Faculty of Arts and Society

Stuart Macintyre, one of Australia's most highly regarded historians, revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Aust...

' The Gulag Archipelago helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph WITH A NEW FOREW...

A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Award-winning historian Grace Ka...

Australia's contribution to Indonesia's independence struggle is broadly well-known and this book explores an important part of the story: Australi...

Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia The anti-communist violence that swept across Indonesia in 1965–66 produc...

This is the story of the birth of the city of Darwin, the capital of the Northern Territory.

This is a true story of greed, courage, exploration, murder, wasted efforts, life and death struggles, insubordination, incredible seamanship, and ...

Darwin, the unique and vibrant city in Australia's tropical north, was almost stillborn. The Northern Territory had its beginnings under the govern...

Using war diaries, combat reports, and other official correspondence and records, this fast-paced narrative reconstructs in detail the prolonged ai...

SONGS DREAMINGS & GHOSTS

As Australia became a nation in 1901, no-one anticipated that `Aboriginal affairs' would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not `dying out'...

Winner of the 2014 Victorian Premier's Award for non-fiction! Australia is dotted with memorials to soldiers who fought in wars overseas. Why are t...

  The Handbook of Critical Methodologies covers everything from the history of critical and indigenous theory and how it came to inform and impact...

In the 1840s, white settlement in the north was under attack. European settlers were in awe of Aboriginal physical fitness and fighting prowess, an...

This volume traces the complex reasons behind the disturbing discrepancy between the health and well-being of children in mainstream Australia and ...

Historian Henry Reynolds has found himself being asked these questions by many people, over many years, in all parts of Australia. The acclaimed Wh...

Creating the Visual Structure of Film, TV, and Digital Media The Visual Story teaches you how to manipulate components such as space, line and shap...

  Learning the art of mixing has never been easier. For more than two decades, The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook has been the best selling and most re...

  65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art stares into the dark heart of Australia's brutal colonial history and offers new insights into th...

EIGHT PLAYS

'It was an odd road to be walking, this of painting' …..so wrote Virginia Woolf in her classic 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse. While the life journe...

  The job of a journalist has changed dramatically over the past few decades with satellite links, 24 hour rolling news, and the Internet creating ...