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...