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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “malcolm allbrook”
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  • Reframing Indigenous Biography

    Edited by Shino Konishi, Malcolm Allbrook, Tom Griffiths ...
    Series series Routledge Approaches to History
    This book explores the history, practice, and possibilities of writing about the lives of First Nations’ peoples in Australia as well as Aotearoa New Zealand, North America, and the Pacific.This interdisciplinary collection recognises the limitations of Western biographical conventions for writing Indigenous long‑ and short‑form biographies. Through a series of diverse life stories of both ... Read more

    Was $64.99 USD Now $57.99 USD

  • Family History and Historians in Australia and New Zealand

    Related Histories

    Edited by Malcolm Allbrook, Sophie Scott-Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Approaches to History
    Since the turn of the twenty-first century, family history is the place where two great oceans of research are meeting: family historians outside the academy, with traditionally trained, often university-employed historians. This collection is both a testament to dialogue and an analysis of the dynamics of recent family history that derives from the confluence of professional historians with ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    Lost worlds of early Australia

    by Grace Karskens ...
    A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Award-winning historian Grace Karskens uncovers the everyday lives of ordinary people in the early colony, both Aboriginal and British.Winner of the Prime Minister's Award for Australian History 2021Winner of the NSW Premier's Australian History Prize 2021Co-winner of the Ernest Scott ... Read more

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  • First Knowledges Law

    The Way of the Ancestors

    by Marcia Langton, Aaron Corn ...
    Our Laws are forever present and provide the pathways for all Australians to truly learn how to belong to this continent.' - June Oscar 'No other current work has been able to so comprehensively explain the significance of traditional law in all its manifestations.' - Henry Reynolds Law is culture, and culture is law. Given by the ancestors and cultivated over millennia, Indigenous law defines ... Read more

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  • Damned Whores and God's Police

    by Anne Summers ...
    Sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape had not been named, although they certainly existed, when Damned Whores and God's Police was first published in 1975. That was before the Sex Discrimination Act of 1984 and before large numbers of women became visible in employment, in politics and elsewhere across society. It's hard to imagine an Australia where these abuses were not yet fully ... Read more

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  • Telling the Truth About Aboriginal History

    by Bain Attwood ...
    'Lucid, restrained, persuasive. If there is such a thing as the history wars, then Bain Attwood has struck a major blow for the peace process. Telling the Truth About Aboriginal History is unflinchingly fair, scholarly, and refreshingly accessible.'Hugh Mackay, social researcher and author'Genuinely good Australian history is under serious attack and Attwood's book is a brilliant battlefield ... Read more

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  • The Art of Time Travel

    Historians and Their Craft

    by Tom Griffiths ...
    No matter how practised we are at history, it always humbles us. No matter how often we visit the past, it always surprises us.Winner of the Ernest Scott Prize and Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-fiction'A rare feat of imagination and generosity' —Mark McKennaWith every sentence they write, historians must walk the tightrope between discipline and imagination, empathy and ... Read more

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  • A History of Australian Schooling

    by Craig Campbell, Helen Proctor ...
    At a time when schooling is more important than ever for families, and where there is great public concern about educational standards and outcomes, Craig Campbell and Helen Proctor show what is new and what is an echo of older agendas. They offer a comprehensive history of Australian schooling from colonial days to the present, highlighting the ways in which schooling has helped shape society ... Read more

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  • Telling Tennant's Story

    The Strange Career of the Great Australian Silence

    by Dean Ashenden ...
    Winner of the 2022 Australian Political Book of the Year Award 'A drily elegant, bracing work from a pained and open heart' —Helen Garner 'Refreshing and original. A unique window on Australia's past and its barbed resonance today … Essential reading for anyone interested in the challenge of truth-telling.' —Mark McKenna 'A graceful, unostentatiously scholarly, wise (and highly readable) book on a ... Read more

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  • Understanding Social Work

    by John Pierson ...
    This essential book covers the history and evolution behind social work, helping students new to social work understand how the field has been shaped. ... Read more

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  • Lowitja

    The authorised biography of Lowitja O'Donoghue

    by Stuart Rintoul ...
    'This profoundly moving story is beautifully told by Rintoul without sentimentality . . . [but] with sympathy, truthfulness and restraint. In Rintoul, Lowitja O'Donoghue has found the biographer she (and we) deserve.' - Robert Manne, Sydney Morning HeraldI am sometimes identified as one of the 'success stories' of the policies of removal of Aboriginal children. But for much of my childhood I was ... Read more

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  • Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940

    The Politics of Method

    by Mike Savage ...
    Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940 examines how, between 1940 and 1970 British society was marked by the imprint of the academic social sciences in profound ways which have an enduring legacy on how we see ourselves. It focuses on how interview methods and sample surveys eclipsed literature and the community study as a means of understanding ordinary life. The book shows that these ... Read more

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