Australia Oceania category: 2401 books
by Jennifer Lawn
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Through a literary lens, Neoliberalism and Cultural Transition in New Zealand Literature, 1984-2008: Market Fictions examines the ways in which the reprise of market-based economics has impacted the forms of social exchange and cultural life in a settler-colonial context. Jennifer Lawn proposes that...
Disposable Leaders
Media and Leadership Coups from Menzies to Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Since 1970 seventy-three political leaders within the major parties have been forcibly removed from their leadership positions. And at the heart of the turmoil is the media, with its 24-hour news cycle making political leadership evermore precarious. Disposable Leaders is an engaging and insightful...
Selfish Generations?
The Ageing of New Zealand’s Welfare State
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Our present welfare state has little good reason to survive much longer, and we will have to find a new basis for its continued existence.’ So writes David Thomson as he offers an unflinching perspective on how different generations have fared under the social welfare policies of governments since...
Waitangi & Indigenous Rights
Revolution, Law & Legitimation
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
This landmark study examines issues surrounding New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi, focusing on recent Fiji revolutions and indigenous customary rights to the seabed and foreshore. In this revised edition, the author approaches these complex and controversial matters with a careful, thorough, and...
by Donald Pitt
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Imagine a rock that catches fire yet does not burn, strengthens construction materials, insulates materials perfectly, dampens noise, and possesses long, silky threads that can be woven into fireproof cloth. Sound impossible? This "wonder material" is asbestos.However, If it sounds too good...
The Last Man
A British Genocide in Tasmania
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, its indigenous population had been virtually wiped out. Yet this genocide - one of the earliest of the modern era - is virtually forgotten in Britain today. The Last Man is the first book specifically...
Contemporary Japan
History, Politics, and Social Change since the 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
The second edition of this comprehensive study of recent Japanese history now includes the author's expert assessment of the effects of the earthquake and tsunami, including the political and environmental consequences of the Fukushima reactor meltdown.
Fully updated to include a detailed assessment...
Sea of Glory
America's Voyage of Discovery, The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2004
**"A treasure of a book."—David McCullough
The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye.**
A...
The Healthy Country?
A History of Life & Death in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Did Maori or Europeans live longer when Captain James Cook arrived in New Zealand in 1769? Why were Pakeha New Zealanders the healthiest, longest-lived people on the face of the globe for 80 years—and why did Maori not enjoy the same life expectancy? Why were New Zealanders' health and longevity...
by Donald Maxton
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
In 1787, the Royal Navy ship H.M.S. Bounty, captained by William Bligh, set sail for Tahiti in search of breadfruit plants. Soon after leaving Tahiti, Masters Mate Fletcher Christian led a successful revolt, setting Bligh and eighteen of his men adrift. In his journal, fellow mutineer James Morrison...
by Michael Kelly Connors
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This book seeks to illuminate how Thai elites have used democracy as an instrument for order and discipline. Drawing on interviews, numerous Thai language sources, and critical theory, the author reveals a remarkable adaptation of the idea of democracy in the Thai context. Connors shows how elites...
Steadfast Movement around Micronesia
Satowan Enlargements beyond Migration
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Steadfast Movement examines how people from Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) move about and their cultural interpretations of movement itself. Special consideration is made of movement on the atoll of Satowan in Chuuk State as intimately associated with clan, lineage, and locality,...
by Dean Jaensch
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1994
The Australian Liberal Party is in deep crisis. Losing the 'unloseable' election in 1993 gave it an unenviable record of five successive losses, nearly reversing the record of successes set by Robert Menzies. As a result, the party now faces a policy vacuum; its leader is being stalked by those in...