History Australia - Denoon, Donald; Mein-Smith, Philippa; Wyndham, Marivic
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This book provides an arresting interpretation of the history of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific from the earliest settlements to the present. Usually viewed in isolation, these societies are covered here in a single account, in which the authors show how the peoples of the region constructed their own identities and influenced those of their neighbours.
By broadening the focus to the regional level, this volume develops analyses - of economic, social and political history - which transcend national boundaries. The result is a compelling work which both describes the aspirations of…mehr

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This book provides an arresting interpretation of the history of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific from the earliest settlements to the present. Usually viewed in isolation, these societies are covered here in a single account, in which the authors show how the peoples of the region constructed their own identities and influenced those of their neighbours.

By broadening the focus to the regional level, this volume develops analyses - of economic, social and political history - which transcend
national boundaries. The result is a compelling work which both describes the aspirations of European settlers and reveals how the dispossessed and marginalized indigenous peoples negotiated their own lives as best they could. The authors demonstrate that these stories are not separate but rather strands of a single history.
Autorenporträt
Donald Denoon is Professor of Pacific Islands History in theResearch School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University.His previous books include Southern Africa Since 1800 (withBalam Nyeko, 1972 and 1984 ), Settler Capitalism (1981),The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders (Ed. 1997),and Getting Under the Skin: the Bougainville Copper Agreementand the Creation of the Panguna Mine (2000).

Dr Philippa Mein Smith teaches New Zealand and Australianhistory, and social history of medicine in the Department ofHistory, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Her previouspublications include Mothers and King Baby: Infant Survival andWelfare in an Imperial World: Australia 1880-1950 (1997).

Professor Denoon and Dr. Mein-Smith enjoyed the privilege of amonth's fellowship at the Rockefeller Study Centre in Bellagio, todevelop the text.

Dr Marivic Wyndham is an Australian cultural historian.Her doctoral thesis focused on the life and literature of theAustralian novelist, Eleanor Dark (1901-1985). Her book, based onthe thesis and due for release in mid-2001, offers a cross-culturalanalysis of the writer. Dr Wyndham is now an Academic Adviser atthe Study Skills Centre, Australian National University.
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"An extremely welcome addition to the insulated worlds of Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Island history ... of particular use to under-graduate and graduate courses dealing with these national contexts" Times Higher Education Supplement

" ... scholarly and well documented with maps, illustrations, appendixes, complete bibliography and index ... highly recommended for all university collections" CHOICE

"Denoon and his co-authors have made very important additions to the still relatively small historiography of the Pacific." Pacific History

"Substantial and informative ... an insightful study that will prove challenging for academic and general readers of history on both sides of the Tasman, and no doubt beyond ... Donald Denoon s and Philippa Mein-Smith s achievement in delineating the past 200 years of this region will, one would predict, stand unchallenged for some considerable time." Australian Historical Studies

"This is an important book." International History Review

"A considerable achievement. It is also lively and enlightening, not least in the numerous shrewd asides which season it." English Historical Review