Libros de Historia de los países de Oceanía y polos

Compañeros kiwis es un compendio de las historias extraordinarias protagonizadas por los voluntarios neozelandeses que participaron en la guerra civil española. Este libro es el primer intento de dejar constancia de la contribucion de Nueva Zelanda a una guerra en la que participaron voluntarios de mas de cincuenta paises. Entre estas historias se encuentra la de Doug Jolly (foto de cubierta), un cirujano nacido en la Isla Sur de Nueva Zelanda, que salvo la vida de miles de heridos y fue descrito en aquella epoca como ?el voluntario mas importante de la Commonwealth?. Muy poco se sabia de el hasta que Mark Derby, junto con un grupo de colaboradores, se lanzo a la tarea de recuperar su biografia, asi como las de otros voluntarios de su pais que decidieron tomar parte en un conflicto crucial que se desarrollaba en el otro extremo del mundo.

Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and brought technology, institutions and ideas to make it their own. It relates the advance from penal colony to a prosperous free nation and illustrates how, as a nation created by waves of newcomers, the search for binding traditions was long frustrated by the feeling of rootlessness, until it came to terms with its origins. The third edition of this acclaimed book recounts the key factors - social, economic and political - that have shaped modern-day Australia. It covers the rise and fall of the Howard government, the 2007 election and the apology to the stolen generation. More than ever before, Australians draw on the past to understand their future.

En este segundo libro de la serie "Crónicas de los últimos samurais", se narra la historia de los principales samurais del clan de Chóshü. El autor nos acerca de manera intimista a los ideales y aza

Cuenta la historia fascinante de cómo una colonia británica habitada por convictos y sus carceleros se convirtió en un país próspero, abierto y seguro de sí mismo. A través de los ojos de australian

Part history, part travelogue, part memoir, this book tells the inspiring story of how a one time British colony of convicts turned itself into a prosperous and confident country. This book describes Australia''s journey through the eyes of ordinary people, from the trauma of the WW-I to the decline of the relationship with Britain, and more. Australia celebrates one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the inspiring story of how a one time British colony of convicts turned itself into a prosperous and confident country. Through the eyes of ordinary people, Phillip Knightly describes Australia''s journey, from federation and the trauma of the First World War, the desperate poverty of the Depression, with its attendant spectres of secret armies and near civil way, the threat of invasion in the Second World War and the imagination that followed it, and the slow but steady decline of the relationship with Britain, the ''Mother Country'' as Australia forged its own unique identity.

A groundbreaking history of the marvelously contrary, endlessly energetic early years of the colony of Sydney From the sparkling harbor to the Cumberland Plain, from convicts to the city's political elite, from the impact of its geology to its economy, this groundbreaking history offers an intimate account of the transformation of a campsite in a beautiful cove to the town that later became Australia's largest and best-known city. Skillfully revealing how the landscape shaped the lives of the Aboriginal inhabitants and newcomers alike, this history first traces the ways in which relationships between the colonial authorities and ordinary men and women broke with old patterns, and how settler and Aboriginal histories became entwined. It also uncovers the ties between the burgeoning township and its rural hinterland expanding along the river systems of the Cumberland Plain. Enthusiastically received on first publication, this is a landmark account of the birthplace of modern Australia, and a fascinating and richly textured narrative of people and place.

Asia, the Pacific Islands and the coasts of the Americas have long been studied separately. This essential single-volume history of the Pacific traces the global interactions and remarkable peoples that have connected these regions with each other and with Europe and the Indian Ocean, for millennia. From ancient canoe navigators, monumental civilisations, pirates and seaborne empires, to the rise of nuclear testing and global warming, Matt Matsuda ranges across the frontiers of colonial history, anthropology and Pacific Rim economics and politics, piecing together a history of the region. The book identifies and draws together the defining threads and extraordinary personal narratives which have contributed to this history, showing how localised contacts and contests have often blossomed into global struggles over colonialism, tourism and the rise of Asian economies. Drawing on Asian, Oceanian, European, American, ancient and modern narratives, the author assembles a fascinating Pacific region from a truly global perspective.

Ésta es una descripción amena y erudita de las vicisitudes de los occidentales que por los motivos más dispares irrumpieron en los mares del Sur: descubridores –desde Magallanes hasta el inefable cap

A chronicle of the call to arms and an informed analysis of the Falklands War.