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Australian History in 7 Questions by John Hirst
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
'If there are genuine questions about Australian history, there is something to puzzle over. The history ceases to be predictable - and dull.' From the author of The Shortest History of Europe, acclaimed historian John Hirst, comes this fresh and stimulating approach to understanding Australia's past an ...Show more
Australian History in Seven Questions by John Hirst
$24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
From the author of The Shortest History of Europe, acclaimed historian John Hirst, comes this fresh and stimulating approach to understanding Australia's past and present. Hirst asks and answers questions that get to the heart of Australia's history: Why did Aborigines not take up farming? How did a pen ...Show more
Freedom on the Fatal Shore by John Hirst
$36.95 AUD
Category: History
Freedom on the Fatal Shorebrings together John Hirst's two books on the early history of New South Wales. Both are classic accounts which have had a profound effect on the understanding of our history. They also have long been unavailable, either new or second-hand. This combined edition includes a new ...Show more
Looking for Australia by John Hirst
$32.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
What are the qualities at the heart of Australian culture? How did they arise? What distinguishes us from other nations beyond a fondness for calling each other 'mate'? And what do such national quirks reveal about our society, our past and our attitudes towards it? Looking for Australia is a fascinatin ...Show more
Quarterly Essay: Kangaroo Court by John Hirst; Chris Feik (Editor)
$13.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
The Family Court was a progressive reform of the 1970s. Now it is perhaps the most hated institution in Australia. In the first Quarterly Essay of 2005, John Hirst investigates what went wrong. This is a measured yet unsparing appraisal which interleaves individual cases with compelling legal and moral ...Show more
Sense and Nonsense in Australian History by John Hirst
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
'John Hirst is the gadfly of Australian history, stinging and provocative' - STUART MACINTRYE 'essential reading for those who want to ponder, let alone write and teach about, Australian history' - ROBERT MURRAY, The Weekend AustralianSense and Nonsense in Australian Historyrepresents a lifetime's origi ...Show more
Sense and Nonsense in Australian History by John Hirst
$34.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
Although a self-proclaimed conservative, Hirst's work has received high praise from historians ranging from Don Watson to Stuart Macintyre. This book collects key pieces on convict society, the pioneer legend, Australian egalitarianism, the republican movement and more.
The Australians by John Bradley Hirst
$29.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
In this fascinating collection, John Hirst has assembled the key assessments of the national character of Australia and Australians. There are insiders and outsiders. There is celebration and criticism. There is the difference between what Australians think of themselves and what they are really like.Hi ...Show more
The Australians: Insiders and Outsiders on the National Character Since 1770 by John Hirst
$14.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
US General Douglas MacArthur, on the Australians fighting on the Kokoda Track, 1942: "Operations reports show that progress on the trail is NOT repeat NOT satisfactory." To which Major-General A.S. Allen drafted this reply: "If you think you can do any better come up and bloody try." Is there an Aus ...Show more
The Shortest History of Europe by John Hirst
$19.95 AUD
Category: History
Chinese civilisation was for a long period more advanced than European. From China, Europe acquired printing, paper-making, the compass, gunpowder and locks for canals. Yet it was in Europe that steady economic growth first occurred and then the Industrial Revolution. And it was in Europe that represent ...Show more
The Shortest History of Europe by John Hirst
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
An absorbing, big-picture history, full of intriguing examples and anecdotes, from one of Australia's most innovative and original historians. Did you know that the Fall of Rome gave rise to private property and individual rights? Or that, curiously enough, the Roman Empire still existed in the nineteen ...Show more
The Shortest History of Europe: Revised and Updated by John Hirst
$22.95 AUD
Category: History
Celebrated historian John Hirst offers a fascinating exploration of the qualities that made Europe a world-changing civilisation, from Ancient Greece and Rome to the two World Wars. The Shortest History of Europe begins with a rapid overview of European civilisation, describing its birth from an unlikel ...Show more
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