Australasian and Pacific history

The Battle of Le Hamel on 4 July 1918 was an Allied triumph, and strategically very important in the closing stages of WW1.

Company towns are often portrayed as powerless communities, fundamentally dependent on the outside influence of global capital.

An original account of the 1975 constitutional crisis and its continuing relevance for informal constitutional change in contemporary Australian law.

"e;A story not to be missed!

Through photographs and an authoritative text, this book tells the story of the 6th Australian Division.

This book explores the background, role and conduct of the commanding officers of Australian infantry battalions in World War II.

A Ceaseless Watch: Australia's Third Party Naval Defense, 1919-1942 illustrates how Australia confronted the need to base its post-World War I defense planning around the security provided by a major naval power: in the first instance, Britain, and later the United States.

The authoritative, epic history of the British colonisation of Australia.

Stories, essays and speeches from one of Australias foremost writers and thinkersUpdated edition of the bestselling collection of David Marrs work.

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

Recounts the first of the New Guinea offensives by the Australian Army in WWII.

A History of New Zealand Literature explores the genealogy of New Zealand writing from the colonial period to the present day.

The last book in a trilogy of explorations on space and time from a preeminent scholar, The Boundless Sea is Gary Y.

The audience-producer boundary has collapsed in indigenous and ethnic community broadcasting, and this is the first comprehensive study globally to chart the rise of its new relationship.

Expatriate journalist and film-maker John Pilger writes about his homeland with life-long affection and a passionately critical eye.

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

The popularization of radio, television, and the Internet radically transformed musical practice in the Asia Pacific.

'Brilliantly researched and sympathetically told, 44 DAYS is more than just a fitting tribute to brave but overlooked heroes.

Notorious, numerous and varied, serial murderers from Australia have an eclectic record of crimes, methods and trademarks.

How do we know which snakes are dangerous?

On April 25th 1915, during the First World War, the famous Anzacs landed ashore at Gallipoli.

The bomber pilot whose bravery in the Battle of Midway changed the course of WWII recounts his story in this extraordinary memoir: "e;An instant classic"e; (Dallas Morning News).

Through an in-depth biographical study of Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hutton, this book investigates imperial land defence prior to 1914.

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.

This book is the eagerly awaited companion to Professor James Belich's acclaimed Making Peoples, published in New Zealand, Britain and the United States in 1996.

Drawing on archaeological and ethnohistorical sources, this book redefines the study of primary states -- "e;cradles of civilization"e; from which all modern nation states ultimately derive -- by arguing for the inclusion of Polynesia, which witnessed the development of primary states in both Hawai'i and Tonga.

This book explores the fin de si cle, an era of powerful global movements and turbulent transition, in Australia and beyond through a series of biographical microhistories.

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

Many developed countries restructured relations between state and economy from the late 1970s into the 1990s.

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.

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

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

Theatre in Dublin,17451820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin's many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan's becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820.

The Victorians were fascinated with intersections between different races.

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

Theatre in Dublin,17451820: A Calendar of Performances is the first comprehensive, daily compendium of more than 18,000 performances that took place in Dublin's many professional theatres, music halls, pleasure gardens, and circus amphitheatres between Thomas Sheridan's becoming the manager at Smock Alley Theatre in 1745 and the dissolution of the Crow Street Theatre in 1820.

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

The essential travel companion for anyone visiting Gallipoli.

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

On April 25th 1915, during the First World War, the famous Anzacs landed ashore at Gallipoli.

The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English.

In 1843 on the island of Tahiti the evangelical missionary Rev.

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 .

This book explores a cross-section of war crimes trials that Allied powers held against the Japanese after World War II.