Stalin's Liquidation Game
Author/editor: Filip Slaveski and Yurii Shapoval
Year published: 2025
Millions of innocent people were arrested in Stalin’s Soviet Union during the 1930s in different waves of mass repression. Under violent interrogation, many were forced to confess to crimes they did not commit. Rather than save their lives, as the interrogators had promised, confession was usually…
The Wild Australia Show
Author/editor: Paul Memmott, Maria Nugent, Michael Aird, Lindy Allen, Chantal Knowles, Jonathan Richards
Year published: 2025
The Wild Australia Show was a troupe of 27 Aboriginal performers recruited from northern Queensland in the 1890s for a world tour that would culminate at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Those grand plans were ultimately dashed, and the troupe only performed in Brisbane, Sydney…
The Red Cross’s Public Health Turn
Author/editor: Romain Fathi
Year published: 2025
This book is about the Cannes Medical Conference of April 1919 and its long-lasting impacts in the humanitarian space. In the aftermath of the First World War, as the world order was being redesigned, this conference served to shift the Red Cross movement towards peacetime and public health work.…
Clever Men, How worlds collided on the scientific expedition to Arnhem Land of 1948
Author/editor: Martin Thomas
Year published: 2025
What really happened when Charles Mountford led a quarrelsome team of Australian and American scientists to explore traditional Aboriginal life in Arnhem Land in 1948.'Here was I with the status of little more than a telephone mechanic, taking out the biggest scientific expedition in history'... In…
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…