Australasian and Pacific history

Few ships in American history have had as illustrious a history as the heavy cruiser USS Portland (CA-33), affectionately known by her crew as 'Sweet Pea.

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

Caught in the crossfire of inter-tribal wars, witnesses to cannibalism and to scenes of both ethereal beauty and chilling terror - the early European explorers of New Zealand were a diverse group of individuals who undertook voyages of sometimes epic proportions through the country.

A fascinating study of the importance of ideas of friendship in late eighteenth-century explorations of the Pacific.

Using black and white contemporary photographs, illuminative maps and stunning battle scene illustrations, this comprehensive, detailed account completes the story of the Guadalcanal campaign - possibly the most important of the whole Pacific War.

Seven shots ring out in the silence of Victoria's rolling Barrabool Hills.

How did scientists, artists, designers, manufacturers and amateur enthusiasts experience and value the sea and its products?

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

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.

In the United States, December 7, 1941, may live in infamy, in President Franklin D.

Bible & Treaty: Missionaries among the Maori is a complex and colourful adventure of faith, bravery, perseverance and betrayal that seeks to recover lost connections in the story of modern New Zealand.

Gordon Rottman details the bitter 26-day struggle for this key Pacific island during World War II.

'You almost feel you are taking that trek with the party as Robert Macklin cites the obstacles - torrential river crossings, dense bush, the Snowy Mountains and more.

Whether it was Jane Campion's The Piano, Mel Gibson in Mad Max, Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee, or The Lord of the Rings saga, we have all experienced the cinema of Australia and New Zealand.

A highly-illustrated examination of the controversial battle for Peleliu.

In The History Question, Inga Clendinnen looks past the skirmishes and pitched battles of the history wars and asks whats at stake - what kind of history do we want and need?

In Monsters and Revolutionaries Francoise Verges analyzes the complex relationship between the colonizer and colonized on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion.

Between 1845 and 1872, various groups of Maori were involved in a series of wars of resistance against British settlers.

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

The post-war period in Australian cultural history sparked critical debate over notions of nation-building, multiculturalism and internationalization.

When Afghan entrepreneur Abdul Wade first brought his camel trains to the outback, he was hailed as a hero.

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

The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated.

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.

In April 1941, as Churchill strove to counter the German threat to the Balkans, New Zealand troops were hastily committed to combat in the wake of the German invasion of Greece where they would face off against the German Kradsch tzen motorcycle troops.

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

In 1787 the Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty, captained by William Bligh, set sail for Tahiti in search of breadfruit plants.

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In Australian Bush to TiananmenSquare Ross Terrillapplies his personal lens to China's historic rise and turn from Moscow to the West.

In 1897, as a white oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest.

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

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

In the 1930s, a series of crises transformed relationships between settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia's Northern Territory.

Centring priest and navigator Tupaia and Pacific worldviews, this richly illustrated volume weaves a new set of cultural histories in the Pacific, between local islanders and the crew of the Endeavour on James Cook's first 'voyage of discovery' (1768-1771).

This edited collection investigates New Zealand's history as an imperial power, and its evolving place within the British Empire.

The Bungalow began in 1914, as a tin shed in the small colonial outpost of Alice Springs.

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

From the late nineteenth century, competing visions of Australia's relations with Asia have jostled for attention on the national stage and in private lives.

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

Gordon Rottman details the bitter 26-day struggle for this key Pacific island during World War II.

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

In Made in England, David Malouf looks at Australia's bond with Britain and wonders whether it wasn't the Mother Country which did most of the giving.

This book is a comprehensive history of the Australian Light Horse in war and peace.

Drawing on documents in US and British archives, Douglas Ford explores why the belligerents in the Pacific war fought the way that they did.

Leviathans at the Gold Mine is an ethnographic account of the relationship between the Ipili, an indigenous group in Papua New Guinea, and the large international gold mine operating on their land.