Sydney University Press: Recent submissions
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Flashy, Fun and Functional: How Things Helped to Invent Melbourne's Gold Rush Mayor (front matter)
Published 2018-09-21Against the backdrop of embryonic Melbourne, John Thomas Smith left behind his currency roots to become an influential member of society. A widely recognised figure about town smoking a cutty pipe and wearing a white top ...Open AccessBook -
Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays (front matter)
Published 2018-10-12'Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays' is the first book to be published about the life and work of this major world author. Written by twelve leading critics from Australia, Europe and North America, these richly varied ...Open AccessBook -
Songs from the Stations: Wajarra as Performed by Ronnie Wavehill Wirrpnga, Topsy Dodd Ngarnjal and Dandy Danbayarri at Kalkaringi (front matter and introduction)
Published 2019-03-01The Gurindji people of the Northern Territory are best known for their walk-off of Wave Hill Station in 1966, protesting against mistreatment by the station managers. The strike would become the first major victory of the ...Open AccessBook -
Obaysch: A Hippopotamus in Victorian London (front matter)
Published 2019-01-01'Obaysch: A Hippopotamus in Victorian London' is the story of Obaysch the hippopotamus, the first ‘star’ animal to be exhibited in the London Zoo. In 1850, a baby hippopotamus arrived on English shores, allegedly the first ...Open AccessBook -
The Broad Arrow: Being Passages from the History of Maida Gwynnham, a Lifer (front matter)
Published 2019-02-01Caroline Leakey, writing as Oliné Keese, published her first and only novel, 'The Broad Arrow', in 1859. It tells the story of Maida Gwynnham, a young middle-class woman lured into committing a forgery by her deceitful ...Open AccessBook