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    John Büsst: Bohemian Artist and Saviour of Reef and Rainforest

    Iain McCalman

    A rich biography of artist-turned-environmental campaigner John Büsst.

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    The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change

    Iain McCalman (Australia National University Australia)

    An excerpt from The Reef originally appeared, in slightly different form, in Scientific American –Title page verso.

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    Delia Akeley and the Monkey

    Iain McCalman

    By telling this story, Iain McCalman illuminates much about human-animal relations and the tyranny of gender inequality. He reinstates a twentieth century story of a dedicated amateur primatologist and her…

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    The Reef: A Passionate History

    Iain McCalman

    Iain McCalman’s brilliant new book is a passionate history of the Great Barrier Reef told in twelve extraordinary tales. Equal parts gifted storyteller and acclaimed historian, McCalman brings to life…

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    The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro

    Iain McCalman

    Giuseppe Balsamo was born in the mid-eighteenth century in the slums of Palermo, Sicily, he would rise from obscurity to become the legendary Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, whose dangerous charm…

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    Darwin’s Armada: How four voyagers to Australasia won the battle for evolution and changed the world

    Iain McCalman

    Portrays the Darwinian revolution as a collective enterprise forged in Australasia. Charles Darwin, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Wallace, did what one alone could not - combed the world…

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    The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro

    Iain McCalman

    Guiseppe Balsamo, the Count of Cagliostro, was an 18th-century Sicilian who became a magician, mystic, healer, Freemason, swindler, and last, but not least, a pornographer. He was so controversial, he…

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    The Last Alchemist: Count Calgliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason

    Iain McCalman (Australian National University, Australia)

    A portrait of the influential freemason leader notes his influence on the works of major eighteenth-century artists and his notoriety in royal circles, citing his alleged theft of Marie Antoinette’s…

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    Historical Reenactment: From Realism to the Affective Turn

    Iain McCalman

    Since the late 1700s new forms of visual entertainment have tried to simulate the details of nature: reenactment has now become the most widely-consumed form of popular history. This book…

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    Historical Reenactment: From Realism to the Affective Turn

    Iain McCalman

    Since the late 1700s new forms of visual entertainment have tried to simulate the details of nature: reenactment has now become the most widely-consumed form of popular history. This book…

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    Darwin’s Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution

    Iain McCalman (University of Sydney)

    Sparkling…an extraordinary true-adventure story, complete with trials, tribulations and moments of exultation. -Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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    Rethinking Invasion Ecologies from the Environmental Humanities

    Research from a humanist perspective has much to offer in interrogating the social and cultural ramifications of invasion ecologies. The impossibility of securing national boundaries against accidental transfer and the…

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    Rethinking Invasion Ecologies from the Environmental Humanities

    Research from a humanist perspective has much to offer in interrogating the social and cultural ramifications of invasion ecologies. The impossibility of securing national boundaries against accidental transfer and the…

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    The Horrors of Slavery: and Other Writings by Robert Wedderburn

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    Robert Wedderburn was one of the first promoters of black power by revolutionary force, if necessary. His publications had an enormous impact in his time. His autobiography is a vital…

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    Between Pride and Despair: Stories of Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics Rainforests

    The latest special issue of Queensland Review reflects on Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics Rainforests, exploring the relationships between these at-risk ecosystems and people and places both nearby…

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    Newgate in Revolution: An Anthology of Radical Prison Literature in the Age of Revolution

    Introduction; 1. Charles Pigott, The Jockey Club; or a Sketch of the Manners of the Age; 2. [James Parkinson], Old Hubert, pseud., An Address to the Hon. Edmund Burke from…

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    Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia

    Throughout history, gold has been the stuff of legends, fortunes, conflict and change. The discovery of gold in Australia 150 years ago precipitated enormous developments in the new colony. This…

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    Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia

    Throughout history, gold has been the stuff of legends, fortunes, conflict and change. The discovery of gold in Australia 150 years ago precipitated enormous developments in the new colony. This…

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    The Enlightenment World

    This collection of essays written by leading international experts offers an informed, comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the European Enlightenment (circa. 1720-1800) as both an historical epoch and a cultural…

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    The Enlightenment World

    This collection begins with the intellectual origins of the Enlightenment, and spans early Enlightenment formations to both contemporary and modern critics of the Enlightenment. Themes include the High Enlightenment, polite…

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    Barnaby Rudge

    Charles Dickens

    Written at a time of social unrest in Victorian Britain and set in London at the time of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots, Dickens’s brooding novel of mayhem and murder in…

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    An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776-1832

    This book is the first major interdisciplinary reference guide to provide a broad cultural and historical perspective which presents the aesthetic achievements of great literary figures like Wordsworth and Coleridge…

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    Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840

    Iain McCalman (Senior Research Fellow, History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, History Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University)

    This is a study of English popular radicalism during the period between the anti-Jacobin government ‘Terror’ of the 1790s and the beginnings of Chartism. Challenging distinctions between ‘high’ and ‘low’…

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