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Australia's Asia: From Yellow Peril to Asian Century by David Walker
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
To imagine that we confront Asia for the first time in the twenty-first century is to deny our history and the self-awareness that comes from understanding that we have been here before. Asia appears throughout modern Australian history as a source of anxiety or hope. Generic Asia has been imagined, vis ...Show more
Happy Together: Bridging the Australia-China Divide by David Walker, Li Yao, Karen Walker
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A fresh perspective on the Australia-China relationship told through the lens of memoir, culture and friendshipIn the late nineteenth century, as crippling famine devastated northern China, the Li family had no choice but to leave Shanxi province. Heading north, they began a new life, farming the remote ...Show more
Not Dark Yet by David Walker
$32.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Spurred on by his encroaching blindness, prominent historian David Walker's Not Dark Yet is a frank, witty and innovative memoir that connects the small, seemingly inconsequential events of daily life to larger historical themes of family, war, patriotism, racial identity, religious belief, knowledge of ...Show more
Stranded Nation - White Australia in an Asian Region by David Walker
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
For well over a century Australias place in Asia has been at the forefront of public discussion and controversy. Stranded Nation is a searching examination of how a white nation, harbouring deep anxieties about rising Asia, sought to convince both itself and its neighbours that it belonged within the As ...Show more
The Story of Australia by Louise C. Johnson; Tanja Luckins; David Walker
$55.99 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction
The Story of Australia provides a fresh, engaging and comprehensive introduction to Australia's history and geography. An island continent with distinct physical features, Australia is home to the most enduring Indigenous cultures on the planet. In the late eighteenth century newcomers from distant worl ...Show more
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