Ancestors, artefacts, empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish Museums
Author/editor: Sculthorpe, G, Nugent, M & Morphy, H
Year published: 2021
Museums across the United Kingdom and Ireland hold over 39,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks and artefacts. Gifted, sold, exchanged and bartered by Indigenous people, and accepted, bought, collected and taken by travellers, colonists, explorers and others, these objects date from…
Political Conflict and Continuity in East Timor: A History of the 2006 Crisis
Author/editor: Nuttall, Ruth
Year published: 2021
This book examines the history of political continuity and conflict in East Timor between 1974 and 2006, and the origins of an unexpected crisis in 2006 which caused an international military intervention and several more years of UN missions. Providing a fresh and analytical political history to…
Principles of Effective Policy Reform: Lessons for Australia's Climate Change Policy Impasse
Author/editor: Brown, Nicholas & Dovers, Stephen
Year published: 2021
This edited volume presents ten policy reform case studies - from regional forestry agreements to activity-based funding in Victorian hospitals - to identify critical factors that may be relevant to Australia's current climate policy impasse. The volume is based on presentations at a roundtable…
Remaking Ukraine after World War II (Remaking Ukraine after World War II: The Clash of Local and Central Soviet Power)
Author/editor: Slaveski, Filip
Year published: 2021
Ukraine was liberated from German wartime occupation by 1944 but remained prisoner to its consequences for much longer. This study examines Soviet Ukraine's transition from war to 'peace' in the long aftermath of World War II. Filip Slaveski explores the challenges faced by local Soviet authorities…
Sacred Sites and Sacred Stories Across Cultures: Transmission of Oral Tradition, Myth, and Religiosity
Author/editor: Kim, David
Year published: 2021
This book offers global perspectives from Mediterranean, Asian, Australian, and American cultures on sacred sites and their related stories in regional history. Contemporary society witnesses many travelers visiting sacred sites (temples, mountains, castles, churches, houses) throughout the world.…
The routledge companion to global indigenous history
Author/editor: McGrath, Ann
Year published: 2021
The Routledge Companion to Global Indigenous History presents exciting new innovations in the dynamic field of Indigenous global history while also outlining ethical, political, and practical research. Indigenous histories are not merely concerned with the past but have resonances for the politics…
The Words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas: The Genesis of a Wisdom Tradition
Author/editor: Kim, David
Year published: 2021
This book offers a detailed analysis of the Gospel of Thomas in its historic and literary context, providing a new understanding of the genesis of the Jesus tradition. Discovered in the twentieth century, the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas is an important early text whose origins and place in the…