Zbirka: Avstralazijska in pacifiška zgodovina
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naval battles for Guadalcanal 1942(2013) STILLE, MARK (AUTHOR)A highly illustrated account of the series of naval battles around the embattled island of Guadalcanal in late 1942.Vezava: Mehka22,22 € -
Horror In The East(2011) REES, LAURENCEThe brutal Japanese treatment of allied prisoners of war, as well as countless thousands of Chinese civilians, during World War 2 has been well documented.Vezava: Mehka15,27 € -
Sea Harrier Over The Falklands(2007) WARD, COMMANDER SHARKEYThe controversial account of what really happened in the south Atlantic skiesVezava: Mehka18,05 € -
Fatal Shore(2003) HUGHES, ROBERTAn epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag and was the origin of Australia.Vezava: Mehka20,83 € -
Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia(2008) KAEPPLER, ADRIENNE L. (, CURATOR OF OCEANIC ETHNOLOGY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE, WASHINGTON D.C.)Including both traditional and contemporary arts, this book introduces the rich artistic traditions of the Pacific island chains of Polynesia and Micronesia, traditions that have had a considerable impact on western art in the twentieth century through thVezava: Mehka32,64 € -
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Battle for the Falklands(2022) HASTINGS, MAX,JENKINS, SIMONThe Battle for the Falklands is a vivid chronicle of the political decision-making and military strategy during the Falklands conflict.Vezava: Mehka26,39 € -
War Beat, Pacific(2021) CASEY, STEVEN (PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL HISTORY, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS)The War Beat, Pacific is the first book to use a wealth of previously untapped documents to provide a comprehensive account of the reporting of the war against Japan from Pearl Harbor and Bataan, through Midway and Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Saipan, Leyte anVezava: Trda59,70 € -
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Replenishing the Earth(2011) BELICH, JAMES (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, STOUT RESEARCH CENTRE, VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON)Pioneering study of the anglophone 'settler boom' in North America, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand between the early 19th and early 20th centuries, looking at what made it the most successful of all such settler revolutions, and how thisVezava: Mehka38,57 € -
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Separate Authority (He Mana Motuhake), Volume I(2020) WEBSTER, STEVENThis book is an ethnohistorical reconstruction of the establishment in New Zealand of a rare case of Maori home-rule over their traditional domain, backed by a special statute and investigated by a Crown commission the majority of whom were Tuhoe leaders.Vezava: Trda127,56 € -
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Hell in the Central Pacific 1944(2020) DIAMOND, JONCovers an early little known but hard fought Pacific War campaign. Classic amphibious operation.Vezava: Mehka23,61 € -
James Cook(2020) FITZSIMONS, PETERBestselling Australian author Peter FitzSimons reveals the real James Cook in this new biography.Vezava: Mehka27,79 € -
Catalpa Rescue(2019) FITZSIMONS, PETERThe Catalpa Rescue is the gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison break in Australian history by the much-loved Peter FitzSimons.Vezava: Mehka27,78 € -
Horsekeeper’s Daughter(2018) LOWES, JANE GULLIFORDA small girl’s fascination with a battered old box of letters and photographs from a pioneer family in Queensland leads to the discovery of a tale of industrial unrest in the mining communities of County Durham in the 1880s.Vezava: Mehka12,50 € -
Governing Natives(2018) SILVERSTEIN, BEN (POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW, SCHOOL OF HISTORY, AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY)This book examines both the turn to indirect rule as a way of mediating and resolving some of the contradictions that had tended to crisis, and the way both indirect rule and settler colonialism were transformed by this new political dispensation. -- .Vezava: Trda108,77 €
