Australasian and Pacific history Books

Book SynopsisBraided Waters sheds new light on the relationship between environment and society by charting the history of Hawaii's Molokai island over a thousand-year period of repeated settlement. From the arrival of the first Polynesians to contact with eighteenth-century European explorers and traders to our present era, this study shows how the control of resourcesespecially waterin a fragile, highly variable environment has had profound effects on the history of Hawaii. Wade Graham examines the ways environmental variation repeatedly shapes human social and economic structures and how, in turn, man-made environmental degradation influences and reshapes societies. A key finding of this study is how deep structures of place interact with distinct cultural patterns across different societies to produce similar social and environmental outcomes, in both the Polynesian and modern erasa case of historical isomorphism with profound implications for global environmental history.Trade Review"Compellingly argued, theoretically robust, and deeply researched, Braided Waters is an invaluable contribution to the historical literature about Molokai and the Hawaiian Islands in general that deserves a wide readership. Hopefully, it will spark more research into the environmental history of these stunningly beautiful and ecologically ravaged islands." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"Braided Waters represents the first deeply researched history of Molokai (or Moloka‘i), whose enigmatic history fully merits the supple treatment Graham gives it." * Journal of Pacific History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps and Tables Foreword by Donald Worster Introduction: Outer Island, In Between 1. Wet and Dry: The Polynesian Period, 1000–1778 2. Traffick and Taboo: Trade, Biological Exchange,and Law in the Making of a New Pacific World, 1778–1848 3. A Good Land: Molokai after the Mahele, 1845–1869 4. The Bonanza Horizon: Molokai in the Sugar Era, 1870–1893 5. A Bigger, Better Hawai‘i: Making an American Molokai, 1893–1957 6. From Lonely Isle to Friendly Isle: Economic Struggles in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries and the Future of “the Most Hawaiian Island” Conclusion: Two Experiences of Settlement Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Sea Change] is a work of art, and Gerhardt . . . weaves together quite a collection of essays, maps and poetry that invite us to rethink our relationship to these vanishing landscapes." -- Rosanna Xia * Los Angeles Times *"How often does an atlas command immediate attention, warranting a page-by-page perusal? . . . This unique approach documents dramatic climate change while mounting an impassioned plea to save what remains of these remarkable island communities." * Booklist, starred review *"Each entry on each threatened island is rigorously scientific – maps, diagrams and statistics are there in abundance. . . . [A]longside all this, Gerhardt also offers poems from the communities and cultures under threat, as well as images of works of art and historical artefacts. . . . The overall result is a detailed and visually impactful inventory of all that we stand to lose." * The Scotsman *"The micro-chapters with their maps and timelines make this the kind of book that is easy to dip in and out of and experience in no particular order. You can island-hop just by flipping the page, and on every page you’ll encounter some scientific curiosity or historical factoid." * Sierra Magazine *"[Sea Change] gives far-flung places a voice, grounds them in our imaginations as real places with cultures of their own, places that people call home and have done for generations. There’s a strong climate justice angle to all of this of course." * The Earthbound Report *"[Sea Change's] essays, maps, art and poetry place small islands (vanishing under rising seas right now) at the centre of the climate story. This is a refreshingly different perspective." * New Scientist *“This is not just an Atlas but more an experience. As you turn the pages you realise that you are hearing life and death stories of communities that are in danger of disappearing.” * UK National Association for Environmental Education *"Gerhardt could have created a purely scientific report of what’s been happening to such far-flung places as Lnnui Mnukuk, the Mi’kmaq name for Lennox Island in Canada’s North Atlantic provinces, and the Republic of Nauru in the Pacific, the world’s smallest independent island nation. Instead, she considers her artfully designed book a 'transportive atlas' that incorporates maps, essays, poetry and images, along with brief histories outlining the impacts of colonialism and imperialism, providing more of a holistic and multi-media experience." * Berkeleyside *"[I]rresistible . . . The book covers 49 islands, island groups and island nations around the world, each with its own short chapter giving an overview of the location’s history, the present, and the impending dangerous future Each is also accompanied by a map. Most chapters are straightforward narrative, but there is also poetry and art sprinkled throughout. The effect is to both expand the view to every ocean around the world, but to also keep the focus on a very personal, human level." * Daily Kos *"Gerhardt’s book . . . feature[s], on each spread, a map of an island or island group; visualizations of the island’s sea level today and in 2050 and 2100; geographic data about each island; demographic data about its Indigenous inhabitants; a timeline of Indigenous, 'pre-contact,' and climate-related histories; and an essay on the island and its inhabitants. Each narrative . . . depict[s] various 'solutions' deployed both by global and national governments and by Indigenous peoples: from sea walls and geoengineering to preserving and restoring coral and oyster reefs, mangrove marshes, wetlands, and other natural buffers." -- Shannon Mattern * The Avery Review *"The most beautiful title on our list, Sea Change is also the most shocking. Atlases are being redrawn as islands vanish into the ocean. This remarkable hardback combines bold, slick and effective visualisations of those changes with factual information, cultural traditions and scientific research about the planet’s most vulnerable isles, and asks what might save them." * Environment Journal *"In this definitive and authoritative guide, Gerhardt fuses the poetic voices of the islanders themselves along with visual maps, highlighting where the issues are likely to be felt the most. The priority in this text, repeated throughout, is that of being a testimony to the cultures, histories and values that are in danger of being lost, as sea level rise continues." * Climate with Brian *"Christina Gerhardt has done an exceptional job of detailing the predicaments being faced by some of the world’s most vulnerable island communities . . . this is a highly respectable piece of journalistic work, and simultaneously a beautiful design object . . . Sea Change’s aesthetic allure will mean that it reaches the coffee tables of those who might not have ordinarily thought themselves interested in the topics being addressed, and that feels crucial right now." * Geographical Magazine *"[Sea Change] is an ode to islands large and small, north and south, and the many peoples who call them home. It is a book of science and stories and, yes, even hope amidst the rising waters. . . . I guarantee anyone who reads it will come away with a better understanding of the world’s many islands and a desire to do something about protecting them." * EcoLit *Table of ContentsCONTENTS FOREWORD Bill McKibben FOREWORDS Hilda Heine, Marshall Islands / Dessima Williams, Grenada INTRODUCTION Of Oceans and Islands ARCTIC OCEAN Greenland Sarichef Island ATLANTIC OCEAN Lennox Island Deal Island Republic of Cabo Verde Bissagos Islands Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe INDIAN OCEAN AND PERSIAN GULF Kingdom of Bahrain Union of the Comoros Republic of Mauritius Republic of Seychelles Republic of Maldives Bhasan Char and Sandwip Republic of Singapore PACIFIC OCEAN South China Sea Islands Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Guåhan Republic of Palau Federated States of Micronesia Republic of Marshall Islands Republic of Kiribati Republic of Nauru Republic of Vanuatu Solomon Islands Independent State of Papua New Guinea Republic of Fiji Tuvalu Tokelau Independent State of Samoa Niue Cook Islands Kingdom of Tonga CARIBBEAN SEA AND GULF OF MEXICO Bonaire Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Grenada Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Barbados Saint Lucia Martinique Commonwealth of Dominica Antigua and Barbuda Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Dominican Republic Haiti Jamaica Republic of Cuba Commonwealth of The Bahamas Isle de Jean Charles ANTARCTIC OCEAN Pine Island GLOSSARY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS MAP CITATIONS WORKS CITED CREDITS

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Book SynopsisThe last book in a trilogy of explorations on space and time from a preeminent scholar, The Boundless Sea is Gary Y. Okihiro's most innovative yet. Whereas Okihiro's previous books, Island World and Pineapple Culture, sought to deconstruct islands and continents, tropical and temperate zones, this book interrogates the assumed divides between space and time, memoir and history, and the historian and the writing of history. Okihiro uses himselffrom Okinawan roots, growing up on a sugar plantation in Hawai'i, researching in Botswana, and teaching in Californiato reveal the historian's craft involving diverse methodologies and subject matters. Okihiro's imaginative narrative weaves back and forth through decades and across vast spatial and societal differences, theorized as historical formations, to critique history's conventions. Taking its title from a translation of the author's surname, The Boundless Sea is a deeply personal and reflective volume that challenges how we think about timTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Remembrance Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1. Subject-Self 1. Black Stream (Obāban) 2. Self (Okāsan) 3. Naturalizations (Otōsan) PART 2. Subjects 4. Extinctions 5. Third World 6. Antipodes 7. History Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisVisions of Nature revives the work of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who shaped the environmental attitudes of settlers in the colonies of the Tasman World and in California. Despite having little association with one another, these photographers developed remarkably similar visions of nature. They rode a wave of interest in wilderness imagery and made pictures that were hung in settler drawing rooms, perused in albums, projected in theaters, and re-created on vacations. In both the American West and the Tasman World, landscape photography fed into settler belonging and produced new ways of thinking about territory and history. During this key period of settler revolution, a generation of photographers came to associate nature with remoteness, antiquity, and emptiness, a perspective that disguised the realities of Indigenous presence and reinforced colonial fantasies of environmental abundance. This book lifts the work of these photographers out of their provincial conTrade Review"Visions of Nature… is a rigorous and broad-ranging exploration that spans the highly local to the constructed ‘global’ and offers its readers new threads and connections to follow." * H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online *"Hore has written a series of microhistories that combine to tell a fascinating transnational narrative of late-19th-century colonial environmentalism." * Journal of Australian Studies *"Visions of Nature is a well-researched, unique work in the field of environmental history, geography, settler colonial theory, and the history of photography. The book takes a bold approach to its subject matter and pulls together immense amounts of information and evidence from various intellectual fields of study and geographical regions and is a significant work of interdisciplinary research." * Journal of Arizona History *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Dispossession in Focus: Between Ancestral Ties and Settler Territoriality 1. Six Geobiographies: Senses of Site in the White Settler World 2. Space and the Settler Geographical Imagination: The Survey, the Camera, and the Problematic of Waste 3. A Clock for Seeing: Revelation and Rupture in Settler Colonial Landscapes 4. Tanga Whakaāhua or, the Man Who Makes the Likenesses: Managing Indigenous Presence in Colonial Landscapes 5. Colonial Encounter, Epochal Time, and Settler Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 6. Noble Cities from Primeval Forest: Settler Territoriality on the World Stage 7. Settler Nativity: Nations and Nature into the Twentieth Century Conclusion: Settler Colonialism, Reconciliation, and the Problems of Place Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Visions of Nature… is a rigorous and broad-ranging exploration that spans the highly local to the constructed ‘global’ and offers its readers new threads and connections to follow." * H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online *"Hore has written a series of microhistories that combine to tell a fascinating transnational narrative of late-19th-century colonial environmentalism." * Journal of Australian Studies *"Visions of Nature is a well-researched, unique work in the field of environmental history, geography, settler colonial theory, and the history of photography. The book takes a bold approach to its subject matter and pulls together immense amounts of information and evidence from various intellectual fields of study and geographical regions and is a significant work of interdisciplinary research." * Journal of Arizona History *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Dispossession in Focus: Between Ancestral Ties and Settler Territoriality 1. Six Geobiographies: Senses of Site in the White Settler World 2. Space and the Settler Geographical Imagination: The Survey, the Camera, and the Problematic of Waste 3. A Clock for Seeing: Revelation and Rupture in Settler Colonial Landscapes 4. Tanga Whakaāhua or, the Man Who Makes the Likenesses: Managing Indigenous Presence in Colonial Landscapes 5. Colonial Encounter, Epochal Time, and Settler Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 6. Noble Cities from Primeval Forest: Settler Territoriality on the World Stage 7. Settler Nativity: Nations and Nature into the Twentieth Century Conclusion: Settler Colonialism, Reconciliation, and the Problems of Place Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe 1898 annexation of Hawai?i to the US is often framed as an inevitable step in American expansionbut it was never a foregone conclusion. By pairing the intimate and epic together in critical juxtaposition, Christen T. Sasaki reveals the unstable nature not just of the coup state but of the US empire itself. The attempt to create a US-backed white settler state inHawai?i sparked a turn-of-the-century debate about race-based nationalism and state-based sovereignty and jurisdiction that was contested on the global stage. Centered around a series of flash points that exposed the fragility of the imperial project, Pacific Confluence examines how the meeting and mixing of ideas that occurred between Hawaiians and Japanese, white American, and Portuguese transients and settlers led to the dynamic rethinking of the modern nation-state.Trade Review"Sasaki’s emphasis on confluence and the plurality of ideas, identities, and potential outcomes are a welcome addition to capture the complexity of experiences within Pacific and Asian American history." * The Hawaiian Journal of History *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Author’s Note on Hawaiian Language Usage Introduction 1. Emerging Nations, Emerging Empires: Interimperial Intimacies and Competing Settler Colonialisms in Hawai‘i 2. At the Borders of Nation and State: The 1894 Constitutional Convention 3. How the Portuguese Became White: The Search for Labor and the Cost of Indemnity 4. The Shinshu Maru Affair: Barred Landings and Immigration Detention 5. Historicizing the Homestead in Wahiawa Colony: From “American Family Farm” to Industrial Plantation Economy Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn authoritative and comprehensive history of the Pacific islanders from 40,000 BC to the present day.Trade Review' … this work makes a landmark contribution to our understanding of the Pacific Islands.' University of New South Wales Centre for South Pacific Studies NewsletterTable of Contents1. Contending approaches; 2. Settling the region; 3. Pacific Edens?; 4. Discovering outsiders; 5. Land, labour and independence; 6. New political orders; 7. Land, labour and dependency; 8. Invention of the native; 9. The war in the Pacific; 10. A nuclear Pacific; 11. The material world re-made; 12. The ideological world re-made; 13. The end of insularity?

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Book SynopsisDiscovering Monaro, a fascinating local history of an Australian region, is at the same time a contribution to the current debate on the environment and man's manipulation of it. Sir Keith Hancock examines critically the indictment, heralded by Plato in the Critias, that man is a creature who spoils his environment and in so doing spoils himself.Table of ContentsPart I. Perspective View: 1. Theme; 2. The first discoverers; Part II. New Arrivals: 3. Squatting; 4. Spoiling; 5. Improving; Part III. Possessing the land: 6. Battles for possession; 7. Spoiling; 8. Improving; 9. White men in the high country - the first hundred years; Part IV. The two landscapes: 10. The tableland; 11. The high country; 12. Looking forward.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1992, Whitefella Comin' depicts life at Doomadgee, an Aboriginal settlement administered by Brethren missionaries from the early 1930s until 1983. In addressing the structures and processes of power relations between Aborigines and Whites, the author develops an analysis of resistance and accommodation on the part of Aboriginal people.Table of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations and conventions; 1. Doomadgee: the politics of colonial social relations; 2. 'Wild time': a history of coercion and resistance; 3. Station and fringe-dwelling life; 4. Doomadgee mission: institutionalisation and a new form of colonial struggle; 5. Whitefella comin': power relations and the different domains; 6. Politics and identity within the Aboriginal domain; 7. Authority relations, the missionary staff and Aboriginal consciousness; 8. Councillors, 'Yellafellas' and the influence of colonial ideology; 9. Christianity, domination and resistance; 10. Coercion, resistance and accommodation in colonial social relations; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis exciting 1995 collection of essays explores the inter-relationship of gender and war in Australia. Its focus is women's and men's experiences in WWI, WWII and the Vietnam War. Challenging the traditional images of men and women in wartime, this book shows that war offers opportunities that erode gender boundaries.Table of ContentsIntroduction: warfare, history and gender Marilyn Lake and Joy Damousi; Part I. Femininities: 1. Heroines and heroes: sexual mythology in Australia 1914–1918 Carmel Shute; 2. Day mothers and night sisters: World War I nurses and sexuality Katie Holmes; 3. Female desires: the meaning of World War II Marilyn Lake; 4. Lesbians and loose women: female sexuality and the women's services during World War II Ruth Ford; 5. Consuming passions: romance and consumerism during World War II Lyn Finch; 6. Remembering romance: memory, gender and World War II Kate Darian-Smith; Part II. Masculinities: 7. A crisis of masculinity? Australian military manhood in the Great War Alistair Thomson; 8. The gendered battlefield: sex and death in Gallipoli Rose Lucas; 9. The gendered figuring of the dysfunctional serviceman in the discourses of military psychiatry Joseph Pugliese; 10. In a cloud of lust: black GIs and sex in World War II Kay Saunders; 11. Return home: war, masculinity and repatriation Stephen Garton; 12. Comrades-in-arms: World War II and male homosexuality in Australia Garry Wotherspoon; 13. A bit of the other: touring Vietnam Robin Gerster; Part III. Mobilisations: 14. 'All the passion of our womanhood': Margaret Thorp and the Battle of the Brisbane School of Arts Raymond Evans; 15. Socialist women and gendered space: anti-conscription and anti-war campaigns 1914–1918 Joy Damousi; 17. Feminists, food and the fair price: the cost-of-living demonstrations in Melbourne, August–September 1917 Judith Smart; 18. 'Shut up, you bourgeois bitch': sexual identity and political action in the anti-Vietnam war movement Ann Curthoys; Contributors; Index.

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Book SynopsisAsia, the Pacific Islands and the coasts of the Americas have long been studied separately. This essential single-volume history of the Pacific traces the global interactions and remarkable peoples that have connected these regions with each other and with Europe and the Indian Ocean, for millennia. From ancient canoe navigators, monumental civilisations, pirates and seaborne empires, to the rise of nuclear testing and global warming, Matt Matsuda ranges across the frontiers of colonial history, anthropology and Pacific Rim economics and politics, piecing together a history of the region. The book identifies and draws together the defining threads and extraordinary personal narratives which have contributed to this history, showing how localised contacts and contests have often blossomed into global struggles over colonialism, tourism and the rise of Asian economies. Drawing on Asian, Oceanian, European, American, ancient and modern narratives, the author assembles a fascinating PacifiTrade Review'Finally - a coherent portrayal of the immense Pacific. Matsuda narrates brilliantly the communities that traded and warred among islands, mainland, and currents; he illustrates beautifully the cultural exchanges and social struggles of this vast region. This book will ensure that the Pacific becomes central to discussion of global historical patterns.' Patrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh'This is a daring and thought-provoking read, as the author weaves together individual life experiences to demonstrate the complex interplay between transcultural connectedness and power contestations. Reminiscent of Sugata Bose's A Hundred Horizons, which focused on the Indian Ocean, Matsuda's book has managed to transcend local, regional and world history in literary-quality tales of 'overlapping transits' that challenge our conventional categories and highlight larger historical issues.' David Chappell, University of Hawai`i'The range of Matt Matsuda's Pacific Worlds is extraordinary. This book breaks down longstanding distinctions between the histories of the Pacific Islands and those of east and southeast Asia and America's Pacific coast. Broad-brush in the best sense, it offers a superb distillation of changing economies, societies, and imaginations. Taking the reader from ancient migrations to current political conflicts, it's a fine introduction to the human history of the world's largest ocean.' Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge'[This] book interweaves a fascinating network of tales and episodes that illuminate the diversity of Pacific localities and lives through history. Matsuda's narrative, revealing a remarkable breadth and depth of research and understanding, is both forcefully polemical and eloquently - even entertainingly - readable.' Harriet Guest, University of York'Matsuda has produced a rarity: a theoretically sophisticated work that is a real pleasure to read.' BBC History Magazine'Many in the huge surrounding landmasses of South-East Asia, East Asia, the Americas and Australia see 'the Pacific' as being the countries bordering the Pacific Ocean. Matt Matsuda's splendid history shatters the basin and, with it, the rim … For those most interested in the Pacific Islands, this book addresses and contextualizes the substantial contacts of south Asia and China with the western Pacific, especially northern Australia and New Guinea, a prolonged relationship that some notable Pacific historians have largely ignored to privilege later English and French interactions on Tahiti in the late eighteenth century.' Judith A. Bennet, Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsIntroduction: encircling the ocean; 1. Civilization without a center; 2. Trading rings and tidal empires; 3. Straits, sultans and treasure fleets; 4. Conquered colonies and Iberian ambitions; 5. Island encounters and the Spanish lake; 6. Sea changes and spice islands; 7. Samurai, priests and potentates; 8. Pirates and raiders of the eastern seas; 9. Asia, America, and the age of the galleon; 10. Navigators of Polynesia and paradise; 11. Gods and sky piercers; 12. Extremities of the Great Southern Continent; 13. The world that Canton made; 14. Flags, treaties, and gunboats; 15. Migrations, plantations, and the people trade; 16. Imperial destinies on foreign shores; 17. Traditions of engagement and ethnography; 18. War stories from the Pacific theater; 19. Prophets and rebels of decolonization; 20. Critical mass for the earth and ocean; 21. Specters of memory, agents of development; 22. Repairing legacies, claiming histories; Afterword: world heritage.

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Book SynopsisShowcases the colourful histories of some spectacular vineyards and historic buildings, exploring the wine industry's transformation into an export-earning powerhouse and detailing the challenges of taking old family businesses into the 21st century.

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Book SynopsisFrom the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1770 to classic children's tale Dot and the Kangaroo, Ken Gelder and Rachel Weaver examine hunting narratives in novels, visual art and memoirs to discover how the kangaroo became a favourite quarry, a relished food source, an object of scientific fascination, and a source of violent conflict.

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Book SynopsisCharts the changing policies and practices of the Australian Defence Force, illuminating the experiences of LGBTI members in what was often a hostile institution. At the centre of this book are the courageous LGBTI members who served their country in the face of systemic prejudice.

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Book SynopsisFrom the wild jazz clubs of Prohibition-era LA to Indigenous women discovering a new world of black resistance, this anatomy of a scandal-fuelled frame-up brings into focus a vibrant cast of characters from Australia's Jazz Age.

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Book SynopsisWar remembrance and sport have become increasingly entwined in Australia, with AFL and NRL Anzac Day fixtures attracting larger crowds than dawn services. This book challenges the way our memories of war are influenced by the fervour of sport, painting a picture not of triumph but immense turmoil and tragedy.

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Book SynopsisIn the optimistic years preceding Federation in 1901, the Melbourne-based Australian Church emerged as a progressive Christian movement to serve a brand-new nation. Bringing together leading scholars, this volume celebrates the church's radicalism, while taking account of debates and obstacles on the path to social reform.

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Book SynopsisUsing a century of MUP publications and archives, Stuart Kells has written a rich and fascinating history of an invaluable Australian institution - one that is widely seen as public property, and whose ups and downs have always been news.

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Book SynopsisHonours the life and cultural contribution of Archbishop James Alipius Goold (1812-1886). A companion to The Invention of Melbourne, this volume brings Goold to life as we follow him around the colony and witness how he shaped the fabric of Victorian suburbs and towns.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on still-classified official documents and over thirty interviews, this book records the preconditions, motivations and dynamics of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) between 2003 and 2017.

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Book SynopsisA History of Southeast Asia: Critical Crossroads presents a comprehensive history of Southeast Asia from our earliest knowledge of its civilizations and religious patterns up to the present day.Trade Review"Among the book’s many virtues is Reid’s ability to break down the two thousand years he had to cover in order to guide the reader through space and time. ...Written in a straightforward, no-nonsense style, the book will be accessible to many, with judiciously chosen quotations to enliven the story." (Australian Institute of International Affairs, 1 November 2015) “Understanding the region is therefore not just a matter of intellectual curiosity but also of considerable topical importance. Despite its textbook-like appearance, History is eminently readable. It succeeds at both providing a broad-brush overview of this complex region, presenting it from within, identifying and tracing major themes, while at the same time delivering a wealth of fascinating and intriguing detail.” (Asian Review of Books, 25 November 2015) "A splendid contribution that can and should be read and discussed with interest by scholars and teachers of Southeast Asian studies as well as world and Eurasian history." - Craig A. Lockard, Asian History Review no. 41 (Nov. 2016, pp.167-8) Table of ContentsList of Tables xi List of Maps xii List of Illustrations xiii Series Editor’s Preface xiv Preface xvii Glossary xxii Abbreviations xxv 1 People in the Humid Tropics 1 Benign Climate, Dangerous Environment 1 Forests, Water, and People 4 Why a Low but Diverse Population? 6 Agriculture and Modern Language Families 10 The Rice Revolution and Population Concentration 13 The Agricultural Basis of State and Society 16 Food and Clothes 18 Women and Men 21 Not China, not India 26 2 Buddha and Shiva Below the Winds 30 Debates about Indic States 30 Bronze, Iron, and Earthenware in the Archaeological Record 32 The Buddhist Ecumene and Sanskritization 34 Shiva and Nagara in the “Charter Era,” 900–1300 39 Austronesian Gateway Ports – the Negeri 45 Dai Viet and the Border with China 47 The Stateless Majority in the Charter Era 49 Thirteenth/Fourteenth‐Century Crisis 53 3 Trade and Its Networks 57 Land and Sea Routes 57 Specialized Production 59 Integration of the Asian Maritime Markets 62 Austronesian and Indian Pioneers 63 The East Asian Trading System of 1280–1500 65 The Islamic Network 69 The Europeans 71 4 Cities and Production for the World, 1490–1640 74 Southeast Asia’s “Age of Commerce” 74 Crops for the World Market 76 Ships and Traders 80 Cities as Centers of Innovation 81 Trade, Guns, and New State Forms 85 Asian Commercial Organization 91 5 Religious Revolution and Early Modernity, 1350–1630 96 Southeast Asian Religion 97 Theravada Cosmopolis and the Mainland States 98 Islamic Beginnings: Traders and Mystics 101 Polarizations of the First Global War, 1530–1610 106 Rival Universalisms 111 Pluralities, Religious Boundaries, and the “Highland Savage” 114 6 Asian European Encounters, 1509–1688 120 The Euro‐Chinese Cities 120 Women as Cultural Mediators 125 Cultural Hybridities 130 Islam’s “Age of Discovery” 133 Southeast Asian Enlightenments – Makassar and Ayutthaya 135 Gunpowder Kings as an Early Modern Form 139 7 The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century 142 The Great Divergence Debate 142 Southeast Asians Lose the Profits of Long‐Distance Trade 144 Global Climate and Local Crises 149 Political Consequences of the Crisis 152 8 Vernacular Identities, 1660–1820 157 Eighteenth‐Century Consolidation 157 Religious Syncretism and Localization 158 Performance in Palace, Pagoda, and Village 167 History, Myth, and Identity 172 Consolidation and its Limitations 175 9 Expansion of the Sinicized World 177 Fifteenth‐Century Revolution in Dai Viet 177 Viet Expansion, Nam Tien 179 Cochin‐China’s Plural Southern Frontier 183 The Greater Viet Nam of the Nguyen 185 The Commercial Expansion of a “Chinese Century,” 1740–1840 188 Chinese on Southern Economic Frontiers 191 10 Becoming a Tropical Plantation, 1780–1900 196 Pepper and Coffee 197 Commercialization of Staple Crops 198 The New Monopolies: Opium and Tobacco 200 Java’s Coerced Colonial Agriculture 204 Plantations and Haciendas 207 Mono‐crop Rice Economies of the Mainland Deltas 209 Pre‐colonial and Colonial Growth Compared 211 11 The Last Stand of Asian Autonomies, 1820–1910 213 Siam as “Civilized” Survivor 214 Konbaung Burma – a Doomed Modernization 219 High Confucian Fundamentalism – Nguyen Viet Nam 224 “Protected” Negeri 227 Muslim Alternatives in Sumatra 230 Bali Apocalypse 233 Mobile “Big Men” in the Eastern Islands 235 The Last State Evaders 237 12 Making States, 1824–1940 240 European Nationalisms and Demarcations 240 From Many to Two Polities in Nusantara 241 Maximal Burma, Viable Siam 246 Westphalia and the Middle Kingdom 250 Building State Infrastructures 251 How Many States in Indochina? 255 Ethnic Construction in the New Sovereign Spaces 256 States, not Nations 260 13 Population, Peasantization, and Poverty, 1830–1940 261 More People 261 Involution and Peasantization 263 Dual Economy and the Absent Bourgeoisie 266 Subordinating Women 268 Shared Poverty and Health Crises 272 14 Consuming Modernity, 1850–2000 276 Housing for a Fragile Environment 276 The Evolution of Foods 278 Fish, Salt, and Meat 279 Stimulants and Drinks 281 Cloth and Clothing 284 Modern Dress and Identity 286 Performance, from Festival to Film 289 15 Progress and Modernity, 1900–1940 295 From Despair to Hope 296 Education and a New Elite 302 Victory of the National Idea in the 1930s 306 Negotiating the Maleness of Modernity 314 16 Mid‐Twentieth‐Century Crisis, 1930–1954 319 Economic Crisis 319 Japanese Occupation 323 1945 – the Revolutionary Moment 331 Independence – Revolutionary or Negotiated? 341 17 The Military, Monarchy, and Marx: The Authoritarian Turn, 1950–1998 347 Democracy’s Brief Springtime 347 Guns Inherit the Revolutions 350 Dictatorship Philippine Style 358 Remaking “Protected” Monarchies 359 Twilight of the Indochina Kings 364 Reinventing a Thai Dhammaraja 367 Communist Authoritarianism 370 18 The Commercial Turnaround, 1965– 373 Economic Growth at Last 373 More Rice, Fewer Babies 376 Opening the Command Economies 378 Gains and Losses 380 Darker Costs – Environmental Degradation and Corruption 384 19 Making Nations, Making Minorities, 1945– 390 The High Modernist Moment, 1945–1980 390 Education and National Identity 394 Puritan Globalism 400 Joining an Integrated but Plural World 405 20 The Southeast Asian Region in the World 413 The Regional Idea 414 Global Comparisons 419 References 423 Further Reading 431 Index 436

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Book SynopsisPart Regency mystery, part imperial history, this title presents a tale of adventure and deceit across two worlds - British aristocrats and Australian felons - bound together in an emerging age of opportunity and individualism, where personal worth was battling power based on birth alone. It illuminates the darker side of this age of liberty.Trade ReviewA compelling narrative, full of twists and turns, enticing locales, fascinating characters, and strange paradoxes. It spans two hemispheres, traverses the high-life of the aristocracy on the one hand, and the brutal low-life of Antipodean convicts on the other. -- Iain McCalman, author of Darwin's ArmadaMcKenzie is a rising star in the historical profession, and this important and original book makes impressively plain why this is so. It is that rare accomplishment: a major work of scholarship that also deserves to reach a broader public. -- David Cannadine, author of Mellon: An American LifeAspects of the 19th century, as depicted in this work, could almost be read as a gothic mystery—with a clandestine marriage, anonymous letters, a European countess, and threats of disinheritance not to mention the swindling trickster, whose exploits bear witness to audacity in the face of adversity. However those gothic qualities should not overshadow the more serious aspects of the early 19th-century political power struggle between the abolitionist William Wilberforce and the slave trader Henry Lascelles… While McKenzie's text is based on solid research, it is engaging and offers a new interpretation of the corresponding attitudes, fears, and suspicions in both the metropole and the periphery. -- Tina Picton Phillipps * BBC History *A Swindler's Progress is a highly gripping narrative, its sociological insights conveyed largely through a series of striking human dramas. -- Matthew Reisz * Times Higher Education *

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Book SynopsisIs it possible to write the history of Japan’s colonial subjects? Ziomek contends that it is. By reconstructing individual life histories and following these people as they crossed colonial borders to the metropolis and beyond, Ziomek conveys the dynamic nature of an empire in motion.Trade ReviewLost Histories has several strengths to recommend it and should be required reading for scholars and students in modern Asian history and colonial studies…the method of shifting away from official records (colonial archives) and instead looking to nonofficial records that are textual, oral, visual, and material has opened up new and unfiltered documentation of personal experiences of colonization. -- Alice Y. Tseng * American Historical Review *Ziomek’s remarkable book Lost Histories occupies a unique place within this wave of scholarship [on Japanese imperialism] and represents a valuable contribution to it. What she has done…through her dogged research, is to force us to bring greater precision and empathy to our arguments about ethnicity and agency in colonial rule, in view of the lived experience of colonial subjects. In that sense, the book is truly a gift, one that I hope will feature prominently in future scholarship and teaching on the topic. * H-Diplo Reviews *A meticulously researched, vividly illustrated collection of micro-histories that bring to life the diverse peoples inhabiting the Japanese Empire…Ziomek contests narratives that see Japanese essentialization of ethnic difference as an attempt to strengthen their own position of power. Japan’s fixation on ethnic difference reveals not its success in securing a position of power atop the colonial racial hierarchy but instead the ‘precariousness’ of Japanese rule in the colonies. * Journal of Asian Studies *If, as the Naïve Idealist says, ‘a person’s name has the power to open a connection into their world,’ Kirsten L. Ziomek’s Lost Histories demonstrates that power. Her dogged pursuit of the names and life stories of people who lived within Japan’s formal empire is truly impressive. In several cases Ziomek circumvents the limitations of the ‘colonial archive’ to provide us with portrayals of people whose lives were certainly affected by the ‘oppressive nature of Japan’s colonial policies’ but were nevertheless full and fascinating. * Journal of Japanese Studies *As a work of original research that is both empirically grounded and conceptually bold, Lost Histories is highly recommended to scholars and students of imperial culture, colonial governance, and East Asian history. -- Paul D. Barclay * Journal of World History *Conceptually ambitious and expertly crafted…Lost Histories is especially commendable for its re-creation of the life stories of individual colonial subjects…The quality of scholarship…is superb…Useful to anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of East Asian international relations today. -- Erik Esselstrom * Monumenta Nipponica *Well written and fascinating, the book demonstrates that these lives tell us as much about colonialism as about the impact of colonial subjects on the conduct of Japanese colonial practices. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisThomas takes up issues central to modern anthropology: the cultural and political dynamics of colonial encounters, the nature of Western and non-Western transactions, and the significance of material objects in social life. He raises doubts about any simple “us/them” dichotomy between Westerners and Pacific Islanders.Trade ReviewPowerful and provocative. -- Roy Wagner, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsPart 1 Objects, exchange, anthropology: prestations and ideology; the inalienability of the gift; immobile value; the promiscuity of objects; value - a surplus of theories. Part 2 The permutations of debt - exchange systems in the Pacific: alienation in Melanesian exchange; debts and valuables in Fiji and the Marquesas; valuables with and without histories; the origin of whale teeth; value conversion versus competition in kind. Part 3 The indigenous appropriation of European things: the allure of barter; the musket economy in the southern Marquesas; the representation of the foreign; the whale tooth trade and Fijian politics; prior systems and later histories. Part 4 The European appropriation of indigenous things: curiosity - colonialism in its infancy; converted artifacts - the material culture of Christian missions; murder stories - settlers' curios; ethnology and the vision of the state; artifacts as tokens of industry; the name of science. Part 5 The discovery of the gift - exchange and identity in the contemporary Pacific: transformations of Fijian ceremonies; the disclosure of reciprocity; discoveries.

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Book SynopsisSamoans had been engaged in economic and cultural exchange long before Germans and Americans arrived on the islands. Holger Droessler shows how Samoans adapted their traditions to challenge the new globalization imposed on them by colonialism, regaining agency through the efforts of farm workers, nurses, and traveling entertainers alike.Trade ReviewThis is a significant and provocative book that is essential reading for anyone interested in colonialism in the South Pacific. -- Paul Shankman * Pacific Affairs *Coconut Colonialism is a brilliant new work that captures a confluence of histories centered on the critical German colony of Samoa. It interrogates the globalizing moment brought by colonialism and capitalism, and laid bare in its encounters with indigenous Samoa. It is a global moment seized not only by colonial agents and commercial enterprise but contested by those they sought to dominate and exploit. Threaded with an angle of vision that centers Samoa’s colonized, its workers and subjects, Coconut Colonialism offers powerful new insights into both the local and global natures of colonialism. Coconut Colonialism is a critical contribution to our understanding and knowledge of Samoa, of German colonialism in particular and of the practices of colonialism writ more broadly. -- Damon Salesa, author of Island Time: New Zealand’s Pacific FuturesBased on thorough and extensive research across multiple empires and regions, Droessler provides a strong history of the impacts of colonization and actions of native peoples, as well as histories of capitalism and labor in the Samoan region from the late nineteenth century through the end of World War II. This book is a great addition to the much needed scholarship on the Samoan region and the global influence of its people. -- Joanna Poblete, author of Balancing the Tides: Marine Practices in American SāmoaCoconut Colonialism makes for fascinating reading on a much-neglected part of the German and US empires, the Pacific islands of Samoa. Richly documented, this study foregrounds the perspective of Samoan workers whose strategies of accommodation, and of resistance, come fully alive. An important contribution to the literature on colonialism and capitalism. -- Sebastian Conrad, Freie Universität Berlin

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Book SynopsisOn October 23, 1956, a popular uprising against Soviet rule swept through Hungary like a force of nature, only to be mercilessly crushed by Soviet tanks twelve days later. This book presents an eyewitness account and an history of the uprising in Hungary that heralded the future liberation of Eastern Europe.Trade Review"Based on his own experiences, Lendvai adds a sharp focus to understanding of one of the most important events of the 20th century, the spontaneous Hungarian uprising. He maintains a balanced account of the causes and consequences of this heroic but tragic revolt, including the nonassistance of the Western nations, especially the U.S."--T.M. Racz, Choice "Lendvai's approach and style make this book a particularly welcome addition to the scholarship on the Hungarian revolution... Though the entire book has a great deal to offer the reader ... [the] final chapters, evaluating the legacy of the 1956 uprising, are the ones where Lendvai offers his most striking additions to the history of the revolution."--Eliza Ablovatski, Austrian History Yearbook "Lendvai has produced a sophisticated narrative of complex events, interweaving political, international, military, social, personal, and intellectual history into a thick fabric of historical text. Importantly, he argues that 1956 is an important year in Hungarian, and Western, heritage. Commendably, Lendvai shows his intellectual debt to Hungarian scholars throughout the text. One Day That Shook the Communist World is one of the most readable and best English language accounts of the Hungarian 1956 Uprising."--Laszlo Borhi, Historian "The detail in this work is impressive, the narrative engaging, and the judgments considered."--David W. Lovell, European LegacyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Chapter 1: A Day That Shook the Communist World 5 Chapter 2: The Road to Revolution 25 Chapter 3: A Night of Cataclysmic Decisions 45 Chapter 4: The Legend of the Corvinists 55 Chapter 5: Wrestling for the Soul of Imre Nagy 67 Chapter 6: Deadlocked 75 Chapter 7: A Turnaround with a Question Mark 83 Chapter 8: The General, the Colonel, and the Adjutant 89 Chapter 9: The Dams Are Breaking 101 Chapter 10: The Condottiere, the "Uncle," and the Romantics 109 Chapter 11: Decision in the Kremlin: The End of Patience 119 Chapter 12: Double Dive into Darkness 127 Chapter 13: The Puppeteers and the Kadar Enigma 139 Chapter 14: Operation Whirlwind and Kadar's Phantom Government 149 Chapter 15: The Yugoslav-Soviet Conspiracy 163 Chapter 16: The Second Revolution 173 Chapter 17: The Moral Bankruptcy of the U.S. Liberation Theory 185 Chapter 18: Worldwide Reactions 195 Chapter 19: The Barbarous Vendetta of the Victors 211 Chapter 20: 1956-1989: Victory in Defeat? 225 Epilogue: Whose 1956? 241 Acknowledgments 247 Chronology 249 Notes 255 Bibliography 279 Index 285

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Book SynopsisTells the story of East Timor, a half-island that suffered genocide after Indonesia invaded in 1975, and which was again laid to waste after the population voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999. This title provides a first-person account of the violence, as well as an assessment of the politics and history behind it.Trade Review"Intimate, informed ... the author offers rare insight into the country's internal turmoil. Particularly riveting are Robinson's descriptions of the days preceding the historic vote to separate from Indonesia... Despite the overwhelming brutality of the story, and a bleak assessment of actions from the UN and international community (as much a part of the problem as the solution), Robinson manages to cap his detailed report with a hopeful note."--Publishers Weekly "Robinson's book is thus a valuable addition to the literature on genocide and intervention... [He] has fused his own observations from that harrowing time with a more general history of East Timor to produce a thoughtful and intelligent volume."--Richard Just, New Republic "Robinson was a UN officer stationed in East Timor and his account is illuminating and horrifying."--Billy Heller, New York Post "[A] fine book... [T]hough enlivened by the narrative of Mr Robinson's own time as a participant in and eyewitness to the events described, ['If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die'] is also a subtle and nuanced work of history and analysis."--Economist "[Geoffrey Robinson] is arguably one of the most informed, compassionate outsiders to tell the story of the violence in the small island nation... Even if you don't have much baseline knowledge about the conflicts between these Southeast Asian islands, this book will illuminate the complicated history is accessible terms. Robinson offers crucial perspective on modern colonialism and explores issues of accountability and justice with aplomb."--Brittany Shoot, Feminist Review "Powerful... If You Leave Us Here We Will Die: How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor is the best account yet of 'a bad year in East Timor'--at least 1500 civilians murdered, 400,000 forced from their homes, 70 per cent of the infrastructure destroyed, the country looted... [Robinson] puts the violence in context, while his witness accounts give the book narrative power."--Tom Hyland, Sydney Morning Herald "Meticulously researched and powerful."--Joshua Kurlantzick, Washington Monthly "There is valuable and thought-provoking material in this book."--Peter Rodgers, The Australian "A compelling body of documentary and first-person evidence that Indonesian military and civilian leaders orchestrated the shocking violence that marred East Timor's birth as a nation... To be sure, it a sad story, but also one in which international intervention ultimately prevented a much greater disaster... Compelling."--Angilee Shah, Zocalo "[A] thoroughly researched, carefully analyzed, and compellingly argued work... Robinson's meticulously crafted book is an important one for experts on Southeast Asia, international affairs, violence, transitional justice, and human rights alike to consider and debate. Its clear writing, historical depth, and strong, yet nuanced analysis also make it highly appropriate for both upper-level undergraduates and graduate students."--Joseph Nevins, Pacific Affairs "[Robinson's] UN role and his history as a scholar and an expert on human rights issues gave him a unique insight into, and knowledge of, events. The result is an account that combines narrative power with detailed assessment to produce an outstanding description and analysis. In examining the events of 1999, the author's use of documents is rigorous and thorough, combining highly effectively with his first-hand reporting."--John Taylor, Asian Affairs "Robinson makes a compelling case that genocides are not beyond human control, which is itself an exceptionally important claim. This book is both an outstanding assessment of East Timor's road to independence and a highly perceptive, if discouraging, reflection on the challenge of humanitarian intervention and genocide prevention."--Roland Burke, Human Rights Quarterly "Robinson's analysis and insight into the period surrounding the independence ballot makes for authoritative and gripping reading."--Helene van Klinken, Inside Indonesia "Robinson, the leading historian of contemporary East Timor, has authored a broad range of scholarly and analytical work on Asia's latest decolonization. He also served as UN political officer in East Timor for six pivotal months in 1999. This allows him to weave together his years of scholarship on East Timor and Indonesia with his own inside experiences, backed by extensive research on the ground. The result is a hybrid memoir and academic book, providing both a powerful personal eyewitness account and incisive scholarship."--David Webster, Canadian Journal of History "[The book] does an excellent job in laying out the complexity of the issues at hand, and in providing practical policy recommendations to overcome some of the difficulties involved... The book is a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate about NATO."--James Cotton, Australian Journal of International Affairs "Robinson's book provides what will surely become one of the definitive sources for genocide scholars seeking to understand the story of East Timor, the causes of the mass violence there and also how it was stopped. One can hardly imagine a person better qualified to tell this story... Thoroughly researched and meticulously documented, Robinson's book is historically rich, politically astute and theoretically nuanced, while never losing its moral clarity. Robinson ably combines history, theory and personal memoir; he writes with conviction and pulls no punches."--Morton Winston, Journal of Genocide Research "[T]he systematic use of terror by Indonesia in East Timor is one of the leitmotivs of this book, and it is around this question that Robinson has made a major contribution to our understanding. Technically this is a well-paced work drawing the reader into the events through historical recall... This book is simply the definitive work on structural violence in East Timor, especially as it relates to the events of 1999, and should be compulsory reading for some of the actors concerned."--Geoffrey C. Gunn, Peace Review "A must-read for anyone interested in Timor-Leste's history."--Foreign Policy "Robinson's position as both a historian and a witness ... gives him the advantage of presenting a fuller view, including his perspective on the ground and the real human interactions of kindness, fear, courage, and resolve among the UN staff and locals, in addition to a scholarly historical account. This fuller perspective is particularly valuable to the legal world... This personal, human aspect is perhaps one the most notable contributions of Robinson's book to the historical documentation of the story of East Timor in Western texts."--Relic Sun, Journal of International Law and Politics "[T]his book is a rich and unique contribution to the study of East Timor, and political violence more generally... Robinson provides insight not only into the challenges that international interventions encounter on the ground but also the importance of persevering in spite of the challenges."--Jessica N. Trisko, Yale Journal of International AffairsTable of ContentsPreface ix List of Abbreviations xv CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER TWO: COLONIAL LEGACIES 21 CHAPTER THREE: INVASION AND GENOCIDE 40 CHAPTER FOUR: OCCUPATION AND RESISTANCE 66 CHAPTER FIVE: MOBILIZING THE MILITIAS 92 CHAPTER SIX: BEARING WITNESS--TEMPTING FATE 115 CHAPTER SEVEN: THE VOTE 139 CHAPTER EIGHT: A CAMPAIGN OF VIOLENCE 161 CHAPTER NINE: INTERVENTION 185 CHAPTER TEN: JUSTICE AND RECONCILIATION 205 CHAPTER ELEVEN: CONCLUSIONS 229 Notes 249 A Note on Sources 295 Bibliography 297 Index 313

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Book SynopsisOffers a comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income. This title argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity across nearly two centuries was reached and maintained by several shifting factors.Trade Review"[T]he first major economic history of Australia for 40 years."--Ross Gittins, Sydney Morning Herald "[R]emarkable... Why Australia Prospered distills decades of research and teaching to present an account of Australia and its development that is solid, surprising and pertinent to the contemporary debate about the country's future... In his assembly of evidence and his judicious review of the debates of Australian development, McLean has made a profoundly important contribution to our understanding of where Australia has come from as a nation, where they country is now--and where it is going."--Australian Financial Review "In Why Australia Prospered, Ian McLean explores the fascinating mix of factors explaining this persistence of prosperity... [A] carefully researched book."--Times Higher Education Supplement "McLean provides a comprehensive account of the factors contributing to Australia's remarkable economic growth."--Choice "In this impressive book McLean demonstrates the contribution economic history can make to scholarship on the past and the politics of the present... [T]he work of a manifestly fine scholar with many important points to make and ideas that need to be heard far beyond university economics departments, or what's left of them."--Stephen Matchett, Australian "[A]n outstanding piece of scholarship... Ian McLean has written a timely and masterful account of the long sweep of Australia's economic history, which will be relished by anyone interested in the unique circumstances of this country's remarkable economic development. Written for the non-specialist, the narrative is accessible, brisk and appropriately, if sparsely, illustrated with charts and tables."--Ian Harper, EH.Net "[T]his is a superb book. Anyone with even a superficial interest in Australian economic history should read it, and be educated by it."--Tim Hatton, Australian Economic History Review "McLean has an admirable ability to sum up complex issues using simple, often elegant sentences. He is a highly skilled tradesperson who uses economists' tools, but this does not compromise the readability of his text. Why Australia Prospered deserves a wide audience. It would be a suitable text for undergraduate use, while giving postgraduate students and established scholars plenty to think about."--Lionel Frost, Australian Historical Studies "Why Australia Prospered is both expansively ambitious and narrowly precise... McLean is a meticulous analyst and a calm judge, comfortable with unorthodoxy and big turning points if that is where the evidence leads."--Jock Given, Inside Story "McLean's telling of Australian economic history is not only fascinating, it is also fresh... [It is] a book that better integrates Australia's story into mainstream economic history than any before it."--Andrew Leigh, Journal of Economic Literature "It is engagingly written... Most important of all is McLean's impressive use of the comparative approach... While the book's focus is on natural resources and institutions, the author provides stimulating interpretations of many phases of economic history."--Simon Ville, American Historical Review "Why Australia Prospered is a rewarding read. The book is targeted at a broad audience, and to this end, MacLean interweaves historical narrative with analysis. Its chronological presentation allows some refreshing perspectives on events, and theoretical and policy debates, all of which are informed by the deep scholarship that the author demonstrates... [T]his is an excellent and enjoyable book that reminds us of the importance of historical context."--Shauna Phillips, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource "With this new book, McLean provides a missing exposition that could help re-energise such studies. It is a coherent, well-written, well-reasoned and accessible survey of Australian economic evolution. It benefits from the integration that comes from being penned by a single mind."--Glenn Withers, Economic Record "Australian economic history is undergoing something of a minor revival ... and this book is a welcome addition to the literature on the history of Australia in the global economy, stressing as it does both continuity and change."--David Meredith, English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Figures ix List of Tables xi Preface and Acknowledgments xiii Map xvi Chapter 1 Introduction: Weaving Analysis and Narrative 1 Chapter 2 What Is to Be Explained, and How 11 * Comparative Levels of GDP Per Capita 11 * Booms, Busts, and Stagnation in Domestic Prosperity 15 * Other Indicators of Economic Prosperity 19 * From Evidence to Analysis 25 * Extensive Growth and Factor Accumulation 27 * Growth Theory and Australian Economic Historiography 29 * Recent Themes in Growth Economics 32 Chapter 3 Origins: An Economy Built from Scratch? 37 * The Pre-1788 Economy of the Aborigines 38 * The Aboriginal Contribution to the Post-1788 Economy 42 * The Convict Economy and Its Peculiar Labor Market 44 * Further Features of the Economy Relevant to Later Prosperity 50 * British Subsidies and Australian Living Standards 53 Chapter 4 Squatting, Colonial Autocracy, and Imperial Policies 57 * Why the Wool Industry Was So Efficient 58 * Evolution of Political Institutions: From Autocracy to Responsible Government 63 * The Labor Market: Ending Transportation, Preventing Coolie Immigration 67 * Thwarting the Squatters: Land Policies to 1847 69 * Other Determinants of Early Colonial Prosperity 73 * The Argentine Road Not Taken 76 Chapter 5 Becoming Very Rich 80 * The Economic Effects of Gold: Avoiding the Resource Curse 84 * Sustaining Economic Prosperity Following the Rushes 90 * Consolidating Democracy and Resolving the Squatter- Selector Conflict 96 * Openness and Growth 100 * Rural Productivity and Its Sources 108 Chapter 6 Depression, Drought, and Federation 113 * Explaining Relative Incomes 113 * Eating the Seed Corn? 116 * Boom, Bubble, and Bust: A Classic Debt Crisis 119 * Why Was Recovery So Slow? Comparison with Other Settler Economies 125 * Tropics, Crops, and Melanesians: Another Road Not Taken 132 * Economic Effects of Federation 135 * Accounting for the Loss of the "Top Spot" in Income Per Capita 139 Chapter 7 A Succession of Negative Shocks 144 * Why Was the Economic Impact of World War I So Severe? 147 * Why No Return to Normalcy? 148 * Pursuing Rural Development--A Field of Dreams? 154 * Growth in Other Settler Economies 157 * Debt Crisis, Then Depression-- Policy Responses and Constraints 160 * Imperial Economic Links-- Declining Net Benefi ts 165 * Could the Post-1960 Mineral Boom Have Occurred Earlier? 170 * The Debate over Stagnant Living Standards 173 Chapter 8 The Pacific War and the Second Golden Age 176 * Why the Pacific War Fostered Domestic Growth 177 * The Golden Age Was Not Uniquely Australian 183 * Export Growth, Factor Inflows, and the Korean War Wool Boom 186 * Macroeconomic Theory and Policies--What Role? 191 * Location Advantage: Asian Industrialization and Changing Trade Partners 193 * High Tide for Australian Industrialization 196 * Underinvestment in Human Capital? 199 * The Debate over Postwar Growth Performance 205 Chapter 9 Shocks, Policy Shift s, and Another Long Boom 210 * Why Did the Postwar Economic Boom End? 212 * The Reemergence of a Booming Mining Sector 215 * Macroeconomic Management in the 1970s 217 * Economic Policy Shift s in the 1980s 219 * Reevaluations 224 * The Quarry Economy: The Return of Resources-Based Prosperity 228 * The Contribution of Economic Reforms to Productivity 235 * Sustaining Prosperity through Boom and Bubble--A Historical Perspective 241 Chapter 10 The Shifting Bases of Prosperity 246 Appendix Note on Statistics and Sources 257 References 259 Index 277

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[T]he first major economic history of Australia for 40 years."--Ross Gittins, Sydney Morning Herald "[R]emarkable... Why Australia Prospered distills decades of research and teaching to present an account of Australia and its development that is solid, surprising and pertinent to the contemporary debate about the country's future... In his assembly of evidence and his judicious review of the debates of Australian development, McLean has made a profoundly important contribution to our understanding of where Australia has come from as a nation, where they country is now--and where it is going."--Australian Financial Review "In Why Australia Prospered, Ian McLean explores the fascinating mix of factors explaining this persistence of prosperity... [A] carefully researched book."--Times Higher Education Supplement "McLean provides a comprehensive account of the factors contributing to Australia's remarkable economic growth."--Choice "In this impressive book McLean demonstrates the contribution economic history can make to scholarship on the past and the politics of the present... [T]he work of a manifestly fine scholar with many important points to make and ideas that need to be heard far beyond university economics departments, or what's left of them."--Stephen Matchett, Australian "[A]n outstanding piece of scholarship... Ian McLean has written a timely and masterful account of the long sweep of Australia's economic history, which will be relished by anyone interested in the unique circumstances of this country's remarkable economic development. Written for the non-specialist, the narrative is accessible, brisk and appropriately, if sparsely, illustrated with charts and tables."--Ian Harper, EH.Net "[T]his is a superb book. Anyone with even a superficial interest in Australian economic history should read it, and be educated by it."--Tim Hatton, Australian Economic History Review "McLean has an admirable ability to sum up complex issues using simple, often elegant sentences. He is a highly skilled tradesperson who uses economists' tools, but this does not compromise the readability of his text. Why Australia Prospered deserves a wide audience. It would be a suitable text for undergraduate use, while giving postgraduate students and established scholars plenty to think about."--Lionel Frost, Australian Historical Studies "Why Australia Prospered is both expansively ambitious and narrowly precise... McLean is a meticulous analyst and a calm judge, comfortable with unorthodoxy and big turning points if that is where the evidence leads."--Jock Given, Inside Story "McLean's telling of Australian economic history is not only fascinating, it is also fresh... [It is] a book that better integrates Australia's story into mainstream economic history than any before it."--Andrew Leigh, Journal of Economic Literature "It is engagingly written... Most important of all is McLean's impressive use of the comparative approach... While the book's focus is on natural resources and institutions, the author provides stimulating interpretations of many phases of economic history."--Simon Ville, American Historical Review "Why Australia Prospered is a rewarding read. The book is targeted at a broad audience, and to this end, MacLean interweaves historical narrative with analysis. Its chronological presentation allows some refreshing perspectives on events, and theoretical and policy debates, all of which are informed by the deep scholarship that the author demonstrates... [T]his is an excellent and enjoyable book that reminds us of the importance of historical context."--Shauna Phillips, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource "With this new book, McLean provides a missing exposition that could help re-energise such studies. It is a coherent, well-written, well-reasoned and accessible survey of Australian economic evolution. It benefits from the integration that comes from being penned by a single mind."--Glenn Withers, Economic Record "Australian economic history is undergoing something of a minor revival ... and this book is a welcome addition to the literature on the history of Australia in the global economy, stressing as it does both continuity and change."--David Meredith, English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Figures ix List of Tables xi Preface and Acknowledgments xiii Map xvi Chapter 1 Introduction: Weaving Analysis and Narrative 1 Chapter 2 What Is to Be Explained, and How 11 * Comparative Levels of GDP Per Capita 11 * Booms, Busts, and Stagnation in Domestic Prosperity 15 * Other Indicators of Economic Prosperity 19 * From Evidence to Analysis 25 * Extensive Growth and Factor Accumulation 27 * Growth Theory and Australian Economic Historiography 29 * Recent Themes in Growth Economics 32 Chapter 3 Origins: An Economy Built from Scratch? 37 * The Pre-1788 Economy of the Aborigines 38 * The Aboriginal Contribution to the Post-1788 Economy 42 * The Convict Economy and Its Peculiar Labor Market 44 * Further Features of the Economy Relevant to Later Prosperity 50 * British Subsidies and Australian Living Standards 53 Chapter 4 Squatting, Colonial Autocracy, and Imperial Policies 57 * Why the Wool Industry Was So Efficient 58 * Evolution of Political Institutions: From Autocracy to Responsible Government 63 * The Labor Market: Ending Transportation, Preventing Coolie Immigration 67 * Thwarting the Squatters: Land Policies to 1847 69 * Other Determinants of Early Colonial Prosperity 73 * The Argentine Road Not Taken 76 Chapter 5 Becoming Very Rich 80 * The Economic Effects of Gold: Avoiding the Resource Curse 84 * Sustaining Economic Prosperity Following the Rushes 90 * Consolidating Democracy and Resolving the Squatter- Selector Conflict 96 * Openness and Growth 100 * Rural Productivity and Its Sources 108 Chapter 6 Depression, Drought, and Federation 113 * Explaining Relative Incomes 113 * Eating the Seed Corn? 116 * Boom, Bubble, and Bust: A Classic Debt Crisis 119 * Why Was Recovery So Slow? Comparison with Other Settler Economies 125 * Tropics, Crops, and Melanesians: Another Road Not Taken 132 * Economic Effects of Federation 135 * Accounting for the Loss of the "Top Spot" in Income Per Capita 139 Chapter 7 A Succession of Negative Shocks 144 * Why Was the Economic Impact of World War I So Severe? 147 * Why No Return to Normalcy? 148 * Pursuing Rural Development--A Field of Dreams? 154 * Growth in Other Settler Economies 157 * Debt Crisis, Then Depression-- Policy Responses and Constraints 160 * Imperial Economic Links-- Declining Net Benefi ts 165 * Could the Post-1960 Mineral Boom Have Occurred Earlier? 170 * The Debate over Stagnant Living Standards 173 Chapter 8 The Pacific War and the Second Golden Age 176 * Why the Pacific War Fostered Domestic Growth 177 * The Golden Age Was Not Uniquely Australian 183 * Export Growth, Factor Inflows, and the Korean War Wool Boom 186 * Macroeconomic Theory and Policies--What Role? 191 * Location Advantage: Asian Industrialization and Changing Trade Partners 193 * High Tide for Australian Industrialization 196 * Underinvestment in Human Capital? 199 * The Debate over Postwar Growth Performance 205 Chapter 9 Shocks, Policy Shift s, and Another Long Boom 210 * Why Did the Postwar Economic Boom End? 212 * The Reemergence of a Booming Mining Sector 215 * Macroeconomic Management in the 1970s 217 * Economic Policy Shift s in the 1980s 219 * Reevaluations 224 * The Quarry Economy: The Return of Resources-Based Prosperity 228 * The Contribution of Economic Reforms to Productivity 235 * Sustaining Prosperity through Boom and Bubble--A Historical Perspective 241 Chapter 10 The Shifting Bases of Prosperity 246 Appendix Note on Statistics and Sources 257 References 259 Index 277

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Book SynopsisThis visually stunning publication highlights the importance of an ocean that covers very nearly a third of the surface of the globe, and which has dramatically shaped the world and people around it.

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Book SynopsisExamines the experiences of the convict men and women transported to the British penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land between 1803 and 1852, challenging the received notions of convict women as a particularly oppressed and exploited group, supposedly dominated by convict men as much as by the imperial and colonial states.Table of ContentsGeneral editor’s introductionIntroduction 1. Visions of order: gender, sexual morality and the state in early Van Diemen’s Land2. Regulating society, purifying the state: gender, respectability and colonial authority3. Production and reproduction: colonial order, convict labour and the convict private sphere, c. 1803–174. Sex and slavery: convict servitude and the reworking of the private sphere, c. 1817–425. ‘A nation of Cyprians and Turks’: convict transportation, Colonial Reform and the imperial body politic6. Sodomy and self-government: convict transportation and colonial independenceConclusionSelect bibliographyIndex

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