(Part 2) Best australia & oceania history books according to redditors
We found 219 Reddit comments discussing the best australia & oceania history books. We ranked the 96 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
It's an interesting question. It reminded me of a book I bought at a Maritime Museum in Bath, Maine (USA).
https://www.amazon.com/Shipyard-Maine-Percy-Small-Schooners/dp/0884482731/
I think the bookstores of Maritime Museums are a really good place to start. I found this after looking at the Bath Museum's store page:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CNQ2W5A/
But there a ton of maritime museums out there. I have visited a bunch. Almost all had history books focused on local maritime subjects.
I think it's more of a tightrope walk. The following book from the Labor ex-Finance minister is a good read. You can agree or disagree about some of his views but there's a lot of truth in it: http://www.amazon.com.au/Sideshow-dumbing-democracy-Lindsay-Tanner-ebook/dp/B005Z6YHKS/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416463050&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=Lindsey+tanner+sideshow
takes out magical CSI zoomy thingy
https://smile.amazon.com/Zealand-Twentieth-Century-Paul-Moon-ebook/dp/B00ALM8N6A
here's the art on the cover btw: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/cass-rita-angus
Watkin Tench's 1788
Talofa lava!
In terms of books that might give an earlier insight into Samoan culture (as it were observed by a German) this volume (there are a pair I think) is a good encyclopedic resource of sorts. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B001M29JX4/ref=mp_s_a_1_7?qid=1463652911&sr=8-7&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=kramer+history+of+samoa&dpPl=1&dpID=517TDOxllbL&ref=plSrch
I just finished Peter Fitzsimmons Batavia and I enjoyed it.
I haven't received it in the mail yet: https://www.amazon.com/Ka-Ngaro-Te-Reo-Language/dp/1927322413
Wanted to buy the other one, but it's $30 for 90 pages...
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OK, I'm not a qualified genealogist or an anthropologist, so I don't really feel comfortable getting into a serious academic debate about this, and I'm willing to concede that you might know more about this topic than I do, but I went and dug up that book anyway and had a look at the first few chapters that discuss the migration out of Asia.
I'll quote you a part of the relevant passage of the book (which, incidentally, I very much recommend if you're interested in this topic), which concludes the part where the authors discuss the evidence for different theories about where the Lapita and later Polynesian peoples originally came from:
>It is difficult to predict how the complex debate about human migration and language dispersal will conclude, but imagining that a largely Taiwanese population emarked on a long journey toward destinations that could not have been known is manifestly teleological. No such linear, Taiwanese, migration into the Pacific is apparent, and even genetic markers thought to have close associations with Austronesian language dispersal are proportionately more common in western than eastern islands of Southeast Asia. Neolithic populations with agricultural economies lived in island Southeast Asia long before southward movement from Taiwan. They came from multiple mainland sources, and were continually mobile in any direction, depending on local opportunity.
>Rather than thinking of Polynesian origins in Taiwan, it is more realistic to regard them as the result of a conjunction of Asian and Pacific genetic contributions, material culture assemblages, and economic commodities and strategies that coalesced in or around the Bismark Islands about 3,500 years ago.
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These books are the very definition of "Don't try this at home". most project in these books can get you imprisoned for a long long time.
They're best kept locked up until your country is invaded and you need to fight a delaying / guerrilla action until your armed forces arrive.
Anarchists Cookbook
The Poor Man's James Bond Vol 1
Vol 2
Volume 3
> If you ever get a chance to look at the book "Buevers du Kava" (drinkers of kava) definitely flip through it (even if you don't read French
It's a bit pricey for a book I can't read so I'm really hoping they put out an English version at some point.
If you enjoyed it, may I recommend Jared Diamond's The World Before Yesterday. He's an author and anthropologist who spent time with many aboriginal people (in particular in Papua New Guinea). Note, it's not exactly a breezy reading; it can feel like a college textbook sometimes.
I think the video was interesting, and I thought many of their insights were spot-on. It was a good reminder that people who are from primitive cultures are not necessarily culturally or intellectually inferior. However, it's tempting to swing the other way and fall into the believe of the "noble savage." That's where I thought Diamond's book was so fascinating. Things that we do that horrify them (Diamond's book talks about how the West treats our elderly), there are things that other cultures do that would horrify us (he gives an example of how one tribe views self-reliance and children that was plain scary).
All from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Bougainville-before-conflict-Anthony-Regan/dp/1921934239
https://www.amazon.com/Light-Intervention-Lessons-Bougainville-Perspectives/dp/1601270615
https://www.amazon.com/Soldiers-Diary-Bougainville-Crisis-Part/dp/1475254687
https://www.amazon.com/Sandline-affair-Politics-Mercenaries-Bougainville/dp/0733307019
https://www.amazon.com.au/Unorthodox-Soldier-Peace-Sandline-Affair/dp/184018180X
And unrelated to Bougainville, but a dramatized movies about Sandline’s involvement in a failed coup in Equatorial Guinea is Coup!
reminds me of this one NZ Historical Atlas. Another one to add to the list
This one might fit the bill? https://www.amazon.com/dp/1869530314/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_IpYKybW342Z09
I recently read the book Tall Man. The books talk a lot about the treatment of Aborgines by the Australian government. It makes the treatment of American Indians in the US seem downright hospitable.
It's still pretty damning, the fight was over and yet Stokes still punched the guy.
That's the only thing I like about Trump - he's look after Veterans. For a more local view, check out the book ANZAC's Long Shadow