Australasian & Pacific History

Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen’s Land. Revising established models of the colonies, which tend to depic...

The home has been on the forefront of rapid economic, political, social, and technological transformations for many individuals and families across...

LARGE PRINT EDITION. Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is a moving personal portrait of a girl who grew up to become Hawaii’s first and only queen, ...

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

The 1898 annexation of Hawaiʻi to the US is often framed as an inevitable step in American expansion—but it was never a foregone conclusion. By pai...

The war in the Middle East was a struggle between the Ottoman Turks, British, French and Russians for control of the lands and peoples held by the ...

The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics is a comprehensive collection that considers Australia's distinctive politics-- both ancient and modern-...

The definitive history of American war reporting in the Pacific theater of World War II, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the atomic bombings of ...

The Irish contribution to Australian history goes both deep and wide. Originally published in 1986 the essays in this collection contribute both to...

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...

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

This book is about how Australians have responded to stories about suffering and injustice in Australia, presented in a range of public media, incl...

From an eminent and provocative historian, a wrenching parable of the ravages of colonialism in the South Pacific.Countless museums in the West hav...

The story of five young Australian sailors seeking adventure in a far-off war who fell foul of British Imperial authority and sparked one of the mo...

**WINNER OF THE 2020 DANGER PRIZE**From the acclaimed author of THE SUITCASE BABY and THE SUICIDE BRIDE, the fascinating story of a series of horri...

Within the frame of family farming, this book offers a longitudinal study of the Castra district in North-West Tasmania from first European settlem...

This book shows how pirates were portrayed in their own time, in trial reports, popular prints, novels, legal documents, sermons, ballads and newsp...

This book surveys historical and emerging global air and space power issues and provides a multidisciplinary understanding of the application of ai...

This book provides a case study on the ongoing impact of displacement and encampment of refugees who do not have access to resettlement support ser...

In the early 1970s at Papunya, a remote settlement in the Central Australian desert, a group of Indigenous artists decided to communicate the sacre...

For the first time, the First Nations story of Cook’s arrival, and what blackfellas want everyone to know about the coming of Europeans. Both 250 y...

This book fills a gap in our knowledge about the activities of Western supporters and members of Islamic State by examining the experience of their...

Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion, and Exile, 1550--1850 brings together eleven original essays by an internation...

Legends of Maui (1910) is a collection of Hawaiian folktales and myths anthologized by W. D. Westervelt. Paying homage to the importance of Maui ac...

Paul R. Bartrop examines the formation and execution of Australian government policy towards European Jews during the Holocaust period, revealing t...