Australasian & Pacific history books

A global history that entwines ancestral pasts with epochs of empire and colony leading to the contemporary moment....  Read More >>

C'est là une approche originale et plaisante de l'histoire des sciences, et indiscutablement une belle réussite....  Read More >>

Australia has been directly involved in the nuclear industry for more than a century, but our involvement has never...  Read More >>

As the many nations of the Pacific deal with the threat of climate change, including rising sea levels and lessening...  Read More >>

How much do you know about the history of Australia's oldest political party, the Australian Labor Party? You know...  Read More >>

A glimpse of life and death in the hills and hollows of bygone Australia through the letters of two newlyweds. A...  Read More >>

This work is the first major study of the six medical officers and the two medical dispensers who were employed...  Read More >>

West Maui’s long-time residents, tourists, and day workers alike have spent hours sitting in their cars, frustrated,...  Read More >>

From the trenches of the Western Front to the rice fields and jungles of South East Asia, Australian women have...  Read More >>

A timely study of an important, but often overlooked collector of early Melanesian objects and a pioneering anthropologist...  Read More >>

This book explores sexual violence and crime in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s, a period of intense social and...  Read More >>

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Drawing on digital criminal records, this book traces the life courses of young convicts who were sentenced at the...  Read More >>

This account of Sir Earle Page's eight-month mission to London provides insights into Anglo-Australian wartime relations...  Read More >>

There was only one survivor of the ill-fated Burke and Wills Expedition from Melbourne to the north coast of Australia...  Read More >>

Legends of Maui (1910) is a collection of Hawaiian folktales and myths anthologized by W. D. Westervelt. Paying...  Read More >>

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"""Una tremenda historia de los héroes estadounidenses que dieron cada onza de su fuerza y ​​coraje para abrir la...  Read More >>

This book examines Australian colonial and foreign aid policy towards Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia in the...  Read More >>

Grasping the Horizon traces the amazing lives of three generations of a single family of squatters. Having left...  Read More >>

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In the name of agriculture, urban growth, and disease control, humans have drained, filled, or otherwise destroyed...  Read More >>

In this kaleidoscope view of Cold War persecution, Karen Throsssell documents three generations of an extraordinary...  Read More >>

How often do you stop to think about how your street got its name, or why it starts and ends where it does? The...  Read More >>