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Found 4 from your keywords: subject="pacific history"
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Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania
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Howes, HilaryJones, TristenSpriggs, Matthew

Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories of exchange, acquisition, display and interpretation. This book is a collection of essays highlighting some of the collections, and their object biographies, that were displayed in the Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (UPP) exhibition. The exhibition, which opened on 1 March 2020,…

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Ed. 1
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9781760464875, 9781760464868
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614
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930.1 UNC u
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A New Rival State?
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Massov, AlexanderPollard, MarinaWindle, Kevin

"A New Rival State? is a unique collection of dispatches written in 1857–1917 by the Russian consuls in Melbourne to the Imperial Russian Embassy in London and the Russian Foreign Ministry in St Petersburg. Written by eight consuls, they offer a Russian view of the development of the settler colonies in the late nineteenth century and the first years of the federated Commonwealth of Australia…

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9781760462291
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Power and Dysfunction: The New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborig…
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Egan, Richard

In 1883, the New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines was tasked with assisting and supporting an Aboriginal population that had been devastated by a brutal dispossession. It began its tenure with little government direction – its initial approach was cautious and reactionary. However, by the turn of the century this Board, driven by some forceful individuals, was squarely focus…

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9781760464738
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Bougainville before the conflict
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ANTHONY, J ReganHEIGA, M Griffin

One of the most beautiful island groups of the Pacific, Bougainville has a remarkable history. Tragically, it is as the site of devastating civil conflict that Bougainville is perhaps best known. In exploring the rich environmental, cultural and social heritage of Bougainville before the conflict, this collection provides an insight into the long-term causes of the crisis. In doing so, it surve…

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9781921934230
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