Australasian & Pacific History

Governance and Public Space in the Australian City is a rich and evocative examination of the production and use of public spaces in Australian cit...

Britain formally colonised Van Diemen's Land in the early years of the nineteenth century. Small convict stations grew into towns. Pastoralists mov...

On April 25th 1915, during the First World War, the famous Anzacs landed ashore at Gallipoli. At the exact same moment, leading figures of Armenian...

As part of the controversial Earl Grey Scheme, this is the true story of the Kerry girls who were shipped to Australia from the four Kerry Workhous...

This book is a study of the Lapita Cultural Complex, a region spanning both Melanesia and Western Polynesia. The Lapita culture has been interprete...

Although an ally of Nazi Germany during World War II, Japan adamantly refused to accede to German demands to deal harshly with the some 40,000 Jews...

In the early twentieth century, Chinese intellectuals came to realize that Westerners surpassed them not only in knowledge of the world, but also i...

The history of East Asia can be most productively studied through a transnational, translingual, and transcultural approach to the region. In The...

Australia and the Rhodesian Problem 19611972 draws on both published and unpublished records from the National Archives of Australia to document Au...

Bringing to light the largely overlooked female participation in domestic and international art worlds, this book offers the first comprehensive s...

How did scientists, artists, designers, manufacturers and amateur enthusiasts experience and value the sea and its products? Taking a fresh approac...