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John Rickard's Australia: A Cultural History, first published in 1988, is still the only short history of Australia from a cultural perspective. It has also acquired a unique …
It is 1860 in Australia. An Aboriginal laborer named Jim Crow is led to the scaffold of the Maitland Gaol in colonial New South Wales. Among the onlookers is the Scotsman A.S. …
Now available in paperback While the Great War raged, Australians were twice asked to vote on the question of military conscription for overseas service. The recourse to popular …
The changes we have made will remain-like all great Labor legislation-permanent landmarks in our history.--Gough Whitlam ***The Whitlam government propelled Australia out of the …
Included here is a new history of an ancient geography. It reassesses the evidence for why Europeans believed a massive southern continent existed, and why they advocated for its …
"I used to begin a course on Australian economic history in the accepted manner with the European explorations of the eighteenth century until one day the archaeologist, John …
Fifty years ago, a group of striking Aboriginal stockmen in the remote Northern Territory of Australia heralded a revolution in the cattle industry and a massive shift in …
Living with drought is one of the biggest issues of our time. Climate change scenarios suggest that in the next fifty years, global warming will increase both the frequency and …
Geoffrey Bolton was the most versatile and widely travelled of his generation of Australian historians. As a scholar, teacher, and commentator he enriched understanding of the …