Australasian and Pacific history

Examines the politicisation of empathy across the British empire during the nineteenth century and traces its legacies into the present.

Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, the indigenous community had been virtually wiped out.

Innovative history of how volunteers helped build a global consensus that Western development intervention across the Global South was desirable.

The gripping story of Australias first female crime writer and her career-criminal sonWhen Mary Fortune arrived in Melbourne with her infant son in 1855, she was determined to reinvent herself.

The arrival of Europeans in Aotearoa brought about an inevitable clash between the laws and values of Maori societies and those of the newcomers.

The legend of Te Hokioi, the extinct giant eagle of New Zealand, leads Peter Walker from a Canterbury sheep run to the Rare Books Room of the British Library and to ‘ sacred' Raiatea in Polynesia, as he uncovers the story of the predator which once ruled over the Southern Alps.

Using black and white contemporary photographs, illuminative maps and stunning battle scene illustrations, this comprehensive, detailed account completes the story of the Guadalcanal campaign - possibly the most important of the whole Pacific War.

The unknown story of how a fleet of Australian fishing boats, trawlers and schooners supplied US and Australian forces in the Pacific - and helped turn the course of World War II.

The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics is a comprehensive collection that considers Australia's distinctive politics-- both ancient and modern-- at all levels and across many themes.

Reveals the story behind the leader, John Curtin, whose vision, until now, has been overlooked.

This is the first biography of Capt.

David Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australias transformation from aspiration to nation - an epic tale of charlatans and costermongers, of bush bards and bushier beards, of workers and women who werent going to take it anymore.

This book examines the most expensive and controversial project ever undertaken by the Australian Defence Force.

Holden is one of the few brands that has an emotional grip on Australia (Qantas being another).

The Land Is Our History tells the story of indigenous legal activism at a critical political and cultural juncture in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

In The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen Noenoe K.

Indigenous peoples have our own ways of defining oral history.

Journey into Australia's heart of darkness.

Seit 2006 hat Matthias Gretzschel Papua-Neuguinea insgesamt achtmal bereist, zunächst als Journalist und später auch als Reiseleiter.

Freedom''s Captives offers a compelling, narrative-driven history of the gradual abolition of slavery in the majority-black Colombian Pacific.

The last book in a trilogy of explorations on space and time from a preeminent scholar, The Boundless Sea is Gary Y.

Today, Australia's response to asylum-seeking 'boat people' is a hot-button issue that feeds the political news cycle.

A compelling collection of tales from Australia's dark heart - of catastrophe and misfortune, intrigue and passion, betrayal and tragedy.

Despite familiar images of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan and the controversy over its fiftieth anniversary, the human impact of those horrific events often seems lost to view.

Challenges the terrestrial focus of European prehistory, emphasizing the significance of seascapes, maritime networks, and coastal societies in shaping prehistoric Europe.

A study of one imposter and his influential vision for British control over the nineteenth-century Pacific Ocean.

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In the build-up to World War II both the United States and Japan believed their battleships would play a central role in battle, but after the Pacific War began in December 1941, the role of the battleship proved to be much more limited than either side expected.

In Bligh, the story of the most notorious of all Pacific explorers is told through a new lens as a significant episode in the history of the world, not simply of the West.

This volume from leading lawyers, historians and social scientists explores encounters of laws, people, and place in Australia since 1788.

British Imperial Air Power examines the air defense of Australia and New Zealand during the interwar period.

Since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on the plight of the orca, the most profitable and controversial display animal in history.

The astounding saga of an American sea captain and the New Guinean nobleman who became his stunned captive, then ally, and eventual friend Sailing in uncharted waters of the Pacific in 1830, Captain Benjamin Morrell of Connecticut became the first outsider to encounter the inhabitants of a small island off New Guinea.

A highly illustrated account of the fourth major carrier battle of the war in the Pacific.

A complete history of rugby’s most famous yet enigmatic team, the New Zealand All Blacks, told by the men who have worn the iconic black jersey.

The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English.

Volume 3 of the official history of Australian peacekeeping, humanitarian and post-cold war operations explores Australia''s involvement in six missions.

The audience-producer boundary has collapsed in indigenous and ethnic community broadcasting, and this is the first comprehensive study globally to chart the rise of its new relationship.

The most important and dramatic carrier battle of World War II, which completely changed the fortunes of both Japan and America.

This book charts the previously untold story of the mobility of Indigenous peoples across vast distances, vividly reshaping what is known about decolonisation.

The iconic Australian exploration story - brought to life by Peter FitzSimons, Australia's storyteller.

The importance of the Australian contribution to the Allied war effort during World War I should never be underestimated.