Brij Lal is one of the leading historians of Fiji. In a professional lifetime spanning more than 40 years, he has written widely about Fiji and the Indian diaspora. Lal has collated a series of his essays in a new collection – available free for download – that chart Fiji’s past and present, and the...

This book aims to reflect on the experiential side of writing political lives in the Pacific region.

Provides a history of the Australian National University's Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies and the iconic building which housed it. Overview The Coombs Building at The Australian National University is a Canberra icon. Named after one of Australia’s greatest administrators and public intellectuals—‘Nugget’ Herbert Cole Coombs—for more than forty years the building has...