Australasian and Pacific history Books
NewSouth Publishing This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited
Book Synopsis‘How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?’ Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed their consciences and challenged the prevailing attitudes to Indigenous people. His now-classic book This Whispering in Our Hearts constructed an alternative history of Australia through the eyes of those who felt disquiet and disgust at the brutality of dispossession. These men and women fought for justice for Indigenous people even when doing so left them isolated and criticised by their fellow whites. The unease of these humanitarians about the morality of white settlement has not dissipated and their legacy informs current debates about reconciliation between black and white Australia. Revisiting this history, in this new edition Reynolds brings fresh perspectives to issues we grapple with still. Those who argue for justice, reparation, recognition and a treaty will find themselves in solidarity with those who went before. But this powerful book shows how much remains to be done to settle the whispering in our hearts. An updated edition of a classic text, now includes reflections on native title, the apology, international conventions, reparations, recognition and the treaty.Trade Review"No other historian can match Henry Reynolds’ impact on Australians’ understanding of their frontier history and its troubled inheritance." —Mark McKenna
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas MacArthurs Coalition US and Australian Military
Book SynopsisFrom 1942-1945 the Allies' war in the Southwest Pacific was effectively a bilateral coalition between the United States and Australia under the command of General Douglas MacArthur. By charting the evolution of the military effectiveness of the US-Australian alliance, MacArthur's Coalition puts the relationship between the US and Australia at the centre of the war against Japan.Trade ReviewMacArthur’s Coalition contains new insights into the military-to-military relationship between the United States and Australia during the Second World War. The author carefully examines the coalition from its ad hoc origins to its high point of cooperation and (sometimes) mutual respect in 1942–1943, into its decline in 1944–1945."" - Peter Williams, author of The Kokoda Campaign 1942: Myth and Reality""Drawing upon a wide range of primary and secondary sources, Dean explores the long-neglected topic of Australian-American military cooperation during World War II. This highly original and superb book has much to say not only about how military strategy was created and executed but also about the important topic of alliance politics under the pressures of wartime conditions."" - Kevin C. Holzimmer, author of General Walter Krueger: Unsung Hero of the Pacific War""Peter Dean’s standout study of coalition warfare in the Southwest Pacific provides intriguing new perspectives on Australia's outsize contributions to MacArthur’s campaigns. Dean’s fascinating multilevel analysis, anchored in extensive research across multiple archives, emphasizes the critical interplay of personalities from strategic through tactical echelons as well as the importance of intercultural communications as allies adapted to differing command cultures and military doctrines. This fresh reassessment of coalition leadership depicts MacArthur and his cohorts in the sweeping fashion they deserve."" - Edward J. Drea, author of Japan’s Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853–1945""MacArthur’s Coalition provides a deeply researched, innovative, and authoritative study of how the United States and Australia fought together to achieve victory in the Second World War. The book holds important lessons for the conduct of present-day coalition operations—a key feature of modern warfare."" - David Horner, emeritus professor, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University""MacArthur’s Coalition is a superb work enormously extending our understanding of that controversial figure and those who served with him. It is deeply researched, vigorously narrated, and admirably evenhanded. It casts brilliant illumination over the full span of relationships from MacArthur and the heights of Australian political and military leadership down to the sharp edge where Australians and Americans confronted a formidable enemy."" - Richard B. Frank, author of Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
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Otago University Press Kate Edger: The life of a pioneering feminist
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Monash University Publishing Beyond Gallipoli: New Perspectives on Anzac
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Otago University Press Vastly Ingenious: The Archaeology of Pacific
Book SynopsisReflecting in 1769 on the manners and customs of the South Sea islands, Joseph Banks remarked that ‘in every expedient for taking fish they are vastly ingenious.’ Hence the title of this book on Pacific material culture, past and present, with broad themes of origins, the movement of peoples and the development of their technologies.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Early Maori disc pendants; Gourd artefacts from the Kohika lake village; Cooking with pots -- again; Metal Pa Kahawai; A cache of fishhooks from Serendipity Cave; Horticultural site complexes on stony soils of the eastern North Island; Arthur of HMS Adventure and Veryan, Cornwall; Me'a lalanga and the category Koloa; Ancestral Polynesian fishing gear; Reading Pacific pots; The rise of the Saudeleur; A study of gorges from the Gogna-Cove Beach Site, Guam; The role of fishing lure shanks for the past people of Pohnpei; Shell fishhooks of the Lapita cultural complex; The material culture of Makira; Shaft-hole stone implements of New Britain; Pottery styles at Wanelek, Papua New Guinea; Still vastly ingenious? Globalisation and the collecting of Pacific material cultures.
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LEGARE STREET PR The Australian Race
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Harvard University Press The Magnificent Boat
Book SynopsisGötz Aly pens a forgotten chapter in the history of imperialism as the story of a single object: a majestic fifteen-meter boat, looted from Papua New Guinea during a German colonial expedition and since displayed in Berlin museums. Aly restores attention to colonial conquests and lays bare the vexed nature of ethnological appropriation.Trade ReviewA major contribution to the debate over whether and how to repatriate the countless objects and artworks acquired through dubious means that reside in the museums of former colonial powers…As an indictment of German colonial policies and leading scholars’ complicity in them, the book is unsparing and convincing. -- Joshua Keating * Washington Post *In his brief, powerful book, Aly tells a sweeping history of colonial exploitation by focusing on the story of the journey of a single boat from its birthplace in the 1890s on the island of Luf in the Bismarck Archipelago to Berlin’s Ethnologisches (Ethnological) Museum in 1903. Through the Luf Boat, now a centerpiece of the controversial new Humboldt Forum, Aly demonstrates the intimate relationship between the devastation wrought by markets and militaries and the curators who swooped in to ‘rescue’ the remnants of supposedly dying cultures. -- Erin L. Thompson * Los Angeles Review of Books *The book is not just about museum politics and shifting postcolonial meanings of non-western objects. Museum collections are a metaphor. They stand for a larger, unresolved debate about the moral contradictions facing postcolonial western societies whose contemporary prosperity is rooted in the pillaging of the peoples and cultures they once ruled. If the ethos of the moment stands on injustice, The Magnificent Boat makes an excellent contribution that exposes and reminds us of it. -- David Lipset * Times Literary Supplement *Aly’s detailed account follows German ships as they arrive at Luf Island to punish the local population for an earlier fight with Germans, burning homes and forests, stealing food and clearing land for the coconut plantations where the remaining islanders were enslaved…He draws widely from official documents and accounts where Germans wrote openly about violence in the South Seas. -- David D’Arcy * The Art Newspaper *Concise and convincing, this damning account reveals the painful legacy of colonialism. * Publishers Weekly *Well written and full of disturbing detail—a new and much-needed perspective on an iconic museum object. -- Bénédicte Savoy, author of Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial DefeatA lot has been written recently about looted art, but there’s been less talk about much greater colonial crimes. Aly shows that there’s no separating the two. -- Jörg Häntzschel * Süddeutsche Zeitung *Aly’s entertainingly written and comprehensively researched study shows that the Luf Boat was by no means fairly acquired by the German Reich. -- Andreas Kilb * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung *Anyone who sees the so-called Luf Boat in the future will immediately have in mind the murderous cruelty of the Germans. -- Felix Bohr, Ulrike Knöfel, and Elke Schmitter * Der Spiegel *This is a harrowing book, in which readers will learn more about the everyday brutality of colonialism than in any postcolonial studies tract. -- Sebastian Preuss * Weltkunst Online *
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University of Hawai'i Press Across Species and Cultures
Book SynopsisOffers for the first time a critical, wide-ranging geographical and temporal look at the varieties of whale histories in the Pacific. The contributors, from around the Pacific, present a wealth of fascinating stories while breaking new methodological ground in environmental history, women’s history, animal studies, and Indigenous ontologies.
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LEGARE STREET PR The Australian Race
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Massey University Press Te Kupenga
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NewSouth Publishing Pathfinders: A history of Aboriginal trackers in
Book SynopsisThere are few Aboriginal icons in white Australian history. From the explorer to the pioneer, the swagman to the drover’s wife, Europeans predominate. Perhaps the only exception is the redoubtable tracker who, with skills passed down by generation after generation for over 65,000 years, read the signs and traced the movement of people across the land.The saviour of many and cursed by the wayward, trackers live in the collective memory as one of the few examples where Aboriginal people’s skills were sought after in colonial society. In New South Wales alone, thousands of Aboriginal men and a smaller number of women toiled for the authorities post-1862, tracking the lost and confused, seeking out the thieves and their ill-gotten booty and bringing criminals to justice.More often than not the role of tracker went unacknowledged. Little about the complexity and diversity of their work is known, how it grew out of traditional society and was sustained by the vast family networks of Aboriginal families that endure to this day. Pathfinders brings the work of trackers to the forefront of New South Wales law enforcement history, ensuring their contribution is properly acknowledged.Trade Review‘The word tracker conjures images of the legendary Aboriginal bush experts responsible for bringing criminals to justice and finding people lost in the wild. Michael Bennett’s new book is a very welcome addition. The book charts an important though largely overlooked area of the country’s history. Aboriginal trackers hold a mythical yet obscure presence in the history of the continent. Bennett weaves back into the nation’s historical narrative these Aboriginal heroes and heroines.’ — Professor John Maynard
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Yale University Press Islanders
Book SynopsisExplores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain Cook. This title reveals that there was gain as well as loss, survival as well as suffering, and invention as well as exploitation.Trade Review"Thomas’ description of the journey into the imperial world of the Pacific is made inclusive and companionable with lovely asides… [a] comprehensive but gripping book"—Katrina Schlunke, Times Higher Education Supplement -- Katrina Schlunke * Times Higher Education Supplement *"Islanders is not only a fine work of scholarship but also a lucid and engrossing read."—Rod Edmond, BBC History Magazine -- Rod Edmond * BBC History Magazine *“The islanders’ minds and feelings may be inaccessible in purely anthropological terms, but Thomas provides ample evidence to allow readers to fill in the gaps.”—Dr. Andrew Rudd, Church Times -- Dr. Andrew Rudd * Church Times *Joint winner of the 2010 Wolfson History Prize given by the Wolfson Foundation -- 2010 Wolfson History Prize * Wolfson Foundation *"Intellectually sophisticated and clearly written, this first-rate study of the experience of the Pacific Islanders provides one of the best available studies of the nature of imperial contact and violence, and of the traumas they caused.”—Jeremy Black, University of Exeter -- Jeremy Black"We are used to idea of thinking of the Pacific in the age of exploration and empire as a play-pond for the greed, ambition and curiosity of Europeans, but now Nicholas Thomas has produced a bracing revision that - Antipodean-like - inverts many of our assumptions about the Islanders that they supposedly discovered and exploited. Drawing on a lifetime of research, and in vivid sinewy prose, he brings to life an unknown world of Islander explorers, adventurers, traders, sailors, whalers, warriors, priests and migrants - peoples who criss-crossed every ocean and whose stories have never made it into Hakluyt or any voyage anthology. Surely it is these Pacific Islanders, rather than we European intruders, who deserve to be seen as the world's first cosmopolitans." - Iain McCalman, author of Darwin's Armada: Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution -- Iain McCalman“Islanders tells the compelling, sometimes shocking, story of the western world's impact on the peoples of Oceania before 1900. Using all the evidence now available, Thomas shows that the lives of individuals, both Pacific islanders and European newcomers, were profoundly altered as the contact became more persistent and intrusive. Explorers, missionaries, traders and officials jostled for status and profit in their relationship with islanders - chiefly, priestly and otherwise - who in turn pursued their own interests in the years before catastrophic population decline changed the islands for ever. Islanders will appeal to specialists and non-specialists alike as a scintillating contribution not only to Pacific history, but to the general study of relations between European and non-European peoples.” - Glyn Williams, author of The Great South Sea -- Glyn Williams"Beautifully written, with spell-binding vignettes. An important, original controbution to our knowledge of life in the Pacific." - Dame Anne Salmond, author of The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: Captain Cook in the South Seas -- Anne Salmond"Enjoyably readable."—G.E. Marcus, Choice -- G.E. Marcus * Choice *“Thomas has written a work of scholarship that merits close attention and, at the same time, that presumes a ready grasp of the vast geography of the Pacific. His analysis is thoughtful and often thought-provoking.”—Tim Severin, Irish Examiner -- Tim Severin * Irish Examiner *
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Little, Brown Book Group James Cook
Book SynopsisCaptain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated. But who was the real James Cook?The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated.But who was the real James Cook?This Yorkshire farm boy would go on to become the foremost mariner, navigator and cartographer of his era, and to personally map a third of the globe. His great voyages of discovery were incredible feats of seamanship and navigation. Leading a crew of men into uncharted territories, Cook would face the best and worst of humanity as he took himself and his crew to the edge of the known world - and beyond.With his masterful storytelling talent, Peter FitzSimons brings James Cook to life. Focusing on his most iconic expedition, the voyage of t
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Otago University Press Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Maori
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Cambridge University Press Curtins Empire
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Cambridge University Press A History of New South Wales
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Cambridge University Press Intimate Strangers Friendship Exchange and Pacific Encounters Critical Perspectives on Empire
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Cambridge University Press Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment
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Monash University Publishing Changing Histories
Book SynopsisThe history of contact between Japan and Australia is rich in literature, business, romance and war. Challenging the notion that these two nations have long been culturally isolated, this volume brings out the diversity of their relationship.
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Aboriginal Studies Press Unwritten Histories
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Aboriginal Studies Press Palm Island
Book SynopsisIn November 2004, Mulrunji Doomadgee''s tragic death triggered civil unrest within the Indigenous community of Palm Island. This led to the first prosecution of a Queensland police officer in relation to a death in custody. Despite prolonged media attention, much of it negative and full of stereotypes, few Australians know the turbulent history of Australia''s Alcatraz, a political prison set up to exile Queensland''s ''troublesome blacks''. In Palm Island, Joanne Watson gives the first substantial history of the island from pre-contact to the present, set against a background of some of the most explosive episodes in Queensland history. The repressive regimes were under the guise of protectionism. But police control continues, and there is a continuing failure to address the causes of ongoing Indigenous disadvantage. Palm Island, often heart-wrenching and at times uplifting, is a study in the dynamics of power and privilege, and how it is resisted.
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Aboriginal Studies Press One Law For All Aboriginal people and criminal
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Oratia Media The Anzac Experience
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Oratia Media Sea Edge Where the Waitemat meets Auckland Where
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Oratia Media The Forgotten Wars Why the Musket Wars Matter
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Otago University Press Phoney Wars
Book SynopsisThis book looks at the lives of New Zealanders during the greatest armed struggle the world has ever seen: the Second World War. It is not a political, economic or military history; rather it explores what life was like during the war years for ordinary people living under the New Zealand flag. It questions the war as a story of good against bad. All readers know that the Axis powers behaved ruthlessly, but how many are aware of the brutality of the Allied powers in bombing and starving enemy towns and cities? New Zealand colluded in and even carried out such brutal aggressions. Were we, in going to war, really on the side of the angels? Contrary to the propaganda of the time -- and subsequent memory -- going to war did not unite New Zealanders: it divided them, often bitterly. People disagreed over whether or not we should fight, what we were fighting for and why, who was fighting, who was paying, and who was dying. In this provocative and moving book, Stevan and Hugh Eldred-Grigg exp
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Monash University Publishing Up from the Underworld
Book SynopsisA regional mining community that won a national reputation, Wonthaggi came to be admired by many, and disliked by others. For sixty years the town's highly unionised miners successfully worked the thin, broken seams of a state coal mine that would have been regarded as insufficiently profitable by most Australian mine owners. At times, through the national Miner's Federation, they exerted a powerful influence within the Australian coal industry and beyond. For the residents of Wonthaggi, their mine and their union helped them understand and define who they were, these things playing a role in their everyday lives, understandings and imaginations that thoroughly transcended the workplace. In an age of private accumulation and social fragmentation, Up from the Underworld brings to light this important history.
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Te Papa Press Te Ata o Tu The Shadow of Tumatauenga
Book SynopsisACCESSIBLE, IMPORTANT GUIDE TO THE TAONGA RELATING TO THE NEW ZEALAND WARS HELD BY TE PAPAThe wars of 184572 were described by James Belich as bitter and bloody struggles, as important to New Zealand as were the Civil Wars to England and the United States'. The conflict's themes of land and sovereignty continue to resonate today.This richly illustrated book, developed in partnership with iwi, delves into Te Papa's Matauranga Maori, History and Art collections to explore taonga and artefacts intimately connected with the key events and players associated with the New Zealand Wars, sparking conversation and debate and shedding new light on our troubled colonial past.Contributing essays from Basil Keane, Arini Loader, Danny Keenan, Jade Kake, Mike Ross, Paul Meredith, Monty Soutar, Puawai Cairns and Ria Hall.
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Massey University Press The Home Front
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Massey University Press With Them Through Hell
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Massey University Press For King and Other Countries
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Te Papa Press Hei Taonga ma nga Uri Whakatipu
Book SynopsisA landmark book about four remarkable museum expeditions that contributed to a recovery of Maori society. This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of the expeditions and details the innovative experiments of Maori leaders in the latter part of the twentieth century.Trade Review“ … a volume that is as much a treasure as the taonga it records.” Kete Books 2021Table of ContentsHei Wahi Ake | Wayne Ngata Page 8 Mihi | Arapata Hakiwai Page 10 Introduction | Anne Salmond, Conal McCarthy, Amiria Salmon Page 12 Chapter 1: Kia Ora Te Hui Aroha | Monty Soutar Page 76 Chapter 2: E Tama! E Te Ariki! Haere Mai! | Anne Salmond, James Schuster, Billie Lythberg Page 116 A Pouhaki for the Prince | James Schuster Page 146 Chapter 3: Toia Mai! Te Taonga! | Anne Salmond Page 154 Like He's Sitting Here and Talking | John Niko Maihi Page 188 My Tupuna are revealing themselves | Sandra Kahu Nepia Page 192 Where There Was an Astronomer There's a Pohutukawa | Te Wheturere Poope Gray Page 194 The Knowledge Inside the Words | Te Aroha McDonnell Page 196 Chapter 4: Oh Machine, Speak On, Speak On | Anne Salmond, Billie Lythberg Page 200 Chapter 5: The Eye of the Film | Natalie Robertson Page 218 Chapter 6: Alive with Rhythmic Force | Anne Salmond, Billie Lythberg, Conal McCarthy Page 278 Appendices Page 304 Reconnecting Taonga | Billie Lythberg The Terminology of Whakapapa | Apirana Ngata, Wayne Ngata Relationship Terms | Apirana Ngata Notes Glossary Bibliography Image Credits About the Authors Acknowledgements Index
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Massey University Press Our First Foreign War
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Massey University Press Invisible
Book SynopsisMIGRATION AND RACISM IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALANDTrade Review'timely, passionate, highly readable and deeply challenging.' - Jane Buckingham, New Zealand Journal of History
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Massey University Press The Front Line
Book SynopsisNew Zealand's war through the lens of those who served. A book of photographs of New Zealand's involvement in the Second World War.Table of ContentsContents Introduction: New Zealand and the Second World War Chapter 1: At War Again Chapter 2: Early Days Chapter 3: Greece and Crete Chapter 4: The Air War over Europe Chapter 5: The War in North Africa Chapter 6: The War at Sea Chapter 7: The Air War over the Pacific Chapter 8: The Ground War in the Pacific Chapter 9: The Italian Campaign Chapter 10: Prisoners of War Chapter 11: The Home Front and Jayforce Chapter 12: Coming Home Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements About the Author Index
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Massey University Press The Forgotten Coast
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Massey University Press One Hundred Havens
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Cambridge University Press Anzac and Empire
Book SynopsisAnzac and Empire is the first full-length biography of George Foster Pearce - a carpenter who became one Australia's most influential politicians, and the man central to how Australia planned for, and fought in, World War I.Table of ContentsList of illustrations and tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. 'We, too, have hopes and ambitions', 1870–1909; 2. Building the Framework, 1910–1913; 3. War, 1914; 4. 'One of the great battle stories of the British Empire', 1915; 5. Conscription and the Labor Split, 1916; 6. The disastrous department, 1917; 7. 'Pearce is doomed!', 1918; 8. London and Washington, 1919–1922; 9. Rearmament, 1922–1952; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Good International Citizen
Book SynopsisVolume 3 of the official history of Australian peacekeeping, humanitarian and post-cold war operations explores Australia's involvement in six missions following the end of the Gulf War. These missions reflected increasing complexity of peacekeeping, as it overlapped with enforcement of sanctions, weapons inspections, humanitarian aid, election monitoring and peace enforcement.Table of ContentsPart I. Strategy and Policy: 1. Peacekeeping after the Gulf War: Australian defence policy: 1991; 2. Peacekeeping in the new world order: Australia's response: 1991–1996; Part II. Cambodia: 3. From Angkor Wat to Pol Pot: Cambodia to 1988; 4. Law and order on the border: the Australian federal police and the UN border relief organisation, 1989–1993; 5. An Australian peace proposal: the Cambodian peace agreement: 1989–1991; 6. First into Phnom Penh: the Australian army contingent in the UN advance mission in Cambodia: 1991–1992; 7. The roadblock: Australians in the UN transitional authority in Cambodia, February–May 1992; 8. Change in plan: Australians in the UN transitional authority in Cambodia, June–December 1992; 9. 'Democracy's surprise triumph': Australians in the UN transitional authority in Cambodia: 1993; 10. Developing operation banner: Australian military assistance to Cambodia: 1994–1997; 11. Winding up operation banner: the end of Australian military assistance to Cambodia: 1997–1999; Part III. Western Sahara: 12. A good international citizen: Australia's commitment to Western Sahara: 1990–1991; 13. Backbone of the mission: the Australians in Western Sahara: 1991–1994; Part IV. Former Yugoslavia: 14. Roads not taken: Australian peacekeeping in the Former Yugoslavia: 1991–1996; 15. A modest commitment: Australian peacekeepers in the Former Yugoslavia: 1997–2004; Part V. Watch on Iraq: 16. A new type of commitment: humanitarian relief in Kurdistan: May–June 1991; 17. Disarming Iraq: sanctions and weapons inspection: 1991–1992; 18. A limited liability: Australia and the hunt for Saddam's weapons: 1993–1997; 19. UNSCOM and the US alliance: Australia re-commits forces to the Gulf: 1997–1999.
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Cambridge University Press Australia 1943
Book SynopsisBy January 1943, Australia had emerged from the shadow of war in a strong position. The victories in 1942 at Kokoda, Guadalcanal, Buna, Gona and Sanananda had secured the northern coastlines of Papua and Australia. Australian forces were now poised for a full scale offensive to liberate New Guinea from the Japanese, the largest and most complicated operations in their history. Australia 1943 explores the high point of Australia''s influence on operations and strategy in the South West Pacific, a campaign that has been traditionally overshadowed by the drama of Kokoda. It investigates critical operations from January 1943 to April 1944, including Salamaua, Lae/Nadzab, Finschhafen, Shaggy Ridge, the Markham Valley and the Huon Peninsula. Australia 1943 is the first detailed single-volume study of Australia''s military operations in the Pacific during 1943 - Australia''s ''finest hour'' in the Second World War.Table of ContentsIntroduction Peter Dean; 1. MacArthur and Curtin: deciding Australian war strategy in 1943 David Horner; 2. MacArthur's war: strategy, command and plans for the 1943 offensive Peter Dean; 3. The Japanese Army's search for a new South Pacific strategy, 1943 Hiroyuki Shindo; 4. On the offensive: US operations in the Southwest Pacific Area and the South Pacific Ocean Area in 1943 Kevin C. Holzimmer; 5. Perspiration, inspiration, frustration: the RAAF in New Guinea in 1943 Mark Johnston; 6. The naval perspective: the RAN in 1943 Ian Pfenningwerth; 7. Logistics and the Cartwheel operations Ross Mallett; 8. The 'Salamaua magnet' Karl James; 9. From the air, sea and land: the capture of Lae Peter Dean; 10. The Markham-Ramu Valley operation Lachlan Grant; 11. Applying the principles of war: securing the Huon Peninsula Garth Pratten.
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Cambridge University Press Taking Liberty
Book SynopsisAt last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy. The legacy of seizing a continent and alternately destroying and governing its original people shaped how white Australians came to see themselves as independent citizens. It also shows how shifting wider imperial and colonial politics influenced the treatment of indigenous Australians, and how indigenous people began to engage in their own ways with these new political institutions. It is, essentially, a bringing together of two histories that have hitherto been told separately: one concerns the arrival of early democracy in the Australian colonies, as white settlers moved from the shame and restrictions of the penal era to a new and freer society with their own institutions of government; the other is the tragedy of indigenous dispossession and displacement, with its frontier violence, poverty, disease and enforced regimes of mission life.Trade Review'This is the first book to get to grips not only with how settlers in the Australian colonies gained powers of self-government, but how those powers were comprehended, experienced and resisted by Aboriginal Australians. Rigorously researched and compellingly narrated, this is one book that everyone with an interest in settler colonialism must read.' Alan Lester, University of Sussex and La Trobe University, Melbourne'Curthoys and Mitchell take issue with major trends in the field and aim at genres of narrative that have failed to capture the dialectics between settlers and indigenous communities. This is a fierce, unflinching case for rooting principles of equality and inclusion in deep, unsentimental genealogies of the nineteenth-century experience.' Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign'This is an important book. It is deeply learned. It compels a rethinking of political history as traditionally conceived, demanding a reckoning with the centrality of violence and the attempted erasure or coercion of Indigenous peoples to the development of democracy and colonial self-government both in Australia and the wider British settler empire. Chilling, heartbreaking, magisterial: this book is a game-changer.' Elizabeth Elbourne, McGill University, Montreal'This landmark book traces a vital shift in the histories of liberty and unfreedom across the Australian colonies in the mid nineteenth century, for the first time interrogating how responsible government and the gaining of democratic rights and freedoms for settlers gave rise to violent and oppressive degrees unfreedom for Indigenous peoples. A must read for all historians of Australia and of settler colonialism.' Penelope Edmonds, University of TasmaniaTable of ContentsIntroduction: how settlers gained self-government and indigenous people (almost) lost it; Part I. A Four-Cornered Contest: British Government, Settlers, Missionaries and Indigenous Peoples: 1. Colonialism and catastrophe: 1830; 2. 'Another new world inviting our occupation': colonisation and the beginnings of humanitarian intervention, 1831–1837; 3. Settlers oppose indigenous protection: 1837–1842; 4. A colonial conundrum: settler rights versus indigenous rights, 1837–1842; 5. Who will control the land? Colonial and imperial debates 1842–1846; Part II. Towards Self-Government: 6. Who will govern the settlers? Imperial and settler desires, visions, utopias, 1846–1850; 7. 'No place for the sole of their feet': imperial-colonial dialogue on Aboriginal land rights, 1846–1851; 8. Who will govern Aboriginal people? Britain transfers control of Aboriginal policy to the colonies, 1852–1854; 9. The dark side of responsible government? Britain and indigenous people in the self-governing colonies, 1854–1870; Part III. Self-Governing Colonies and Indigenous People, 1856–c.1870: 10. Ghosts of the past, people of the present: Tasmania; 11. 'A refugee in our own land': governing Aboriginal people in Victoria; 12. Aboriginal survival in New South Wales; 13. Their worst fears realised: the disaster of Queensland; 14. A question of honour in the colony that was meant to be different: Aboriginal policy in South Australia; Part IV. Self-Government for Western Australia: 15. 'A little short of slavery': forced Aboriginal labour in Western Australia 1856–1884; 16. 'A slur upon the colony': making Western Australia's unusual constitution, 1885–1890; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Limits of Peacekeeping Volume 4 the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping Humanitarian and PostCold War Operations
Book SynopsisThe Limits of Peacekeeping highlights the Australian government's peacekeeping efforts in Africa and the Americas from 1992 to 2005. Changing world power structures and increased international cooperation saw a boom in Australia's peacekeeping operations between 1991 and 1995. The initial optimism of this period proved to be misplaced, as the limits of the United Nations and the international community to resolve deep-seated problems became clear. There were also limits on how many missions a middle-sized country like Australia could support. Restricted by the size of the armed forces and financial and geographic constraints, peacekeeping was always a secondary task to ensuring the defence of Australia. Faith in the effectiveness of peacekeeping reduced significantly, and the election of the Howard Coalition Government in 1996 confined peacekeeping missions to the near region from 1996â2001. This volume is an authoritative and compelling history of Australia's changing attitudes towarTable of Contents1. Whither the good international citizen? Australia's approach to peacekeeping, 1991–96; Part I. Somalia: 2. Towards peace enforcement: Australia responds to the Somalia disaster, 1992; 3. Australian Force Somalia: deploying the 1 RAR Battalion Group, December 1992–January 1993; 4. 'The unforgiving school of trial and error': the 1 RAR Battalion Group in Somalia, January–February 1993; 5. Achieving the mission: Australian civil–military operations in Somalia, April–May 1993; 6. Maintaining a commitment: Australia's role in Unosom II, 1993; 7. 'Our name would not be worth much … if we turned tail': withdrawing from Somalia, 1994–95; Part II. Rwanda: 8. 'Somebody do something': the Rwandan genocide and Australia, 1994; 9. After the tempest: the first contingent to Rwanda, August 1994–February 1995; 10. Increasingly unwelcome guests: the second contingent to Rwanda, February–August 1995; 11. Mandate meets reality: Kibeho, April 1995; Part III. The Keating Government's Last Missions: 12. A success story in Africa: Australia and the Mozambique elections, 1994; 13. Adrift in Africa: Australian deminers in Mozambique, 1994–2002; 14. One for the alliance: the commitment to Haiti, 1994–95; 15. To the Caribbean: Australian police operations in Haiti, 1994–95; Part IV. The Howard Government's Missions: 16. Defining the national interest: the Howard Government and peacekeeping, 1996–2001; 17. Universal peacekeepers? Guatemala, 1997; 18. 'Backing a winner': Australia and the UN mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea, 2001–05; 19. 'Two guys can, and do, make a difference': Australian advisers in Sierra Leone, 2001–03.
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Cambridge University Press Kokoda
Book SynopsisIn this book, Karl James brings together eminent military historians from Britain, the United States, Japan and Australia to reassess the principal battles from both Allied and Japanese perspectives, providing readers with a more complete understanding of one of the major turning points in the Second World War.Table of Contents1. Kokoda: the immortal trail Karl James; Part I. Turning Points: 2. War across the world Antony Beevor; 3. Confrontation in the Coral Sea: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz's plan for a decisive battle John B. Lundstrom; 4. South Pacific turning point: Guadalcanal Richard B. Frank; Part II. Allied Perspectives: 5. Victory at all cost: Douglas MacArthur's Papuan campaign of 1942–3 James W. Zobel; 6. Command failures on the Kokoda Trail Rowan Tracey; 7. The air war over Papua: the RAAF experience Mark Johnston; 8. The Battle of Milne Bay Phillip Bradley; 9. Grinding out a victory: Australian and American commanders during the beachhead battles Peter J. Dean; Part III. Japanese Perspectives: 10. Making soldiers: training, doctrine and culture in the Imperial Japanese Army Edward J. Drea; 11. Japanese commanders in Kokoda Haruki Yoshida; 12. Against overwhelming odds? Opposing strengths on the Kokoda Trail Peter Williams; Part IV. On the Trail: 13. On the trail of an extraordinary man: the making of the architect of Kokoda Robyn Kienzle; 14. Trekking Kokoda Charlie Lynn; Part V. Legacies: 15. Papua's overlooked legacy: the AMF as a learning institution Garth Pratten; 16. Kokoda: an epic in Australian history David Horner.
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Cambridge University Press Our Corner of the Somme
Book SynopsisBy the time of the Armistice, Villers-Bretonneux - once a lively and flourishing French town - had been largely destroyed, and half its population had fled or died. From March to August 1918, Villers-Bretonneux formed part of an active front line, at which Australian troops were heavily involved. As a result, it holds a significant place in Australian history. Villers-Bretonneux has since become an open-air memorial to Australia''s participation in the First World War. Successive Australian governments have valourised the Australian engagement, contributing to an evolving Anzac narrative that has become entrenched in Australia''s national identity. Our Corner of the Somme provides an eye-opening analysis of the memorialisation of Australia''s role on the Western Front and the Anzac mythology that so heavily contributes to Australians'' understanding of themselves. In this rigorous and richly detailed study, Romain Fathi challenges accepted historiography by examining the assembly, projTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Villers-Bretonneux. An Australian victory?; 2. 'The turning point of the war': occupying the memory front; 3. A school or nothing; 4. The Australian National Memorial of Villers-Bretonneux: commemorating the nation within an imperial frame; 5. 'Have we forgotten this place?'; 6. 'The meaning of the ANZAC tradition … must be learned anew'; 7. 'A piece of Australia in France'; 8. 'It was great to see Australia acknowledged in such a great way'; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Human Rights in TwentiethCentury Australia
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking study unpicks a tangled web of activists, bureaucrats, writers and politicians who championed, engaged with, critiqued or ignored what are today held to be the unassailable truths of universal human rights. Today's debates about freedom of religion, offshore detention and indigenous recognition have a long human rights history.Trade Review'In this fascinating account of how global ideas travel, Jon Piccini illuminates how Australians invoked universal human rights in pursuit of political and social reforms. By carefully charting the ways the concept was deployed by groups ranging from Indigenous Australians to anti-abortion evangelicals, Piccini offers a fresh reading of the capacities and the limits of this supple moral language.' Barbara Keys, author of Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s'This major contribution to understanding Australia's national navigation of the human rights idea and its place within wider global rights represents a strikingly impressive intervention. It interacts with some of the key trends within the grander constellation of human rights history and connects with the changing contours of human rights as an international discourse and transnational social movement.' Roland Burke, author of Decolonisation and the Evolution of International Human Rights'Australia has no bill of rights, but human rights talk permeates its culture and politics. Jon Piccini has for the first time explained the history of this paradox, in a significant contribution to our understanding of how the appeal to human rights became both pervasive and contested in modern Australia.' Frank Bongiorno, author of The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia'Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia is an important book and Jon Piccini has set out an agenda for further research which I hope students of Australian history will seek to follow. He has also presented Australias … record on human rights to an international audience and this will no doubt inspire future conversations and comparisons in global settings.' Julia T. Martínez, History Australia'Jon Piccini's excellent history of human rights in twentieth century Australia joins a growing number of 'national human rights histories' that seek to show how domestic political and civil movements engaged with the emergent global discourse of human rights … This book, which draws on a wide range of Australian newspapers, manuscript collections, archives, and publications from a wide range of civil liberties, human rights, indigenous rights, and sectarian organizations, should appeal to historians of modern Australian politics and foreign policy, indigenous transnationalism, and human rights more generally.' Brad Simpson, Journal of Contemporary HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: bereft of words; 1. Inventing rights; 2. Cold War rights; 3. Experimental rights; 4. Who's rights? 5. Implementing rights; Epilogue: cascade or trickle?
£81.00
Cambridge University Press The Long Search for Peace Volume 1 the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping Humanitarian and PostCold War Operations
Book SynopsisVolume I of the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations recounts the Australian peacekeeping missions that began between 1947 and 1982, and follows them through to 2006, which is the end point of this series. The operations described in The Long Search for Peace - some long, some short; some successful, some not - represent a long period of learning and experimentation, and were a necessary apprenticeship for all that was to follow. Australia contributed peacekeepers to all major decolonisation efforts: for thirty-five years in Kashmir, fifty-three years in Cyprus, and (as of writing) sixty-one years in the Middle East, as well as shorter deployments in Indonesia, Korea and Rhodesia. This volume also describes some smaller-scale Australian missions in the Congo, West New Guinea, Yemen, Uganda and Lebanon. It brings to life Australia''s long-term contribution not only to these operations but also to the very idea of peacekeeping.Table of ContentsPart I. Actor and Observer: the Early Cold War Years: 1. The origins of peacekeeping: Australia responds to the post-war world; 2. St George and the Maiden: Australian and the Indonesian question, 1945–1947; 3. Inventing peacekeeping: the United Nations in Indonesia, 1947–1948; 4. Failure: the United Nations in Indonesia, 1948; 5. Success: the United Nations in Indonesia, 1949–1951; 6. Observing at a critical moment: Australia and Korea, 1947–1953; 7. An intractable dispute: Australia and the Kashmir problem, 1947–1951; 8. 'Tough men wanted': Australian military observers in Kashmir, 1951–1971; 9. Australia and the problem of Palestine: peacekeeping in the Middle East, 1947–1967; 10. The Six-Day War and after: Australians in the Middle East 1967–1973; 11. 'If you're not confused, you don't understand the situation': Australia responds to the Congo Crisis, 1960–1961; 12. Over jungle and swamp: Australian Army helicopters in West New Guinea, 1962–1963; 13. A reluctant start: the road to Cyprus, 1964; 14. The first decade: Australian police in Cyprus, 1964–1974; 15. Australia and the invention of peacekeeping; Part II. New Ambitions: the Later Cold War Years: 16. The new internationalists: peacekeeping after the Vietnam War, 1972–1987; 17. A 'lop-sided' umpire: Australian military observers in Kashmir, 1971–1985; 18. 'Snow Goose' and the 'Milk Run': RAAF transport support for UNMOGIP, 1975–1978; 19. An island divided: AUSTCIVPOL in Cyprus, 1974–1976; 20. Desert sortie: United Nations Emergency Force II, 1976–1979; 21. On the Golan: Australian military observers in Israel and Syria, 1973–1989; 22. Witnesses to civil war: Australian military observers in Lebanon, 1972–1989; 23. Fumbling the political football: multinational force and observers, 1982–1986; 24. The tribe that lost its head: finding a resolution in Rhodesia, 1979; 25. Into Africa: deploying the force to Rhodesia: 197901980; 26. A dangerous but crucial mission: monitoring in Rhodesia, 197901980; 27. The healing touch: Elections in Rhodesia, 1980; 28. 'The only show in town': Commonwealth Military Training Team – Uganda, 1982–1984; Part III. Carrying on: after the Cold War; 29. A sustained commitment: AUSTCIVPOL in Cyprus, 1974–2006; 30. Uprisings and wars: Australians in UNTSO, 1990–2005; 31. Service in the Sinai: Australia and the MFO, 1993–2006; 32. In the midst of war: Australians in Lebanon, 2006.
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HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd A Sense of Balance
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