Australasian & Pacific History

William Cooper''s passionate struggle against the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the denial of their rights, and his heroic fight for them ...

Mata Austronesia is a collection of illustrated stories told by Austronesians past and presentan (ethno)graphic novel. Mata, the word for eye in nu...

The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal,...

John Morgan arrived in New Zealand in 1833 as a Missionary of the Church Missionary Society. He served in Kerikeri before assisting with the foundi...

On December 7, 1941, the course of U.S. history changed forever with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Three weeks prior, Japanese Special Envoy to the ...

A Liberal State: How Australians Chose Liberalism over Socialism 1926-1966 explores the revival of Australian political liberalism after the Great ...

This is a story of doubt. It is a story of people who left little trace. . . . There are no writings to pore over; no monuments to gaze at; no perf...

The Ngai Tahu settlement, like all other Treaty of Waitangi settlements in Aotearoa New Zealand, was more a product of political compromise and exp...