Australasian and Pacific history

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.

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 Old New Zealand (1863), F.

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.

This is the authoritative source of the history of computing and technology in Aotearoa New Zealand, put together on the 60th Anniversary of IT Professionals New Zealand.

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

This accessible volume provides a brief introduction to the institutions, policy concerns, and international roles of the Pacific islands.

This accessible volume provides a brief introduction to the institutions, policy concerns, and international roles of the Pacific islands.

The far left in Australia had significant effects on post-war politics, culture and society.

The far left in Australia had significant effects on post-war politics, culture and society.

South Seas Encounters examines several key types of encounters between the many-faceted worlds of Oceania, Britain and the United States in the formative nineteenth century.

South Seas Encounters examines several key types of encounters between the many-faceted worlds of Oceania, Britain and the United States in the formative nineteenth century.

How did the concept of the secular state emerge and evolve in Australia and how has it impacted on its institutions?

How did the concept of the secular state emerge and evolve in Australia and how has it impacted on its institutions?

Periodically, in Australian society racial chasms emerge portraying the great divide between Indigenous and non Indigenous Australians, exposing the sustained influence of the doomed race protective myth and its residue.

This book seeks to highlight the influence of the Enlightenment idea of social progress on the character of the "e;civilising mission"e; in early Australia by tracing its presence in the various "e;civilising"e; attempts undertaken between 1788 and 1850.

This book seeks to highlight the influence of the Enlightenment idea of social progress on the character of the "e;civilising mission"e; in early Australia by tracing its presence in the various "e;civilising"e; attempts undertaken between 1788 and 1850.

Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both.

Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both.

This remarkable book explores questions of identity and value posed by people living on (or near) the small Pacific island of Karavar in Papua New Guinea.

Using the latest available data, Dr.

How did fears of the Cold War shape Australian images of Asia?

This remarkable book explores questions of identity and value posed by people living on (or near) the small Pacific island of Karavar in Papua New Guinea.

Using the latest available data, Dr.

How did fears of the Cold War shape Australian images of Asia?

Drawing on a unique study of Australian advertising agencies at the dawn of the digital era, this book provides a hitherto unexplored study of the advertising industry at a point of its disruption.

Drawing on a unique study of Australian advertising agencies at the dawn of the digital era, this book provides a hitherto unexplored study of the advertising industry at a point of its disruption.

First published in 1998, this volume is based upon the files of the Royal Commission on the Electoral System plus extensive interviews with the Commissioners, cabinet ministers, MPs and officials, as well as leaders of the principal pressure groups.

First published in 1998, this volume is based upon the files of the Royal Commission on the Electoral System plus extensive interviews with the Commissioners, cabinet ministers, MPs and officials, as well as leaders of the principal pressure groups.

Focusing on the era of "e;first encounters"e; in Polynesia, this book provides a fresh look at some of the early contacts between indigenous people and the captains and crew of European ships.

Focusing on the era of "e;first encounters"e; in Polynesia, this book provides a fresh look at some of the early contacts between indigenous people and the captains and crew of European ships.

Music and World-Building in the Colonial City investigates how nineteenth-century migrants to Australia used music as a resource for world-building, focusing on coalmining regions of New South Wales.

Music and World-Building in the Colonial City investigates how nineteenth-century migrants to Australia used music as a resource for world-building, focusing on coalmining regions of New South Wales.

Japan in Australia is a work of cultural history that focuses on context and connection between two nations.

Japan in Australia is a work of cultural history that focuses on context and connection between two nations.

This edition presents the extant journals of Pauline Clairmont (1825-1891) and Wilhelm Clairmont (1831-1895), the niece and nephew of Claire Clairmont (1798-1879) who was Mary Shelley's (1797-1851) stepsister.

This edition presents the extant journals of Pauline Clairmont (1825-1891) and Wilhelm Clairmont (1831-1895), the niece and nephew of Claire Clairmont (1798-1879) who was Mary Shelley's (1797-1851) stepsister.