Author: Richard Hugh Bell KearnsPublisher:
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Category : Broken Hill (N.S.W.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Broken Hill: 1883-1893, discovery and development
Author: Richard Hugh Bell KearnsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broken Hill (N.S.W.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Magnificent Life of Miss May Holman Australia's First Female Labor Parliamentarian
Author: Lekkie HopkinsPublisher: Fremantle Press
ISBN: 1925163377
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Throughout the 1930s May Holman was a household name and aninspiration to the women of her generation. She made history in 1925when, at age thirty-one, she became Australia's first female Laborparliamentarian, holding the seat of Forrest until her untimely death onthe eve of the 1939 elections.A woman who fought tirelessly for the rights of those in her electorate, heraccidental death received national coverage with thousands of WesternAustralian mourners lining the streets to pay tribute.May Holman charted new territory for women, but the barriers sheencountered and her methods of overcoming them still resonate today.
Broken Hill
Author: Kay KoenigPublisher:
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Category : Broken Hill (N.S.W.)
Languages : en
Pages : 54
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Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute
Author: Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Proceedings
Author: Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Broken Hill, Volume 1, 1883-1893
Author: Richard Hugh Bell KearnsPublisher:
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Category : Broken Hill (N.S.W.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Beyond the American Pale
Author: David M. EmmonsPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806184531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Convention has it that Irish immigrants in the nineteenth century confined themselves mainly to industrial cities of the East and Midwest. The truth is that Irish Catholics went everywhere in America and often had as much of a presence in the West as in the East. In Beyond the American Pale, David M. Emmons examines this multifaceted experience of westering Irish and, in doing so, offers a fresh and discerning account of America's westward expansion. "Irish in the West" is not a historical contradiction, but it is — and was — a historical problem. Irish Catholics were not supposed to be in the West—that was where Protestant Americans went to reinvent themselves. For many of the same reasons that the spread of southern slavery was thought to profane the West, a Catholic presence there was thought to contradict it — to contradict America's Protestant individualism and freedom. The Catholic Irish were condemned as the clannish, backward remnants of an old cultural world that Americans self-consciously sought to leave behind. The sons and daughters of Erin were not assimilated, and because they were not assimilable, they should be kept beyond the American pale. As Emmons amply demonstrates, however, western reality was far more complicated. Irish Catholicism may have outraged Protestant-inspired American republicanism, but Irish Catholics were a necessary component of America's equally Protestant-inspired foray into industrial capitalism. They were also necessary to the successive conquests of the "frontier," wherever it might be found. It was the Irish who helped build the railroads, dig the hard rocks, man the army posts, and do the other arduous, dangerous, and unattractive toiling required by an industrializing society. With vigor and panache, Emmons describes how the West was not so much won as continually contested and reshaped. He probes the self-fulfilling mythology of the American West, along with the far different mythology of the Irish pioneers. The product of three decades of research and thought, Beyond the American Pale is a masterful yet accessible recasting of American history, the culminating work of a singular thinker willing to take a wholly new perspective on the past.
Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute
Author: Royal Commonwealth SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Colonies
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Geology of the Broken Hill lode and Barrier Ranges mineral field
Author: J.B. JaquetPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5870773679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Department of mines and agriculture. Memoirs of the geological survey of new south wales. Geology No. 5: Broken Hill lode and Barrier Ranges mineral field, New South Wales; with maps, plates, and sections.
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