Australasian and Pacific history

The Australian Aborigines first arrived on the continent at least 60,000 years ago.

Children in the Marshall Islands do many things that adults do not.

A comprehensive survey of Pacific history from earliest times to 1800

Why did the so-called "e;Cannibal Isles"e; of the Western Pacific fascinate Europeans for so long?

In the 1830s Kororareka was known as the 'hell-hole of the Pacific'.

This book details the exploits of the highly skilled Naval Aviators charged with achieving air supremacy over New Guinea in their A6M2/3 Zero-sens.

A classic tale of betrayal, injustice and vengeance from the roaring days of the Victorian gold rush.

This WWII pictorial history covers a little-known but hard-fought Pacific War campaign with striking combat images and expertly researched text.

Why are we speaking English?

Focusing on patterns of intimacy, this book traces the historical roots of parenting practices and familial patterns constructed by lesbians and same-sex attracted women living in Britain and Australia between 1945 and 2000.

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

The Native American on a horse is an archetypal Hollywood image, but though such equestrian-focused societies were a relatively short-lived consequence of European expansion overseas, they were not restricted to North America's Plains.

In photographs and words, this beautifully presented book rekindles memories while providing glimpses of the 1960s in Australia: the Vietnam War and the conscription lottery; the Swinging Sixties, with its mini-skirts and changing fashions, the Beatles, Rolling Stones and the Australian group, The Seekers; the loss of a Prime Minister by drowning; the excitement of Kings Cross; the building of the iconic Opera House; the advent of decimal currency; Aboriginal recognition and the changing social patterns, including the arrival of immigrants from the UK and Europe; overseas working holidays for Australians; censorship; sporting successes and the new frontiers in Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland, with the mineral boom and new towns appearing in the desert.

Species acclimatization - the organized introduction of organisms to a new region - is much maligned in the present day.

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.

In Sorrows of a Century, John Weaver describes how personal relationships, work, poverty, war, illness, and legal troubles have driven thousands to despair.

This first comprehensive exploration of literary responses to Antarctica maps the far south as a space of the imagination.

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 announcement of the imminent withdrawal of the British Royal Navy's ice patrol ship HMS Endurance in early 1982 prompted the Argentinian Junta in Buenos Aires to plan a military grab of the Falklands-a siege they assumed would succeed with little resistance.

Throughout the first year of the war in the Pacific during World War II the USAAF was relatively ineffective against ships.

Nineteenth-century outlaw Ned Kelly is perhaps Australia's most famous historical figure.

The term Polynesia refers to a cultural and geographical area in the Pacific Ocean, bound by what is commonly referred to as the Polynesian Triangle, which consists of Hawai'i in the north, New Zealand in the southwest, and Easter Island in the southeast.

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

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

Der Westminster Palast, eines der berühmtesten Bauwerke der Welt, steht als Sinnbild für die politische Macht Großbritanniens und die wechselvolle Geschichte der Nation.

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

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

Reflections and rumblings on human nature and the law from one of Australia's longest serving criminal defence barristers, once nicknamed 'The Smiling Funnelweb', Chester Porter QC.

A book that perfectly balances memoir and history, interweaving a cross-cultural love story with the larger history of the colonial encounter'A highly unusual blend of personal memoir, travel writing and anthropology' Lynne Truss, Sunday Times'This book stands out because of its sharp, fine writing .

The Brumby Mare is an engaging collection of reminiscences about traditional Queensland stockmen and bush workers in the 1950s and 1960s, before the days of motorbikes and helicopters.

No matter how practised we are at history, it always humbles us.

Investigating the history of vagrants in colonial Australia and New Zealand, this book provides insights into the histories and identities of marginalised peoples in the British Pacific Empire.

Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land.

A revised edition of this highly illustrated account of the day, Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared, that would "e;live in infamy"e;.

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

Imperial spaces takes two of the most influential minority groups of white settlers in the British Empire - the Irish and the Scots - and explores how they imagined themselves within the landscapes of its farthest reaches, the Australian colonies of Victoria and New South Wales.

Despite remarkable similarities, little attempt has been made to compare the political development of colonial-era Australia and Canada.

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

Terence O' Brien was a born diplomat – urbane, clever, adaptable and hardworking, with a talent for strategy and negotiation.

The 1970s saw the Aboriginal people of Australia struggle for recognition of their postcolonial rights.

This book charts the political exposés of an escaped convict-turned-activist and sheds new light on nineteenth-century British imperial reform.

Throughout the first year of the war in the Pacific during World War II the USAAF was relatively ineffective against ships.

Full of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of others' respect was a driving force in the global extension of United States influence shortly after the nation's founding.

The Victorians were fascinated with intersections between different races.

'The story reaches out and grabs you by the throat' - Dr Clare Wright, historian and author of The Forgotten Rebels of EurekaThe facts are shocking.

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.