Author: Herbert James Gibbney Publisher: Canberra : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University ISBN: Category : Australia Languages : en Pages : 432
Book Description
Essentially a supplement to the `Australian dictionary of biography' (q.v.) containing brief biographical information on people who were short-listed but not finally included in the work. About 8000 names appear, roughly the same as ADB. Bibliographies and sources are included for each entry. Volume 2 includes an occupational index to the work.
Author: Mary K. Mannix Publisher: American Library Association ISBN: 083891294X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 609
Book Description
An excellent starting point for both reference librarians and for library users seeking information about family history and the lives of others, this resource is drawn from the authoritative database of Guide to Reference, voted Best Professional Resource Database by Library Journal readers in 2012. Biographical resources have long been of interest to researchers and general readers, and this title directs readers to the best biographical sources for all regions of the world. For interest in the lives of those not found in biographical resources, this title also serves as a guide to the most useful genealogical resources. Profiling more than 1400 print and electronic sources, this book helps connect librarians and researchers to the most relevant sources of information in genealogy and biography.
Author: Raymond Wright Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 344
Book Description
A history of the Victorian legislature which looks at its politicians, governors, officials, elections, debates, legislation, rituals, ideologies, constitutional reform and political brinkmanship. Includes portraits of many key parliamentarians, tables, appendices, notes and an index. The author is a research officer in the Victorian parliamentary library.
Author: Tony Austin Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 344
Book Description
Connection and Disconnection brings together twelve historians with an interest in encounters between Indigenous people and settlers in the Northern Territory. More than just a narrative of conflict and dispossession, the volume is concerned to reconceptualise the present through the past, rather than just understand the past itself. Chapters deal with a range of encounters which bring new light to bear on the relationships between people on the northern frontier ? some of them positive. The volume includes new interpretations of sites of dispossession and war, together with accounts of the sometimes successful struggle by settlers to develop an understanding of Aboriginal people and cultures; well-meaning but frequently misguided attempts to provide for the welfare of Aboriginal people; and usually unsuccessful efforts by authorities to divest the people of their Aboriginality. The book will be of interest to all readers seeking to understand the circumstances that have made reconciliation such a key issue in our national identity as we approach the new millennium.
Author: Albert John Walford Publisher: Library Association Publishing (UK) ISBN: Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 520
Book Description
This is a shortened version of the three volume Walford's Guide to Reference Material, 5th edition: Volume 1, Science and Technology (1989), Volume 2, Social and historical sciences, philosophy and religion (1990), and Volume 3, Generalia, language and literature, the arts (1991). There are more than 3,000 entries, forming an updated compilation of what are considered to be the basic items in the main volumes, plus some more recent material up to April 1992.
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