Australasian and Pacific history

Provides a systematic and comprehensive treatment of Australia''s economic foundations, growth, resilience and future in an engaging, contemporary narrative.

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.

Far away from any World War II battlefront, the citizens of Melbourne lived in fear of a serial killer - the Brownout Strangler.

This vintage book contains the thirteenth edition of "e;First Lessons in Maori"e;, a practical and comprehensive coursebook for learning the Maori language.

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.

Fantastic Dreaming explores how whites have measured Australian Aboriginal people through their material culture and domestic practices, aspects of culture intimately linked to Enlightenment notions of progress and social institutions such as marriage and property.

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

A comprehensive survey of Pacific history from 1800 to the present day.

In 1840, Alexander Maconochie, a privileged retired naval captain, became at his own request superintendent of two thousand twice-convicted prisoners on Norfolk Island, a thousand miles off the coast of Australia.

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This is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies and then the remarkable nation of Australia.

Originally published in 1928, this book is a comprehensive study of the Maori people and their inner lives, customs and beliefs, written by one who lived amongst them during a time before modern western civilisation had much altered their existence.

The announcement of the imminent withdrawal of the British Royal Navy's ice patrol ship HMS Endurance in early 1982 prompted the Argentinian Junta in Buenos Aires to plan a military grab of the Falklands-a siege they assumed would succeed with little resistance.

Before his death at the age of 110 in May 2011, Claude Choules was the last man alive who had served in both world wars.

This book provides a strikingly original explanation of the Britain''s treatment of sovereignty and native title in its Australasian colonies.

This wide-ranging study of the Pacific Islands provides a dynamic and provocative account of the peopling of the Pacific, and its broad impact on world history.

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.

This first comprehensive exploration of literary responses to Antarctica maps the far south as a space of the imagination.

On August 17 18, 1942, 211 men of the US Marine Corps' 2nd Raider Battalion conducted a daring amphibious raid on the Japanese-occupied Makin Island in the South Pacific.

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

In this important and long-overdue history, Barker and Ondaatje examine the significance of North West Cape for Australia-US relations and Australian politics, but pay special attention to the town of Exmouth that was uniquely created to support the base.

A highly illustrated account of the Japanese aerial assault on the port of Darwin in February 1942 the first attack ever mounted by a foreign power on Australia.

Colonial Genocide has been seen increasingly as a stepping-stone to the European genocides of the twentieth century, yet it remains an under-researched phenomenon.

An in-depth examination of the United States' invasion of two Pacific islands, featuring a variety of illustrations throughout.

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

On the afternoon of 8 April 1802, in the remote southern ocean, two explorers had a remarkable chance encounter.

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

This engaging reference examines the history of, the search for, and the discovery of Australia, taking full account of the evidence for and the speculation surrounding possible earlier contacts by the Ancient Egyptians, Arabs, and Chinese seamen.

Challenges the terrestrial focus of European prehistory, emphasizing the significance of seascapes, maritime networks, and coastal societies in shaping prehistoric Europe.

As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds.

In this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier.

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.

Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean' is Edward Hamilton Currey's most famous work.

The hard-hitting history of the Pacific War's 'forgotten battle' of Peleliu a story of intelligence failings and impossible bravery.

The Ninja were the secret agents and assassins of feudal Japan and they remain a subject of enduring fascination.

The term Polynesia refers to a cultural and geographical area in the Pacific Ocean, bound by what is commonly referred to as the Polynesian Triangle, which consists of Hawai'i in the north, New Zealand in the southwest, and Easter Island in the southeast.

A highly illustrated account of the series of naval battles around the embattled island of Guadalcanal in late 1942.

If there are genuine questions about Australian history, there is something to puzzle over.

The Australian Gamble explores Jack Rooklyn's role as a thread that connects some of the best-recognized characters, and most pivotal events, in Australian criminal history.

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.

A uniquely collaborative analysis of human adaptation to the Polynesian islands, told through oral histories, biophysical evidence, and historical records Humans began to settle the area we know as Polynesia between 3,000 and 800 years ago, bringing with them material culture, including plants and animals, and ideas about societal organization, and then adapting to the specific biophysical features of the islands they discovered.

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

A sailors extraordinary experiences on an American submarine in the Pacific are candidly reported in this eyewitness account of war from a torpedomans perspective.