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Population Mobility and Indigenous Peoples in Australasia and North America
by Martin Bell, John Taylor. 279 pgs.

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Focusing on the four 'New World' countries - Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA - this work explores key themes and issues in indigenous mobility.

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Acknowledgements

1: Introduction

References

Part I: International Perspectives

2: Continuity and Change in Indigenous Australian Population Mobility

References

3: Flirting with Zelinsky in Aotearoa/New Zealand

4: Migration and Spatial Distribution of American Indians in the Twentieth Century

5: Government Policy and the Spatial Redistribution of Canada's Aboriginal Peoples

References

Part II: Data Issues and Analysis

6: Data Sources and Issues for the Analysis of Indigenous Peoples' Mobility

Notes

7: Registered Indian Mobility and Migration in Canada

Notes

References

Part III: Local Contingency

8: The Politics of Māori Mobility

Notes

9: American Indians and Geographic Mobility

Notes

10: The Formation of Contemporary Aboriginal Settlement Patterns in Australia

11: Myth of the "Walkabout"

12: The Social Underpinnings of an "Outstation Movement" in Cape York Peninsula, Australia

13: Conclusion

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A History of the Churches in Australasia
by Ian Breward. 474 pgs.

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A History of the Churches in Australasia

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

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1: From Missions to Churches

2: Organizing Christian Churches from the 1830s to the 1870s

3: The Making of Christian Societies

4: New Opportunities for Mission and Service

5: Wars and Depression

6: Creating New Societies

7: Searching for Credibility

Conclusion

Bibliography

Glossary

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Environment, Education, and Society in the Asia-Pacific: Local Traditions and Global Discourses
by John Fien, Helen Sykes, David Yencken. 341 pgs.

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This volume explores the influences of global environmental discourses, and local traditions and practices in the Asia-Pacific region. It addresses environmental attitudes and has important implications for policy-makers & educationalists.

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Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1: Attitudes to Nature in the East and West

2: The Research

3: Environmental Attitudes and Education in Southern China

4: Oya-Shima-Kuni: Japan

5: Living Traditions: India

6: Unity and Diversity: South East Asia

7: Songlines and the Gondwanan Inheritance

8: Voices from the South West Pacific

9: Young People and the Environment

10: Young People and the Environment

11: Listening to the Voice of Youth

Appendix A

Appendix B

Bibliography

Index
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Land Systems of Australasia
by William Epps. 190 pgs.

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Preface.

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Chapter I: Introduction.

Chapter II: New South Wales. -- Early Systems.

Chapter III: New South Wales.-- Under Responsible Government

Chapter IV: Tasmania.

Chapter V. Victoria.

Chapter Vi. .: Queensland

Chapter VII: Western Australia.

Chapter VIII: South Australia.

Chapter IX: New Zealand.

Chapter X. .: Conclusion

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Human Australasia: Studies of Society and of Education in Australia and New Zealand
by Charles Franklin Thwing. 274 pgs.

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Human Australasia

Ii The White Australasia

Iii Industrial Experimentation and Unrest

Iv The Higher, and Other, Education

V Religion

Vi Poetry and Other Literature

Vii The Newspaper

Viii Gambling

Ix Standards

X Fascinations and Satisfactions

Xi The Human Product

Xii Contributions to Be Expected to the World's Civilization

Xiii Conclusion

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Governmental Methods of Adjusting Labor Disputes in North America and Australasia
by Ting Tsz Ko. 224 pgs.

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Chapter I: Introduction

Chapter II: Methods of Adjusting Labor Disputes in The Different States of the United States

Chapter III: Methods of Adjusting Railroad Labor Disputes In the United States

Chapter IV: Compulsory Investigation in Canada

Chapter V: Compulsory Arbitration in New Zealand

Chapter VI: Compulsory Arbitration in Australia

Chapter VII: Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Vita
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Employment Relations in the Asia Pacific: Changing Approaches
by Greg J. Bamber, Kaye Broadbent, Changwon Lee, Funkoo Park, Peter K. Ross. 258 pgs.

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"A companion volume to the hugely successful International and Comparative Employment Relations, this collection sets out to describe changing approaches to ER in the Asia-Pacific region."

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Foreword

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Abbreviations

Contributors

Preface

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Part I: Introduction

1: Industrialisation, Democratisation and Employment Relations in the Asia-Pacific

Part II: National Perspectives

2: Changing Approaches to Employment Relations in Australia

3: Changing Approaches to Employment Relations in New Zealand

4: Changing Approaches to Employment Relations in Japan

5: Changing Approaches to Employment Relations in South Korea

6: Changing Approaches to Employment Relations in Taiwan

7: Changing Approaches to Employment Relations in the People's Republic of China (prc)

8: Changing Approaches to Employment Relations in Indonesia

Part III: Perspectives on Unions

9: Challenges Facing Unions in South Korea

10: Challenges Facing Unions in Australia

Part IV: Perspectives on Companies

11: Employment Relations at a Large South Korean Firm: the Lg Group

12: Employment Relations at a Taiwanese Semiconductor Firm: Tsmc

Part V: An International Institutional

13: The Apec Forum: Human Resources Development and Employment Relations Issues

Notes

References

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Economic Growth and Convergence across the Seven Colonies of Australasia: 1861-1991, in Economic Record
by Paul Cashin. 12 pgs.

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Rediscovering the British World (Chap. 2 "The Rise of the Angloworld: Settlement in North America and Australasia, 1784-1918")
by Phillip Buckner, R. Douglas Francis. 451 pgs.

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Introduction

1: What Did a British World Mean to the British? Reflections on the Nineteenth Century

2: The Rise of the Angloworld

3: Indigenous Peoples and Imperial Networks in the Early Nineteenth Century

4: Loyalty and Rebellion in Colonial Politics

5: From Victorian Values to White Virtues

6: Colonial Comparisons

7: Interlocuting Empire: Colonial Womanhood, Settler Identity, and Frances Herring

8: The Long Goodbye

9: Fabian Socialism and British Australia, 1890-1972

10: War and the British World in the Twentieth Century

11: The Other Battle

12: Empire and Everyday

13: Britishness, South Africanness and the First World War

14: The Migrant's Empire

15: The Empire Answers

16: Rehabilitating the Indigene

17: Australia's Cold War

18: History Wars and the Imperial Legacy in the Settler Societies

19: Worlds Apart

Notes on Contributors

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