Australasian & Pacific History

Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World is the first volume explicitly dedicated to the environmental history of Earths lar...

Indigenous peoples have our own ways of defining oral history. For many, oral sources are shaped and disseminated in multiple forms that are more c...

Hailed as the single most effective pilot at Midway (World War II magazine), Dusty Kleiss struck and sank three Japanese warships at the Battle of ...

The official Australian casualty statistics for the men of the Australian Imperial Force in the First World War are seriously wrong, with significa...

'We have decided we must have the 747.' - Bert Ritchie, Qantas Chief Executive, 1967From its first Qantas flight in 1971, the Boeing 747 flew milli...

The story of ethnographic collecting is one of cross-cultural encounters. This book focuses on collecting encounters in the Kamoro region of Papua ...

The Brief History series introduces readers to the dramatic events, notable people, and special customs and traditions that have shaped many of the...

Two husbands, four trials and one bloody execution: Winner of the 2015 Davitt Award for Best Crime Book (Non-fiction) - the terrible true story of ...

By January 1943, Australia had emerged from the shadow of war in a strong position. The victories in 1942 at Kokoda, Guadalcanal, Buna, Gona and Sa...

The Good Neighbour explores the Australian government's efforts to support peace in the Pacific Islands from 1980 to 2006. It tells the story of th...

'Dispossession and the Making of Jedda (1955)' newly locates the story of the genesis of the iconic 1955 film Jedda (dir. Chauvel) and, in turn, Je...