Faculty of Arts and Society

Australian history has undergone major transformations over the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Started by small groups of antiquarians and n...

  A gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia's frontier warsDavid Marr was shocked to discover forebears who served with the brutal...

  For biologists, 2009 was an epochal year: the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of a book now ...

  Millions of Australians who will vote in the upcoming referendum have little knowledge of the history of our relations with the traditional owne...

Discover Majapahit, Indonesia’s greatest empire. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the Majapahit kingdom reigned supreme in eastern Java, and its inf...

The book that forever changed the way architectural history is viewed, taught, and studied, A Global History of Architecture examines 5,000 years o...

Hopalong Cassidy or Hop-along Cassidy is a fictional cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a series of popular s...

Thirty years ago, on Christmas Day 1974, Australia woke up to the news that Darwin had been devastated by Cyclone Tracy. Only hours before, the tow...

The Palmerston Dingo Glee Club was one of the earliest musical groups in the Northern Territory. In this book, Paolo Fabris and Steven Farram explo...

Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history. How di...

The history of Australia’s north coast is a story of ancient industry and international trade with tentacles that reached as far as China. It tells...

In his youth, Waipuldanya was taught to track and hunt wild animals, to live off the land, to provide for his family with the aid only of his spear...

A young Aboriginal girl is taken from the north of Australia and sent to an institution in the distant south. There, she slowly makes a new life fo...

Extending deep into the caverns of humanity's oldest memories, beyond 60,000 years of history and into the Dreamtime, this collection of Australian...

"'Everyone knows that some of those kids are innocent ...your dilemma is not whether the kids are innocent, but which of the kids are innocent.' Wh...

THE STORY OF ABORIGINAL COUNTRY MUSIC Aboriginal people and country music may seem like an unlikely pairing, but for a significant part of the 20th...

AN ANTHOLOGY One of the most invasive, puzzling and unprecedented actions by a government in Australian history – the 2007 NT Intervention by the H...

The Australian Aboriginal, written in 1925, describes the ceremonial and day to day lives of traditional Aboriginal people, as witnessed by Herbert...

A luminous collection of essays on art, obsession and creativity from one of Australia's best critics Why do we revere the figure of the artist? Is...

The five steps to successful selling, negotiating, and managing multi-culturally Say Anything to Anyone, Anywhere gives readers five simple key gui...

Acclaimed cultural historian Peter Gay traces and explores the rise of artistic Modernism, the cultural movement that heralded and shaped the moder...