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Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but...

An ambitious global history that fundamentally alters our understanding of MalthusThe New Worlds ...

Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but...

Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Australia explores Australia's history from ancient times th...

Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Australia covers the period 1901 to the present day. It begi...

Over five centuries, a global archipelago of quarantine stations came to connect the world's ocea...

Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centur...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'A masterpiece of biography ... a vivid account of a fam...

Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963) was a geographer, anthropologist, and world explorer. His trav...

A comprehensive view of Australian history which incorporates the work of more than sixty leading...

'This is a long-overdue biography of the Huxleys: the Victorian natural historian T.H. Huxley ('D...

'This book brings the history of the geosciences and world cosmologies together, exploring many t...

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'A masterpiece of biography ... a vivid account of a family at the heart of some of the great cul...