University Press

University press

 University of Adelaide Press

The University of Adelaide Press operated between 2009 and 2018 and published many well-received works by Australian and international authors. While the Press is no longer active, its past publications remain available online. Many of the University Press books are available for free download, and some have an additional print version available for purchase.

Any queries relating to past publications should be directed to the author/s.

University of Adelaide Press titles were externally peer-reviewed to ensure excellent scholarly quality.

History of the Press

Launched in 2009 by author and Nobel Prize winner J M Coetzee, the final work published by the press was launched in February 2019. Over its 10-year history the University of Adelaide Press published a substantial range of high-quality works, authored and edited by notable Australian and international academics. The press published works under two separate imprints: The University of Adelaide Press, which published intellectual and scholarly works that were subject to a selection process and external refereeing, and The Barr Smith Press, which published works of interest about the University.

The Press celebrated open access principles, with most works offering a free online edition. 

The Press officially closed in December 2018, with the final work published in February 2019. More information about the Press is held within University Archives.

While the Press is no longer active, most books and other works published by the Press will remain available for download and purchase.


emotions senses spaces cover

Emotions, Senses, Spaces: Ethnographic Engagements and Intersections

edited by Susan R. Hemer and Alison Dundon

tracing the melanesian person cover

Tracing the Melanesian Person: Emotions and Relationships in Lihir

by Susan R Hemer

history of the australian vegetation cover

History of the Australian Vegetation: Cretaceous to Recent

edited by Robert S. Hill

new directions in dental anthropology cover

New Directions in Dental Anthropology: paradigms, methodologies and outcomes

edited by Grant Townsend, Eisaku Kanazawa and Hiroshi Takayama

twin studies cover

Twin Studies: Research in Genes, Teeth and Faces

by Grant C Townsend, Sandra K Pinkerton, James R Rogers, Michelle R Bockmann and Toby E Hughes

yuendumu cover

Yuendumu: legacy of a longitudinal growth study in Central Australia

by Tasman Brown, Grant C Townsend, Sandra K Pinkerton and James R Rogers

the adelaide dental school cover

The Adelaide Dental School 1917 to 2017

by James R Rogers, Grant Townsend and Tasman Brown

oral health in sa cover

Oral Health in South Australia

by Katie Beckwith, John Spencer and David S Brennan

oral health of australian children cover

Oral health of Australian children

edited by Loc G. Do and A. John Spencer

australian wage policy cover

Australian Wage Policy: Infancy and Adolescence

by Keith Hancock

australia's economy in its international context cover

Australia's Economy in its International Context: The Joseph Fisher Lectures

edited by Kym Anderson

finishing global farm trade reform cover

Finishing Global Farm Trade Reform: implications for developing countries

by Kym Anderson

global wine markets 1860 to 2016 cover

Global wine markets, 1860 to 2016: a statistical compendium

by Kym Anderson, Signe Nelgen and Vicente Pinilla

global wine markets 1961-2009 cover

Global wine markets, 1961 to 2009: a statistical compendium

by Kym Anderson and Signe Nelgen

growth and cycles in australia's wine industry cover

Growth and Cycles in Australia’s Wine Industry: A Statistical Compendium, 1843 to 2013

by Kym Anderson with the assistance of Nanda R. Aryal

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Indonesia in a Reforming World Economy: Effects on Agriculture, Trade and the Environment

edited by Kym Anderson, Randy Stringer, Erwidodo and Tubagus Feridhanusetyawan

potential benefits of an australia eu free trade agreement cover

Potential Benefits of an Australia-EU Free Trade Agreement: Key Issues and Options

edited by Jane Drake-Brockman and Patrick Messerlin

Reforming Trade Policy in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands cover

Reforming Trade Policy in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands

by Kym Anderson and Michael Bosworth

The Building of Economics at Adelaide 1901-2001 cover

The Building of Economics at Adelaide 1901-2001

By Kym Anderson and Bernard O'Neil

The Economics of Quarantine and the SPS Agreement

The Economics of Quarantine and the SPS Agreement

By Kym Anderson, Cheryl McRae and David Wilson

which wine grape varieties are grown where? cover

Which Winegrape Varieties are Grown Where?

By Kym Anderson and Signe Nelgen

Bridging Transcultural Divides cover

Bridging Transcultural Divides: Asian Languages and Cultures in Global Higher Education

edited by Xianlin Song and Kate Cadman

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Publishing Research in English as an Additional Language: Practices, Pathways and Potentials

edited by Margaret Cargill and Sally Burgess

Universities in Transition

Universities in Transition: Foregrounding Social Contexts of Knowledge in the First Year Experience

edited by Heather Brook, Deane Fergie, Michael Maeorg and Dee Michell

Whose History?

Whose History? Engaging History Students through Historical Fiction

by Grant Rodwell

small signal cover

Small-signal stability, control and dynamic performance of power systems

by Michael Gibbard, Pouyan Pourbeik and David Vowles

Integrating Innovation: South Australian Entrepreneurship Systems and Strategies cover

Integrating Innovation: South Australian Entrepreneurship Systems and Strategies

edited by Göran Roos and Allan O’Connor

Natural History of the Coorong, Lower Lakes, and Murray Mouth Region (Yarluwar-Ruwe) cover

Natural History of the Coorong, Lower Lakes, and Murray Mouth Region (Yarluwar-Ruwe)

Royal Society of South Australia. Editors: Luke Mosley, Qifeng Ye, Scoresby Shepherd, Steve Hemming, Rob Fitzpatrick 

Understanding and Managing Irrigated Acid Sulfate and Salt-affected Soils cover

Understanding and Managing Irrigated Acid Sulfate and Salt-affected Soils: A handbook for the Lower Murray Reclaimed Irrigation Area

by Rob W. Fitzpatrick, Luke M. Mosley and Freeman J. Cook 

Explorations and Encounters in French cover

Explorations and Encounters in French

edited by Jean Fornasiero and Colette Mrowa-Hopkins 

Framing French Culture cover

Framing French Culture

edited by Natalie Edwards, Ben McCann and Peter Poiana 

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If I Say If

edited by Alistair Rolls, John West-Sooby and Jean Fornasiero 

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Mallarmé devant ses contemporains 1875-1899

edited by Peter S. Hambly

Coastal Landscapes of South Australia cover

Coastal Landscapes of South Australia

by Robert P. Bourman, Colin V. Murray-Wallace and Nick Harvey

Coastal Management in Australia

Coastal Management in Australia

by Nick Harvey and Brian Caton

Cycling Futures cover

Cycling Futures

edited by Jennifer Bonham and Marilyn Johnson

Behind the Scenes: The politics of planning Adelaide cover

Behind the Scenes: The politics of planning Adelaide

by Michael Llewellyn-Smith

Dangerous Ideas

Dangerous Ideas: Women’s Liberation — Women’s Studies — Around the World

by Susan Magarey

Discovery and Empire

Discovery and Empire: the French in the South Seas

edited by John West-Sooby

Heritage Politics in Adelaide cover

Heritage politics in Adelaide

by Sharon Mosler

Ilm: Science, Religion and Art in Islam cover

Ilm: Science, Religion and Art in Islam

edited by Samer Akkach 

The Letters of Sarah Elizabeth Jackson (1890-1923) cover

The Letters of Sarah Elizabeth Jackson (1890-1923)

with an introduction by Barbara Wall

Sarah Elizabeth Jackson: An Occasional Diary (1906-1918) cover

Sarah Elizabeth Jackson: An Occasional Diary (1906-1918)

with an introduction by Barbara Wall

Sugar, Steam and Steel cover

Sugar, Steam and Steel: The Industrial Project in Colonial Java, 1830-1885 

by G. Roger Knight

Unbridling the Tongues of Women

Unbridling the Tongues of Women: A Biography of Catherine Helen Spence

by Susan Magarey

Digital Identity

Digital Identity: An Emergent Legal Concept

by Clare Sullivan

Essays in advocacy cover

Essays in Advocacy

Edited by Tom Gray, Martin Hinton and David Caruso

Freedom of religion under bills of rights cover

Freedom of Religion under Bills of Rights

Edited by Paul Babie and Neville Rochow

Imagining Law: Essays in Conversation with Judith Gardam cover

Imagining Law: Essays in Conversation with Judith Gardam

edited by Dale Stephens and Paul Babie

Law as change cover

Law as Change: Engaging with the Life and Scholarship of Adrian Bradbrook

edited by Paul Babie and Paul Leadbeter

Proof in Modern Litigation: Evidence Law & Forensic Science Perspectives cover

Proof in Modern Litigation: Evidence Law & Forensic Science Perspectives

edited by David Caruso and Zhuhao Wang 

The Crown: essays on its manifestation, power and accountability cover

The Crown: essays on its manifestation, power and accountability

edited by Martin Hinton and John Williams

The Wages Crisis in Australia: What it is and what to do about it cover

The Wages Crisis in Australia: What it is and what to do about it

edited by Andrew Stewart, Jim Stanford and Tess Hardy

Clamor Schürmann’s Barngarla grammar cover

Clamor Schürmann’s Barngarla grammar: A commentary on the first section of A vocabulary of the Parnkalla language

by Mark Clendon 

Warraparna Kaurna! Reclaiming an Australian language cover

Warraparna Kaurna! Reclaiming an Australian language

by Rob Amery

Worrorra

Worrorra: a language of the north-west Kimberley coast

by Mark Clendon

Adelaide: a literary city cover

Adelaide: a literary city

edited by Philip Butterss

Changing the Victorian Subject cover

Changing the Victorian Subject

edited and Introduction by Maggie Tonkin, Mandy Treagus, Madeleine Seys and Sharon Crozier-De Rosa

Empire girls cover

Empire Girls

By Mandy Treagus

Navigating the Kingdom of Night cover

Navigating the Kingdom of Night

by Amy T Matthews

Six Eclogues cover

Six Eclogues from William Barnes’s Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (First Collection, 1844) 

by T. L. Burton

The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems, 1 cover

The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems, 1. Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, first collection (1844)

by T. L. Burton

The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems, 2 cover

The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems, 2. Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, second collection (1859)

by T. L. Burton

The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems, 3 cover

The Sound of William Barnes's Dialect Poems, 3. Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, third collection (1862)

by T. L. Burton

Tilting at Windmills cover

Tilting at Windmills: the literary magazine in Australia, 1968-2012

by Phillip Edmonds

Cyber-Nationalism in China

Cyber-Nationalism in China: Challenging Western Media Portrayals of Internet Censorship in China

by Ying Jiang

Making Publics, Making Places cover

Making Publics, Making Places

edited by Mary Griffiths and Kim Barbour

Magnesium in the Central Nervous System cover

Magnesium in the Central Nervous System

edited by Robert Vink and Mihai Nechifor 

Mechanisms of vascular disease cover

Mechanisms of Vascular Disease: A Reference Book for Vascular Specialists

edited by Robert Fitridge and Matthew Thompson

SIDS Sudden Infant and Early Childhood Death cover

SIDS Sudden Infant and Early Childhood Death

edited by Jhodie R. Duncan and Roger W. Byard 

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Engaging with Carol Bacchi

edited by Angelique Bletsas and Chris Beasley

Imagining the Future cover

Imagining the Future

by Chilla Bulbeck 

Mainstreaming politics cover

Mainstreaming Politics: Gendering Practices and Feminist Theory

edited by Carol Bacchi and Joan Eveline

A History of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide 1876-2012 cover

A History of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide 1876-2012

edited by Nick Harvey, Jean Fornasiero, Greg McCarthy, Clem Macintyre and Carl Crossin

A History of the Psychology Schools at Adelaide’s Universities cover

A History of the Psychology Schools at Adelaide’s Universities

edited by Tony Winefield and Ted Nettelbeck

Augustus Short: The early years of a modern educator 1802-1847 cover

Augustus Short: The early years of a modern educator 1802-1847

by Michael Whiting

The Practice of Sheep Veterinary Medicine cover

The Practice of Sheep Veterinary Medicine

by Kym Abbott