Australasian and Pacific history Books

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

A vivid recreation of the origins of the Sydney suburb of the Rocks that illuminates the real lives of the convicts and ex-convicts in the first forty years of white settlement.The Rocks is Sydney's earliest surviving neighbourhood. Grace Karskens builds...

The first publication of the lively recollections of Emily Skinner, immigrant and miner's wife on the Ovens and Buckland goldfields.Emily Skinner, vibrant, observant, eternally young-at-heart, emigrated from Britain to Australia in 1854. Not only did she...

A new edition of the book that sparked months of intense debate about the way historians, politicians and others choose to interpret the Australian story.The nation's history has probably never been more politicised than it is today. Politicians,...

The first full account of the man who reached Tasmania before the English.French explorer Marion Dufresne was the man who reached Tasmania before the English. His expedition was the first to encounter the Tasmanian Aborigines and was a precursor of the...

The extraordinary study of boomtime Australia by Michael Cannon, now profusely illustrated with contemporary, photographs, cartoons and etchings.Boom or bust? What was the truth of the great land booms that swept Australia in the 1880s and 1890s? How was...

A unique study of early Aboriginal-white relations in the Western District of VictoriaJan Critchett challenges some of strongly held opinions about Aboriginal culture: that their only shelters were frail mia-mias, that they were nomadic and had no...

This book examines the Kelly Outbreak against its geographical and social background.This book examines the Kelly Outbreak against its geographical and social background. Failure to unlock the land through selection had created a class of struggling...

This book throws open an entirely new window upon Australian history. Almost a century before Captain Cook voyaged along Australia's north-east coast, sailors from Asia were frequent visitors to Marege' (as they called the region) and had even...

A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and interaction with unknown landscapes. Tying together South Asia and Australasia, this book demonstrates how...

In mid-nineteenth-century Britain, there existed a dominant discourse on what it meant to be a man -denoted by the term "manliness." Based on the sociological work of R.W. Connell and others who argue that gender is performative, Robert Hogg asks how...

Andrew Dilley offers a major new study of financial dependence, examining the connections this dependence forged between the City and political life in Edwardian Australia and Canada, mediated by ideas of political economy. In doing so he reconstructs...

Barossa Journeys: Into a valley of tradition creates a sensory experience where the flavours of wine and food intermingle with the celebrations of festivals and music. Favourite places and enchanting, out-of-the-way sites are revealed...

This book sets out the problems of measuring the effects of technological change on economic progress by using the internet in the Asia-Pacific region as a case study. Corporate and industry experience, including changing business organization and new...

Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by Aborigines and European settlers.“Mr. Pyne, showing what a historian deeply schooled in environmental science can contribute to our awareness of nature and...

Melanesia has been the research focus of some of anthropology’s legendary names. In the best tradition of Melanesian scholarship, Jane Goodale writes here of the Kaulong who live in the deep forests of New Britain, an island in the vast territory...

The story of Jack Riordan, who served in two wars, acquired a sawmill and finally, the farmland he always craved. A fabulous story of pioneering spirit, bravery, hard work and the support of a loving family.

An exploration of the little-known yet historically important emigration of British army officers to the Australian colonies in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. The book looks at the significant impact they made at a time of great colonial...

The Australian Study of Politics provides the first comprehensive reference book on the history of the study of politics in Australia, whether described as political studies or political science. It focuses on Australia and on developments since WWII,...

The New Progressive Dilemma documents the international diffusion, ideological meaning and long-term political implications of the 'ideas' that informed the late twentieth-century revolution in thinking inside the British Labour Party - a revolution that...

New Zealand was the last major habitable land on Earth to be populated.Many associate the discovery of New Zealand with James Cook, but he was not the first to venture to this isolated part of the Earth.When James Cook landed in New Zealand in July 1769...