University Of Wales Press: 420 books
Hidden in Plain View
The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Contrary to what you may think, local Aboriginal people did not lose their culture and die out within decades of Governor Phillip's arrival in Sydney in 1788. Aboriginal people are prominent in accounts of early colonial Sydney, yet we seem to skip a century as they disappear from the historical record,...
River Dreams
The people and landscape of the Cooks River
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
River Dreams reveals the complex history of the Cooks River in south-eastern Sydney—a river renowned as Australia's most altered and polluted. While nineteenth century developers called it "improvement," the sugar mill, tanneries, and factories that lined the banks of Sydney's Cooks River...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
In Australia's rush to commemorate all things Anzac, have we lost our ability to look beyond war as the central pillar of Australia's history and identity? The passionate historians of the Honest History group argue that while war has been important to Australia – mostly for its impact on our citizens...
The Battle Within
POWs in Post-War Australia
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
"Headaches. Dizziness. Can't sleep. Bad dreams (never have been released). The rice jungle had some compensation to some of us who just don't seem to make a success of our return." —Robert, A Returned POW
This landmark and compelling book follows the stories of 15,000 Australian...
by Michael Slezak
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
The annual collection celebrating the finest voices in Australian science writing. From the furthest reaches of the universe to the microscopic world of our genes, science offers writers the kind of scope other subjects simply can't match. Good writing about science can be moving, funny, exhilarating,...
Worst Woman in Sydney
The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Matriarch of the criminal underworld … or the Robin Hood of inner Sydney?The legend of Kate Leigh, Sydney’s famed brothel madam, sly grog seller and drug dealer, has loomed large in TV’s Underbelly and every other account of Sydney’s criminal history from the 1920s to the 1960s. But she has...
Sydney Noir
The Golden Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
The first ever book devoted entirely to the golden years of the Sydney underworld. In the late 1960s Sydney was one of the most prosperous places on earth and one of the most corrupt. A large proportion of the population was engaged in illegal gambling and other activities that made colourful characters...
World War Noir
Sydney's unpatriotic war
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
It seems that not even world war could stop crime in Sydney. In fact, World War Noir confirms that war and crime – in the form of sex, drugs, alcohol, racketeering and other illicit activities – go hand in hand. A companion book to the later glory days of the Sydney underworld from Sydney Noir,...
Outback Elvis
The story of a festival, its fans & a town called Parkes
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Where do thousands of people in wigs, jumpsuits and fake Priscilla eyelashes go each January to swelter in 42-degree heat as they celebrate The King? Parkes, of course – 365 kilometres west of Sydney – for the annual Parkes Elvis Festival. But how, and why, did this sleepy town get all shook up...
Beautiful Balts
From Displaced Persons to New Australians
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
170,000 Displaced Persons arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952 – the first non-Anglo-Celtic mass migrants. Australia's first immigration minister, Arthur Calwell, scoured post-war Europe for refugees, Displaced Persons he characterised as ‘Beautiful Balts'. Amid the hierarchies of the White...
Not Just For This Life
Gough Whitlam Remembered
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Not Just For This Life is a salute and tribute to Gough Whitlam, commemorating what would have been his 100th birthday. Upon his death in October 2014 there was a national outpouring of grief and affectionate remembrances across the nation. This book includes condolences from politicians of all political...
by Rachel Landers
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
I unpick and put in chronological order thousands of pieces of paper — lay out the facts as they arrived the first time, unadorned, uninterpreted, flying in from dozens of sources and every corner of the world. What really went on? Were the police corrupt? Did the conspiracy theorists believe what...
by Mathew Radcliffe
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The Royal Australian Air Force base at Butterworth was Australia's largest and most enduring overseas military garrison in post-war Southeast Asia.Home to the majority of Australian airpower for over three decades, Butterworth was also home to a vibrant Australian community. From 1955 until 1988,...
On Ops
Lessons and Challenges for the Australian Army since East Timor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
No-one in the Australian government or Army could have predicted that in the 25 years following the end of the Cold War Army personnel would be deployed to Rwanda, Cambodia, Somalia, Bougainville, East Timor, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Solomon Islands. In a constructive critique of the modern Australian...