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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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