Publications
Aboriginal Protection and its Intermediaries in Britain's Antipodean Colonies
Author/editor: Sam Furphy and Amanda Nettelbeck
Year published: 2019
This collection brings together world-leading and emerging scholars to explore how the concept of "protection" was applied to Indigenous peoples of Britain’s antipodean colonies. Tracing evolutions in protection from the 1830s until the end of the nineteenth century, the contributors map the...
Bodies complexioned: Human variation and racism in early modern English culture, c. 1600-1750
Author/editor: Mark S. Dawson
Year published: 2019
Bodily contrasts - from the colour of hair, eyes and skin to the shape of faces and skeletons - allowed the English of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to discriminate systematically among themselves and against non-Anglophone groups. Making use of an array of sources, this book...
Don Dunstan: The Visionary Politician Who Changed Australia
Author/editor: Angela Woollacott
Year published: 2019
Don Dunstan was one of the most significant political figures of twentieth-century Australia. As Premier of South Australia, he blazed a trail of reform. But his influence reached far beyond his home state. He was seen as the architect of a new kind of Australian society, and his decade in office...
Elections Matter
Author/editor: Ben Jones, Frank Bongiorno
Year published: 2019
In a world of fake news and populist politics, elections can seem like theatre. With growing rates of informal votes and a perceived narrowing of differences between the major parties, do Australian elections really matter? Taking ten examples, this book argues that elections do matter (even when...
Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission
Author/editor: Laura Rademaker
Year published: 2019
Found in Translation is a rich account of language and shifting cross-cultural relations on a Christian mission in northern Australia during the mid-twentieth century. It explores how translation shaped interactions between missionaries and the Anindilyakwa-speaking people of the Groote Eylandt...
Student Revolt in 1968: France, Italy and West Germany
Author/editor: Ben Mercer
Year published: 2019
Student Revolt in 1968 examines the origins, course and dissolution of student protest at three universities in the 1960s - the Freie Universität Berlin in West Germany, the campus of Nanterre in France, and the Faculty of Sociology at Trento in Italy. It traces how student revolts over space,...
Expeditionary Anthropology : Teamwork, Travel and the 'Science of Man'
Author/editor: Martin Thomas
Year published: 2018
The origins of anthropology lie in expeditionary journeys. But since the rise of immersive fieldwork, usually by a sole investigator, the older tradition of team-based social research has been largely eclipsed. Expeditionary Anthropology argues that expeditions have much to tell us about...
Governing Natives: Indirect rule and settler colonialism in Australia's north
Author/editor: Ben Silverstein
Year published: 2018
In the 1930s, a series of crises transformed relationships between settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia’s Northern Territory. By the late 1930s, Australian settlers were coming to understand the Northern Territory as a colonial formation requiring a new form of government. Responding to...
This Time: Australia's Republican Past and Future
Author/editor: Ben Jones
Year published: 2018
To propose an Australian should be our head of state doesn’t seem revolutionary. ‘Isn’t that already the case?” some may even ask. Flip a coin and you’ll have your answer. In This Time , Benjamin T. Jones charts a path to an independent future. He reveals the fascinating early history of the...
Women and Work in Premodern Europe - Experiences, Relationships and Cultural Representation, c.1100-1800
Author/editor: Merridee L. Bailey, Tania M. Colwell and Julie Hotchin
Year published: 2018
This book re-evaluates and extends understandings about how work was conceived and what it could entail for women in the premodern period in Europe from c.1100 to c.1800. It does this by building on the impressive growth in literature on women's working experiences, and by adopting new interpretive...