NSW Premier's History Awards shortlist 2019

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Message in a Sock

Joy Baillie

Based on a true exchange between Lance Corporal A. McDougall and a young girl, Message in a Sock is a gorgeous collage-style tale which pays respect to the ANZACs and…

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Hunter Wine: A History

Julie McIntyre,John Germov

Australian winegrowing is as old as European Australia. While the Hunter Valley is not the ideal place to grow grapes climatically, it’s the only Australian wine region planted in the…

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Callan Park: Hospital for the Insane

Sarah Luke

Tales of Victorian-era madness have imbued twenty-first century minds with images of inconvenient husbands and wives, locked up in attics or diseased madhouses in the English countryside, without hope of…

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The Big Four

Ian D. Gow,Stuart Kells

With staffs that are collectively larger than the Russian army, the big four accounting firms are a keystone in global finance and corporate governance–but do they really provide stability and…

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Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission

Laura Rademaker

Offers a rich account of language and shifting cross-cultural relations on a Christian mission in northern Australia during the mid-twentieth century. This book explores how translation shaped interactions between missionaries…

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Critical Perspectives on Empire

Ann Curthoys ,Jessie Mitchell

At last a history of how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy. Set within the broader context of colonial politics, it shows how Britain’s…

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Progressive New World

Marilyn Lake

In a bold argument, Marilyn Lake shows that race and reform were mutually supportive as Progressivism became the political logic of settler colonialism at the turn of the 20th century…

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I Am Sasha

Anita Selzer

A remarkable mother takes an ingenious step. To avoid suspicion, she trains her teenage son to be a girl – his clothing, voice, hair, manners and more. Together, mother and…

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The Upside-down History of Down Under

Alison Lloyd

Footnotes are printed ‘upside-down’ at bottom of page.

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The Bible in Australia: A cultural history

Meredith Lake

Tells the revelatory story of the Bible in Australia, from the convict era to the Mabo land rights campaign, Nick Cave, the Bra Boys and beyond. At a time when…

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Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia

Christina Thompson

A masterful mix of history, geography, anthropology, and the science of navigation, Sea People combines the thrill of exploration with the drama of discovery in a vivid tour of one…

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