Publications
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Pacific Islanders Under German Rule: A Study in the Meaning of Colonial Resistance
(2016)
This is an important book. It is a reprint of the first detailed study of how Pacific Islanders responded politically and economically to their rulers across the German empire of the Pacific. Under one cover, it captures ...
Narrow But Endlessly Deep: The struggle for memorialisation in Chile since the transition to democracy
(2016)
On 11 September 1973, the Chilean Chief of the Armed Forces Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende and installed a military dictatorship. Yet this is a book not of parties or ideologies ...
Geography, Power, Strategy and Defence Policy: Essays in Honour of Paul Dibb
(2016)
Paul Dibb AM has had an extraordinary career. He enjoys an international scholarly reputation of the highest order, while at the same time he has done much distinguished public service. He was a pioneer in moving back and ...
The Fijian Colonial Experience: A study of the neotraditional order under British colonial rule prior to World War II
(2016)
Indigenous Fijians were singularly fortunate in having a colonial administration that halted the alienation of communally owned land to foreign settlers and that, almost for a century, administered their affairs in their ...
China's New Sources of Economic Growth: Vol. 1. Reform, Resources and Climate Change
(2016)
China’s change to a new model of growth, now called the ‘new normal’, was always going to be hard. Events over the past year show how hard it is. The attempts to moderate the extremes of high investment and low consumption, ...
Black, White and Gold. Goldmining in Papua New Guinea 1878–1930
(2016)
Australian goldminers were among the first white men to have sustained contact with Papua New Guineans. Some Papua New Guineans welcomed them, worked for them, traded with them and learnt their skills and soon were mining ...
Engaging the neighbours. Australia and ASEAN since 1974
(2016)
From modest beginnings in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has become the premier regional institution in Southeast Asia. The 10 members are pursuing cooperation to develop the ‘ASEAN Community’ and ...
The Doubters Dilemma
(2016)
This book explores the extent and causes of attrition and retention in university Language & Culture (L&C) programs through a detailed analysis of an institutional case study at The Australian National University (ANU). ...
Managing Consultants. A practical guide for busy public sector managers
(2016)
Public service cutbacks have increased reliance on consultants. But new legislation and rules governing the procurement of services from consultants are scattered over different legislative instruments. The first edition ...
Experiments in self-determination: Histories of the outstation movement in Australia
(2016)
Outstations, which dramatically increased in numbers in the 1970s, are small, decentralised and relatively permanent communities of kin established by Aboriginal people on land that has social, cultural or economic ...