University Of Wales Press: 420 books
Australian Gypsies
Their Secret History
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Today, roughly 100,000 Gypsies call Australia home, yet until now their experiences have been hidden from our history, and from our present.Here, award-winning memoirist and novelist Mandy Sayer weaves together a wide-ranging and exuberant history of Gypsies in Australia. She begins with the roots...
Evatt
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
John Murphy’s Evatt: A life is a biography of Australian parliamentarian and jurist HV Evatt. Remembered as the first foreign minister to argue for an independent Australian policy in the 1940s and for his central role in the formation of the UN, Evatt went on to be the leader of the Labor party...
The Ascent to Power 1996
The Howard Government
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
In the first of four volumes on the Howard Government's nearly 12 years in office, The Ascent to Power covers the 1996 election and the practical challenges of the Coalition's first year in power, including its handling of the Port Arthur massacre, relationships with the Australian Public Service,...
Escape Artist
The Incredible Second World War of Johnny Peck
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The never-before-told story of World War II escape artist extraordinaire, Johnny Peck. In August 1941, an eighteen-year-old Australian soldier made his first prison break – an audacious night-time escape from a German prisoner-of-war camp in Crete. Astoundingly, this was only the first of many escapes.An...
Shadow Men
The Leaders Who Shaped the Australian Army from the Veldt to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Australian military history is full of heroes – big names that loom large in the public memory of the nation's wartime experiences, like Monash, Chauvel, Jacka and Blamey. There is no question that these famous figures of the Australian Army are important, but their story is not the only story....
Europeans in Australia
Volume Two: Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
'It is the duty of historians to be, wherever they can, accurate, precise, humane, imaginative - using moral imagination above all – and even-handed.' - Alan AtkinsonThe second of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement...
Europeans in Australia
Volume One: The Beginning
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The first of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement by Britain. It tells of the political and intellectual origins of this extraordinary undertaking that began during the 1780s, a decade of extraordinary creativity and the...
The Getting of Garlic
Australian food from bland to brilliant, with recipes old and new
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
The white colonisers of Australia suffered from Alliumphobia, a fear of garlic. Local cooks didn't touch the stuff and it took centuries for that fear to lift. This food history of Australia shows we held onto British assumptions about produce and cooking for a long time and these fed our views on...
by Daniel Reynolds, George Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Australia does not have a bill or charter of rights, which means there is no comprehensive law that enshrines human rights in Australia – even though these laws are standard in the rest of the developed world. So what does this mean for the rights of Australian citizens? In this fully revised fourth...
Serving Our Country
Indigenous Australians, war, defence and citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's participation in the Australian defense forces. While Indigenous Australians have enlisted in the defense forces since the Boer War, for much of this time they defied...
by Henry Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
"How is it our minds are not satisfied? What means this whispering in the bottom of our hearts?" Listening to the whispering in his own heart, Henry Reynolds was led into the lives of remarkable and largely forgotten white humanitarians who followed their consciences and challenged the prevailing...
The Future of Everything
Big, audacious ideas for a better world
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
We are in the middle of the greatest technological revolution in history. Its epicentre lies in Silicon Valley, but its impacts are felt on all corners of the earth. It could give all of us a better quality of life and new, more cooperative ways of living. Or it could further concentrate the world's...
Asylum by Boat
Origins of Australia's Refugee Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In the late 1970s, 2000 Vietnamese arrived in Australia by boat, fleeing persecution. Their arrival presented a challenge to politicians, but the way the Fraser government handled it, and the resettlement of tens of thousands more Indochinese refugees, marked a turning point in Australia's immigration...
Serving in Silence?
Australian LGBT servicemen and women
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
"To put service before self in our Nation's name is the essence of being a member of our Defence Force. Such commitment is to be respected and honoured. Yet, for too long, our LGBT personnel served in silence. This book gives voice to men and women who served in the face of prejudice and discrimination....