Australasian and Pacific history

This captivating work charts the history of Tasmania from the arrival of European maritime expeditions through to the modern day.

Essential single-volume history of the Pacific region and the global interactions which define it.

Examines the career of Lieutenant General Sir Frank Berryman, one of the most important, yet relatively unknown officers in the history of the Australian Army.

Comprehensive study of Australia''s role in the peace enforcement operations that developed at the end of the Cold War.

Understanding Australia''s Neighbours is a comprehensive introduction to the study of Asia.

Essential single-volume history of the Pacific region and the global interactions which define it.

Comprehensive study of Australia''s role in the peace enforcement operations that developed at the end of the Cold War.

Examines the career of Lieutenant General Sir Frank Berryman, one of the most important, yet relatively unknown officers in the history of the Australian Army.

Understanding Australia''s Neighbours is a comprehensive introduction to the study of Asia.

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

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

This vivid, multi-dimensional history considers the key cultural, social, political and economic events of Australia's history.

The first comprehensive account to place the Pacific Islands, the Pacific Rim and the Pacific Ocean into the perspective of world history.

Skin Deep looks at the preoccupations of European-Australians in their encounters with Aboriginal women and the tropes, types and perceptions that seeped into everyday settler-colonial thinking.

Discover the complexity of China s past with this multi-faceted portrayal of the storied nation from a leading expert in the field The newly revised Second Edition of A History of China delivers a comprehensive treatment of the political, economic, social, and cultural history of China that covers all major events and trends that have shaped the country over the centuries.

Discover the complexity of China s past with this multi-faceted portrayal of the storied nation from a leading expert in the field The newly revised Second Edition of A History of China delivers a comprehensive treatment of the political, economic, social, and cultural history of China that covers all major events and trends that have shaped the country over the centuries.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This book provides a strikingly original explanation of the Britain''s treatment of sovereignty and native title in its Australasian colonies.

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

This book provides a strikingly original explanation of the Britain''s treatment of sovereignty and native title in its Australasian colonies.

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

An original analysis and in-depth historical examination of criminal responsibility in the context of Australian criminal law.

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

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

An analysis of the memorialisation of Australia''s role in the Somme and the Anzac mythology that contributes to Australia''s identity.

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

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

The Long Search for Peace recounts Australian peacekeeping missions that began between 1947 and 1982 and follows them to 2006.

Human rights in Australia have a contested and controversial history, the nature of which informs popular debates to this day.

An analysis of the memorialisation of Australia''s role in the Somme and the Anzac mythology that contributes to Australia''s identity.

Human rights in Australia have a contested and controversial history, the nature of which informs popular debates to this day.

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

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

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

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

An original analysis and in-depth historical examination of criminal responsibility in the context of Australian criminal law.

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

Macintyre revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Australia''s past and its relationship to the present.

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

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

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

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

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

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