Arden

Australian Scholarly Publishing (ASP) is a leading independent publisher of scholarly & general books. Established in 1991, it releases 80 books a year under its Australian Scholarly & International Scholarly (academic), Arden (general & art books), Tantanoola (fiction) and Chancery Bold (law) imprints.

The Pebbled Beach at Pentecost Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 422
ISBN: 9781922669247
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Imprint: Arden
Description:
Vernon Lee Walker, a young Englishman from industrial Wolverhampton, meets his death on a beach on Pentecost Island in the South Pacific on the eve of Christmas 1887. Why did Vernon die, in what circumstances, and who was responsible? Was he, as once branded, simply a 'bad colonist'?
Major Fitz-Gerald and the Matter of War Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9781922669056
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Imprint: Arden
Description:
In 1915, Major Richard Francis Fitz-Gerald was the last Australian to leave an exposed position at Gallipoli. He was awarded the DSO for that and served on the Western Front through to the end of the Great War. Everywhere he went, often while in danger, he collected materials that marked his experience - photographs, orders, his battalion’s timetable for evacuation, and a souvenir map of Gallipoli that he annotated by hand.
Australia Felix Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 420
ISBN: 9781922669148
Pub Date: 28 Dec 2021
Imprint: Arden
Description:
"In these three volumes we have one of the greatest novels not only of our generation, but of our language ..
Guy Griffiths Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9781922454683
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2021
Imprint: Arden
Description:
In his long career in the Royal Australian Navy, Guy Griffiths participated in its emergence from Depression-era stricture, pre-World War II, to its reinvention in the 1950s and 60s as a capable middle-power force centred on aircraft carriers in the missile age. In this time, he personally experienced the RAN's darkest days in the face of the Japanese onslaught and its fi nest hour in the Philippines Campaign of World War II, and its close involvements in the Korean War and then the Vietnam War. He witnessed the realities of war in positions of increasing responsibility.
Mental Health in the Times of the Pandemic Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 82
ISBN: 9781922454058
Pub Date: 28 May 2021
Imprint: Arden
Description:
Traumatologist Paul Valent believes that knowledge of human responses in disasters can help individuals and societies to better control catastrophic events, such as the present pandemic. This concise book will help the general reader to understand the very wide mental health effects of this pandemic, and thus to understand how distress may be better managed today and in the future. The author summarises disaster responses as they have manifested in this pandemic.
Climate Change Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9781925984941
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2021
Imprint: Arden
Description:
On 24 September 2019 the 17-year-old activist Greta Thunberg addressed the United Nations Climate Action Summit saying, ‘People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing.
Summoning Magna Carta Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 270
ISBN: 9781922454010
Pub Date: 08 Apr 2021
Imprint: Arden
Description:
The story of Magna Carta is the essential prologue to the story of Western democracy. It is a foundation stone in the political culture and legal system of Australia and other countries that share a common law heritage. This book combines a most readable general history of the influence of Magna Carta in the emergence of Western democracy since 1215 with beginning and concluding observations on the Great Charter’s relevance to Australia, the European settlement of which began as that of a penal colony.
The Road to Singapore Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9781921509957
Pub Date: 28 Nov 2020
Imprint: Arden
Description:
Generations of Australians have been reared on the belief the fall of Singapore in February 1942 was a British betrayal that exposed Australia to Japanese invasion. In The Road to Singapore a young American historian, using archival records from across the globe, exposes the notion of a British betrayal as nothing more than a myth. British authorities never gave Australia an iron-clad guarantee against enemy attack and invasion and always stressed the need for Australians to take responsibility for home defence.
French Canadian Rebels as Australian Convicts Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 540
ISBN: 9781921875656
Pub Date: 28 Nov 2020
Imprint: Arden
Description:
After the 1838 Lower Canada rebellion, 58 French Canadians were convicted of treason, sentenced to death, and later transported to life at hard labour in New South Wales. From the day they left Quebec, until the last man returned home in 1848 their activities were closely observed in journals, diaries and newspapers, and it seems they were viewed with wariness and fascination and treated with leniency. Some became servants and tradesman for their French-speaking superintendent; others were only lightly employed; and with a sympathetic handling of their petitions by the Governor, political efforts locally and in Britain and Canada, and sheer luck, they only served two years before parole was granted and they were pardoned.
A Ridiculous Man Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 148
ISBN: 9781922454027
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2020
Imprint: Arden
Description:
The election of Donald Trump as the 45th US president in 2016 was a pivotal moment in history for America and for the world. A celebrity rather than a politician, Trump promised to turn politics on its head - and he did. Is he an aberration or does he represent a continuity of forces already in play?
Anatomists of Empire Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781925984705
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2020
Imprint: Arden
Description:
The 20th-century anatomists Grafton Elliot Smith, Frederic Wood Jones and Arthur Keith travelled the globe collecting, cataloguing and constructing morphologies of the biological world with the aim of weaving these into a new vision of bio-ecology that links humans to their deep past as well as their evolutionary niche. They dissected human bodies and scrutinised the living, explaining for the first time the intricacies of human biology. They placed the body in its environment and gave it a history, thus creating an ecological synthesis in striking contrast to the model of humanity that they inherited as students.
How Australia Led The Way Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 140
ISBN: 9781925984675
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2020
Imprint: Arden
Description:
Soon after its foundation in 1901, the Commonwealth of Australia gave women the vote and the right to sit in parliament. Women’s suffrage was in fact a major aspect of the new nation’s progressive and international thinking. With great vigour, Australian women, including the Melbourne-born artist Dora Meeson Coates, ably involved themselves with the women’s movement in Great Britain.
Nazi Dreamtime Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 484
ISBN: 9781921875427
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2020
Imprint: Arden
Description:
Nazi Dreamtime is the ground-breaking story of extreme-right, ultra-nationalist thought and practice in Australia in the period immediately before and during the Second World War. It focuses on those native-born Australians who were attracted to the ideology of Nazism in Germany from 1933. Their belief was that the achievements and tenets of the Nazi regime were applicable to Australian political and cultural life to some extent.
The Maddest Place on Earth Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9781925984620
Pub Date: 30 Sep 2020
Imprint: Arden
Description:
Gold-fuelled Melbourne was booming, but dwelling in the fault lines of the proud young colony was an alarming fact - Victoria had the highest rate of insanity in the world. Was it the antipodean sun, gold mania, excessive masturbation, the heady pace of modern life?The true story of colonial Victoria’s quest to cure insanity unfolds through the lives of three English newcomers - a gifted artist, exiled from his homeland for his madness; an ambitious doctor, bringing enlightened treatment ideals to his post in charge of the overflowing asylum; and a mysterious undercover journalist, who sensationally exposed the lunatics’ plight in Melbourne’s press.
Wild Bleak Bohemia Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 590
ISBN: 9781925984507
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2020
Imprint: Arden
Description:
Meticulously using contemporary newspaper reports, court records, published memoirs, private letters and diaries, Michael Wilding tells the story of three troubled geniuses of Australian writing and their world of poetry and poverty, alcohol and opiates, horse-racing and theatre, journalism and publishing. Gordon shot himself, unable to pay the printer of his poems; Kendall ended up in a mental hospital after forging a cheque, and Clarke died bankrupt for a second time.
Slow Train to Democracy Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 238
ISBN: 9781925984309
Pub Date: 31 Aug 2020
Imprint: Arden
Description:
This memoir offers a rare insight into everyday life during the first year of the reform movement that created the China of the twenty-first century. The book interweaves personal encounters with records of the democracy movement in Shanghai, revealing a vast outpouring of grievances by ordinary people at a time of dramatic social change.