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Title: Red Coat Dreaming : How Colonial Australia Embraced The British Army
Author: Craig Wilcox
Binding: HB
ISBN: 9780521193603
RRP: $39.95
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From the first British settlement to the First World War, some Australians were indifferent to the military force that fomented the Rum Rebellion and shot gold miners at Eureka. But many were proud of the British army's achievements on faraway battlefields. Red Coat Dreaming challenges our understanding of Australia's military history and the dominance of the Anzac legend, leaving readers thinking differently about Australia's identity and experience of war.
Title: Secret History Of Georgian London, The : How The Wages Of Sin Shaped The Capital
Author: Dan Cruickshank
Binding: HB
ISBN: 9781847945372
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Georgian London may evoke elegant images, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, where many tens of thousands of people were dependent in some way or other on this underground trade. Taking an ambitious, wide-ranging approach, Dan Cruickshank looks at the way in which the sex trade shaped Georgian London, from fashion to architecture, the arts, and business.
Title: Terra : Tales Of The Earth
Author: Richard Hamblyn
Binding: HB
ISBN: 9780330490733
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Each of the four true stories Richard Hamblyn tells us bear historical witness to the earth's unimaginable force, and each would be a turning point in the history of science. Presented in the form of personal accounts, he writes of the Lisbon earthquake of 1755; the weather-panics of the summer of 1783; the eruption of Krakatau in 1883; and the Hilo tsunami of 1946. Arranged under the headings of the four elements, Earth, Air, Fire and Water, Terra shows how the earth's deep unity has been revealed in moments of extremis.