Books published by Sydney University Press

A fire kindling. The energy of industry. Sparks combines all this and more, through stories, poems, essays and photographs by twenty-six new writers and artists.

Made in Chinatown delves into a little-known aspect of Australia's past: its hundreds of Chinese furniture factories. These businesses thrived in the post-goldrush era, becoming an important economic activity for Chinese immigrants and their descendants and a vital part of Australia's furniture industry. Yet, owing to an exclusionary vision for Australia as a bastion of 'white' industry and labour, these factories were targeted by anti-Chinese political campaigns and legislative restrictions. Guided by Chinese manufacturers' and workers' own reflections and records, this book examines how these factories operated under the exclusionary vision of White Australia.Historian Peter Gibson uses previously untapped archival sources to investigate the local and international factors that boosted the industry, and the business and labour practices associated with factory operation. He explores the strategies employed in efforts to resist injustice, and the place of Chinese furniture factories within the contexts of Australian enterprise, work and consumerism more broadly. Made in Chinatown argues that Chinese Australian furniture manufacturers and their employees were far more adaptable, and the White Australia vision less pervasive, than most histories would suggest.

In Ambivalent Macbeth,renowned Shakespeare scholar R.S. White explores how radical ambivalence permeates the atmosphere,imagery, themes and characterisation of 'the Scottish play'. Heconsiders Shakespeare's historical context and source material, andexamines key cinematic, theatrical and other adaptations of the play.

One of the giants of Australian literature and the only Australian writer to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Patrick White received less acclaim when he turned his hand to playwriting.In Patrick White's Theatre, Denise Varney offers a new analysis of White's eight published plays, discussing how they have been staged and received over a period of 60 years. From the sensational rejection of The Ham Funeral by the Adelaide Festival in 1962 to 21st-century revivals incorporating digital technology, these productions and their reception illustrate the major shifts that have taken place in Australian theatre over time. Varney unpacks White's complex and unique theatrical imagination, the social issues that preoccupied him as a playwright, and his place in the wider Australian modernist and theatrical traditions.

This book demystifies many of the practices of academic writing for students in an Australian university. It covers the major types of academic texts and guides students through carefully annotated examples. These are supported by a broad selection of strategies and easy-to-follow practical activities.

A year after its 2008 resurrection from the archives, ARNA is back to stimulate and literate with analytical essays of depth and insight, creative stories of humour and intelligence, poetry of loss an

Australia and the World celebrates the pioneering role of Neville Meaney in the formation and development of foreign relations history in Australia and his profound influence on its study, teaching and application.

As a poet, editor and author, Richard Appleton was driven by a love of language and ideas, and a desire that Australians might better understand their country and themselves.

In 1997 Nancy de Vries accepted the Apology from the Parliament of New South Wales on behalf of all the Indigenous children who had been taken from their families and communities.

The story of one of the most enduring conflicts in the history of Australian universities. Beginning in the late 1960s it pitted those committed to teaching mainstream economics against those proponents of an alternative program in political economy at Sydney University. Until, in 2008 a Department of Political Economy was established.

There are one billion smokers on the planet today and up to half will die from their habit. According to the World Health Organization, approximately one person dies every six seconds from tobacco use

A body of knowledge (BOK) is a collection of essential concepts, terms and activities within a profession or subject area.

About energy that permeates stories & artistic pursuits, the desperate need for creative outlet & expression, & the passion that pours out & onto the pages. The voices of the twenty-nine new writers & artists included in this anthology explore a diverse range of themes & provide fresh, inspiring perspectives with a fierce drive and energy.

Shirley Hazzard: New Critical Essays is the first collection of scholarly essays on the work of the acclaimed Australian-born, New York-based author. In the course of the last half century, Hazzard''s writing has crossed and re-crossed the terrain of love, war, beauty, politics and ethics.Hazzard''s oeuvre effortlessly reflects and represents the author''s life and times, encapsulating the prominent feelings, anxieties and questions of the second half of the 20th century. It is these qualities, along with Hazzard''s lyrical style that place her among the most noteworthy Australian writers of the 20th century.Hazzard''s work has been duly praised and admired by many including the critic Bryan Appleyard who describes her as ''the greatest living writer on goodness and love''. In 2011, novelist Richard Ford observed: ''If there has to be one best writer working in English today it''s Shirley Hazzard.''

Interest in camouflage spans a wide range of disciplines, due to growing reflection, discussion and action on ecology, migration, visual deception and warfare.

Alex Miller: the ruin of time is the first sole-authored critical survey of the respected Australian novelist's eleven novels.

Buying and Selling the Poor ventures behind the scenes of the multibillion-dollar welfare-to-work system, offering new insights into how Australia responds to unemployment and disadvantage. As the authors tell the story of four local employment offices, they paint a vivid picture of a critically important social service which many people are aware of but which few properly understand. They also reveal the wider impacts that processes of marketisation and welfare reform have had on these frontline services over decades, and how the work of frontline staff and service providers has been transformed.Buying and Selling the Poor looks closely at how these services operate, why some succeed where others fail, and what can be learned from the stories of staff and clients who have navigated the system. Three decades into this market experiment, how well are we doing in supporting our most vulnerable citizens to get back to work?'This revealing, often heart-wrenching work will prove enlightening for not only those within the policy field, but also anyone with an interest in or experience dealing with a system that often feels like a race to the bottom.'- Kim Thomson, Books+Publishing

The World Heritage-listed Port Arthur penitentiary is one of Australia's most visited historical sites, attracting over 400,000 visitors each year. Designed to incarcerate 480 men, between 1856 and 1877 thousands of convicts passed through it.In 2016, archaeologists began one of the largest ever excavations of an Australian convict site. Recovering Convict Lives: Historical Archaeology of the Port Arthur Penitentiary makes their findings available to general readers for the first time. Extensively illustrated, it is a fascinating journey into the inner workings of the penal system and the day-to-day lives of Port Arthur convicts.Through the things they left behind - the sandstone base of a prison wall, a clay pipe discarded in a washroom, gambling tokens dropped between floorboards - this book tells their stories.Praise for Recovering Convict Lives'In this richly illustrated volume readers will be taken on an archaeological tour of a lost world of work, leisure and punishment. A forensic reconstruction of one of Australia's most iconic buildings, Recovering Convict Lives peels away the layers of time to reveal the hidden history of everyday life in a penal station.'- Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, author of Closing Hell's Gates

Anthropologist W.E.H. Stanner is perhaps most well known for coining the phrase the 'great Australian silence', addressing the culture of denial or 'conscious forgetting' regarding the history Australia since European arrival.

Melbourne grew during the 19th century from its fledgling roots into a global metropolitan centre, and was home to many people from a range of social and cultural backgrounds.In this important study, material culture is used to understand the unique way in which the Martin family used gentility to establish and maintain their middle-class position.

In Art and Reality, John Anderson explores how beauty is experienced and defined. He considers a wide range of topics, from Homer to Dostoevsky and Shakespeare, the Ern Malley hoax and censorship of Ulysses. With rigor and originality, Anderson proposes a philosophical approach to art that can lead us to thoughtful engagement with literature.

The plight of animals in China has attracted intense interest in recent times. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, speculation about the origins of the virus have sparked global curiosity Speculation about the origins of COVID-19 has sparked curiosity about how animals are treated, traded and consumed in China today.In Animal Welfare in China, Peter Li explores the key animal welfare challenges facing China now, including animal agriculture, bear farming, and the trade and consumption of exotic wildlife, dog meat, and other controversial products. He considers how Chinese policymakers have approached these issues and speaks with activists from China''s growing animal rights movement.Li also offers an overview of the history of animal welfare in China, from ancient times through the enormous changes of the 20th and 21st centuries. Some practices that are today described as "traditional", he argues, are in fact quite recent developments, reflecting the contemporary pursuit of economic growth rather than long-standing cultural traditions.Based on years of fieldwork and analysis, Animal Welfare in China makes a compelling case for a more nuanced and evidence-based approach to these complex issues.

In Enter the Animal, Teya Brooks Pribac examines academic and popular discourse on animals'' experiences of grief and spirituality, which are rooted in our intrinsic capacity and propensity for connections and relations, and highlights important ethical implications of humans'' treatment of other species.Praise for Enter the Animal''This path-breaking book engages a surprising range of sources to shed extraordinary clarity on aspects of animal subjectivity that make other species every bit our equal. I could not stop reading.''- Cynthia Willett, author of Interspecies Ethics''Enter the Animal is a fascinating journey into the hearts and minds of nonhuman animals and our shared capacities for experiencing a wide variety of deep and rich emotions. Employing an impressively broad scope of interdisciplinary research, this most important and forward-looking book offers a lucid, engrossing, and insightful exploration of the capacities for grief and spiritual engagement that humans share with other animals.'' - Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals, Rewilding Our Hearts and The Animals'' Agenda''This is a very impressive book which illuminates human-nonhuman animal relations with its thorough research and sophisticated theoretical analysis. It is crucial reading for anyone interested in grief in animals.''- Peta Tait, author of Fighting Nature and Wild and Dangerous Performances''It is clear, and easy to read, and easy, as well, to understand. Whether you are a scholar in the broad area of animal studies, a student embarking upon animal-related research or simply a reader interested in all matters animal, this is an essential book, which will help you understand three fundamental points: where we are currently, how we got here, and where to go next.''- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of When Elephants Weep and Lost Companions''Enter the Animal offers a moving exploration of the ways in which grief is a cross-species phenomenon that manifests in a diversity of expressions and experiences. Reading this beautifully written book informs ways of thinking about the political work grief, and acknowledging grief, does for other species as well as our own. A wonderful contribution to scholarship on animal subjectivity, sociality, and grief specifically.''- Kathryn Gillespie, author of The Cow With Ear Tag #1389

Caroline Leakey, writing as Oline Keese, published her first and only novel, The Broad Arrow, in 1859. In this new critical edition, editor Jenna Mead restores material that was cut when the novel was reissued in a radically abridged version in 1886.

A Life for Animals is the story of Christine Townend, founder of Animal Liberation Australia, and her life devoted to a radical idea: that animals should be treated with dignity and respect. She records the successes and challenges of animal welfare work, and the personal, philosophical and political consequences of sharing a life with animals.

ElizabethHarrower: Critical Essays is the first collection of critical writing onHarrower's fiction. Featuring essays by leading researchers in Australianliterature, this volume offers new insights into a writer at the crossroads ofmodernism and postmodernism, and invites readers to read Harrower's work in anew light.

Drawing on examples of worldwide best practice urbanplanning, Leslie A. Stein uses an evidence-based approach and a considerationof underlying ideologies to find the universal patterns, solutions and responsesto common urban planning problems.

Over the course of the 19th century a remarkable array of character types appeared - and disappeared - in Australian literature. Some had a powerful influence on the colonies' developing sense of identity; others were more ephemeral. But all had a role to play in shaping and reflecting the social and economic circumstances of life in the colonies.