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Offers a personal account of the author's two-year expedition to Australia and New Guinea aboard the Roebuck from 1699-1701. This book presents an account of one of the first British voyages of discovery.

This book considers the proliferation in Malaysia over the past two decades of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) associated with various social movements, both to provide basic information about the NGOs and social movements, and to discuss their role in the development of civil society generally in particular their contribution to the reform movement, which has been gathering strength since 1998. The book discusses the nature and development of the movements, and shows that those movements...

In Lessons from History, leading historians tackle the biggest challenges that face Australia and the world and show how the past provides context and knowledge that can guide us in the present. Does history repeat itself in meaningful ways, or is each problem unique? Does a knowledge of Australian history enhance our understanding of the present and prepare us for the future? Lessons from History is written with the conviction that we must see the world, and confront its many challenges, with...

The Irish-American story, with all its twists and triumphs, is told through the improbable life of one man. A dashing young orator during the Great Famine of the 1840s, in which a million of his Irish countrymen died, Thomas Francis Meagher led a failed uprising against British rule, for which he was banished to a Tasmanian prison colony. He escaped and six months later was heralded in the streets of New York - the revolutionary hero, back from the dead, at the dawn of the great Irish immigratio...

Tells the inside story of the USAustralia alliance under John Howard and George W Bush. It features explosive behind-the-scenes conversations between Australian and American leaders that reveal the secrets behind Australia and US military and political policy in the war on terror, and in Iraq and Afghanistan. Based on scores of interviews with senior political, military and bureaucratic insiders it contains startling new information about the intimacy and range of USAustralia joint military and...

What is the meaning of the stories we remember about the past? How do cultural institutions shape our memories? These questions are indicative of the way in which Memory and History in Twentieth Century Australia charts new territory and helps us to think about the past in different ways. In the context of a renewed interest in memory around the world, it examines the relationship between history and memory through a series of examples that explore the Australian background for the social proces...

John Washington Price was the surgeon of the transport Minerva, which sailed from Cork for Sydney in 1799 carrying two hundred convicts. Many of them were United Irishmen transported for their role in the 1798 rebellion. When Price set sail he was twenty-one, well educated, with a keen awareness of the world around him. His journal is lively, copious and detailed. He was an acute observer of people and his journal is full of minutiae about convicts, sailors and soldiers, and the flora and fauna...

The 1976 uprising in Soweto left a legacy of strident and sustained protest against apartheid in South Africa. This book analyzes internal opposition to apartheid between the uprising and 1984, a period of hesitant and limited change.

This is the story of Tom Phelps and the 'other Kokoda Track'. Seventy-five years later, Tom's grandson, award-winning actor and writer Peter Phelps, is sharing this inspiring tale of resilience and survival.March 1942: The world is at war. Too old to fight and with jobs scarce at home, Tom Phelps found work as a carpenter in the goldfields of the New Guinea Highlands. No one expected the Japanese to attack in the Pacific. But they did.Tom and his mates weren't going to hang around and wait to be...

Coming to the New World paradise of New Zealand the 19th-century colonial settlers did not expect to find the Old World evils of dirt and decay. But this original and fascinating book shows that dirt there was and that over time opinions changed about just what it was, what should be done about it and who had responsibility for dealing with it. Pamela Wood, drawing on extensive research largely in Dunedin, wades through topics like mud and swamps, sewerage, toilets, slums, abattoirs and cemeteri...

For Australia, a new nation with a relatively small population, the death of 60,000 soldiers during World War I was catastrophic. It is hardly surprising, then, that Australians evaluating the consequences of the conflict have tended to focus primarily on the numbing numbers of losses - on the sheer quantity of all those countrymen who did not return. That there must have been extraordinary individuals among them has been implicitly understood, but these special Australians are unknown today. Th...