Australasian and Pacific history

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

Challenges preconceptions of convict transportation from Britain and Ireland, penal colonies and religion.

In a new historical interpretation of the relationship between Australia and East Timor, Susan Connelly draws on the mimetic theory of Ren Girard to show how the East Timorese people were scapegoated by Australian foreign policy during the 20th century.

In a new historical interpretation of the relationship between Australia and East Timor, Susan Connelly draws on the mimetic theory of Ren Girard to show how the East Timorese people were scapegoated by Australian foreign policy during the 20th century.

Australia's Prime Minister and premier diplomat in the 1930/1940s, this new biography presents him as a consistent internationalist and places him in a global context.

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

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

The Good Neighbour explores the Australian government''s efforts to support peace in the Pacific Islands from 1980 to 2006.

The best way for today's sailors to learn about a battle is from those who fought it.

Seven shots ring out in the silence of Victoria's rolling Barrabool Hills.

An examination of the challenges of water management in Australian cities drawing on environmental, urban and economy history.

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A fascinating study of the importance of ideas of friendship in late eighteenth-century explorations of the Pacific.

This definitive work on the introduction of domestic animals to Australia begins with the first white settlement at Botany Bay.

The intellectual trends Good discusses include what he calls the New Sectarianism, which rejects individuality in favour of collective identities based on race, gender, and sexual preference; Presentism, which rejects the notion of history as a continuous narrative in favour of seeing the past as interpretable in any way that suits the political interests of the present; and a "e;hermeneutic of suspicion,"e; in which literary texts are seen as masks for discreditable political motives.

James Cook never laid eyes on the sea until he was in his teens.

This book examines the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–5, a seminal event in world history.

For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled “Great Southland.

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

an engrossing narrative, beautifully controlled by a master storyteller' Michael McKernan, Sydney Morning Herald The bestselling, acclaimed, authoritative account of one of the most famous battles in Australian military history now established as a classic.

Oceania was the last region on earth to be permanently inhabited, with the final settlers reaching Aotearoa/New Zealand approximately AD 1300.

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In Made in England, David Malouf looks at Australia's bond with Britain and wonders whether it wasn't the Mother Country which did most of the giving.

This book offers a new account of Nauru''s imperial history and examines its significance in the history of international law.

Discover the fascinating details that make Australia the country it is today Australian History For Dummies is your rough-and-ready tour guide through Australia's whirlwind past.

Between 1700 and 1850 the Church of England was the among the most powerful and influential religious, social, and political forces in Britain.

The Vietnamese hilltribes made him a demi-god.

The Echo of Things is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands.

A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan s history.

Braided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii's Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement.

This is a cautionary tale.

One of the British Empire's most troubling colonial exports in the 19th-century, James Busby is known as the father of the Australian wine industry, the author of New Zealand's Declaration of Independence and a central figure in the early history of independent New Zealand as its British Resident from 1833 to 1840.

The first study of Australia''s military operations in the Pacific during 1943 - Australia''s ''finest hour'' in the Second World War.

Theatre in Dublin,17451820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin's many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan's becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820.

Winner: Jakobczak Memorial Book AwardFrom 19421945 the Allies war in the Southwest Pacific was effectively a bilateral coalition between the United States and Australia under the command of General Douglas MacArthur.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

By the middle of the nineteenth century, the very existence of European colonial settlement in New Zealand was under threat.

Drawing on digital criminal records, this book traces the life courses of young convicts who were sentenced at the Old Bailey and transported to Van Diemen's Land in the early 19th century.

This book is a comprehensive history of the Australian Light Horse in war and peace.

An examination of the challenges of water management in Australian cities drawing on environmental, urban and economy history.

In Whitefella Jump Up, Germaine Greer suggests that embracing Aboriginality is the only way Australia can fully imagine itself as a nation.

Australians have become increasingly visible outside of the country as speakers and actors in radio and television, their media moguls have frequently bought up foreign companies, and people around the world have been able to enjoy such Australian productions as The Flying Doctors, Neighbours, and Kath and Kim.

With a historians inquiring mind, Billy Griffiths excavates two absorbing twentieth century histories: the reassertion of Aboriginal identity and the uncovering of traces of ancient Australia by pioneering archeologists.

Before his death at the age of 110 in May 2011, Claude Choules was the last man alive who had served in both world wars.

In 1912 Lawrence Bragg explained the interaction of X-rays with crystals, and he and his father, William thereby pioneered X-ray spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography.