Annual Report
Annual Report

Author: Australian National University. Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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A National Asset
A National Asset

Author: Desmond Ball

Publisher: ANU Press

Published: 2016-08-26

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1760460575

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This volume commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC). The Centre is Australia’s largest body of scholars dedicated to the analysis of the use of armed force in its political context and one of the earliest generation of post-World War II research institutions on strategic affairs. The book features chapters replete with stories of university politics, internal SDSC activities, cooperation among people with different social and political values, and conflicts between others, as well as the Centre’s public achievements. It also details the evolution of strategic studies in Australia and the contribution of academia and defence intellectuals to national defence policy.

New Serial Titles
New Serial Titles

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 1344

ISBN-13:

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A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

Uncovering Pacific Pasts
Uncovering Pacific Pasts

Author: Hilary Howes

Publisher: ANU Press

Published: 2022-06-21

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13: 1760464872

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Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories of exchange, acquisition, display and interpretation. This book is a collection of essays highlighting some of the collections, and their object biographies, that were displayed in the Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (UPP) exhibition. The exhibition, which opened on 1 March 2020, sought to bring together both notable and relatively unknown Pacific material culture and archival collections from around the globe, displaying them simultaneously in their home institutions and linked online at www.uncoveringpacificpasts.org. Thirty‑eight collecting institutions participated in UPP, including major collecting institutions in the United Kingdom, continental Europe and the Americas, as well as collecting institutions from across the Pacific.

Jordan and the United States
Jordan and the United States

Author: Imad El-Anis

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2010-11-30

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0857719076

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Relations between the United States and the Middle East are going through a period of significant change in which the use of force in pursuit of national interests has proved to be increasingly counter-productive. A new policy direction has been adopted which seeks to promote economic integration, development and cooperation. The recent proliferation of US-Middle East free trade agreements is a corner-stone of this new foreign policy approach. Imad El-Anis here offers an analysis of how free trade and economic integration can impact US-Middle East relations by using the Jordan-US relationship as an example. This book is essential reading for those wishing to understand the new direction of US foreign economic policy towards the Middle East and the accompanying reforms taking shape in the Arab world.

Upon a Stone Altar
Upon a Stone Altar

Author: David L. Hanlon

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2019-09-30

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 0824883918

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Upon a Stone Altar tells the history of a remarkable people who inhabit the island of Pohnpei in the Eastern Caroline Islands of Micronesia. Since the beginnings of intensive foreign contact, Pohnpei has endured numerous disruptive conflicts as well as attempts at colonial domination. Pohnpeians creatively adapted to change and today live successfully in a modern world not totally of their own making. Hanlon uses the vast body of oral tradition to relate the early history of Pohnpei, including the story of the building of a huge complex of artificial stone islets, Nan Madol.

Peopled Landscapes
Peopled Landscapes

Author: Simon Haberle

Publisher: ANU E Press

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1921862726

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"This volume brings together a collection of papers from a diverse field of international scholars exploring the multiple ways that East Timorese communities are making and remaking their connections to land and places of ancestral significance. The work is explicitly comparative and highlights the different ways Timorese language communities negotiate access and transactions in land, disputes and inheritance especially in areas subject to historical displacement and resettlement. Consideration is extended to the role of ritual performance and social alliance for inscribing connection and entitlement. Emerging through analysis is an appreciation of how relations to land, articulated in origin discourses, are implicated in the construction of national culture and differential contributions to the struggle for independence."--Publisher's description.