Product Description: Arriving in early 1942, American servicemen were greeted by Western Australians as handsome heroes from a Hollywood dream-world, having an impact that was both more intense and more welcome than in other parts of the Australia .....read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is a study of a unique slave colony and of antislavery conflicts prior to the Emancipation Act of 1833. In their hostility to a booming slave-based sugar economy, abolitionists produced dubious propaganda and quarrelled bitterly, without moderating the cruelty of the slave regime...read more