Selections from documents relating to women in Australia up to 1940s; includes extracts from M. Parker 1795, P. Cunningham 1827, R. & F. Hill 1875 and Queensland Parliamentary ...

The term shopping was established in English well before the first European settlers arrived in Australia, and shops quickly appeared in the new colony even though there was ...

The Middle Way covers the sweep of Australian history from the Fall of Singapore to the Keating Years.

Aboriginal Australia - Aboriginal life before white man - Coming of the Europeans.

Chapter 4 covers the destruction of Aboriginal society; the effects of disease, massacres and brutality documented by references from contemporary sources.

This imaginative and resonant 1997 book looks at the constitution as a cultural artefact. It attempts to understand the period during which it emerged, culminating in ...

Humphrey McQueen's new edition of his irreverent classic charts the origins of the Australian Labor Party. In tracing the social forces which produced the ALP, he shows it was ...

This new book provides a fresh analysis of Queensland during the colonial era. It provides new insights into Queenslands past. Sir Thomas McIlwraith thundered across Queensland ...