NXB Chính Trị Quốc Gia, 2012. — 392 p. Cuốn sách giới thiệu tới độc giả, các nhà nghiên cứu hàng nghìn trang tài liệu của các cơ quan trung ương của chính quyền Sài Gòn, các cơ quan của Hoa Kỳ ở miền Nam Việt Nam về quá trình đàm phán ở Paris từ năm 1968 đến năm 1972. Nội dung sách được biên soạn chủ yếu từ nguồn tài liệu lưu trữ, là những báo cáo, tường trình, sắc lệnh, nghị...
UNSW Press, 2011. ISBN: 9781742240466. From the Swan River to the Hawkesbury, and from the sticky Arnhem Land mangrove to the soft green hills of Tasmania, this book describes the major conflicts fought on the Australian frontier to 1838. Based on extensive research and using overseas frontier wars to add perspective to the Australian experience, 'The Australian Frontier Wars...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 224 p. How did Melbourne earn its place as one of the world's 'music cities'? Beginning with the arrival of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s, this book explores the development of different sectors of Melbourne's popular music ecosystem in parallel with the broader population, urban planning, and media industry changes in the city. The authors draw on...
Scarecrow Press, 2001. — 416 p. Papua New Guinea has experienced a remarkable rapid transition from scattered primitive societies to a modern unified nation. The A-Z Dictionary covers major economic, social, political and cultural developments, basic geographic information, and key biographies. Ann Turner is currently a freelance writer, researcher, and consultant. She has...
Scarecrow Press, 1994. — 172 p. The book, in dictionary form, provides basic reference material on Micronesia, a region encompassing a vast area of the tropical western Pacific Ocean. Micronesia, from the Greek mikros (small), and nesos (island), is one of the three major geographical regions of the Pacific, or Oceania. It includes the Mariana, Caroline, Marshall, and Gilbert...
Scarecrow Press, 2005. — 385 p. The long voyages of discovery and exploration of the vast Pacific Ocean were an exercise in logistics, navigation, hard grit, shipwreck and pure luck. The motivations were scientific and geographic, but at the same time nationalistic and materialistic. This ambitious and informative reference includes the familiar names of Laperouse,...
Scarecrow Press, 2005. — 537 p. The book's introduction gives an overall view of the New Zealand country, while the chronology plots the path from the earliest settlers to the present. The dictionary includes hundreds of cross-referenced entries on important persons, places, events, institutions as well as significant political, economic, social and cultural aspects. Everything...
Scarecrow Press, 2009. — 371 p. — (The A to Z Guide Series). This engaging reference examines the history of, the search for, and the discovery of Australia, taking full account of the evidence for and the speculation surrounding possible earlier contacts by the Ancient Egyptians, Arabs, and Chinese seamen. Day brings the expeditions to life, expressing the desires that drove...
Scarecrow Press, 2007. — 434 p. The last continent to be claimed by Europeans, Australia began to be settled by the British in 1788 in the form of a jail for its convicts. While British culture has had the largest influence on the country and its presence can be seen everywhere, the British were not Australia's original populace. The first inhabitants of Australia, the...
New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2019. — 334 p., figures, tables. — (Studies in German History, vol. 22.) Traditionally, Germany has been considered a minor player in Pacific history: its presence there was more limited than that of other European nations, and whereas its European rivals established themselves as imperial forces beginning in the early modern era, Germany did not...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. — 240 p. A History of the Pacific Islands traces the human history of nearly one-third of the globe over a 50,000 year span. This is history on a grand scale, taking the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia from prehistoric culture to the present day through a skillful interpretation of scholarship in the field. Fischer's familiarity with...
Penguin Random House Australia, 2019. — 368 p. He fought Napoleon’s army and survived. He was sent to the gallows and escaped the noose. Now he is in chains and on his way to the other side of the world. What happens next will become one of the most remarkable survival stories in history. The 19th century has just begun. The world is at war. England, ruled by a mad king, is...
Auckland, NZ: Allen & Unwin, 2019. — 276 p., illus. Beautifully illustrated with a selection of fascinating maps, Singing the Trail is the story of New Zealand through its maps - and the story of the explorers who made those maps. The very first maps, oral maps made by early Polynesian and Maori settlers, were waypoints, lists of places in songs, chants, karakia and stories...
Sydney: Angus and Robertson Ltd, 1909. — 279 p. When we look at a map of the world, and see the long chain of islands that stretches south-east from Asia to within a few miles of Cape York, it must seem a strange thing that Australia should have been so little known before the time when England founded a colony here. One would think it easy for even unskilful seamen to creep...
Auckland: Unitec ePress, 2014. — 167 p. — ISBN: 978-1-927214-07-7. Using the stories of Māui to guide readers through the work, Keelan has authored a book that brings together ten years of experience and research in taiohinga Māori Development. Known to most New Zealanders, Māori and non-Māori alike, Māui can be found in many of the stories of other Pacific nations, and a Māui...
London: The Caxton Publishing Company, 1908. — 331 p. This book does not contain a history of New Zealand, but something of the story of many full and stirring days. Almost like the ghost the Maori thought him, Tasman came swiftly out of the rosy West, struck a blow which harmed his country more than it hurt those upon whom it fell, and yet more swiftly sailed away. Notable...
London: The Religious Trust Society, 1886. — 260 p. Should you be able and willing to go to New Zealand in a few weeks if necessary? The doctors seem likely to order G. there by sailing ship. Soon, for three months' total rest from daily letters and telegrams; but they say that he is not well enough to leave England without his wife, and that she is not strong enough just now...
Internet resource. — 26 p. Accounts of the battle of RuapekapekaPa have tended to focus on the size and innovation of the fortification, in contrast to typical (or classic) Maori defensive works and approaches to warfare. In her 2003 book Taua, AngellaBallarafollowed the threads of Maori warfare from the mid to late prehistoric period into the early historic period and the...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 275 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107037-59-5. This book charts the previously untold story of decolonisation in the oceanic world of the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, presenting it both as an indigenous and an international phenomenon. Tracey Banivanua Mar reveals how the inherent limits of decolonisation were laid bare by the historical...
Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2011. — 442 p. The first comprehensive guide to key documents and notable quotations on New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi, this volume explores the relationship between the Maori and the Pakeha - New Zealanders who are not of Maori descent. Sourced from government publications, newspapers, letters, diaries, poems, songs, and cartoons, this...
Auckland University Press, 2012. — 320 p. An account focusing on the encounters between the Maori and Pakeha - or European settlers - and the process of mutual discovery from 1642 to around 1840, this New Zealand history book argues that both groups inhabited a middle ground in which neither could dictate the political, economic, or cultural rules of engagement. By looking at...
Australia. Spanish University, Filology department, 2019. 23 slides. First voyages to Australia, Historical names of Australia, 1st expedition to Terra Australia Causes of Aboriginal decimation The stolen generations why did British claim Australia? Australia as a penal colony.
Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 2012. — 174 p. Excerpt from the book: "My name is Saul Indian Horse. I am the son of Mary Mandamin and John Indian Horse. My grandfather was called Solomon so my name is the diminutive of his. My people are from the Fish Clan of the northern Ojibway, the Anishinabeg, we call ourselves. We made our home in the territories along the Winnipeg...