 1994
Paper, 1995
|
|
|
SU
|
|
Howe, K.R.
|
Race
Relations, Australia and
New Zealand:
A Comparative Survey, 1770s-1970s
|
Auckland:
Longman Paul, 1977
|
|
Aborigine-Maori
Comparisons
|
TI
|
|
Howe, K.R
|
Singer in a Songless
Land: A Life of Edward Tregear, 1846-1931
|
Auckland:
Auckland U. Press, 1991
|
|
|
|
|
Hughes, Robert
|
The Fatal Shore: A History of
Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787-1868
|
New
York: Knopf, 1987
|
|
|
SU
|
|
Hulme,
Keri
|
The Bone People
|
|
|
|
SU
|
|
Hutton, Drew, and Libby Connors
|
A History of the Australian Environment
Movement
|
New York:
Cambridge U. Press, 1999
|
|
|
SU
|
|
Ihimaera,
Witi
|
Bulibasha:
King of the Gypsies
|
Auckland:
Penguin Books, 1994
|
|
|
TI
|
|
Irving, Helen
|
To Constitute a Nation: A Cultural
History of Australia's
Constitution
|
New York:
Cambridge U. Press, 1997
|
|
|
|
|
Jeans, D.N., Ed.
|
Australia:
A Geography
|
New York:
St. Martin's Press, 1977
|
Chapters are topical and authored by
specialists. Best chapter is "Climate and Primary Production."
See also "Introduction" for history of geographical thought.
|
|
SU
|
|
Kelsey, Jane
|
Rolling Back the State: Privatisation of Power in Aotearoa/New
Zealand
|
Wellington:
Bridget Williams Books, 1993
|
|
|
|
|
King, Michael
|
Being Pakeha
Now: Reflections and Recollections of a White Native
|
Auckland:
Penguin, 1999
|
King, a journalist and historian, a New
Zealander of Irish Catholic ancestry, recounts his upbringing and career (including
his work in Maori history) and argues that the descendants of European
immigrants, like the descendants of Polynesian immigrants, can become tangata whenua in New Zealand.
|
|
TI
|
|
King, Michael
|
The Penguin History of New Zealand
|
Auckland:
Penguin, 2003
|
Immensely popular national history, the
most influential such since Sinclair.
|
Obituary
in the New Zealand Herald
|
TI
|
|
Kluger,
James R.
|
Turning on Water with a Shovel: The
Career of Elwood Mead
|
Albuquerque:
U. of New Mexico Press, 1992
|
From 1907 to 1914 Mead, an experienced
American irrigation engineer, worked on development of the Murray River basin
for the state of Victoria.
|
|
SU
|
|
Kramer, Leonie, Ed.
|
The Oxford History of Australian Literature
|
Oxford
U.
Press, 1981
|
|
|
SU
|
|
Lines, William J.
|
Taming the Great
South Land:
A History of the Conquest of Nature in Australia
|
Berkeley:
U. of California Press, 1991
|
This is a general environmental history
of Oz that applies the domination-of-nature interpretation to explaining
Australian development. Competent insofar as it goes, but already somewhat
dated in approach at the time of publication: says the author, "The
environmental history of Australia
is essentially a political history. . . ."
|
|
SU
|
|
Lowe, David
|
Menzies
and the “Great world Struggle”: Australia’s Cold War, 1948-1954
|
Sydney:
University of
New South Wales
Press, 1999
|
“Menzies was
the key figure who interpreted the Cold War and its implications for Australia,”
writes Lowe. This led to
“exceptional efforts both to combat Australian communists, and to put the
country on a war footing.”
|
|
SU
|
|
McAloon, Jim
|
Nelson:
A Regional History
|
Whatamango Bay:
Cape Catley,
1997
|
An outstanding regional history.
|
|
TI
|
|
McAloon, Jim
|
No
Idle Rich: The Wealthy in Canterbury
and Otago, 1840-1914
|
Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2002
|
|
|
TI
|
|
McClure,
Margaret
|
The
Wonder Country: Making New
Zealand Tourism
|
Auckland: Auckland University
Press, 2004
|
|
|
|
|
Macdonald, Charlotte
|
A Woman of Good Character: Single Women
as Immigrant Settlers in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand
|
Wellington:
Allen & Unwin, 1990
Reprint, Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 1990
|
|
|
|
|
McGibbon,
Ian
|
The Path to Gallipoli: Defending New Zealand,
1840-1915
|
Wellington:
GP Publications, 1991
|
|
|
|
|
McLaren, Glen
|
Big Mobs: The Story of Australian
Stockmen
|
South Freemantle:
Freemantle Arts Council Press, 2000
|
The focus here is on the folkways of pastoralism—how to work cattle, break horses, manage
range, and so on—rich in detail. Includes explicit comparison with North
American cattle culture.
|
|
SU
|
|
Macnicol,
Terri
|
Beyond the Skippers Road
|
Wellington:
A.H. & A.W. Reed,
1965
Reprint, 1973
|
|
|
TI
|
|
McQuilton,
John
|
The Kelly Outbreak, 1878-1880: The
Geographical Dimension of Social Banditry
|
Melbourne:
Melbourne U. Press, 1979
|
An interpretation of the Ned Kelly gang
of Victoria
as social bandits, representing the grievances of selectors against
squatters and callous government policies.
|
|
TI
|
|
McGrath, Ann
|
Born in the Cattle: Aborigines in
Cattle Country
|
Sydney:
Allen
& Unwin,
1987
|
|
|
|
|
Marais, J.S.
|
The Colonisation
of New Zealand
|
London:
Dawsons,
1968
|
|
|
SU
|
|
Marcus, Andrew
|
Australian Race Relations, 1788-1993
|
St. Leonards:
Allen &
Unwin,
1994
|
|
|
|
|
May, Dawn
|
Aboriginal Labour
and the Cattle Industry: Queensland
from White Settlement to the Present
|
Cambridge:
Cambridge U. Press, 1994
|
|
|
TI
|
|
Meinig,
D.W.
|
On
the Margins of the Good Earth: The South Australian Wheat Frontier, 1869-1884
|
Chicago:
Rand McNally & Co., 1962
|
A
work of historical geography focusing on settlement. Good material on
pioneer appraisal of the land (including Goyder's
Line) and on "domesticating the land" (methods of farming).
|
|
SU
|
|
Moon,
Paul
|
Fatal Frontiers: A New
History of New Zealand
in the Decade
before
the Treaty
|
Auckland: Penguin, 2006
|
Methodical survey of conditions in the
1830s, prior to planned settlement and the Treaty of Waitangi, arguing that
incorporation into the British Empire was
not foregone in the fluid situation of Maori politics and Pakeha activities.
|
|
TI
|
|
Moorehead,
Alan
|
Cooper's Creek
|
New
York: Harper & Row, 1963
|
|
|
SU
|
|
Morgan, Sally
|
My Place
|
New
York: Henry Holt and Co., 1987
|
An autobiographical family history by a
woman of mixed-aboriginal descent, seeking to uncover her aboriginal roots.
|
|
|
|
Morton, Harry
|
Which Way New Zealand?
|
Dunedin:
John McIndoe, 1975
|
A Canadian-born historical scholar
assesses recent trends in education, race relations, economic development,
and other main currents of New
Zealand society.
|
|
TI
|
|
Muldoon, R.D.
|
The Rise and Fall of a Young Turk
|
Wellington:
A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1974
5th Imp., 1974
|
The blunt autobiography of a National
Party leader in mid-career.
|
|
TI
|
|
Murgatroyd,
Sarah
|
The Dig Tree: A True Story of Bravery,
Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia’s Wild Frontier
|
Melbourne:
Text Publishing, 2002
Reprint, New York: Broadway Books, 2002
|
Compelling retelling of the Burke and
Wills expedition of 1860-61, which sought (ineptly and disastrously) to
cross the continent from Victoria north to
the Gulf of Carpenteria.
|
Burke and Wills – Terra
Incognita
|
TI
|
|
Murphy, Brian
|
The Other Australia: Experiences of
Migration
|
Melbourne:
Cambridge U. Press, 1993
|
|
|
|
|
Nadel,
George
|
Australia's Colonial Culture: Ideas, Men
and Institutions in Mid-Nineteenth Century Eastern Australia
|
Cambridge:
Harvard U. Press, 1957
|
|
|
SU
|
|
Oliver, W.H.
|
The Story of New Zealand
|
London:
Faber & Faber, 1960
|
|
|
TI
|
|
Oliver, W.H., and B.R.Williams,
Eds.
|
The Oxford
History of New Zealand
|
York:
Oxford U. Press, 1981
|
|
|
SU
|
|
Oliver, W.H., and Jane M.Thompson
|
Challenge and Response: A Study of the
Development of the Gisborne East Coast Region
|
Gisborne:
East Coast Development
Research Association, 1971
|
|
|
TI
|
|
Olssen,
Erik
|
Building the New
World: Work, Politics and Society in Caversham,
1880s-1920s
|
Auckland:
Auckland U. Press, 1995
|
|
|
SU
|
|
Orange,
Claudia
|
An
Illustrated History of the Treaty of Waitangi
|
Wellington: Bridget Williams, 2004
|
|
|
|
|
Orange, Claudia
|
The Treaty of Waitangi
|
Wellington:
Bridget Books Ltd., 1987
|
|
|
|
|
Park,
Geoff
|
Nga
Uruora (The Groves of Life): Ecology and History
in a New Zealand
Landscape
|
Wellington:
Victoria U. Press, 1995
|
A blend of history, biology, and memoir
that questions the assumptions of conservation in New Zealand
and argues for preservation of lowland forests.
|
|
TI
|
|
Pearson,
Kent
|
Surfing Subcultures of Australia and New Zealand
|
St. Lucia:
U. of Queensland Press, 1979
|
Believe it or not, this is a scholarly
and thoroughly interesting work that compares and contrasts two surfing
subcultures—that of the clubbies (life saving
clubs) and that of the surfies
(anti-establishment
types).
|
|
SU
|
|
Perry, T.M.
|
Australia's
First Frontier: The Spread of Settlement in New South Wales, 1788-1829
|
Melbourne:
Melbourne U. Press, 1963
|
|
|
|
|
Phillips, Jock
|
A Man's Country? The Image of the Pakeha Male—A History
|
Auckland:
Penguin Books, 1987
|
|
|
|
|
Potts, E.Daniel,
and Annette Potts
|
Yanks Down Under, 1941-45
|
Melbourne:
Oxford U. Press, 1985
|
|
|
|
|
Powell, Alan
|
Far Country: A Short History of the Northern Territory
|
Carlton:
Melbourne U. Press, 1982
3rd Ed., 1996
|
|
Alan Powell’s Far Country
|
TC
|
|
Powell, J.M.
|
Plains of Promise, Rivers of Destiny:
Water Management and the Development of Queensland, 1824-1990
|
Bowen Hills: Boolarong
Publications,
1991
|
|
|
|
|
Pyne,
Stephen J.
|
Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia
|
New
York: Henry
Holt, 1991
|
Exhaustive treatment of how Australian
biota were formed and shaped by fire, prehistorically and historically. (Pyne is an environmental historian who has done a
similar study for North America.)
|
|
TI
|
|
Randell,
J.O.
|
Pastoral Settlement in Northern Victoria
|
Melbourne,
1982
|
|
|
|
|
Ratcliffe,
Francis
|
Flying Fox and Drifting Sand: The Adventures
of a Biologist in Australia
|
London:
Angus & Robertson, 1938
Reprint, Sydney: Pacific Books,
1970
|
Travel narrative by a research
biologist; a classic account of encounters with the Australian environment.
|
A Classic of the
Australian Environment
|
TI
|
|
Reece, Bob
|
The Origins of Irish Convict
Transportation to New South Wales
|
Houndmills
& New York: Palgrave, 2001
|
Traditional accounts focus on London and English circumstances for transportation;
this work fills in the record by treating transportation specifically from Ireland.
|
|
SU
|
|
Reeves, William Pember
|
The Long White Cloud: Ao Tea Roa
|
1st Ed., 1898
Reprint, Auckland: Golden Press, 1973
|
|
|
TI
|
|
Reynolds, Henry
|
The Other Side of the Frontier:
Aboriginal Resistance to the European Invasion of Australia
|
James Cook U. of North Queensland,
1981
Reprint, Ringwood: Penguin Books Australia,
1995
|
|
|
TI
|
|
Richardson, Ruth
|
Making a Difference
|
Christchurch:
Shoal Bay Press, 1995
|
|
|
|
|
Rickard, John
|
Australia: A Cultural History
|
London:
Longman, 1988
|
A brief cultural history, with emphasis
more on the urban scene than on the rural.
|
|
TC
|
|
Roberts, S.H.
|
The
Squatting Age in Australia,
1835-1847
|
Melbourne:
Melbourne U. Press, 1935
Reprint, 1964
|
A classic work that demarcates 1835 as
the year when squatting broke through the old ideal of concentrated
settlement; details the struggle for land tenure and the movement to occupy
pastoral lands; describes the methods of extensive pastoralism;
and closes with the transition to fenced runs.
|
|
TC
|
|
Robin, Libby
|
The Flight of the Emu: A Hundred Years
of Australian Ornithology, 1901-2001
|
Carlton
South: Melbourne
U. Press, 2001
|
A fascinating treatment of 20th-century
ornithology in Australia,
addressing the intellectual and environmental history of the subject,
including the iconographic and scientific implications for Australian
nationhood.
|
Birds Australia
Review of Flight of the Emu
|
SU
|
|
Robinson, Portia
|
The Women of Botany
Bay: A Reinterpretation of the Role of Women in the Origins of
Australian Society
|
Ringwood: Penguin Books Australia,
1988
Rev. Ed., 1993
|
|
|
|
|
Robson, L.L.
|
The Convict Settlers of Australia
|
Melbourne:
Melbourne U. Press,
1965
2d Ed., 1994
|
A standard and much-cited work on the
social characteristics of convicts transported to Australia.
Working from an impressive statistical base drawn from court records,
Robson presents a profile of the convicts that attributes their predominant
origins to an urban criminal
class.
|
|
SU
|
|
Salmond,
Anne
|
Between
Worlds: Early Exchanges Between Maori and
Europeans, 1773-1815
|
Honolulu:
U. of Hawaii Press, 1997
|
|
|
SU
|
|
Salmond,
Anne
|
The Trial of
the Cannibal Dog: The Remarkable Story of Captain
Cook’s Encounters in the South Seas
|
New Haven:
Yale U. Press, 2003
|
A striking reinterpretation of Cook’s South Seas explorations, emphasizing the two-way
nature of cultural contact and exchange.
|
|
SU
|
|
Salmond,
Anne
|
Two Worlds:
First Meetings Between Maori and Europeans, 1642-1772
|
Honolulu:
U. of Hawaii Press, 1991
|
|
|
SU
|
|
Seal, Graham
|
The Lingo: Listening To Australian
English
|
Sydney:
U. of New South Wales Press, 1999
|
|
|
SU
|
|
Searle, Geoffrey
|
The Golden Age: A History of the Colony
of Victoria,
1851-1861
|
Carlton:
U. of Melbourne Press, 1977
|
|
|
|
|
Semmler,
Clement, Ed.
|
A.B."Banjo"
Paterson:
Bush Ballads, Poems, Stories and Journalism
|
St. Lucia:
U. of Queensland Press, 1992
|
|
|
TI
|
|
Shadbolt,
Maurice
|
Monday's Warriors
|
Auckland:
Hodder & Stoughton, 1991
Sceptre
Reprint, 1994
|
The second book in Shadbolt's
fictional trilogy of the New
Zealand wars.
|
|
TC
|
|
Shaw, A.G.L.
|
The Story of Australia
|
London:
Faber & Faber, 1955
5th Ed.,
1983
|
|
|
TI
|
|
Shute, Nevil
|
On the Beach
|
|
Shute’s disturbing novel about
Australian survivors of nuclear war.
|
|
SU
|
|
Shute, Nevil
|
A Town Like Alice
|
Melbourne:
William Heinemann, 1950
Reprint, Mattituck: Amereon
House, 1995
|
|
|
TC
|
|
Sinclair, Keith
|
A Destiny Apart: New Zealand's
Search for National Identity
|
Wellington:
Allen & Unwin, 1986
|
|
|
|
|
Sinclair, Keith
|
Halfway Round the Harbour:
An Autobiography
|
Auckland:
Penguin Books, 1993
|
A biography that not only chronicles
the development of New Zealand's great nationalist historian but also
depicts his times—from growing up in Auckland in the 1930s to political
activism in the 1960s.
|
Keith Sinclair and the
History of New Zealand
|
TI
|
|
Sinclair, Keith
|
A History of New Zealand
|
Auckland:
Pelican Books, 1959
4th Rev. Ed., Auckland: Pelican,
1991
|
Text for the course.
|
TC
|
|
Sinclair, Keith
|
Kinds of Peace: Maori People After the
Wars, 1870-85
|
Auckland:
Auckland U. Press, 1991
|
|
|
|
|
Spillman,
Ken
|
A Rich
Endowment: Government and Mining in Western
Australia, 1829-1994
|
Nedlands:
U. of Western Australia Press, 1993
|
At core this is an institutional
history of Western Australia Department of Minerals and Energy. Pursuing
that aim, the work also comprises the history of mining development in the
state, beginning with goldfields in the 1880s.
|
|
SU
|
|
Steinbrook,
Gordon L.
|
Allies & Mates: An American Soldier
with the Australians and New Zealanders in Vietnam, 1966-67
|
Lincoln:
U. of Nebraska Press, 1995.
|
Letters and memoirs of a Nebraskan who
served as a forward observer for Aussie and Kiwi artillery units in Vietnam.
|
|
SU
|
|
Sutch,
W.B.
|
Poverty and Progress in New Zealand:
A Re-assessment
|
Wellington:
A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1941
Reprint, 1969
|
|
|
|
|
Svenson,
Stuart
|
The Shearers' War
|
Brisbane:
U. of Queensland Press, 1989
|
|
|
|
|
Taylor, Griffith
|
Australia:
A Study of Warm Environments and Their Effect on British Settlement
|
London:
Methuen & Co., 1940
6th Enlarged Ed., 1951
|
|
Griffith Taylor and
Environmental Determinism
|
|
|
Taylor, Griffith
|
Journeyman Taylor: The Education of a Scientist
|
London:
Robert Hale Limited, 1958
|
The autobiography (often partaking of
the form of the travel narrative) of Australia's most eminent geographer,
who quarreled with boosters over the potential of arid Australia; did field
work all over the world; and held appointments at the University of Chicago
and the University of
Toronto.
|
|
|
Thomas,
Nicholas
|
Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of
Captain James Cook
|
New
York:
Walker,
2003
|
|
|
SU
|
|
Thomson, Alistair
|
Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend
|
New York:
Oxford U. Press, 1994
|
|
|
SU
|
|
Trainor,
Luke
|
British Imperialism and Australian
Nationalism: Manipulation, Conflict and Compromise in the Late Nineteenth
Century
|
New York:
Cambridge U.
Press, 1994
|
|
|
|
|
Tremewan,
Peter
|
French Akaroa:
An Attempt to Colonise Southern
New Zealand
|
Christchurch:
U. of Canterbury Press, 1990
|
|
|
|
|
Tweedie,
Sandra
|
Trading Partners: Australia and Asia,
1790-1993
|
Sydney:
U.
of New South Wales Press, 1994
|
|
|
|
|
Ward, Alan
|
A Show of Justice: Racial Amalgamation'
in Nineteenth Century New
Zealand
|
Canberra:
Australian National U. Press, 1974
Reprint, Auckland:
Auckland
U.
Press, 1995
|
This is a classic work interpreting
Maori-Pakeha relations during its period of
scope. Destroying the point of view that Maori society was in hopeless
disarray and decline during the middle of the nineteenth century, Ward
shows Maori interacting with Pakeha keenly and
competently. (This
paves
the way for deeper reinterpretation of Maori-Pakeha
relations by Belich and others.)
|
|
SU
|
|
Ward, Russel
|
The Australian Legend
|
Melbourne:
Oxford U. Press, 1958
|
A history of "the Australian
legend or national mystique"—a cultural history of national identity.
Emphasizes the bush origins of the legend and draws heavily on ballads and
other folkloristic sources.
|
Russel
Ward and the Australian National Mystique
|
TI
|
|
Watson, James
|
Links: A History of Transport and New Zealand
Society
|
Wellington:
Ministry of Transport, 1996
|
This comprehensive history of
transportation in New
Zealand treats the subject in terms of
eras: the age of
the
waka, the age of sail, the age of steam, the age
of the motor, and the age of the jet. It also links changes in
transportation with changes in New Zealand society, while
taking into account the conditions of the environment.
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TI
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White, Richard
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Inventing Australia: Images and Identity,
1688-1980
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Sydney:
George Allen & Unwin,
1981
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Williams, M.
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The Making of the South Australian
Landscape
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London,
1974
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Winks, Robin W.
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These New Zealanders
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Christchurch:
Whitcombe & Tombs, 1956
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Impressions of an American Fulbright
scholar in New Zealand.
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Winter, Denis
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25 April 1915: The Inevitable Tragedy
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U.
of Queensland
Press,
1994
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SU
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Wright, Harrison M.
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New
Zealand,
1769-1840: Early Years of Western Contact
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Cambridge:
Harvard U. Press, 1959
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Dated, but remarkably prescient work by
a Fulbright scholar. Focusing on the situation in the Bay of Islands,
Wright details the arrival of missionaries and whalers; describes the
impact of white arrival on Maori life, especially the Christianization of
the Maori; and yet, remarkably, perceives themes of Maori agency in these
transitions.
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TC
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