Publicado por Melbourne University Publishing, 2004
ISBN 10: 0522850871 ISBN 13: 9780522850871
Librería: Cathy's Half Price Books, Havertown, PA, Estados Unidos de America
paperback. Condición: Good. Shows some light wear from age and use. Interior is good with sound binding and no marks, damage or labels. We Ship Daily! Satisfaction Guaranteed!.
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Publicado por Hyland House Publishing Pty Ltd, 1991
ISBN 10: 0947062750 ISBN 13: 9780947062750
Librería: E. Manning Books, Robertsdale, AL, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Hyland House Publishing Pty Ltd., Melbourne, Victoria, 1991. Hardcover (16 x 24 cm), 216 pages. ISBN: 0947062750. The book and dust jacket (dj) are in Good condition. Purple boards with white lettering on spine. Bumped and rubbed. Most notable wear is at head and foot of spine, along bottom edges and at corners. Slanted spine. Pastedowns/endpapers foxing. A few internal markings (small ink lines along some parts of text). The dj is bumped/scuffed. Creases along edges with some small closed tears. In this entertaining and provocative book, the authors use newspapers, fiction, drama and film in order to define the Australian sixties. They discover a time when Australia both confidently asserted its place in the world and withdrew even more into insularity and dependence, a time of contradiction and paradox, the confusions of which are presented in striking photographs. Weight: 620g.
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Publicado por Viking Penguin, 1995
ISBN 10: 0140245421 ISBN 13: 9780140245424
Librería: medimops, Berlin, Alemania
Condición: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
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Publicado por MUP, 1987
ISBN 10: 0522843360 ISBN 13: 9780522843361
Librería: E. Manning Books, Robertsdale, AL, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Melbourne University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover (14 x 22 cm), x, 294 pages, b&w photographs, with notes and index. ISBN: 0522843360. The book and dust jacket (dj) are in Very Good condition. Full-bound brown boards with gold lettering along spine. The boards are bumped, lightly rubbed. Rolled, creased at corners and head & foot of spine. Pages tanning, foxing. Lightly soiled top edge. The dj is scuffed/scratched. Rolled, creased at edges. Some light chipping noted along top edge. Foxing evident on reverse side of dj. "The author is critical of CEW Bean and many others, writers of both fiction and non-fiction from World War I to Vietnam, for their building up of the Australian soldier into a mythical figure." Weight (before packaging): 475g.
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Publicado por Scribe Publications, Carlton North, 2019
ISBN 10: 1925849376 ISBN 13: 9781925849370
Librería: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, Estados Unidos de America
Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A vivid, salutary study of Australia's little-known participation in the post-war occupation of Japan.In February 1946, the Australians of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) moved into western Japan to 'demilitarise and democratise' the atom-bombed backwater of Hiroshima Prefecture. For over six years, up to 20,000 Australian servicemen, including their wives and children, participated in an historic experiment in nation-rebuilding dominated by the United States and the occupation's supreme commander, General MacArthur.It was to be a watershed in Australian military history and international relations. BCOF was one of the last collective armed gestures of a moribund empire. The Chifley government wanted to make Australia's independent presence felt in post-war Asia-Pacific affairs, yet the venture heralded the nation's enmeshment in American geopolitics. This was the forerunner of the today's peacekeeping missions and engagements in contentious US-led military occupations.Yet the occupation of Japan was also a compelling human experience. It was a cultural reconnaissance - the first time a large number of Australians were able to explore in depth an Asian society and country. It was an unprecedented domestic encounter between peoples with apparently incompatible traditions and temperaments. Many relished exercising power over a despised former enemy, and basked in the 'atomic sunshine' of American Japan. But numerous Australians developed an intimacy with the old enemy, which put them at odds with the 'Jap' haters back home, and became the trailblazers of a new era of bilateral friendship. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Publicado por Melbourne, Hyland House, 1991., 1991
Librería: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
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viii+216pp. 8vo. Original boards in dustwrapper, b&w illustrations, a near fine copy. First edition. From the collection of Australian art historian Leigh Astbury with his signature.
Publicado por Carlton, Melbourne University Press 1987, 1987
Librería: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
x+294pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper. B+W illustrations. A very good copy.
Publicado por Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1987
ISBN 10: 0522843360 ISBN 13: 9780522843361
Librería: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
Original o primera edición
Hardback. 1st Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Bookplate to Front Pastedown. 294 pages. Part critical survey and part cultural history, traces and examines the celebration of the Australian military experience from the 1890s until the time of publication. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
Publicado por Melbourne Oxford University Press, 1987
Librería: LOTSABOOKS, HAMILTON, Nueva Zelanda
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Fine Hardback. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine Dj. First Edition. looks not to have been used. A review copy.
Publicado por Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1987., 1987
Librería: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
8vo (22x14cm), hardback, x + 294pp + b&w plates. Good condition in good dustwrapper (Light wear, some creasing- especially to head of spine and upper right rear, upper corners lightly bumped, mark along upper rear edge). Bumped, light wear. Presentation copy, signed by author at title page. Pictures available on request.
Publicado por Melbourne, Penguin, 1995., 1995
Librería: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australia
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x+440pp. 8vo. Original wrappesr, a near fine copy. First edition.
Publicado por Melbourne University Press 1992, 1992
Librería: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, Nueva Zelanda
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
Publicado por Melbourne Univ Pr, 1988
ISBN 10: 0522843360 ISBN 13: 9780522843361
Librería: True Oak Books, Highland, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Hardcover. Condición: Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; The book shows average wear. No writing or major blemishes.; - We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.
Publicado por Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2008
ISBN 10: 1921215348 ISBN 13: 9781921215346
Librería: Grandmahawk's Eyrie, Mansfield Center, CT, Estados Unidos de America
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Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good++. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good+. By Photographs Ilustrador. First Edition. HB, brown boards in pictorial DJ, 327pp, b/w plates. Unclipped DJ has minor creasing to edges. Book has mild rubbing to covers, inside is square, clean & tight, with no markings. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Publicado por Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1987
ISBN 10: 0522843360 ISBN 13: 9780522843361
Librería: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED & briefly INSCRIBED by the Australian author in black ink on title page in the year of publication: "To Gay & Peter, with best wishes, Robin. Xmas '87". Illustrated in b&w. Includes notes, plus index. Printed in Australia. Bound in original brown boards with bright gilt lettering to spine, in publisher's unclipped pictorial dustjacket. Very slight handling wear, otherwise a nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. The dustjacket is now protected in a removable clear mylar cover (small chip to upper corner of front cover). x + 294pp. Scarce signed copy. SB-59. Signed by Author(s).
Publicado por Melbourne University Press 1999, 1999
Librería: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, Nueva Zelanda
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Super octavo, softcover (nr FINE); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
Publicado por Melbourne University Press 1st paperback edition, with corrections, 1992. ISBN 0522845010., 1992
Librería: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australia
Card covers 294pp b&w photos. Card covers covered with 'contact', card edges a little worn; a good copy. Winner of the Age Book of the Year Award for 1988. Scholarly survey of the Australian war mythology. Examines the tendency in Australian war writing towards promoting nationalistic sentiment and ideals and perhaps at times even going so far as to manipulate military events/persons for the propagation of political, cultural or philosophical doctrine. Central to the theme is the aggrandizement of the Digger as a national hero.
Publicado por Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1987
Librería: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Pp. x+294, 8 plates, notes, index; demy 8vo; brown boards, spine lettered in gilt, slight bruise at foot of spine; dust wrapper; Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1987. First edition. *'Part critical survey and part cultural history, Big-noting traces and examines the celebration in literature of the Australian military experience from the 1890s to the present day. Gerster reveals that, from at least the time of the Boer War, during which 'Banjo' Paterson used deliberately to distort his dispatches from the front so that the Australian soldiers would get 'fine advertisements' out of them, Australian war writers have acted either overtly or covertly as publicity agents for the 'Digger' as the perceived embodiment of heroic racial characteristics' [wrapper blurb].
Publicado por Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, Victoria, 1999
ISBN 10: 052284863X ISBN 13: 9780522848632
Librería: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Paper Back. Condición: Very Good. The cover is a little worn. The page edges are lightly foxed. 245 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size E: 8"-9" Tall (204-227mm).
Publicado por Melbourne University Press 2004. ISBN 0522850871., 2004
Librería: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australia
Card covers trade paperback size 350pp. A little shelf wear, near fine. This anthology reveals the many ways in which going to war has formed a cultural bridge between Australia and the world. The connection of war to travel is illustrated in the observations of writers as varied as 'Banjo' Paterson, George Johnston, Nancy Wake, John Pilger, Lily Brett and Peter Weir. Selecting writings from combatants abroad as well as the reflections of sightseers who travel to foreign battlefields and war sites, reveal how the experience of war has both broadened and refined Australian views of the world. Covers observations on the Colonial Wars; the First World War; the Second World War; the Asian and Pacific Wars; and Battlefield tourism.
Publicado por MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS FIRST EDITION 1987, 1987
Librería: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
HB BROWN CLOTH FINE PP294 DW FINE 8V0 Sub-titled The eroic Theme in Australian War Writing.
Publicado por ANU Press, 2018
ISBN 10: 1760462543 ISBN 13: 9781760462543
Librería: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, Reino Unido
Condición: New. In.
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Publicado por Scribe Melbourne 2008, 2008
Librería: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Original o primera edición
1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 327pp., b/w plsates, map, notes, index, 'n February 1946, the Australians of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) moved into western Japan to 'demilitarise and democratise' the atom-bombed backwater of Hiroshima Prefecture. For over six years, up to 20,000 Australian servicemen, including their wives and children, participated in an historic experiment in nation-rebuilding dominated by the United States and the occupation's supreme commander, General MacArthur'.
Publicado por Hyland House Melbourne 1991, 1991
Librería: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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1st edition hardback with dust jacket Fine large octavo vii + 216pp., b/w pls., notes, index,
Publicado por Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1987., 1987
Librería: Camberwell Books & Collectibles Pty Ltd, HAWTHORN EAST, VIC, Australia
294 pp including index, b&w plates, fine copy in like, illustrated d/j.
Publicado por Scribe Publications Carlton North 2008. ISBN 9781921215346., 2008
Librería: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australia
Hard cover dust wrapper, 327pp, b&w plates. Light wear to edges, page edges lightly browned; a very good copy. In February 1946, the Australians of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force moved into western Japan to 'demilitarise and democratise' the atom-bombed backwater of Hiroshima Prefecture. For over six years, up to 20,000 Australian servicemen, including their wives and children, participated in a historic experiment in nation-rebuilding dominated by the United States and the occupation's supreme commander, General MacArthur. It was to be a watershed in Australian military history and international relations. The Chifley government wanted to make Australia's independent presence felt in post-war Asia-Pacific affairs, yet the venture heralded the nation's enmeshment in American geopolitics. This was the forerunner of today's peacekeeping missions and engagements in contentious US-led military occupations. The occupation of Japan was also a compelling human experience. It was a cultural reconnaissance - the first time a large number of Australians were able to explore in depth an Asian society and country.
Publicado por Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1992
Librería: Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australia
Condición: Near Fine. Glossy card cover, 294 pages.
Publicado por Scribe Melbourne 2008, 2008
Librería: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Original o primera edición
1st edition dust jacket As New octavo 327pp., b/w plsates, map, notes, index, 'n February 1946, the Australians of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) moved into western Japan to 'demilitarise and democratise' the atom-bombed backwater of Hiroshima Prefecture. For over six years, up to 20,000 Australian servicemen, including their wives and children, participated in an historic experiment in nation-rebuilding dominated by the United States and the occupation's supreme commander, General MacArthur'.
Publicado por Melbourne U. P. Melbourne 2004, 2004
Librería: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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1st edition stiff wrappers As New octavo xii + 350pp., sources, Interesting selection of Australian Soldier's impressions of the lands & inhabitants to which they were sent to fight from the Sudan & South Africa to East Timor & Afghanistan.
Publicado por Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009
ISBN 10: 1443803391 ISBN 13: 9781443803397
Librería: Basi6 International, Irving, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Brand New. New. US edition. Expediting shipping for all USA and Europe orders excluding PO Box. Excellent Customer Service.