University Of Wales Press imprint: 340 books
Black and Proud
The Story of an Iconic AFL Photo
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
On April 17, 1993, after an Australian Football League match between St. Kilda and Collingwood marred by racist chanting, victorious St. Kilda star Nicky Winmar faced the opposition fans, lifted his shirt and, pointing to his chest, declared, “I’m black and I’m proud to be black.” The moment...
Homelessness in Australia
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
This book explores the complexities of homelessness in Australia—and the future policies likely to improve the situation. What is homelessness? Who counts as homeless? Whose responsibility is homelessness? In Homelessness in Australia, experts in the sector offer timely insights into the history,...
by Vivien Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Part art history, part detective story, this gripping insider’s account of the Papunya art movement-which was centered around the 1,000 small, painted panels created at the remote northern territory Aboriginal settlement of Papunya during 1971 and 1972-goes beyond a mere discussion of the astronomical...
by Kel Richards
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Covering many unique-and sometimes peculiar-Australian slang phrases and words, this lighthearted guide shares the etymological history of almost 1,000 items from Australian-English lingo. The book includes how bloody” became an all-purpose swear word, why bludger” means a lazy person, the...
Gay Men Pursuing Parenthood through Surrogacy
Reconfiguring Kinship
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Dean Murphy analyses how relatedness is enacted in the context of gay men pursuing parenthood and a child of one’s own’ through both domestic and transnational surrogacy arrangements. Drawing on data collected from in-depth interviews with gay men living in Australia and the United States, and...
ANZAC's Dirty Dozen
12 Myths of Australian Military History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Australian military history is a landscape of legends, yet across the length and breadth of military heritage, accuracy and objectivity are often shunted aside so that tales and myths bent on commemoration, veneration, and the idealization of Australian virtues can thrive. In this book, a team of...
Mining Towns
Making a Living, Making a Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
A history of iconic Australian towns that have emerged as a result of mining booms—including Broken Hill, Mount Isa, Queenstown, Mount Morgan, Port Pirie, and Kambalda—this book is a unique attempt to introduce urban readers to those communities, past and present. Unlike many mining books, this...
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...
by Frank Bongiorno, Nick Dyrenfurth
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Australian Labor Party (ALP)-one of the oldest labor parties in the world and the first to form a government-this short and lively book recounts ALP’s history from its origins during the late 19th century through present day. The book details the party’s...
by Peter Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
In this landmark book, award-winning historian Peter Edwards skillfully unravels the complexities of the global Cold War, decolonization in Southeast Asia, and Australian domestic politics. The Vietnam War was Australia’s longest and most controversial military commitment of the 20th century, ending...
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...
Culture Crisis
Anthropology and Politics in Aboriginal Australia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Written by Australia’s leading anthropologists, this valuable examination explores the Australian government’s intervention in terms of health, safety, and education of the nation’s remote Aboriginal citizens via the Northern Territory National Emergency Response. Dissecting the notion of difference...
Come the Revolution
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
A rollicking tale of chain-smoking newspapermen, union leaders, revolutionaries, crooked cops, corrupt politicians, spies, dictators, and ordinary working people, this is the memoir of political journalist Alex Mitchell, who worked on several newspapers around Australia before landing in Fleet Street...
Trading Places
The Airport Economist's Guide to International Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Is Japan running out of husbands? Is China running out of wives? Did Genghis Khan really invent free trade? And why can’t you see the price of a Big Mac at McDonalds in Argentina? In Trading Places, Tim Harcourt—also known as the Airport Economist—takes you around the globe, talking to businesses,...