Australasian & Pacific History

A groundbreaking history of the colony of Sydney in its early years, from the sparkling harbour to the Cumberland Plain, from convicts to the city'...

In this book, Philip Payton provides a vivid insight into the experiences of regional Australia during the Great War of 1914-18.  Alighting upon 'o...

Tracing the origins of the Hawaiians and other Polynesians back to the shores of the South China Sea, archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch follows th...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Multiculturalism as a distinct form of liberal-democratic ...

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (1916) explores Hawaiian folktales and myths collected by W. D. Westervelt. Connecting the origin story of Hawaii to ...

A colorful illustration of Hawaiis most cherished origin story, the myth of Pele and Hiiaka.Pele and Hiiaka: A Myth From Hawaii (1915) is a collect...

Southern Anthropology, the history of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai is the biography of Kamilaroi and Kurnai (1880) written from both a h...

Roads and road tourism loom large in the Australian imagination as distance and mobility have shaped the nations history and culture, but roads are...

Alarming levels of fear and suspicion developed in Australia following the German victories in Europe of 1940. It was believed the Nazis had prepar...

Douglas Johnstone's paternal grandfather was an Australian soldier injured during the First World War. He met the author's grandmother while conval...

The marines on the First Fleet refused to sail without it. Convicts risked their necks to get hold of it. Rum built a hospital and sparked a revolu...

This volume of The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations recounts the activities of Australia's mi...

After an astonishing astronomical discovery is made near Melbourne, two scientists jostle for possession of the world's largest iron meteorite. At ...