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The vast range of characters who have formed Australia's national story are brought to life by Booker Prize-winner Thomas Keneally, an author of literary skill and experience whose own humanity permeates every page.
V.1 The outstanding first volume of acclaimed author Thomas Keneally's major new three-volume history of Australia brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed Australia's national story: Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and soldiers, patriots and reformers, bush…
A history of Australia focuses on the people who formed the country, including convicts, Aborigines, gold seekers, settlers, soldiers, and reformers.
This was the first study to put 19th century American naval and diplomatic affairs in the Far East into clear perspective. Johnson examines the origins of the East India Squadron, defines its import role in the implementation of foreign policy and describes the dangers routinely…
This anthology explores the role that art and material goods played in diplomatic relations and political exchanges between Asia, Africa, and Europe in the early modern world. The authors challenge the idea that there was a European primacy in the practice of gift giving through…
Global gifts and the material culture of diplomacy in early modern Eurasia / Zoltán Biedermann, Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello -- Portraits, turbans and cuirasses : material exchange between Mantua and the Ottomans at the end of the fifteenth century / Antonia Gatward Cevizli…
Global Gifts considers the role that the circulation of material culture played in the establishment of early modern global diplomacy.