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This is a story of a girl's construction of her identity, and of her family’s search for a place in the world, for the Heimat that is so resonant for those of German background. We follow Helga through an adventurous childhood in Iran, whose vast open spaces her mother called 'my spiritual home’. Her engineer father worked on a grand scale, designing and laying roads and railways, and tunnelling through mountain ranges. Then came the invasions of World War II, and the family, half-German, half-Austrian, found themselves on a long voyage to Australia, designated enemy aliens. They were interned for nearly five years in the dusty Victorian countryside. On their release at the end of the War, stranded in Melbourne, they sought another home. The children were dispatched to convents, and at the Academy of Mary Immaculate, Helga found a temporary homeland, in faith. Everyday life in the Australia of the late 1940s and early 1950s is freshly seen by this feisty, loving migrant family. Through their eyes, we encounter a strange place, Australia, as if for the first time. Helga’s development from a thoughtful, sensitive child to a self-possessed young woman, wrestling with her faith and with how to live a decent life, is vividly recounted.
Biography & True Stories --- Memoirs --- Australasian & Pacific history --- Internment --- World War II --- Persia --- Germany --- Exile --- Griffin, Helga-Maria, --- Prisoners of war
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This is the eighth volume in the Comparative Austronesian series. The papers in this volume examine metaphors of path and journey among specific Austronesian societies located on islands from Taiwan to Timor and from Madagascar to Micronesia. These diverse local expressions define common cultural conceptions found throughout the Austronesian-speaking world.
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This is the eighth volume in the Comparative Austronesian series. The papers in this volume examine metaphors of path and journey among specific Austronesian societies located on islands from Taiwan to Timor and from Madagascar to Micronesia. These diverse local expressions define common cultural conceptions found throughout the Austronesian-speaking world.
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This study addresses the neglected history of the people of the Federated States of Micronesia's (FSM) engagement with the outside world.
Australasian & Pacific history --- Cultural studies --- Ethnic studies --- Micronesia (Federated States) --- Foreign relations. --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Pacific --- Micronesia --- Melanesia --- FSM --- Indigenous
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This study addresses the neglected history of the people of the Federated States of Micronesia's (FSM) engagement with the outside world.
Australasian & Pacific history --- Cultural studies --- Ethnic studies --- Pacific --- Micronesia --- Melanesia --- FSM --- Indigenous --- Micronesia (Federated States) --- Foreign relations. --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions.
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When James Boswell famously lamented the irrationality of war in 1777, he noted the universality of conflict across history and across space - even reaching what he described as the gentle and benign southern ocean nations.
Australasian & Pacific history --- Archaeology --- Palau --- Guam --- Australia --- Vanuatu --- Tonga --- Marquesas --- Easter Island --- New Zealand --- defensive earthworks --- fortifications --- colonial-era conflict --- frontier battles --- human warfare --- Archaeology and history. --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Oceania --- History.
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More than just telling a story, Munro places the Ryan-Clark controversy within the context of Australia's History Wars. This book is an illuminating saga of that ongoing contest.
Australasian & Pacific history --- 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 --- Clark, C. M. H. --- Ryan, Peter, --- Friends and associates. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- History Wars --- Culture Wars --- Academic controversies --- Manning Clark --- Australian history
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More than just telling a story, Munro places the Ryan-Clark controversy within the context of Australia's History Wars. This book is an illuminating saga of that ongoing contest.
Australasian & Pacific history --- 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 --- History Wars --- Culture Wars --- Academic controversies --- Manning Clark --- Australian history --- Clark, C. M. H. --- Ryan, Peter, --- Friends and associates. --- Criticism and interpretation.
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As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on four dimensions of inequality: the familiar triad of gender, race and class, and the often-neglected dimension of generation. Grounded in meticulous long-term ethnographic enquiry and deep awareness of the historical contingency of these configurations of inequality, this volume illustrates the multidimensional, multiscale and epistemic nature of contemporary inequality. This collection is a major contribution to academic and political debates about the perverse effects of inequality, which now ranks among the greatest challenges of our time. The inspiration for this volume derives from the breadth and depth of Martha Macintyre's remarkable scholarship. The contributors celebrate Macintyre’s groundbreaking work, which exemplifies the explanatory power, ethical force and pragmatism that ensures the relevance of anthropological research to the lives of others and to understanding the global condition.
Australasian & Pacific history --- Social issues & processes --- Ethical issues & debates --- Social groups --- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography --- Inequality --- Martha Macintyre --- Melanesia --- Gender --- Race --- Class --- Western Pacific --- Macintyre, Martha, --- 2000-2099 --- Pacific Area --- Social conditions --- Social life and customs. --- Asia-Pacific Region --- Asian-Pacific Region --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Pacific Ocean Region --- Pacific Region --- Pacific Rim
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Refugee Journeys presents stories of how governments, the public and the media have responded to the arrival of people seeking asylum, and how these responses have impacted refugees and their lives. Mostly covering the period from 1970 to the present, the chapters provide readers with an understanding of the political, social and historical contexts that have brought us to the current day. This engaging collection of essays also considers possible ways to break existing policy deadlocks, encouraging readers to imagine a future where we carry vastly different ideas about refugees, government policies and national identities.
Australasian & Pacific history --- Aid & relief programmes --- Human rights --- refugees --- Australia --- history --- Detention --- Immigration law --- Germany --- Emigration and immigration --- Government policy. --- Alemania --- Ashkenaz --- BRD --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Bundesrepublik Deutschland --- Deguo --- 德国 --- Deutsches Reich --- Deutschland --- Doitsu --- Doitsu Renpō Kyōwakoku --- Federal Republic of Germany --- Federalʹna Respublika Nimechchyny --- FRN --- Gėrman --- German Uls --- Герман Улс --- Germania --- Germanii︠a︡ --- Germanyah --- Gjermani --- Grossdeutsches Reich --- Jirmānīya --- KhBNGU --- Kholboony Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Nimechchyna --- Repoblika Federalin'i Alemana --- República de Alemania --- República Federal de Alemania --- Republika Federal Alemmana --- Vācijā --- Veĭmarskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Weimar Republic --- Weimarer Republik --- ХБНГУ --- Германия --- جرمانيا --- ドイツ --- ドイツ連邦共和国 --- ドイツ レンポウ キョウワコク --- Germany (East) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : British Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : French Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : Russian Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) --- Germany (West) --- Holy Roman Empire --- Refugees --- Political refugees --- Government policy
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