Aboriginal Rock Art and the Telling of History
Author/editor: Laura Rademaker, Sally K. May, Gabriel Maralngurra and Joakim Goldhahn
Year published: 2024
The rock art of Australia is among the oldest, most complex, and most fascinating manifestations of human creativity and imagination in the world. Aboriginal people used art to record their experiences, ceremonies, and knowledge by embedding their understanding of the world in the landscape over…
Reframing Indigenous Biography
Author/editor: Shino Konishi, Malcolm Allbrook, Tom Griffiths
Year published: 2024
This book explores the history, practice, and possibilities of writing about the lives of First Nations’ peoples in Australia as well as Aotearoa New Zealand, North America, and the Pacific.This interdisciplinary collection recognises the limitations of Western biographical conventions for writing…
Climate Change and International History: Negotiating Science, Global Change, and Environmental Justice
Author/editor: Ruth A. Morgan
Year published: 2024
Exploring how climate change has configured the international arena since the 1950s, this book reveals the ways that climate change emerged and evolved as an international problem, and how states, scientists and non-governmental organizations have engaged in diplomatic efforts to address it.…
Tiwi Story: Turning History Downside Up
Author/editor: Mavis Kerinaiua and Laura Rademaker
Year published: 2023
‘I believe history is for healing. But you need to tell the whole story, the good and the bad. Telling the truth to the younger ones, the next generation, will make them strong.’ — Mavis KerinaiuaThe Tiwi people have more than their fair share of stories that turn ideas of Australian history upside…
Biography: An Historiography
Author/editor: Melanie Nolan
Year published: 2023
Biography: An Historiography examines how Western historians have used biography from the nineteenth century to the present – considering the problems and challenges that historians have faced in their biographical practice systematically.This volume analyses the strategies and methods that…
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…