American Citizens, British Slaves: Yankee Political Prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony, 1839-1850 [PB] Available
Cassandra Pybus and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
This book tells the strange story of almost a hundred United States citizens who were transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1839-40.

The Art of War [PB] Available
Betty Churcher
Awards: Script for the SBS series (which the book is based on) won the NSW Premier's Literary Award for best screenplay 2005
The Art of War focuses on the wars that have been an unrelenting feature of the past hundred years, showing how war changed art in the twentieth century and how art has changed attitudes to war.
Miegunyah

The Art of War [PB with Flaps] Available
Betty Churcher
The Art of War focuses on the wars that have been an unrelenting feature of the past hundred years, showing how war changed art in the twentieth century and how art has changed attitudes to war.
Miegunyah

Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia's Female Publicans [PB] Available
Clare Wright
Awards: Commendation, Victorian Community History Awards 2004
Special Mention, Centre for Australian Cultural Studies Awards 2003
Beyond the Ladies Lounge challenges the myth of the Australian pub as a male domain by documenting the central role that women have historically played in hotelkeeping from colonial times to the present.

Body and Mind: Historical Essays in Honour of F. B. Smith, Academic Monograph [e-book] Available
Graeme Davison, Pat Jalland and Wilfrid Prest (eds)
Body and Mind pays tribute to one of Australia's most outstanding and influential historians, F.
Academic Monograph

Body and Mind: Historical Essays in Honour of F. B. Smith, Academic Monograph [POD] Available
Graeme Davison, Pat Jalland and Wilfrid Prest (eds)
Body and Mind pays tribute to one of Australia's most outstanding and influential historians, F.
Academic Monograph

Citizen Labillardiere [PB] Available
Edward Duyker
Awards: Winner of the 2004 NSW Premier's History Awards
Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière was one of the great traveller-naturalists of the eighteenth century.

Dancing with De Beauvoir: Jazz and the French [PB] Available
Colin Nettelbeck
Explores the powerful synergies between jazz and the French to show how jazz has helped shaped modern French culture and influenced cultural icons from Ravel, Matisse, Sartre and De Beauvoir to Derrida.

The Death of William Gooch: A History's Anthropology [PB] Available
Greg Dening
Greg Dening uses the incident of the murder of William Gooch, the young astronomer on board the Daedalus, as the basis for a penetrating study of historical narrative and meaning.

Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8500 Battles from Antiquity to the Twenty-first Century [HB] Available
Tony Jaques
This is the most extensive and comprehensive dictionary of battles and sieges ever published in English, with more than 8500 meticulously researched entries.

Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality [PB] Available
Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds
Awards: Winner 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Award in the History Book category
Winner 2009 Ernest Scott Prize for the most distinguished contribution to the History of Australia or New Zealand.
'This book by two of Australia's most respected historians is a tour de force. . .'
Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago

Faces of the Living Dead: The Belief in Spirit Photography [HB] Available
Martyn Jolly
Photographic portraits with ghost figures, spirit writing and ectoplasm crowding the living subjects were all part of the spirit photography craze that swept the world from the 1870s to the 1930s.

François Péron--An Impetuous Life: Naturalist and Voyager [HB] Available
Edward Duyker
Awards: Winner of the 2007 Frank Broeze Maritime History Prize
In 1800 François Péron gained a place as an assistant zoologist on Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australian waters. He rose rapidly through the expedition's ranks and wrote its official account. In doing so, Péron sought to destroy Baudin's posthumous reputation.
Miegunyah

God's New Man: The Election of Benedict XVI and the Legacy of John Paul II [PB] Available
Paul Collins
This timely analysis explores the controversial legacy of Pope John Paul II, and the great challenges facing his successor as he leads the Catholic Church into the 21st century.

History on the Couch: Essays in History and Psychoanalysis [PB] Available
Joy Damousi and Robert Reynolds (eds)
Highlights the ways in which the emotional life, identity formation and the relationship between self and society can inform histories both of individuals and of nations.

Human Remains: Episodes in Human Dissection [PB C-format] Available
Helen MacDonald
Awards: Winner: Victorian Premier's Literary Award for a First Book of History, 2006
Shortlisted for the 2006 Ernest Scott prize: The prize, which is awarded annually, is for a 'distinguished contribution to the history of Australia or New Zealand'.
Human Remains is a history of human dissection by the medical profession in the nineteenth century.

The Last of the Lunatics [PB] Available
John Cawte
A searing historical account of the treatment of the mentally ill in our society before the invention of tranquillizers.

Memory, Monuments and Museums: The Past in the Present [PB] Available
Marilyn Lake
'At a time when we are continually urged to move on, to put the past behind us, the perverse persistence of the past is everywhere evident . . .

A Month at the Front: The Diary of an Unknown Soldier [HB] Available
Unknown
Discovered at the bottom of a box of books recently donated to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, this war journal vividly tells the story of a young World War I soldier and his experiences at the Front in the summer of 1917 in his own words.

Performances [PB] Available
Greg Dening
Awards: Shortlisted for the National Book Council 'Banjo' Awards 1997
Master historian Greg Dening invites readers to reflect upon their own participation in the 'performance' of history.

Pistols! Treason! Murder!: The Rise and Fall of a Master Spy [PB] Available
Jonathan Walker
Awards: shortlisted for the NSW Premier's History Awards 2007 in the General History category
Shortlised for the 2008 VIC Premier's Literary Awards in the First Book of History category
Walker's story of intrigue and betrayal will fascinate and enthrall.

These Are the Names: Jewish Lives in Australia, 1788-1850 [HB] Available
John S. Levi
Nathan Howard
Biographical entries for over 1600 Jews who settled in Australia between 1788 and 1850.
Miegunyah

A Tradition of Giving: Seventy-Five Years of Myer Family Philanthropy [HB] Available
Michael Liffman
Foreword by Sir Zelman Cowen
This book explores the remarkable influence of the Myer family on the lives of so many Australians.

The Weather Watchers: 100 years of the Bureau of Meteorology [HB] Available
David Day
Part institutional history, part drama and part natural history, The Weather Watchers is a gripping story of the Bureau of Meteorology.