Australasian and Pacific history

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.

Drovers hold an iconic place in our Australian identity, due to the courage and perseverance needed to transport cattle and sheep hundreds of kilometres through rural and outback areas.

The essence of a nations history is the chronicle of lives and deeds of those who conferred honour and dignity upon society.

The author describes what life was like growing up in the Riverina region of NSW and Victoria, Australia, during the 1940-1960s.

The Birdsville Track is very arid country between the Simpson Desert and Sturts Stony Desert in central Australia.

Ian Harper just cannot stop meddling.

The Black Lives Matter movement is bringing the characters of powerful people in colonial times into sharp focus, particularly their attitudes and actions towards slavery and indigenous peoples.

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The powerful headlight probes the darkness; voluminous clouds of black smoke billow from the chimneys, steam erupts from the safety valves, a ruddy glow lights the cab as butterfly doors are jerked open, flashing rods and driving wheels are highlighted by the running lights and overall there is now a triumphant beat.

The Birdsville Track runs through three deserts, from Marree in northern South Australia, to Birdsville in outback Queensland.

A clever integration of whodunit, historical fiction and wall-to-wall satire, Bloody Colonials is a wickedly satirical piece of crime fiction set in a forbidding landscape-where big fish battle to the death in a dangerously small pond.

This book challenges the common assumption that little or nothing of scientific value was achieved during the Burke and Wills expedition.

The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills is the first major study of Aboriginal associations with the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860–61.

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

In the New York Times bestseller The Immortal Irishman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan illuminates the dawn of the great Irish American story, with all its twists and triumphs, through the life of one heroic man.

In the century from the death of Captain James Cook in 1779 to the rise of the sugar plantations in the 1870s, thousands ofKanaka Maoli(Native Hawaiian) men left Hawai';i to work on ships at sea and inna';aina ';e(foreign lands)on the Arctic Oceanand throughout the Pacific Ocean, and in the equatorial islands and California.

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.

The years 1900 to 1954 marked the transformation from an exotic, colonized "e;Far East"e; to a more autonomous, prominent "e;Asia Pacific"e;.

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

A revised and updated edition of one of the most acclaimed accounts of Australian military history.

This book, first published in 2006, explores the memory of the Great War through the historical experience of pilgrimage.

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

This book traces Jewish community history from its origins in 1788 to today''s Jewish culture in Australia.

An anthropological approach to long-term history through detailed reconstruction of the Ancestral Polynesian culture, Hawaiki.

This 2003 book provides a complete history of the Australian liberal tradition and the Liberal Party of Australia.

This 2003 book examines the impact of economic rationalism on members of the poorest parts of Australian society.

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

With its closest neighbor some 1,200 miles away, New Zealand is one of the most geographically isolated countries in the world.

A fascinating cultural studies account of the "e;afterlife"e; of Leichhardt, revealing both German entanglement in British colonialism in Australia, and in a broader sense, what happens when we maintain an open stance to the ghosts ofthe past.

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.

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.

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

This is the first biography of Capt.

Robert Neiman, perhaps the most experienced combat commander of the U.

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

A beautiful and sweeping historical novel that takes the reader from the west coast of New Zealand, to Scotland and Melbourne in the 1870s'Its portrayal of life in a gold-rush town is vivid, and Rose's story is absorbing' The Times'Worth reading for its occasional streaks of brilliance and insight' Telegraph India'A epic read .

'Macklin recounts, with beautiful detail, the following years of Narcisse's life and his transformation .

'They have left here today!

Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated.

The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero?

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.

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.

In the past decade the Asia-Pacific region has become a focus of international politics and military strategies.

Winner of the Whitley Award for Best Natural History Book 2022A compelling, funny, first-hand account of Australia's wonderfully unique mammals and how our perceptions impact their future.

From the best-selling author of The Commando and Born to Fight comes a fascinating investigation of modern warfare that combines methodical research and the fast-paced action of battle with the personal stories of the combatants on both sides of the line.

Far away from any World War II battlefront, the citizens of Melbourne lived in fear of a serial killer - the Brownout Strangler.

This is the story of Tom Phelps and the 'other Kokoda Track'.

Reporting from the backrooms and corridors of Parliament House in Canberra to the streets of post-industrial Burnie in Tasmania, the struggling rural communities of Gippsland and the Queensland heartland, Royce Kurmelovs captures with perceptive, real-time analysis the rise of Australian populism.