Australasian and Pacific history

At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy.

Little has been written about when, how and why the British Government changed its mind about giving independance to the Pacific Islands.

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

Meticulous detail and insightful analysis combine with a gripping chronological narrative to provide the essential guide to the Pacific Theater of World War II.

From August 1942 until February 1943, two armies faced each other amid the malarial jungles and blistering heat of Guadalcanal Island.

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The stories behind Australia's many, many strange, inappropriate and downright hilarious place names.

2008 was the year of the 220th anniversary of permanent white settlement in Australia - a year of celebration, but not for all citizens.

A Primer for Teaching Pacific Histories is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching Pacific histories for the first time or for experienced teachers who want to reinvigorate their courses.

A World of Relationships is an ethnographical account and anthropological study of the cultural use and social potential of dreams among Aboriginal groups of the Australian Western Desert.

By January 1944 the US Marine Corps had grown to a total of 405,169 personnel, comprising 28,193 officers, 10,723 officer candidates, and 366,353 enlisted men.

The home has been on the forefront of rapid economic, political, social, and technological transformations for many individuals and families across the world.

A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.

Whether it was Jane Campion's The Piano, Mel Gibson in Mad Max, Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee, or The Lord of the Rings saga, we have all experienced the cinema of Australia and New Zealand.

Many years ago, Hugh Mackay wrote the bestseller Reinventing Australia that analysed, with forensic skill, what was happening to our society.

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

Former Pentagon insider Van Jackson explores how Trump and Kim reached - and avoided - the precipice of nuclear war.

In the early 1970s at Papunya, a remote settlement in the Central Australian desert, a group of Indigenous artists decided to communicate the sacred power of their traditional knowledge to the wider worlds beyond their own.

If anyone is qualified to talk about sport in Australia, it's David Hill.

The first critical examination of Australia''s post-Vietnam military operations and the ''casualty cringe'' felt by political leaders following the war.

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

In the 1880s an oracle priest, Navosavakadua, mobilized Fijians of the hinterlands against the encroachment of both Fijian chiefs and British colonizers.

"e; The 1943 invasion of Bougainville, largest and northernmost of the Solomon Islands, and the naval battles during the campaign for the island, contributed heavily to the defeat of the Japanese in the Pacific War.

A new paperback reprint of this best-selling and ground-breaking history.

Company towns are often portrayed as powerless communities, fundamentally dependent on the outside influence of global capital.

A companion to World War II in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, this volume reevaluates the most enduring literature on basic aspects of the war in Asia and the Pacific.

The Aboriginal Australians first arrived on the continent at least 60,000 years ago, occupying and adapting to a range of environmental conditions-from tropical estuarine habitats, densely forested regions, open plains, and arid desert country to cold, mountainous, and often wet and snowy high country.

History, heritage, and colonialism explores the politics of history-making and interest in preserving the material remnants of the past in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century colonial society, looking at both indigenous pasts and those of European origin.

A longitudinal study spanning six decades to map the national and international humanitarian efforts undertaken by Australians on behalf of child refugees.

In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a privileged retired naval captain, became at his own request superintendent of two thousand twice-convicted prisoners on Norfolk Island, a thousand miles off the coast of Australia.

The Australian Gamble explores Jack Rooklyn's role as a thread that connects some of the best-recognized characters, and most pivotal events, in Australian criminal history.

This book explores the background, role and conduct of the commanding officers of Australian infantry battalions in World War II.

In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of modern anthropology.

This wide-ranging study of the Pacific Islands provides a dynamic and provocative account of the peopling of the Pacific, and its broad impact on world history.

Since the 1980s, thousands of American and Australian veterans have returned to Việt Nam.

The true story of a queen deposed, a five-year police state, an attempted counter-coup, and the end of an independent nation.

New York Times Bestseller: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook: "e;Alternately hilarious, poignant, and insightful.

This book recounts the organization and deployment of one of the most important fighting armies of World War II.

An exploration of how policies protecting indigenous people''s rights were entwined with reforming them as governable subjects, including through punishment under the law.

Centring priest and navigator Tupaia and Pacific worldviews, this richly illustrated volume weaves a new set of cultural histories in the Pacific, between local islanders and the crew of the Endeavour on James Cook's first 'voyage of discovery' (1768-1771).

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Papua New Guinea's village court system was introduced in 1974, partly in an effort to overcome the legal, geographical, and social distance between village societies and the country's formal courts.

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.

Using extensive research and Japanese sources, Peter Williams seeks to explain what really happened during the Kokoda Campaign of 1942.

In the 1930s, a series of crises transformed relationships between settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia's Northern Territory.

Why are we speaking English?

While the US Marine Corps was one of the smallest of American armed services in World War II, its contribution to the final victory cannot be overstated.