University Of New South Wales Press: 180 books
The Bible in Australia
A cultural history
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
The revelatory story of the Bible in Australia, from the convict era to the Mabo land rights campaign, Nick Cave, the Bra Boys, and beyond. Thought to be everything from the word of God to a resented imposition, the Bible has been debated, painted, rejected, translated, read, gossiped about, preached,...
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...
From Victims to Suspects
Muslim Women since 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
The so-called War on Terror, in its many incarnations, has always been a war with gender at its heart.Once regarded as helpless victims waiting to be rescued, Muslim women are now widely regarded by both Muslim and non-Muslim disciplinarians as a potential threat to be kept under control. How did...
by Henry Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
'Australian governments find it easy to go to war. Their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm conscience, answerable neither to God nor humanity.' Australia lost 600 men in the Boer War, a three-year conflict fought in the heart of Africa that had ostensibly nothing to do with Australia....
Disposable Leaders
Media and Leadership Coups from Menzies to Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Since 1970 seventy-three political leaders within the major parties have been forcibly removed from their leadership positions. And at the heart of the turmoil is the media, with its 24-hour news cycle making political leadership evermore precarious. Disposable Leaders is an engaging and insightful...
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,...
Australia's Welfare Wars
The Players, the Politics and the Ideologies
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
In this fully revised third edition of Australia's Welfare Wars, Philip Mendes questions many of the key values and assumptions that determine contemporary social welfare policies, and the factors and forces that shape these policies in Australia.
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...
Ethics Under Fire
Challenges for the Australian Army
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Events at Abu Ghraib prison and the 1968 My Lai Massacre show that the behaviour of the military can descend into barbarism. How strong is the military's commitment to avoiding such atrocities? Ethics Under Fire – a timely and compelling book – asks questions and raises issues the Australian Army...
Charles Bean
Man, Myth, Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Australia's official war correspondent during WWI, Charles Bean was also Australia's first official war historian and the driving force behind the creation of the Australian War Memorial. Famously criticized for his deliberate myth-making as editor of The Anzac Book, Bean was also a public servant,...
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...
Beyond Combat
Australian military activity away from the battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
"Even a military that is solely dedicated to preparing for war creates, simply by existing, a suite of responsibilities that has very little to do with combat."––Tristan Moss and Tom Richardson
There is a lot more to military life than war. From an army nurse's letters home during...
Stranger Thingies
From Felafel to Now
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
John Birmingham is a master of good writing and funny lines. He has written a thousand stories, some true, some not so much. These are the best ones and they're so good, and so funny, there has been no barrel-scraping involved. Really, this book could have been much longer.The pieces contained within...
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...