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History : Australia, New Zealand & Oceania: Books & eBooks

A research guide to primary and secondary sources for Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Island history.

Selected eBooks

Black, White and Exempt : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Lives Under Exemption
Risky Shores: Savagery and Colonialism in the Western Pacific
Making Mala: Malaita in Solomon Islands, 1870s–1930s
Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles: Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji
When Women Ruled the Pacific: Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Tahiti and Hawai‘i
Placental Politics: CHamoru Women, White Womanhood, and Indigeneity under U.S. Colonialism in Guam
Naturalist Histories: Making Nature, Knowledge, and People in Oceania
Fighting Australia's Cold War: The Nexus of Strategy and Operations in a Multipolar Asia, 1945–1965
Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa
Tautai: Sāmoa, World History, and the Life of Ta’isi O. F. Nelson
Sisters in Peace: The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in Australia, 1915–2015
The Antipodean Laboratory: Making Colonial Knowledge, 1770–1870
Power and Dysfunction: The New South Wales Board for the Protection of Aborigines 1883–1940
The Contest for Aboriginal Souls : European Missionary Agendas in Australia
South Flows the Pearl: Chinese Australian Voices
The Lives of Stories: Three Aboriginal-Settler Friendships
Cities in a Sunburnt Country: Water and the Making of Urban Australia
Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia
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History eBook Collections

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Browsing Australian & New Zealand History

The UW Libraries arranges books by Library of Congress call numbers. Though history is covered in every discipline (e.g., women's history may be located in the women's studies call numbers while the medical history may be in the medicine call numbers), the major sections for Australian and New Zealand history are listed below.

DU1-DU950 History of Oceana Suz 3
DU80-DU398 Australia Suz 3
DU400-DU430 New Zealand Suz 3
DU490 Melanesia Suz 3
DU500 Micronesia Suz 3
DU510 Polynesia Suz 3
DU620-DU629 Hawaii Suz 3

 

For a more specific breakdown of the call numbers see the Library of Congress Classification Online.

 

Subjects: History
Tags: history