Publications
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Indigenous Intermediaries: New perspectives on exploration archives
(2015)
This edited collection understands exploration as a collective effort and experience involving a variety of people in diverse kinds of relationships. It engages with the recent resurgence of interest in the history of ...
Managing Under Austerity, Delivering Under Pressure
(2015)
Contemporary public managers find themselves under pressure on many fronts. Coming off a sustained period of growth in their funding and some complacency about their performance, they now face an environment of ferocious ...
Maudu', A Union with God
(2015)
This volume offers a fascinating case study of the Sayyid community of Cikoang in South Sulawesi – in particular, an examination of the role of the descendants of Sayyid Jalaluddin al-‘Aidid, a Hadhrami merchant-teacher ...
China: New Engine of World Growth
(2012)
Twenty-five years of reform have transformed China from a centrally planned and closed system to a predominantly market-driven and open economy. As a consequence, China is emerging as the new powerhouse for the world ...
A Vision for Change
(2011)
This collection of the writings and speeches of one of Fiji’s greatest statesmen, the late Mr AD Patel, points to a different future which, if allowed to come to fruition, would have spared Fiji the fate it later encountered ...
Intersections: History, Memory and Discipline
(2012)
“A wonderfully rich, insightful and personally touching collection of essays by the Pacific region’s most prolific and engaging historian. Brij Lal writes eloquently
Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World
(2008)
Australian lives are intricately enmeshed with the world, bound by ties of allegiance and affinity, intellect and imagination. In Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World, an eclectic mix of scholars—historians, ...
What does the honeybee see? And how do we know?
(2009)
This book is the only account of what the bee, as an example of an insect, actually detects with its eyes. Bees detect some visual features such as edges and colours, but there is no sign that they reconstruct patterns or ...
What Good Condition?
(2006)
What Good Condition? collects edited papers, initially delivered at the Treaty Advancing Reconciliation conference, on the proposal for a treaty between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, a proposal which has been ...
A Trial Separation
(2012)
Decolonization; Politics and government; Papua new guinea
Viet Nam - a transition tiger?
(2004)
Economic conditions; Economic policy; Vietnam
Troubled Waters: Confronting the Water Crisis in Australia's Cities
(2008)
Australian cities have traditionally relied for their water on a ‘predict-and-provide’ philosophy that gives primacy to big engineering solutions. In more recent years privatised water authorities, seeking to maximise ...
Talking and Listening edited
(2007)
Historians have, until recently, been silent about sound. This collection of essays on talking and listening in the age of modernity brings together major Australian scholars who have followed Alain Corbin’s injunction ...
The Spanish Lake
(2004)
Discovery; Exploration; Civilization; Economic conditions; European influences; History; Spain; Latin america; Pacific area
Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land
(2006)
Ethnology; Southeast asia; Oceania
Sex Discrimination in Uncertain Times
(2010)
This collection of essays arose from a conference held to mark the silver anniversary of the Australian Sex Discrimination Act (1984). The collection has two aims: first; to honour the contributions of both the spirited ...
Security and Privacy
(2011)
This study is principally concerned with the ethical dimensions of identity management technology – electronic surveillance, the mining of personal data, and profiling – in the context of transnational crime and global ...
Soeharto's New Order and its Legacy
(2010)
Indonesia’s President Soeharto led one of the most durable and effective authoritarian regimes of the second half of the twentieth century. Yet his rule ended in ignominy, and much of the turbulence and corruption of the ...
Seismic Wave Propagation in Stratified Media
(2009)
Seismic Wave Propagation in Stratified Media presents a systematic treatment of the interaction of seismic waves with Earth structure. The theoretical development is physically based and is closely tied to the nature of ...
The Social Effects of Native Title
(2007)
The papers in this collection reflect on the various social effects of native title. In particular, the authors consider the ways in which the implementation of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cwlth), and the native title process ...