Books
The Good, The Bad And The Unlikely: Australian's Prime Ministers: From Barton To Albanese
Author/editor: MacCallum, Mungo & Bongiorno, Frank
Year published: 2023
Good drinkers, bad swimmers and unlikely heroes. Mungo's Australian classic, updated by acclaimed historian Frank Bongiorno. Since 1901, thirty-one different leaders have run the national show. Whether their term was eight days or eighteen years, each prime minister has a story worth sharing...
The Routledge Companion To History And The Moving Image
Author/editor: Hughes-Warrington, M, Nelson, K & Treacey, M
Year published: 2023
The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding history in moving images. It engages this popular and dynamic field that has evolved rapidly from film and television to digital streaming into the age of user-created content. The volume...
Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India
Author/editor: Balasubramanian, A
Year published: 2023
The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independence. Neoliberalism is routinely characterized as an antidemocratic, expert-driven project aimed at insulating markets from politics, devised in the North Atlantic and projected on the rest of the world. Revising this understanding...
Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West c. 1000-1500: Debating Identities, Creating Communities
Author/editor: Hotchin, Julie; Thibaut, Jirki;
Year published: 2023
New approaches to understanding religious women's involvement in monastic reform, demonstrating how women's experiences were more ambiguous and multi-layered than previously assumed. Over the last two decades, scholarship has presented a more nuanced view of women's attitude to and agency in...
Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum
Author/editor: Jones, Mike
Year published: 2022
Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum provides the first interdisciplinary study of the digital documentation of artefacts and archives in contemporary museums, while also exploring the implications of polyphonic, relational thinking on collections documentation. Drawing...
Big and Little Histories: Sizing Up Ethics in Historiography
Author/editor: Hughes-Warrington, Marnie & Martin, Anne
Year published: 2022
This book introduces students to ethics in historiography through an exploration of how historians in different times and places have explained how history ought to be written and how those views relate to different understandings of ethics. No two histories are the same. The book argues that this...
Cities in a Sunburnt Country: Water and the Making of Urban Australia
Author/editor: Cook, M, Frost, L, Gaynor, A, Gregory, Morgan, R, et al.
Year published: 2022
As Australian cities face uncertain water futures, what insights can the history of Aboriginal and settler relationships with water yield? Residents have come to expect reliable, safe, and cheap water, but natural limits and the costs of maintaining and expanding water networks are at odds with...
DREAMERS and SCHEMERS: A political history of Australia
Author/editor: Bongiorno, Frank
Year published: 2022
In this compelling and comprehensive work, renowned historian Frank Bongiorno presents a social and cultural history of Australia’s political life, from pre-settlement Indigenous systems to the present day. Depicting a wonderful parade of dreamers and schemers, Bongiorno surveys moments of...
Exiting War: The British Empire and the 1918-20 ‘moment'
Author/editor: Fathi, Romain
Year published: 2022
Exiting war explores a particular 1918-20 'moment' in the British Empire's history, between the First World War's armistices of 1918, and the peace treaties of 1919 and 1920. That moment, we argue, was a challenging and transformative time for the Empire. While British authorities successfully...
A Concise History of the Caribbean (2nd Edition)
Author/editor: Higman, Barry
Year published: 2021
A Concise History of the Caribbean offers a comprehensive interpretation of the history of the Caribbean islands from the beginning of human settlement to the present. It narrates the processes of early human migration, the disastrous consequences of European colonisation, the development of...
