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Stasiland

Stasiland (Paperback)

By Funder, Anna

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A book of travel, history and biography that reads like a documentary novel. Anna Funder tells astonishing stories from the underbelly of the former East Germany. As her narrative builds, Stasiland records heartbreaking tales of bravery and betrayal, of suffering and stoicism ami ...

ISBN 9781877008917
Published 5 December 2003 by Text Publishing Co
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Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States
   

Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States (Hardback)

By Fischer, David Hackett

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From one of America's preeminent historians comes a magisterial study of the development of open societies focusing on the United States and New Zealand

ISBN 9780199832705
Published 18 May 2012 by Oxford University Press
Interest Age Young Adults
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Shooting Balibo: Blood and Memory in East Timor
 

Shooting Balibo: Blood and Memory in East Timor (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Maniaty, Tony

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Maniaty returns to Timor for the first time after fleeing for his life 30 years before. He's there to watch five young actors play out the last days of five friends of his - men who were murdered by the Indonesian army in one of the most infamous incidents (and cover-ups) in Aust ...

ISBN 9780670073580
Published 1 June 2009 by Penguin
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Out of Empire
 

Out of Empire (Paperback, Open market ed)

By Paxman, Jeremy

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The British empire is long gone. Conventional wisdom has decreed it was A Bad Thing and that there's no more to be said. Darkest night has fallen over the empire on which the sun never set. Or so we like to think. In Out of Empire, Jeremy Paxman examines this belief and finds it ...

ISBN 9780670919581
Published 28 November 2011 by Penguin
Interest Age Young Adults
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Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan

Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Akbar, M. J.

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Indians and Pakistanis are the same people: why then have their nations moved on such different trajectories since freedom in 1947? The idea of India is stronger than the Indian, and the idea of Pakistan has proved weaker than the Pakistani. Pakistan was not born across a breakfa ...

ISBN 9780732294687
Published 18 December 2011 by HarperCollins
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Evangelists of Empire?: Missionaries in Colonial History
 

Evangelists of Empire?: Missionaries in Colonial History (Paperback, New edition)

Interviewer Barry, Amanda; Cruickshank, Joanna; Brown-May, Andrew; Grimshaw, Patricia

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Utilising a range of source material and a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, this collection offers new ways of assessing the uneven paths of mission endeavours, and examines the way in which Indigenous peoples responded to - and took ownership of - aspects of ...

ISBN 9780980759402
Published 1 January 2010 by University of Melbourne
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The Treaty of Waitangi: How New Zealand Became a British Colony
 

The Treaty of Waitangi: How New Zealand Became a British Colony (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Buick, T. Lindsay

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This 1914 work, reissued in its second edition (1933), examines how New Zealand joined the British Empire in 1840.

ISBN 9781108039963
Published 1 January 2012 by Cambridge University Press
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Series Cambridge Library Collection - History
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The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers

The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Weiss, Gordon

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'The Cage' is a brilliant yet harrowing account of Sri Lanka's fall into darkness. From one of the most promising nation states of the post-colonial world, Sri Lanka descended into bitter civil conflict between a vicious and corrupt government and the equally barbaric Tamil Tiger ...

ISBN 9781405040303
Published 1 June 2011 by Pan Macmillan
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Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
 

Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Hardback)

Illustrated by Streich, Michel

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On 13 September 2007 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Its purpose is to set an important standard for the treatment of indigenous peoples and to act as a significant tool in eliminating human rights violations ...

ISBN 9781741758450
Published 1 September 2009 by Allen & Unwin
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Batavia
 

Batavia (Hardback)

By FitzSimons, Peter

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It is no surprise that the barbarity and evil that came in the wake of the wreck of the Batavia has inspired books, radio and TV documentarys, plays and an opera. Lust, jealously, greed, madness, deception, rape, murder - all the classic ingredients conspire in the Batavia story ...

ISBN 9781864710403
Published 15 April 2011 by Random House
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