Australasian & Pacific history books

The fascinating story of the daughter of First Fleet convicts who overcame her humble origins to become the mistress...  Read More >>

Jeremy Bentham and Australia explores Bentham's writings on Australia. The authors place the writings in their historical...  Read More >>

Suburban Empire takes readers to the US missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of...  Read More >>

The classic story of Waiheke's settler families Now with a section on the island's indigenous history by historian,...  Read More >>

In his day the Flying Pieman, William Francis King, was one of Sydney's noted personalities. He frustrated his father's...  Read More >>

If gravestones could talk what stories they could tell of those who lie beneath, stories of the people who helped...  Read More >>

'Failed Times and Twisted Follies' is a collection of entertaining true-life stories in the life of one of Australia's...  Read More >>

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In 1841 in Port Phillip's new Supreme Court a young Redmond Barry argued that the evidence against two Tasmanian...  Read More >>

The desperate manhunt to bring down Australia's most notorious outlaw When Ned Kelly and his band of young tearaways...  Read More >>

Suburban Empire takes readers to the US missile base at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, at the matrix of...  Read More >>

Pacific Forest explores the use of the forests of the Solomon Islands from the prehistoric period up to the end...  Read More >>

With the aid of over 300 photographs, complemented by full-colour maps, Gallipoli and the Middle East provides a...  Read More >>

This unique and fascinating book reveals the Melanesia you never knew. The Darklands acutely examines the mysterious...  Read More >>

When James Boswell famously lamented the irrationality of war in 1777, he noted the universality of conflict across...  Read More >>

A story that needs to be told -- a modern-day history of a place and a people struggling to maintain their identity...  Read More >>

A cultural history of Australia told through our fiction. Australia's novels lie at the heart of the country....  Read More >>

A cultural history of Australia told through our fiction. Australia's novels lie at the heart of the country....  Read More >>

""The quest to understand who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got...  Read More >>

This volume provides a unique and critical perspective on how Chinese, Japanese and Korean scholars engage and critique...  Read More >>

This richly illustrated survey of Cadbury’s in Australia includes the story of famous products like Freddo Frogs,...  Read More >>

David Dufty goes back to the records to uncover the real story of the police officers who pursued the Kelly Gang....  Read More >>

How is colonial history taught in schools? And how do education systems impact power relations between Indigenous...  Read More >>

Covering the life of Josephus Henry Barsden from his birth to 16 years of age, the Barsden memoirs cover events...  Read More >>

The King's Crew My 2014 work The King's Crew is the 460 page illustrated Unit History of No. 14 Squadron (City of...  Read More >>