Australasian & Pacific History

When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they deva...

Social workers produced thousands of case files about the poor during the interwar years. Analyzing almost two thousand such case files and traveli...

Spanning the social, political, and economic history of the Pacific Islandswhich include Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesiathis book provides an ...

Meticulous detail and insightful analysis combine with a gripping chronological narrative to provide the essential guide to the Pacific Theater o...

Outback Stories - Tracks Further Out explores the lives of outback Australians who shaped the cultural, political and artistic landscape. From Burk...

The 1970s saw the Aboriginal people of Australia struggle for recognition of their postcolonial rights. Rural communities, where large Aborigina...

In 1942, the Solomon Islands formed the stepping stones toward Rabaul, the main base of Japanese operations in the South Pacific, and the Allies pr...

Pitcairn Island is arguably the most isolated inhabited spot on Earth. Yet despite tricky ocean currents, often lethal surf and sudden gales, th...

During World War II, the Solomon Islands became the scene of a titanic struggle between Allied and Japanese forces. After their victory on Guada...

The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFICHere is one of the most riveting first-person accounts to ever come out of World War 2. Robert Lec...

At the end of the 19th century, Dundee was Europe''s premier Arctic whaling port. From humble beginnings in the 1750''s this national industry had ...

Made in Chinatown delves into a little-known aspect of Australias past: its hundreds of Chinese furniture factories. These businesses thrived in th...