Australia & the Pacific : a history / Ian Hoskins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoskins, Ian, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

History.

Australia--History.

Australia.

Australia--Foreign relations--Pacific Area.

Pacific Area--History.

Pacific Area.

Pacific Area--Foreign relations--Australia.

Diplomatic relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

489 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

regular print

Other Title:

Australia and the Pacific

Place of Publication:

Sydney, NSW. : NewSouth Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

Australia's deep past and its modern history are intrinsically linked to the Pacific. In Australia & the Pacific, Ian Hoskins - award-winning author of Sydney Harbour and Coast - expands his gaze to examine Australia's relationship with the Pacific region; from our ties with Papua New Guinea and New Zealand to our complex connections with China, Japan and the United States. This revealing, sweeping narrative history begins with the shifting of the continents to the coming of the first Australians and, thousands of years later, the Europeans who dispossessed them. Hoskins explores colonists' attempts to exploit the riches of the region while keeping 'white Australia' desperate from neighbouring Asians, Melanesians and Polynesians. He examines how the advent of modern human rights and the creation of the United Nations after World War Two changed Australia and investigates our increasing regional engagements following the rise of China and the growing unpredictability of US foreign policy. Concluding with the offshore detention of asylum seekers and current debates over climate change, Hoskins questions Australia's responsibilities towards our increasingly imperilled neighbours.

Contents:

Introduction

1 Shifting continents

2 First peoples

3 Converging on Australia

4 In the wake of Spain

5 A Pacific colony

6 An ocean of opportunity

7 Miners and mutineers

8 Saving souls and taking slaves

9 Australia's Pacific

10 A white Australia

11 World War One and its aftermath

12 World War Two

13 Governing Papua and New Guinea

14 Learning from the Pacific

15 Post-war Australia meets the Cold War Pacific

16 Confronting communism and decoupling a colony

17 The end of White Australia, refugees and reassessments

18 Pacific solutions

19 Pacific Islanders in Australia

20 Climate change

Afterword: Mammon or millennial Eden?

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781742235691

1742235697

OCLC:

1260291831

Publisher Number:

99989753888