Australasian and Pacific history

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This volume explores the Australian government''s peacekeeping efforts in Africa and the Americas from 1992 to 2005.

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

Surveys the encounters between Europeans and the peoples of the Pacific in the age of Enlightenment.

The first study of Australia''s military operations in the Pacific during 1943 - Australia''s ''finest hour'' in the Second World War.

Charts the history of pilgrimages to the battlefields and cemeteries of World War Two through surveys, interviews and fieldwork.

The first history of childhood play and imagination in pre-war AustraliaThis groundbreaking book is a history of childrens play and imagination in Australia between 1890 and the Second World War.

An innovative account of prisoners of war and internment camps around the Pacific basin during the Second World War.

An innovative account of prisoners of war and internment camps around the Pacific basin during the Second World War.

Old sayings from around the world that are not heard anymore.

This book provides a lively and accessible account of Australia's most prominent crimes and criminals of the nineteenth and twentieth century and offers an informative background for those seeking to understand crimes committed today.

This book provides a lively and accessible account of Australia's most prominent crimes and criminals of the nineteenth and twentieth century and offers an informative background for those seeking to understand crimes committed today.

Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia provides a history of fascist movements and anti-fascist resistance in Australia over the past century.

Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia provides a history of fascist movements and anti-fascist resistance in Australia over the past century.

Ruthless Warfare (1998) demonstrates how close the First World War came to Australia.

Wunderbar Country (1982) examines the experiences of Australia's second largest migrant community, the Germans.

Ruthless Warfare (1998) demonstrates how close the First World War came to Australia.

Wunderbar Country (1982) examines the experiences of Australia's second largest migrant community, the Germans.

Australia, Wilkommen (1990) documents the rich and varying contribution made by Germans in Australia.

Australia, Wilkommen (1990) documents the rich and varying contribution made by Germans in Australia.

Attending to the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel and its connections with missionary culture, Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms, with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of adventure tales and missionary efforts.

Attending to the mid-Victorian boys' adventure novel and its connections with missionary culture, Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms, with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of adventure tales and missionary efforts.

Australia on the World Stage: History, Politics, and International Relations offers a fresh examination of Australia's past and present.

Australia on the World Stage: History, Politics, and International Relations offers a fresh examination of Australia's past and present.

This book is a biographical history of Rottnest Island, a small carceral island offshore from Western Australia.

This book is a biographical history of Rottnest Island, a small carceral island offshore from Western Australia.

Through oral histories, memoirs, and Facebook posts of Vietnamese adults who entered Australia as children after the Vietnam War (and Vietnamese refugees, war orphans, and children of refugees) this book provides insight into the memories of forced migrant childhoods and histories, as well as the complexities of national and transnational identity and belonging in digital diaspora.

Through oral histories, memoirs, and Facebook posts of Vietnamese adults who entered Australia as children after the Vietnam War (and Vietnamese refugees, war orphans, and children of refugees) this book provides insight into the memories of forced migrant childhoods and histories, as well as the complexities of national and transnational identity and belonging in digital diaspora.

Drawing on a wealth of interviews with more than fifty key stakeholders from Australia and China, including five former Australian Prime Ministers, Fitzsimmons presents a history and analysis of Australian-Chinese relations since 1972.

Drawing on a wealth of interviews with more than fifty key stakeholders from Australia and China, including five former Australian Prime Ministers, Fitzsimmons presents a history and analysis of Australian-Chinese relations since 1972.

This book provides a case study on the ongoing impact of displacement and encampment of refugees who do not have access to resettlement support services or are resettled in locations of low cultural and linguistic diversity.

This book provides a case study on the ongoing impact of displacement and encampment of refugees who do not have access to resettlement support services or are resettled in locations of low cultural and linguistic diversity.

After James Cook's voyage in HMS Endeavour, Banks developed a network of scientists and explorers.

After James Cook's voyage in HMS Endeavour, Banks developed a network of scientists and explorers.

Within the frame of family farming, this book offers a longitudinal study of the Castra district in North-West Tasmania from first European settlement to the end of the twentieth century.

Within the frame of family farming, this book offers a longitudinal study of the Castra district in North-West Tasmania from first European settlement to the end of the twentieth century.

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013- 17) was one of the largest public inquiries in Australian history and one of the most important investigations into child abuse internationally.

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013- 17) was one of the largest public inquiries in Australian history and one of the most important investigations into child abuse internationally.

Colonising New Zealand offers a radically new vision of the basis and process of Britain's colonisation of New Zealand.