Indigenous Archives: The Making and Unmaking of Aboriginal Art by Darren Jorgensen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art
In recording and ordering documents considered important, the archive is a source of power. It takes control of the past, deciding which voices will be heard and which won't, how they will be heard and for what purposes. Indigenous communities understood the power of the archive well before the European ...Show more
Conflict, adaptation, transformation: Richard Broome and the practice of Aboriginal history by Ben Silverstein
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
This collection traces the legacy of Richard Broome's pathbreaking work in Aboriginal history by presenting innovative work that assesses and transforms a broad range of important debates that have captured both scholarly and popular attention in recent years. The book brings together a range of promine ...Show more
Return to the Country by Australian Geographic
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
In 75 Indigenous Protected Areas across the nation, traditional owners are managing their land for a better future. Protected areas are defined areas of land or sea, dedicated and managed in order to preserve the long-term sustainability and conservation of the region, including the associated ecosystem ...Show more
Ninu Grandmothers’ Law by Nura Nungalka Ward
$49.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: WARD NURA NUNGKALKA
This is my knowledge. It has been handed down to me from my grandmothers and grandfathers, my mothers and my fathers. I am sharing it with you because I want people to know about my life. Ninu Grandmothers' Law is a definitive account of a traditional lifestyle and way of thinking. Accompanied by except ...Show more
Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia by Walsh Michael and Yallop
$35.99 AUD
Category: History
A series of studies of aspects of language and culture in different parts of Aboriginal Australia, this book deals with subjects including why a young Aboriginal woman in rural Australia might plead guilty to a crime she didn't commit; the picture of "language ownership" that can be drawn from recent re ...Show more
My Place by Sally Morgan
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
My Place begins with Sally Morgan tracing the experiences of her own life, growing up in suburban Perth in the fifties and sixties. Through the memories and images of her childhood and adolescence, vague hints and echoes begin to emerge, hidden knowledge is uncovered, and a fascinating story unfolds - a ...Show more
Lies, Damned Lies: A personal exploration of the impact of colonisation by Claire G. Coleman
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
'This is a difficult piece to write. It cuts closer to the bone than most of what I have written; closer to my bones, through my blood and flesh to the bones of truth and country; there is truth here, not disguised but in the open and that truth hurts.' In Lies, Damned Lies acclaimed author Claire G. ...Show more
Broken Spear: The untold story of Black Tom Birch, the man who sparked Australia's bloodiest war by Robert Cox
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Black Tom Birch was the most feared and hated man in Van Diemen's Land. For four years he kept the colony in a state of terror. He was responsible for the deaths of dozens of settlers. He burnt their buildings and destroyed their livestock and crops. Newspapers raged against him. One demanded he be lync ...Show more
Forgotten War: new edition by Henry Reynolds
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
‘We are at war with them,’ wrote a Tasmanian settler in 1831. ‘What we call their crime is what in a white man we should call patriotism.’Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas. So why are there no official memorials or commemorations of the wars that were fought on A ...Show more
Australian Dreaming: 40,000 years of Aboriginal History by Jennifer Isaacs
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
Australian Dreaming is the first Aboriginal history of the Australian continent and its people, as told by Aboriginal storytellers. It recounts epic travels of the Great Spirit Ancestors and tells how they created the animals and plants and gave birth to the earliest people of this land.