New South imprint: 178 books
Long Road
Australia's Train, Advise and Assist Missions
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Helping neighbors and partners stabilize their political systems and work towards peace and security is a core activity for the modern Australian Defence Force. The Long Road analyzes the successes and failures of ADF's ‘train, advise, assist' missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Bougainville,...
HIV in China
Understanding the Social Aspects of the Epidemic
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The result of collaboration between the University of New South Wales and the Tsinghua University in Beijing, this unique chronicle maps some of the most important social, political, and cultural characteristics of the HIV epidemic in China. Demonstrating that the epidemic was propelled by three main...
Green Bans, Red Union
The Saving of a City
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
At the height of the building boom in the 1970s, a remarkable campaign stopped billions of dollars worth of indiscriminate development that was turning Australian cities into concrete jungles. Enraging employers and politicians but delighting many in the wider community, the members of the NSW Builders...
by Tim Dunlop
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Even as the robots gather on the near horizon this book argues we have choices about the manner in which we greet them. A world without work as we know it could be a good thing.The landscape of work is changing right in front of us, from Uber, Airbnb and the new share economy to automated vehicles,...
Gurindji Journey
A Japanese Historian in the Outback
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
After immersing himself in the culture of a remote Australian Indigenous community for close to a year, the young Japanese scholar Minoru Hokari emerged with a new world view. Gurindji Journey tells of Hokari's experience living with the Gurindji people of Daguragu and Kalkaringi in the Northern Territory...
Beautiful Balts
From Displaced Persons to New Australians
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
170,000 Displaced Persons arrived in Australia between 1947 and 1952 – the first non-Anglo-Celtic mass migrants. Australia's first immigration minister, Arthur Calwell, scoured post-war Europe for refugees, Displaced Persons he characterised as ‘Beautiful Balts'. Amid the hierarchies of the White...
Before the Anzac Dawn
A Military History of Australia Before 1915
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Providing a comprehensive and compelling account of Australian military history before the failed Gallipoli campaign, this study demonstrates the extent to which this pre-World War I history has been forgotten. It begins with detailed accounts of both traditional indigenous warfare and frontier wars...
Kokoda Air Strikes
Allied Air Forces in New Guinea, 1942
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The author of the bestselling Darwin Spitfires casts a forensic eye over the role that Allied air forces played —or failed to play—in crucial World War II campaigns in New Guinea. This is the story of the early battles of the southwest Pacific theatre—the Coral Sea, Kokoda, Milne Bay, Guadalcanal—presented...
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 S Magarey
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
This work offers a new view of suffrage-era feminism in Australia, located in rich cultural, social and political context, which also presents a new view of the decades around federation.
Valiant for Truth
The Life of Chester Wilmot, War Correspondent
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Chester Wilmot (1911–1954) was a renowned Australian war correspondent, broadcaster, journalist and writer. Covering the first triumphant North African battles of Bardia, Tobruk and Derna, the heartbreaking disaster of the Greek Campaign, the epic struggle along the famed Kokoda Track, the momentous...
What the Frack?
Everything You Need to Know About Coal Seam Gas
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Australia has a new $50 billion industry; it carries unprecedented environmental risks, but could be the path to energy salvation: cleaner than coal, safer than nuclear, a complement to renewables. While big oil and gas companies believe Australia could be the biggest liquid natural gas exporter in...
A Certain Style
Beatrice Davis, a literary life
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Beatrice Davis, 1909-1992, was general editor at Angus and Robertson the main Australian publishing company from 1937 to 1973. There she discovered and published such writers as Thea Astley, Miles Franklin, Patricia Wrightson, Xavier Herbert, and Hal Porter, becoming a literary tastemaker in the process....
by Carolyn Holbrook
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzac) remain at the heart of Australia’s national story. But standing firm on the other side of the Anzac enthusiasts is a chorus of critics claiming that the appetite for Anzac is militarizing the nation’s history and indoctrinating their children....