In the aftermath of WWII Australia undertook a number of war crime trials, and yet despite detailed records about Japane......more

Upon sighting the USS Charleston on January 29, 1891, hundreds of citizens of the Hawaiian kingdom to Honolulu Harbor to......more

Upon sighting the USS Charleston on January 29, 1891, hundreds of citizens of the Hawaiian kingdom to Honolulu Harbor to......more

Investigating the history of vagrants in colonial Australia and New Zealand, this book provides insights into the histor......more

A photographic coffee table book about Rekohu, Chatham Islands, New Zealand--the raw beauty of the land, sea, people and......more

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This open access book presents an international history of humanitarianism during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.......more

The remarkable story of Maori fishing - from Polynesian navigators to contemporary business....more

Focusing on patterns of intimacy, this book traces the historical roots of parenting practices and familial patterns con......more

The destruction and defiance that swirled around Australia’s embrace of the world’s nuclear order Though a nonnuclear st......more

The destruction and defiance that swirled around Australia’s embrace of the world’s nuclear order Though a nonnuclear st......more

Our heroes can come from the most ordinary of places. As a shy lad growing up in country Victoria, no one in the distric......more

The nineteenth-century spread of democracy in Britain and its colonies coincided with an increase in alcohol consumption......more

This concise survey showcases the incredible, diverse work of Aboriginal and Torres Strait artists. Building on traditio......more

The Routledge History of the Modern Maritime World provides a wide-ranging set of chapters, covering the sixteenth centu......more

Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies sheds new light on the history of geography through the biographies of distingui......more

Michael Brown undertakes a thorough study of Eyeliner’s BUY NOW, a vaporwave homage to the kitsch electronic sounds of t......more

The South Seas in the Modern World (1942) surveys the economic, social, educational and strategic problems facing the is......more

In the high mountains and jungles of the northern Philippines lived a quarter of a million people, Malayan, Indonesian a......more

The aftermath of the Second World War marked a radical new moment in the history of migration. For the millions of refug......more

Kua rongo pai te iwi mo nga mahi a nga tupuna hoia, engari, he aha ra nga korero mo te hunga i noho tonu ai ki te kainga......more

Taking readers to the farms and factories, the marae and churches where Maori lived, worked and raised their families, T......more

"They put up barriers, the same way with our bodies. Our bodies are meant for us to be very expressive. Hawaiians were l......more

In Australia, clinical neurology emerged as a specialised area of medical practice a century ago, in the aftermath of Wo......more

In 1767 the shores of Tahiti first appeared in the sights of Captain Samuel Wallis, and ever since, this tropical locale......more

The Pacific Profiles series presents the most accurate WWII profiles of Allied and Japanese aircraft which served throug......more

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Tropical weather in colonial Malaya presented an unknown atmosphere that manifested in extremes and uncertainties. From ......more

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Two-up, a famous Australian soldiers’ gambling game, has given Australian English many unique words and phrases. The gam......more

This book presents the most comprehensive mapping and analysis of women’s football in Oceania and is the first to examin......more

This book explores the historical and social dynamics of Spiritualism - a religious movement associated in the popular i......more

A look through the kitchen window into early rural life in Aotearoa....more

The Historical Dictionary of New Zealand, Fourth Edition provides a broad introduction to New Zealand, as well as rich d......more

In The Mana of Translation: Translational Flow in Hawaiian History from the Baibala to the Mauna, Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada m......more

This book exposes a long and powerful influence on Australian society, economy, culture and history has been the doomed-......more

The Homosexual Law Reform Society (Canberra, 1969), the Daughters of Bilitis (Melbourne 1970), the Campaign Against Mora......more

Chen demonstrates how the pursuit of foreign policy independence repeatedly placed the Whitlam Government in a position......more

Fazio examines the significance of the US-Australian Korean engagement, 1947-53, in the evolution of the relationship be......more

Governance and Public Space in the Australian City is a rich and evocative examination of the production and use of publ......more

When the University of Adelaide established Australia’s second law school in 1883, South Australia became one of the few......more

When Karen Wallwork announced her second book of Beachmere’s collective memory, "Beachmere Revisited", was to be the las......more

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Possums in the roof, an echidna in the garden, or perhaps a python in the pantry? Living with Wildlife: A Guide for Our ......more

Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific, is a classical book and has been considered important throughout the ......more

ASALH 2023 Book Prize Winner A lively living history of anti-colonialist movements across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Ind......more

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Foreword by Professor Geoffrey Blainey Dillon often sets out long documents which give readers an opportunity to learn m......more

Japan’s oceans demand our attention. Violent, prolific, and changeful, they define life and death on the archipelago: pu......more

Keira Street has seen plenty of action, including murder, arson and a gun-happy nightwatchman. Businesses have come and ......more

An Unwinnable War charts the motives, ambitions and negotiations that carried Australia into Afghanistan. A decade on fr......more

Two Years Among the Savages of New Guinea With Introductory Notes on North Queensland., is a classical book and has been......more

Two Years Among New Guinea Cannibals, is a classical book and has been considered important throughout the human history......more

Bonegilla was a point of reception and temporary accommodation for approximately 320,000 post-war refugees and assisted ......more

Frommer’s only works with expert, seasoned journalists, and on this title both know every inch of the islands and they’r......more

Now fully revised for 2023, this is the essential and comprehensive guide to the Australian battlefields of the Western ......more

Weteriana Methodism re-examines the Wesleyan mission’s impact in Aotearoa New Zealand, centering indigenous voices and p......more

In a wartime nightmare of starvation, disease, brutality and death, Sir Edward ’Weary’ Dunlop’s courage and compassion m......more

Doomadgee had been run for forty-three years by the Exclusive Brethren, originally the Plymouth Brethren who came down t......more

Aboriginal Myths, Legends amp; Fables presents a wealth of poetic and imaginative tales from Aboriginal cultural heritag......more

First published in 1935, and now in its 24th edition. This new Idriess book tells of stirring episodes in the pursuit, o......more

Of the thousands who headed to the Australian Goldfields in the 1850s to find riches, not all would search for gold... W......more

In Beyond The Broken Years - fifty years after The Broken Years, Bill Gammage’s classic on World War One soldiers, was p......more

Uncovers the untold stories of the Australian Defence Force’s crucial role in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy, Australia’......more

This classic and colourfully illustrated work - reprinted to meet continuing wide demand - tells the story of much of th......more

​This classic and colourfully illustrated work - reprinted to meet continuing wide demand - tells the story of much of t......more

When Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin on Christmas Day 1974, it was the worst natural disaster Australians had ever experi......more

The Story of Chalmers of New Guinea, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and s......more

The killers were Pevay and Timmy. In 1841 they slew two men and wounded others in an angry rampage through the Victorian......more

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

This biography is about great wealth, power and responsibility, and Kenneth Myer’s search for meaning and purpose in a l......more

Journal of Baron Charles von Hügel, Austrian aristocrat, diplomat, army officer and botanist. Baron Charles von Hügel wa......more