University Of Wales Press: 420 books
by Peter Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
In this landmark book, award-winning historian Peter Edwards skillfully unravels the complexities of the global Cold War, decolonization in Southeast Asia, and Australian domestic politics. The Vietnam War was Australia’s longest and most controversial military commitment of the 20th century, ending...
Before the Anzac Dawn
A Military History of Australia Before 1915
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Providing a comprehensive and compelling account of Australian military history before the failed Gallipoli campaign, this study demonstrates the extent to which this pre-World War I history has been forgotten. It begins with detailed accounts of both traditional indigenous warfare and frontier wars...
Culture Crisis
Anthropology and Politics in Aboriginal Australia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Written by Australia’s leading anthropologists, this valuable examination explores the Australian government’s intervention in terms of health, safety, and education of the nation’s remote Aboriginal citizens via the Northern Territory National Emergency Response. Dissecting the notion of difference...
Come the Revolution
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
A rollicking tale of chain-smoking newspapermen, union leaders, revolutionaries, crooked cops, corrupt politicians, spies, dictators, and ordinary working people, this is the memoir of political journalist Alex Mitchell, who worked on several newspapers around Australia before landing in Fleet Street...
Trading Places
The Airport Economist's Guide to International Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Is Japan running out of husbands? Is China running out of wives? Did Genghis Khan really invent free trade? And why can’t you see the price of a Big Mac at McDonalds in Argentina? In Trading Places, Tim Harcourt—also known as the Airport Economist—takes you around the globe, talking to businesses,...
The Way They Were
The View from the Hill of the 25 Years That Remade Australia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
For many years in Australia, reading journalist Alan Ramsey’s vitriolic, insightful, and always engaging pieces in the Sydney Morning Herald was a standard feature of Saturday mornings. This book is the compilation of Ramsey’s best work, granting ample access to Australia’s national parliament...
by Lachlan Grant
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Half a million Australians encountered a new world when they entered Asia and the Pacific during World War II: different peoples, cultures, languages, and religions chafing under the grip of colonial rule. This book paints a picture not only of individual lives transformed, but of dramatically shifting national perceptions, as the gaze of Australia turned from Britain to Asia.
Kokoda Air Strikes
Allied Air Forces in New Guinea, 1942
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The author of the bestselling Darwin Spitfires casts a forensic eye over the role that Allied air forces played —or failed to play—in crucial World War II campaigns in New Guinea. This is the story of the early battles of the southwest Pacific theatre—the Coral Sea, Kokoda, Milne Bay, Guadalcanal—presented...
Tamam Shud
The Somerton Man Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In 1948, a man was found dead on an Adelaide, Australia, beach. Well-dressed and unmarked, he had a half-smoked cigarette by his side, but no identity documents. Six decades later, the Somerton Man's identity and murder are still a mystery. From the missing labels from all his clothing to the tiny...
The Roots of Terrorism in Indonesia
From Darul Islam to Jema'ah Islamiyah
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Indonesia’s current terrorist problems have a long and complex history, and this work, based on a remarkable array of sources, many of which have never been publicly cited, is a rigorous account that fills in many gaps in our knowledge of jihadist groups, how they interacted with the state and events...
The Sydney Wars
Conflict in the early colony, 1788-1817
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The Sydney Wars tells the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians—described as "this constant sort of war" by one early colonist—around the greater Sydney region. Telling the story of the first years of colonial Sydney in a new and original way, this...
by John Mulvaney
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Known as a historian, conservationist, leading public intellectual, and, most famously, the father of Australian archaeology,” John Mulvaney is renowned for uncovering the depth of Australian human prehistory. This insightful and illuminating memoir traces Mulvaney’s life from his childhood...
Australian Women War Reporters
Boer War to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The common picture of the war correspondent is a heroic, male reporter on the frontline, but women reporters have been more numerous and significant than we ever knew. Against the vehement opposition of newspaper editors, their male colleagues and military hierarchies, twentieth-century women journalists...
Flying Dinosaurs
How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Unearthing the recent paleontologial discoveries, this fascinating popular science book shows that birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs. The discovery of the first feathered dinosaur in China in 1996 sent shockwaves through the paleontologial world. Were the feathers part of a complex mating...