Authenticity. Vulnerability. Humility. Transparency. These are some of the 21st-century virtues proselytised by mindset gurus, paraded (if not prac...

This second edition of the Companion now includes the following topics: Australian Aboriginal Philosophy; History and Philosophy of Science; and Th...

The erosion of public trust in government has been a characteristic of liberal democracies in recent years. How much have the twists and turns in c...

Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia heralded a revolution in the cattle industry...

Visier Meyasetsu Sanyü, his family and fellow villagers of Khonoma, fled for their lives to the jungles of Nagaland in 1956. All survived privation...

They came from an old world to a new land. The Yiddish speakers from Eastern Europe brought few material possessions but clung to a language and a ...

In A Secret Australia, eighteen independent and prominent Australians discuss what Australia has learned about itself from the WikiLeaks revelation...

Cambodia's Hun Sen is the world's longest-serving prime minister, in power since 1985. In 2013, Sen's rule came under threat when the exiled opposi...

On the eve of the Great War, in 1914 the Australian Federal Government sponsored the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) to t...

Mary Montgomerie Bennett (1881-1961) is an important but under-recognised figure in Australian history. A member of a successful squatting family, ...

The frontiersmen who came to the Victoria River District of Australia's Northern Territory included cattle and horse thieves, outlaws, capitalists,...

In 1883, pastoralists began to drive great herds of cattle into the Northern Territory’s Victoria River District. They entered a vast tropical land...

Timor-Leste's independence was forged at a time when international developmental theory had rejected top down approaches and recognised the importa...

Human rights come into question in times of crisis. But should we wait for crises to arise before we discuss these rights? Advancing human rights s...

This book examines how genocide is remembered and represented in both popular and scholarly memory, integrating scholarship on the Holocaust with t...

Today, trust seems harder to find than ever before. It’s hardly surprising we feel that way. Our politics is polarised, our online world is awash w...

This collection explores -- in rich detail -- the nature of community in rural Cambodia. It examines the debates about the ways community -- or its...

Bernard Smith (1916-2011) was undoubtedly Australia's greatest art historian and arguably Australia's most important humanist scholar. His European...

Antipodes: In Search of the Southern Continent is a new history of an ancient geography. It reassesses the evidence for why Europeans believed a ma...

Anzac Memories was first published to acclaim in 1994, and has achieved international renown for its pioneering contribution to the study of war me...

Asbestos in Australia presents for the first time a multi-dimensional view of Australia's asbestos story featuring contributions from experts in th...

Education in Asia Pacific countries is being transformed by globalisation and the market economy. Most economies within the region have flourished ...

Asian Horizons is published in honour of the great scholar of Asia, Professor Giuseppe Tucci (1894-1984). Through the work of present-day scholars,...

Following on from The Fountain of Public Prosperity, their acclaimed historical account of Australian evangelical Christianity in the period preced...

John Rickard's Australia: A Cultural History, first published in 1988, is still the only short history of Australia from a cultural perspective. It...

This book is the first to draw extensively on the recently released highly classified notes of the cabinet room discussions of successive Australia...

'Life is long. When you're forty-eight, there's been a lot of stuff that's happened (laughs). It's got elements of comedy and there are elements of...

Australian Religious Thought is the first major study of this field. Wayne Hudson argues that religious thought can be found in many intellectuals ...

Much is known about British migration to Australia and something is known of British communities in Australia, but knowledge, particularly quantita...

Long before the advent of modern tourism, Australians travelled to live in Italy, or undertook extensive visits there. Indeed they continue to do s...

This is the story of Celia Rosser, internationally acclaimed botanical illustrator, who dedicated her life to painting the entire genus of Banksia,...

Between early 1999 and early 2002, in the Maluku Islands archipelago in Indonesia, Christian and Muslim communities engaged in a bloody conflict. V...

Much of the scholarship on the Great War, and especially the Dardanelles/çanakkale campaign, has been viewed through a narrow national prism and fo...

The Supplement to The Bibliography of Australian Literature (BAL) completes the most comprehensive reference to Australian creative writing ever pu...

Scott Morrison wants to spend a lot more money on defence, the business community wants more spending on infrastructure and education, an ageing po...

'There is something mysterious and wonderful about the act of teaching someone how to do something. Good teaching can lead to personal and social t...

The Victorian bushfires of February 2009 captured the attention of all Australians and made headlines around the world. One hundred and seventy-thr...

As Australia comes to grips with accusations that some of its elite soldiers committed war crimes in Afghanistan, a catchcry for certain commentato...

Publishing is an industry steeped in rules and conventions, controlled by laws and contractual agreements, and heavily invested in practices of car...

Edited by former political prisoner Putu Oka Sukanta, this collection brings together voices from people around the archipelago who experienced the...

Bridges of Friendship unveils the personal ties between Indonesians and Australians in the newly formed Indonesian Republic. This work brings toget...

In Timor's chequered history, many other nation states have been involved. The prime purpose of this book is to examine the role of the British in ...

Between the mid-1990s and 2004, Omar Bakri Muhammad and his organisation al-Muhajiroun generated a very public profile as the voice of 'Islamism' i...

In times of explosive metropolitan growth and inflationary investment, Building Mixity! challenges the status quo of expansive and unequal urban de...

The Morrison government's moral decline happened first slowly and then all at once. We suffered through 'Sports rorts' and 'Watergate' and an MIA P...

Buru Island was the site of Indonesia's most remote and infamous prison camp. In the wake of the 1965 repression of the political Left, between 196...

The extraordinary economic performance of Asia is arguably the most important economic phenomenon of the last 50 years. Recovering from the shocks ...