Australasian and Pacific history

At the beginning of the 20th century, the military importance of the Hawaiian Islands became clear.

From its rise in the 1830s to its pinnacle in the 1930s, the opium trade was a guiding force in the Chinese political economy.

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

From its rise in the 1830s to its pinnacle in the 1930s, the opium trade was a guiding force in the Chinese political economy.

Skin Deep looks at the preoccupations of European-Australians in their encounters with Aboriginal women and the tropes, types and perceptions that seeped into everyday settler-colonial thinking.

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

Bradley describes the early WWII conflicts in New Guinea.

By the time the Americans began their aerial bombardment of Japan in 1944, both the JAAF and IJNAF were spent forces.

Winner of the 2009 Tasmania Book PrizeWinner of the 2008 Colin Roderick AwardAlmost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land.

The last continent to be claimed by Europeans, Australia began to be settled by the British in 1788 in the form of a jail for its convicts.

For centuries before the arrival in Australia of Captain Cook and the so-called First Fleet in 1788, intrepid seafaring explorers had been searching, with varied results, for the fabled “Great Southland.

New York Times bestseller: The true story of the WWII naval battle portrayed in the Roland Emmerich film is “something special among war histories” (Chicago Sun-Times).

The fascinating story of the Chinese presence in and influence on this country - our intertwined history from colonial times to today.

The first major study since 1963 to examine the historic Australian military campaign of 1944–1945 at Bougainville in the South Pacific.

An examination of the challenges of water management in Australian cities drawing on environmental, urban and economy history.

Winner of the ACT Book of the Year AwardIt was the era of Hawke and Keating, Kylie and INXS, the America s Cup and the Bicentenary.

This book examines the most expensive and controversial project ever undertaken by the Australian Defence Force.

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.

The story of this rugged and dynamic land is beautifully narrated, from its origins in Gondwana to the twenty-first century.

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.

This is the first book-length study of the archaeology of Australia''s deserts, exploring the cultural and environmental history of these drylands.

Australia and the British monarchy have always made for an odd couple: the young, rebellious, egalitarian nation wed to an ancient symbol of power and social inequality.

A comprehensive, relevant, and accessible look at all aspects of Indigenous Australian history and culture What is The Dreaming?

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.

This book provides a generously illustrated, engaging and moving account of the history of the stretcher-bearer.

Hamburg als Kolonialmetropole: Spurensuche und Forschungsbilanz.

Australia is a dynamic multi-cultural society, viewed by many as the world's most desirable place to live.

Despite intense concern among academics and advocates, there is a deeply felt absence of scholarship on the way media reporting exacerbates rather than helps to resolve policy problems.

Historians have suggested that Scottish influences are more pervasive in New Zealand than in any other country outside Scotland, yet curiously New Zealand's Scots migrants have previously attracted only limited attention.

Guarding the Periphery recounts a part of Australian military history that is often overlooked by studies of Australia''s military past.

A true tale of high adventure in the South Seas.

Human rights in Australia have a contested and controversial history, the nature of which informs popular debates to this day.

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

Dubai International Airport (DXB), Emirates Airlines, and the Burj al-Arab.

An innovative history of astronomy in China, 221 BCE–750 CE, stressing plurality, change and the unifying power of myth-making.

The Pacific of the early eighteenth century was not a single ocean but a vast and varied waterscape, a place of baffling complexity, with 25,000 islands and seemingly endless continental shorelines.

Australians have become increasingly visible outside of the country as speakers and actors in radio and television, their media moguls have frequently bought up foreign companies, and people around the world have been able to enjoy such Australian productions as The Flying Doctors, Neighbours, and Kath and Kim.

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

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.

Demonstrating the centrality of diplomacy in the Vietnam War, Pierre Asselin traces the secret negotiations that led up to the Paris Agreement of 1973, which ended America's involvement but failed to bring peace in Vietnam.

A revealing portrait of a brilliant and troubled figure - a daredevil of the skyCharles Kingsford Smith was the most commanding flyer of the golden age of aviation.

The first comprehensive account to place the Pacific Islands, the Pacific Rim and the Pacific Ocean into the perspective of world history.

Human rights in Australia have a contested and controversial history, the nature of which informs popular debates to this day.

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

This book offers a new account of Nauru''s imperial history and examines its significance in the history of international law.