Australasian & Pacific history books

marramarra highlights contemporary Indigenous art from across the planet and how artists and their communities are...  Read More >>

This classic work tells the story of much of the surprising and hidden shady criminal past of leading figures in...  Read More >>

This classic work tells the story of much of the surprising and hidden shady criminal past of leading figures in...  Read More >>

The story of Australia’s Black convicts has been all but erased from our history. In recovering their lives, Santilla...  Read More >>

From multi-award-winning writer Helen Ennis comes the first ever biography of the photographer Max Dupain, the most...  Read More >>

A fascinating account of the last major Allied operation in the South-West Pacific, and the largest Australian military...  Read More >>

Remembering and Becoming investigates how oral history enriches our understanding of Aotearoa New Zealand's past....  Read More >>

Forgotten men and women from Australia in a forgotten war – Burma 1942-1945. If you didn’t know that Australians...  Read More >>

""To compose was as natural to me as to breathe; and this gift of nature, never having been suffered to fall into...  Read More >>

""To compose was as natural to me as to breathe; and this gift of nature, never having been suffered to fall into...  Read More >>

Pirates contributed to the British understanding of trans-oceanic navigation, patterns of trade and remote communities....  Read More >>

* Entertaining study of the evolution of 'kiwi' and national identity * Highly illustrated with colour...  Read More >>

Within the frame of family farming, this book offers a longitudinal study of the Castra district in North-West Tasmania...  Read More >>

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Through oral histories, memoirs, and Facebook posts of Vietnamese adults who entered Australia as children after...  Read More >>

This book surveys historical and emerging global air and space power issues and provides a multidisciplinary understanding...  Read More >>

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This book provides a case study on the ongoing impact of displacement and encampment of refugees who do not have...  Read More >>

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ASALH 2023 Book Prize Winner A lively living history of anti-colonialist movements across the Atlantic, Pacific,...  Read More >>

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A South Seas classic since 1966, this is the story of one New Zealander brave enough to do what we have all now...  Read More >>

In this engaging narrative, Wright follows the story of petitions on bark created by the Yirrkala community in Arnhem...  Read More >>

Help readers re-envision Japanese history in order to show how the seas created the country that we know today....  Read More >>

Comprehensive and fully updated, Frommer's Hawaii covers all the major Hawaiian Islands, and takes you from world-famous...  Read More >>