Faculty of Arts and Society

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...

This book looks at the history of Charles Darwin University through an examination of the many commemorative plaques to be found at the Casuarina C...

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...

  Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia... In this hilarious history, David Hunt tells the real story of Australia's past f...

  A prequel to his 'World's end': British military outposts in the 'ring fence' around Australia 1824-1849, this book by prize-winning historian a...

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...

The greatest engineering problem facing Australia – the tyranny of distance – had a solution: the electric telegraph, and its champion was the shee...

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...

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...

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'...