Australasian and Pacific history

In a new historical interpretation of the relationship between Australia and East Timor, Susan Connelly draws on the mimetic theory of Ren Girard to show how the East Timorese people were scapegoated by Australian foreign policy during the 20th century.

The book describes a novel approach to early cities that is transdisciplinary, scientific, historical, and based on social-science knowledge.

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 history of the New Zealand Film Archive and its founding director.

Afghanistan is a long way from both Canada and Australia, but from 2001, fate conspired to bring the three countries together.

Operation KE explores the air combat that attended the Japanese evacuation of Guadalcanal in early 1943a topic which has hitherto received very little attention.

The captivating story of the first global cosmetics empire, the fascinating woman who built it, and the past she preferred to leave behindBecause of Trumbles surgical precision, his empathy and self-awareness, his humour, his grace, his exquisite visual sense in his hands the facts of Rubinsteins life take on new and startling significance.

From the best-selling author of The Commando and Born to Fight comes a fascinating investigation of modern warfare that combines methodical research and the fast-paced action of battle with the personal stories of the combatants on both sides of the line.

A pivotal story finally told: how the Aboriginal and European people interacted with each other during the extended period following the British territorial invasion of 1826.

Survival, heroism, courage and mateship in Ambon - a place of nightmares.

It's a long, mad ride from Summer Bay!

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

Evangelical Christianity is one of the most formative and least acknowledged movements in Australian history.

This is the biography of the mighty ceremonial war canoe Ngatokimatawhaorua that rests on the Treaty Grounds at Waitangi.

In the New York Times bestseller The Immortal Irishman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan illuminates the dawn of the great Irish American story, with all its twists and triumphs, through the life of one heroic man.

Little has been written about when, how and why the British Government changed its mind about giving independance to the Pacific Islands.

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

Why did the so-called "e;Cannibal Isles"e; of the Western Pacific fascinate Europeans for so long?

The best way for today's sailors to learn about a battle is from those who fought it.

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

The essential travel companion for anyone visiting Gallipoli.

Austronesia is the vast oceanic region which stretches from Madagascar to Taiwan to New Zealand.

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

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

A revised and updated edition of one of the most acclaimed accounts of Australian military history.

The sprawling saga of legendary Australian cop, Bumper Farrell, the most feared and revered policeman in Australia's history.

'The most wonderful natural feature I have ever seen.

Australian history has been written for over two centuries beginning with European explorers and colonists attempting to convey something of the complexity of the strange upside-down world they encountered in the southern hemisphere.

An original analysis and in-depth historical examination of criminal responsibility in the context of Australian criminal law.

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.

An anthropological approach to long-term history through detailed reconstruction of the Ancestral Polynesian culture, Hawaiki.

This collection of essays explores the two libel cases (criminal and civil) prosecuted by Rev.

The Pacific War brings together the perspectives and insights of world-renowned military historians.

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Shipwrecked sailors, samurai seeking a material and sometimes spiritual education, and laborers seeking to better their economic situation: these early Japanese travelers to the West occupy a little-known corner of Asian American studies.

Indigenous peoples have our own ways of defining oral history.

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 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 summer of 1865, when a Confederate warship sailed into the port of Melbourne, 42 men secretly enlisted to fight for the South in the American Civil War.

NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIESThey call Adelaide the city of churches.

How do we know which snakes are dangerous?

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.