Australasian and Pacific history

An intriguing case study on how popular images of Oceania, mediated through a developing culture of celebrity, contributed to the formation of British identity both domestically and as a nascent imperial power in the eighteenth century.

Fairness and Freedom compares the history of two open societies--New Zealand and the United States--with much in common.

How do we know which snakes are dangerous?

Thoroughly researched and generously illustrated, Australia 1944–45 is the compelling final instalment in Peter Dean''s Pacific War series.

The definitive history of American war reporting in the Pacific theater of World War II, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The first USAAF fighters to engage the Japanese in World War 2, a handful of P-40s rose to defend Pearl Harbor from attack on the morning of 7 December 1941.

The first volume of the biography of Mr Thomas Moore, Esq.

The experience of immigration to Australia from Scotland is outlined here, from daily life and occupation, to interactions with the indigenous inhabitants.

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

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

In their Time of Need recounts the activities of Australia''s military forces in response to overseas natural disasters.

Celebrated historian Diana Preston presents betrayals, escapes, and survival at sea in her account of the mutiny of the Bounty and the flight of convicts from the Australian penal colony.

How did Hawaiian and Polynesian culture come to dramatically alter American music, fashion and decor, as well as ideas about race, in less than a century?

Many ministers and faithful Christians instinctively recoil from "e;washed in the blood"e; theology, but they hesitate to discuss the subject.

Drawing on archaeological and ethnohistorical sources, this book redefines the study of primary states -- "e;cradles of civilization"e; from which all modern nation states ultimately derive -- by arguing for the inclusion of Polynesia, which witnessed the development of primary states in both Hawai'i and Tonga.

An detailed examination of this bloody Pacific battle, featuring maps, artwork and archive photography.

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

A History of South Australia investigates the state''s history from before the arrival of the first European explorers to today.

A comprehensive, relevant, and accessible look at all aspects of Indigenous Australian history and culture What is The Dreaming?

The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface.

Captain Edward Denny Day - the only law 'from the Big River to the sea' - was Australia's greatest lawman, yet few have heard of him.

From Barton to AlbaneseUpdated editionSince 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the national show.

A Ceaseless Watch: Australia's Third Party Naval Defense, 1919-1942 illustrates how Australia confronted the need to base its post-World War I defense planning around the security provided by a major naval power: in the first instance, Britain, and later the United States.

First full-length exploration of the role of the Anglican church in the development of colonial Australia.

In 1901, the year the six Australian colonies federated to become one country, revolution was being plotted across the world.

Today's New Zealand is an emerging paradigm for successful cultural relations.

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

This 2004 book looks at Australia in terms of English immigration and settlement over two centuries.

In Vanuatu, commoditization and revitalization of culture and the arts do not necessarily work against each other; both revolve around value formation and the authentication of things.

This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present.

Harry Freame was the first Australian to win the Distinguished Conduct Medal at Gallipoli.

This book covers the fierce night naval battles fought between the US Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy during late 1943 as the Allies advanced slowly up the Solomons Islands toward the major Japanese naval base at Rabaul.

A comprehensive survey of Pacific history from earliest times to 1800

A detailed history and analysis of the most controversial amphibious operation in the Pacific during WWII: the Battle for Peleliu.

A major new study which evaluates the enduring impact of war on family memory in the Greek diaspora.

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In April 1941, as Churchill strove to counter the German threat to the Balkans, New Zealand troops were hastily committed to combat in the wake of the German invasion of Greece where they would face off against the German Kradsch tzen motorcycle troops.

The heart-rending story of the Australians brutally imprisoned in Sandakan, the Japanese POW camp in North Borneo, whose very name came to symbolise cruelty and ill-treatment.

**2014 Must Read** Otago Daily Times 'The life, the health, the intelligence, and the morals of the nation count for more than riches, and I would rather have this country free from want and squalor and unemployed than the home of multi-millionaires.