Australasian & Pacific History

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

From multi-award-winning writer Helen Ennis comes the first ever biography of the photographer Max Dupain, the most influential Australian photogra...

This unique book is the only fully interdisciplinary and comprehensive study of the Australian desert and its pivotal role in the cultural history ...

This unique book is the only fully interdisciplinary and comprehensive study of the Australian desert and its pivotal role in the cultural history ...

The Christchurch earthquake of February 22, 2011 was one of the worst natural disasters in New Zealand s history. The quake devastated New Zealand ...

This book examines what distinguished New Zealand's response to the Rising and its aftermath - particularly from Australian and Canadian responses,...

Despite the Australian Constitution having been one of the most stable since its commencement in 1901, it is becoming fatally flawed. The Naked Aus...

Architectural Encounters in Asia Pacific explores the architecture of colonial trade and industry, revealing a complex network of transnational con...

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

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

WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONS JOHN MULVANEY BOOK AWARD 2023ngabaya painted all this, you know when we were kids we would com...

Over 120,000 American troops were stationed in Australia during the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands more passed through the country between...