Australasian & Pacific history books

A powerful investigation that reveals the deep injustices inflicted on Aboriginal people in the Kimberley in the...  Read More >>

The story of the first 25 years of Australia's national signals intelligence organisation, told for the first time....  Read More >>

"James Tyson was born in 1819, the seventh child of William and Isabella Tyson. Even though the forty acres they...  Read More >>

Portable, up-to-date, and to-the-point,Frommer's Honolulu and Oahu day by dayis all about maximizing the time you...  Read More >>

""This book focuses on the production and impacts of the phosphate and asylum industries in the Republic of Nauru.""--...  Read More >>

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

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An important contribution to music history scholarship, this volume not only establishes Tex Morton’s significance...  Read More >>

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A vividly illustrated, accessibly written history of the Aboriginal art movement from remote Australia.  Read More >>

"Bereits gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts galt Samoa als ""Perle der Sudsee"". Das sympathische, bunte Bild des ""Sudseeparadieses""...  Read More >>

Pacifying Missions interrogates the variegated and contested ways that missionaries imagined, articulated, and enacted...  Read More >>

New Zealand 1773. A week before Christmas. A rowboat carrying ten sailors disappears. Next day butchered bodies...  Read More >>

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Everywhen is a ground-breaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep...  Read More >>

This is a story of the lives of four young Australians during WW1. They were all friends once, but an incident occurs...  Read More >>

A sweeping account of Australia's wet tropical rainforest country, from deep time to the legendary time of Australia's...  Read More >>

Offers a wealth of insight into the emergence of the Hawaiian nation-state from sources mostly ignored by historians....  Read More >>

This is a true account of the exploits of bushrangers of the lower Dawson River, Central Queensland responsible...  Read More >>

Offers a wealth of insight into the emergence of the Hawaiian nation-state from sources mostly ignored by historians....  Read More >>

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After World War II, Reg Beck buys The Crown Hotel, then one of 72 pubs in Bendigo, 12 of which were within 300 metres....  Read More >>

Centering on cases of sexual violence, this open access book illuminates the contested introduction of British and...  Read More >>

A uniquely collaborative analysis of human adaptation to the Polynesian islands, told through oral histories, biophysical...  Read More >>

This fascinating history is a narrative not just of an entrepreneurial family with all of its rich past and personalities,...  Read More >>