Proximity and Distance: Space, Time and World War I
Author/editor: Fathi, Romain & Robertson, Emily
Year published: 2020
This book explores how participants and observers in World War I negotiated the temporal and spatial challenges of the conflict. The global magnitude of World War I has meant that proximity and distance were highly influential in the ways the conflict was conducted, and how it was experienced at…
Student Revolt in 1968 France, Italy and West Germany
Author/editor: Mercer, Ben
Year published: 2020
Student Revolt in 1968 examines the origins, course and dissolution of student protest at three universities in the 1960s - the Free University of 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…
The Bible in Buffalo Country: Oenpelli Mission 1925-1931
Author/editor: May, Sally & Rademaker, Laura
Year published: 2020
Arriving in the remote Arnhem Land Aboriginal settlement of Oenpelli (Gunbalanya) in 1925, Alf and Mary Dyer aimed to bring Christ to a former buffalo shooting camp and an Aboriginal population many whites considered difficult to control. The Bible in Buffalo Country: Oenpelli Mission 1925 - 1931…
The Death Penalty and Sex Murder in Canadian History
Author/editor: Strange, Carolyn
Year published: 2020
This is the first historical study to examine changing perceptions of sexual murder and the treatment of "sex killers" while the death penalty was in effect in Canada.
The Red Cross Movement: Myths, practices & turning points
Author/editor: Wylie N, Oppenheimer M & Crossland J
Year published: 2020
This book offers new insights into the history of the Red Cross Movement, the world's oldest humanitarian body originally founded in 1863 in Geneva, Switzerland. Incorporating new research, the book reimagines and re-evaluates the Red Cross as a global institutional network. It is the first book of…
What the Colonists Never Knew: A History of Aboriginal Sydney
Author/editor: Foley, Dennis & Read, Peter
Year published: 2020
This book takes readers into Foley’s lived experience of growing up Aboriginal in Sydney. His family’s story and his memories of Gai-mariagal country are interwoven with historian Read’s exploration of Aboriginal Sydney. It paints a vivid picture of Foley’s emotional personal journey. ‘This is a…