Australasian and Pacific history

An immersive journey through the tumultuous past and fascinating present of Australia's nearest neighbours We are the original people of the region This is a black region, it s not a white region.

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

Winner of the 2008 Holyer An Gof Award for non-fiction.

Today Australian Rules football is a multi-million-dollar business, with superstar players, high-profile presidents and enough scandals to fill a soap opera.

A richly researched account of the social, racial, and political history of a major Deep South infantry division at home and in the Pacific Chris Rein's study of the Thirty-First Infantry Division, known officially as the "e;Dixie Division,"e; illuminates the complexities in mobilizing American reserve units to meet the global emergency during World War II.

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

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

The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in 1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic entanglements with Maori.

Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister's Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history'Wonderfully researched and beautifully written' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan'Succeeds in conjuring a lost world' Dava Sobel, author of LongitudeFor more than a millennium, Polynesians have occupied the remotest islands in the Pacific Ocean, a vast triangle stretching from Hawaii to New Zealand to Easter Island.

The Pacific Ocean covers one-third of the earth's surface.

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

Freedom on the Fatal Shore brings together John Hirst's two books on the early history of New South Wales.

The incredible story of the special investigations unit that tracked down the Nazis who called Australia home after World War II.

This book examines what distinguished New Zealand's response to the Rising and its aftermath - particularly from Australian and Canadian responses, the two Dominions whose constitutional relations to the United Kingdom were frequently cited in determining Irish independence.

Although most people associate the term D-Day with the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, it is military code for the beginning of any offensive operation.

A fascinating cultural studies account of the "e;afterlife"e; of Leichhardt, revealing both German entanglement in British colonialism in Australia, and in a broader sense, what happens when we maintain an open stance to the ghosts ofthe past.

In Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle models new and emergent desert Aboriginal aesthetics as an art of survival.

This clear and nuanced introduction explores the Philippines' ongoing and deeply charged dilemma of state-society relations through a historical treatment of state formation and the corresponding conflicts and collaboration between government leaders and social forces.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

The Ilahita Arapesh: Dimensions of Unity delves into the social and religious structures of Ilahita, a uniquely large and complex village in New Guineas Torricelli Mountains.

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New York Times Bestseller: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook: "e;Alternately hilarious, poignant, and insightful.

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

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 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.

In this charming and concise book, Nicholas Brown looks beyond the clichés to illuminate the colourful history of Australia''s capital.

At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy.

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

One of the British Empire's most troubling colonial exports in the 19th-century, James Busby is known as the father of the Australian wine industry, the author of New Zealand's Declaration of Independence and a central figure in the early history of independent New Zealand as its British Resident from 1833 to 1840.

2008 was the year of the 220th anniversary of permanent white settlement in Australia - a year of celebration, but not for all citizens.

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From the outrigger canoes of Waikiki to the tall ships of Honolulu Harbor, from the Kingdom of Hawaii to statehood, the history of Honolulu has played out against a backdrop of uncommon natural beauty.

A lively account of the people, places and events that have shaped Victoria with new illustrations, photographs and maps.

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.