Australasian & Pacific history books

A Hint of Darkness alludes to betrayal & the perceived tainting of European blood. A passionate Australian novel,...  Read More >>

This book analyses the stance of international communism towards nationality, anti-colonialism, and racial equality...  Read More >>

Provides a glimpse into nineteenth- and twentieth-century Maui Komohana through stories printed in Ka Nupepa Kuokoa...  Read More >>

Examines the air defense of Australia and New Zealand during the interwar period. The book also demonstrates the...  Read More >>

Tom Shipley's War: Memoirs of a Weekend Warrior. Tom Shipley was first introduced in The Innocence of Tom Shipley...  Read More >>

Did you know that Honolulu is Hawaii's largest city? It is the only city in the state with more than 100,000 people...  Read More >>

A History of Druidry in Australia includes contributions from over thirty Australians who have a lived experience...  Read More >>

Did you know that Honolulu is Hawaii's largest city? It is the only city in the state with more than 100,000 people...  Read More >>

Unani Medicine in the Making examines the institutions and practices of Unani medicine, the Graeco-Islamic healing...  Read More >>

A collection of Hawaiian, Samoans, Maori and and other Polynesian legends about the demi-god Maui and his mother...  Read More >>

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"According to detractors, Captain Cook's centricity to the founding of Australia is a harmful colonialist ""myth""....  Read More >>

Inspired by the life of Jeanne Tunica Y Casas (1894 - 1972.) Feminist, Communist and above all a woman of courage...  Read More >>

In her most ambitious book to date, Dame Anne Salmond looks at New Zealand as a site of cosmo-diversity, a place...  Read More >>

The second volume of C. K. Stead's riveting memoir, taking us from graduate school to Smith's Dream and the Springbok...  Read More >>

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This book describes the lives of 30 people who have improved the lives of countless South Australians and others...  Read More >>

Australia is the only considerable portion of the world which has enjoyed the blessed record of unruffled peace....  Read More >>

Ernest Scott (1867-1939) was a journalist and Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. This volume,...  Read More >>

This book does not pretend to be a history of Australia; it merely gathers into one volume that which has hitherto...  Read More >>

This book has been deemed as a classic and has stood the test of time. The book has been considered by academicians...  Read More >>

[1643.] At the era of discovery by Tasman, Van Diemen's Land was inhabited. He heard, or thought he heard, the voices...  Read More >>

[1643.] At the era of discovery by Tasman, Van Diemen's Land was inhabited. He heard, or thought he heard, the voices...  Read More >>

Arthur Phillip, whose claim to be considered the first inland explorer of the south-eastern portion of Australia...  Read More >>

The story of the second British penal settlement in Australia, where a notoriously brutal convict regime became...  Read More >>