Australasian & Pacific History

Peter Carey captures our imagination with a brilliant and unexpected portrait of Sydney. In the midst of the 2000 Olympic games, Australia native P...

The Architecture of Devotion: James Goold and His Legacies in Colonial Melbourne honours the life and cultural contribution of Archbishop James Ali...

What joy to be at sea again, adrift on the vast Pacific, in the clutches of a gifted storyteller. Harrison Christian and the mutineers of Men Witho...

This is the first book to take a trans-Tasman look at the nineteenth-century phenomenon that was the gold rushes in Australia and New Zealand. It e...

'When I was born in 1935 I grew up, despite depression and World War II, with a primitive sense of being fortunate . . . The Utopian strain was ver...

The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in 1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic entanglements with Mori. ...

The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in 1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic entanglements with Mori. ...

In the 1930s, a series of crises transformed relationships between settlers and Aboriginal people in Australias Northern Territory. By the late 193...

Navigating the Spanish Lake examines Spains long presence in? the Pacific Ocean (15211898) in the context of its global empire. Building on a growi...

From items such as Swanndri, the Kiakia Swamp, Depression furniture and kahu kuri to stories about people such as Tau Ihu Kingi, the Highwayman, AW...