![Australian Mothering]( "Australian Mothering")
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Pascoe Leahy, C. (Ed), Bueskens, P. (Ed) (2020)
This collection defines the field of maternal studies in Australia for the first time. Leading motherhood researchers explore how mothering has evolved across Australian history …
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![Invasive Predators in New Zealand]( "Invasive Predators in New Zealand")
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King, C. M. (2019)
The story of invasive species in New Zealand is unlike any other in the world. By the mid-thirteenth century, the main islands of the country were the last large landmasses on …
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![Australian War Graves Workers and World War One]( "Australian War Graves Workers and World War One")
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Cahir, F., Weuffen, S., Smith, M., Bakker, P., Caminiti, J. (2019)
This book relays the largely untold story of the approximately 1,100 Australian war graves workers whose job it was to locate, identify exhume and rebury the thousands of …
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![Cricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879–1939]( "Cricket, Kirikiti and Imperialism in Samoa, 1879–1939")
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Sacks, B. (2019)
This book considers how Samoans embraced and reshaped the English game of cricket, recasting it as a distinctively Samoan pastime, kirikiti. Starting with cricket’s introduction …
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![Insanity and Immigration Control in New Zealand and Australia, 1860–1930]( "Insanity and Immigration Control in New Zealand and Australia, 1860–1930")
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Kain, J. S. (2019)
This book examines the policy and practice of the insanity clauses within the immigration controls of New Zealand and the Commonwealth of Australia. It reveals those charged with …
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![La Niña and the Making of Climate Optimism]( "La Niña and the Making of Climate Optimism")
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Miller, J. (2019)
This book examines the deep connection Australians have with their climate to understand contemporary views on human-induced climate change. It is the first study of the …
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![Australia, Migration and Empire]( "Australia, Migration and Empire")
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Payton, P. (Ed), Varnava, A. (Ed) (2019)
This edited collection explores how migrants played a major role in the creation and settlement of the British Empire, by focusing on a series of Australian case studies. Despite …
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![HIV Survivors in Sydney]( "HIV Survivors in Sydney")
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Ware, C. (2019)
Inner-city Sydney was the epicenter of gay life in the Southern hemisphere in the 1970s and early 1980s. Gay men moved from across Australasia to find liberation in the city’s …
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![Terania Creek and the Forging of Modern Environmental Activism]( "Terania Creek and the Forging of Modern Environmental Activism")
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Bible, V. (2018)
This book tells the story of Terania Creek – the world’s first direct action blockade in defence of a forest, occurring in Australia in 1979. Contrary to claims that the …
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![The Australian Army Uniform and the Government Clothing Factory]( "The Australian Army Uniform and the Government Clothing Factory")
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van Mosseveld, A. (2018)
This book reveals the business history of the Australian Government Clothing Factory as it introduced innovative changes in the production and design of the Australian Army …
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![Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony]( "Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony")
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Edmonds, P. (Ed), Nettelbeck, A. (Ed) (2018)
Violence and intimacy were critically intertwined at all stages of the settler colonial encounter, and yet we know surprisingly little of how they were connected in the shaping of …
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![Italians in Australia]( "Italians in Australia")
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Ricatti, F. (2018)
This book provides a concise and innovative history of Italian migration to Australia over the past 150 years. It focuses on crucial aspects of the migratory experience, including …
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![The Slow Evolution of Foster Care in Australia]( "The Slow Evolution of Foster Care in Australia")
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Musgrove, N., Michell, D. (2018)
This book draws on archival, oral history and public policy sources to tell a history of foster care in Australia from the nineteenth century to the present day. It is, …
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![A Transnational History of the Australian Animal Movement, 1970-2015]( "A Transnational History of the Australian Animal Movement, 1970-2015")
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Villanueva, G. (2018)
This book offers the first transnational historical study of the creation, contention and consequences of the Australian animal movement. Largely inspired by Peter Singer and his …
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![Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia]( "Science, Museums and Collecting the Indigenous Dead in Colonial Australia")
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Turnbull, P. (2017)
This book draws on over twenty years’ investigation of scientific archives in Europe, Australia, and other former British settler colonies. It explains how and why skulls and …
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![The Memory of Genocide in Tasmania, 1803-2013]( "The Memory of Genocide in Tasmania, 1803-2013")
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Shipway, J. (2017)
This book presents a philosophical history of Tasmania’s past and present with a particular focus on the double stories of genocide and modernity. On the one hand, proponents of …
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![Australian Rules Football During the First World War]( "Australian Rules Football During the First World War")
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Blair, D., Hess, R. (2017)
The book explores the intersection between the Great War and patriotism through an examination of the effects of both on Australia’s most popular football code. The work is …
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![Imperial Theory and Colonial Pragmatism]( "Imperial Theory and Colonial Pragmatism")
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Gilchrist, D. J. (2017)
This book considers the role played by co-operative agriculture as a critical economic model which, in Australia, helped build public capital, drive economic development and …
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![Magna Carta and New Zealand]( "Magna Carta and New Zealand")
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Winter, S. (Ed), Jones, C. (Ed) (2017)
This volume is the first to explore the vibrant history of Magna Carta in Aotearoa New Zealand’s legal, political and popular culture. Readers will benefit from in-depth analyses …
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![The Empire’s Patriotic Fund]( "The Empire’s Patriotic Fund")
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McQuilton, J. (2017)
This book examines the Empire’s Patriotic Fund, established in Victoria, Australia, in 1901 to assist the dependants of the men serving in the Boer War and the men invalided home …
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