Faculty of Arts and Society

The Hidden Wisdom of the World's Oldest People We are consuming more than our earth can provide. In Australia, cities and towns struggle to maintai...

Why White Australia Can't Solve Black Problems A call for a radical restructuring of the relationship between black and white Australia. Australia ...

Violence, often fatal, is at the heart of these stories, yet go into any courthouse and you will find examples of the same. If they demand attentio...

‘How can you make decisions about Aboriginal people when you can’t even talk to the people you’ve got here that are blackfellas?’ So ‘Sarah’, a sen...

INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS, WAR, DEFENCE AND CITIZENSHIP After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal...

AN INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN HOMELAND Country of the Heart provides an introduction to the connections between Aboriginal people and the land that has...

The history of Australia has been written before - but not like this. In The Shortest History of Australia, Mark McKenna offers a compelling new ve...

Miles Franklin-award winner Melissa Lucashenko's searing essays and journalism published together for the first time. 'For thousands of years, glob...

SHORTLISTED, Baillie Gifford Prize, United Kingdom, 2025 Helen Garner's acclaimed three volumes of diaries are collected here in one sumptuous book...

How six extraordinary women artists of the twentieth century reframed the narrative through their art and lives. When a woman makes art, what does ...

For the first time, The Australian Wars brings what for too long has been considered the historical past into connection with its reverberations in...

The story of the most audacious serial heist in the history of Australia's museums - and the British gentleman adventurer who pulled it off and got...

A new, radically updated edition of the immensely successful introductory textbook on world prehistory.

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...

  The story of the bombing of Darwin and the Japanese midget sub attack on Sydney Harbour in one volume from the bestselling author of An Awkward ...

  The most important work of modern science now available in Vintage ClassicsDiscover Charles Darwin's most important ideas...When the eminent nat...

A sweeping account of Australia's wet tropical rainforest country, from deep time to the legendary time of Australia's first peoples; from the kill...

  This is the story of a founding document in Australian democracy and the people who made it. It paints a vibrant picture of the profound and anc...

  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...

  In 1942 the air defence of the northern Australian frontier town of Darwin was operated by airmen from the United States. Flying P-40E Warhawks,...

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