Australasian & Pacific History

Ka Mno Wai is dedicated to the mo`olelo (stories) of fourteen esteemed kumu loea (expert teachers) who are knowledge keepers of cultural ways. Kama...

Since the late 1960s, drama by Pacific Island playwrights has flourished throughout Oceania. Although many Pacific Island cultures have a broad ran...

A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and inte...

During World War II Australia was under threat of invasion. Could Australia be invaded by the Japanese? Even with the heavy censorship by the gover...

The British plan to settle Australia was a high-risk venture. We now take it for granted that the first colony was the basis of one of the most suc...

This edited collection investigates New Zealands history as an imperial power, and its evolving place within the British Empire. It revises and exp...

With historical sketches of some 165 churches that were known to exist in Hawaii during the nineteenth century, N Hale Pule: Portraits of Native Ha...

From its rise in the 1830s to its pinnacle in the 1930s, the opium trade was a guiding force in the Chinese political economy. Opium money was inex...

In this anthology of contemporary eco-literature, the editors have gathered an ensemble of a hundred emerging, mid-career, and established Indigeno...

Water and Power in West Maui draws our attention to the ways control of water resources, in West Maui and across Hawaii, has been key to the creati...

The most comprehensive historical account in English about the lives of French immigrants in New Zealand in existence, this work tells how, in 1840...

Trans and gender diverse people have always been present in Australian life, whether they've lived quiet lives in the country, performed in cabaret...