Honouring a Nation: A History of Australia's Honours System
Author/editor: Karen Fox
Year published: 2022
The first detailed history of imperial and national honours in Australia, Honouring a Nation tells the story of the honours system’s transformation from instrument of imperial unity to national institution.From the extension of British honours to colonial Australasia in the nineteenth century,…
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…
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.…