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Anne Orford (University of Melbourne)
During the 1990s, humanitarian intervention seemed to promise a world in which human rights would be privileged over national interests or imperial ambitions. Orford argues that humanitarian intervention had far…
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Clara Tuite (University of Melbourne)
Tuite’s study presents a series of historically contextualized readings of Austen’s writing, including juvenilia, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park and Austen’s posthumously published novel, Sanditon, to examine ways in which…
Eric Osborn (University of Melbourne)
In so-called Christian countries an increasing number of people openly reject Christian morality. It is a commonplace that they do this for values which can be shown to be Christian…
Michelle Foster (University of Melbourne)
Michelle Foster assesses the ability of the Refugee Convention to encompass refugee claims based on the violation of socio-economic rights, arguing that despite the traditional dichotomy between ‘economic migrants’ and…
Sean Scalmer (University of Melbourne)
Where did the non-violent protests of the 1960s originate from? This book uncovers their history in an earlier generation’s intense struggles to understand and emulate the activities of Mahatma Gandhi…
Sally Young (University of Melbourne)
This groundbreaking book shows how election reporting has changed over time, and how political news audiences, news production and shifts in political campaigning are influencing media content - with profound…
Simon Keller (University of Melbourne)
In this 2007 book Simon Keller explores the varieties of loyalty and their psychological and ethical differences, and concludes that loyalty is an essential but fallible part of human life…
Christine Parker (University of Melbourne)
The Open Corporation, originally published in 2002, is an innovative and realistic proposal for effective corporate self-regulation. Based on extensive fieldwork in Europe, the US and Australia, Parker sets out…
Tania Voon (University of Melbourne)
Voon examines how WTO rules apply to ‘cultural products’, such as film, radio, music and books. Freer trade in these products has caused different reactions among Members. This 2007 book…
The idea that states and the international community have a responsibility to protect populations has shaped debates about conflict prevention, humanitarian action, peacekeeping and territorial administration since 2001. This book…
Alison Duxbury (University of Melbourne)
In this book Alison Duxbury provides international lawyers and international relations specialists with the first examination of the role of human rights and democracy in determining membership of a broad…
Jan Sapp (University of Melbourne)
Where the Truth Lies is an absorbing account of a case of suspected fraud involving the tragic career of the molecular biologist Franz Moewus that illustrates all that can go…
Philippa Pattison (University of Melbourne)
The book presents a algebraic approach to the structural analysis of complete and local social networks.
Donna Merwick (University of Melbourne)
In Possessing Albany, 1630-1710, Donna Merwick reconstructs the manifold ways by which Dutch people of seventeenth century New York took hold of the New World. As Merwick reminds us, the…
Brian Galligan (University of Melbourne)
This analysis of the Australian constitution is written from the unique perspective of a political scientist. It calls for a positive reassessment of the constitution, arguing that Australia is already…
Lesley Stirling (University of Melbourne)
This book argues that types of anaphoric linkage across clause boundaries cannot be adequately accounted for by Binding Theory, proposing instead an account for them which is formalized in Discourse…
Simon Marginson (University of Melbourne)
Summarises and analyses the major issues in Australian education policy today: the relationship between education and work; the reform of higher education and vocational training; outputs, resources and class sizes…
Kenneth Polk (University of Melbourne)
This book describes various patterns of homicide that involve men killing women and other men. A qualitative study, it eschews heavy use of statistics to focus on case studies. Kenneth…
Greg Dening (University of Melbourne)
Captain Bligh and the mutiny on the Bounty have become proverbial in their capacity to evoke the extravagant and violent abuse of power. But William Bligh was one of the…
Verity Burgmann (University of Melbourne)
A history of the International Workers of the World (IWW) in Australia.
Diane Kirkby (University of Melbourne)
In this, the first biography of Alice Henry (1857-1943), Diane Kirkby presents us with an intelligent, formidable woman of great energy who was a pioneer in both the Australian and…
Eric Jones (University of Melbourne)
Europe’s economic rise is explained, contrasting with the frustrating pattern of interplay in the Ottoman empire, India and China.
Chris Healy (University of Melbourne)
This book throws fresh light on the history of memory, forgetting and colonialism. It considers key moments of historical imagination, and analyses the strange ensemble of elements that constitute Australian…
Michael Clyne (University of Melbourne)
This interdisciplinary study examines the impact of cultural values on discourse.
Austin Lovegrove (University of Melbourne)
An analysis of multiple offender sentencing combining insight into judicial thinking with a rule-based and numerical model of decision-making. A solution is offered to the problem of proportionality between offence…
Joy Damousi (University of Melbourne)
This book looks at the cultural meanings of aspects of convict women’s lives in colonial society.
Kim Humphery (University of Melbourne)
This critique of the supermarket in twentieth-century Australia includes history, cultural studies and oral history.
Michael Dutton (University of Melbourne)
A collection of ‘snapshots’ of contemporary Chinese life in translation with commentary.
Maureen Christie (University of Melbourne)
Uses the story of the ozone layer to explore key issues in philosophy of science.
Kevin McDonald (University of Melbourne)
This book examines the urgent social and cultural questions faced by young people today. Struggles for Subjectivity is not only about young people, but explores forms of crisis and struggle…
This book explores how people dealt with the grief process during and immediately after the two world wars. Based on an examination of private loss through letters and diaries, this…
Graham Priest (University of Melbourne)
This revised and considerably expanded 2nd edition brings together a wide range of topics, including modal, tense, conditional, intuitionist, many-valued, paraconsistent, relevant, and fuzzy logics. All of the topics are…
Karen Green (University of Melbourne)
Tracing her intellectual development from her university years, when she was trained in a Cartesian and neo-Kantian philosophical tradition, to her final decade, during which she was recognised as having…
Ann Capling (University of Melbourne)
Australia and the Global Trade System provides a comprehensive account of Australia’s role in developing and maintaining the multilateral trade system from its origins in 1947 to the present day.
Written by a leading expert in the field, this much-needed account brings together disparate findings to examine the dynamics of contact between languages in an immigrant context and asks how…
Paul Cubberley (University of Melbourne)
This book provides an introduction to the structure, history and sociolinguistics of Russian.
This very moving book, based on oral testimonies, focuses on the shifting patterns of mourning and grief on the experiences of Australian women who lost their husbands during the Second…
Uses legal, feminist and postcolonial, and psychoanalytic theory to consider the cultural and economic effects of militarised humanitarianism.
