Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Historical Records of Australian Science
Author: Historical Records of Australian Science
Author: L. CarlsonBibliography of the History of Australian Science
Author: Historical Records of Australian Science. - Vol. 5, No. 1 (Nov. 1980).
Author: Some Sources for the History of Australian Science
Author: Dietrich Hans BorchardtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Historical Records of Australia
Author: Peter ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780522856989
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The fourth volume in the resumed Historical Records of Australia series continues many vital historical developments, including the dramatic and terrible clash between Aboriginals and the colonist that culminated in the 'Black Line' operation of 1830--a sombre turning point in race relations in Australia. Other events covered in this volume are hardly less significant. They include the opening of a new debate on the severity and utility of transportation of convicts to Van Diemen's Land and hence the genesis of the later famous (or notorious) Port Arthur Settlement as 'a most useful Secondary Penal Settlement formed at moderate expense'. Among other matters of historical importance featured here are the assisted emigration of the wives of convicts to join their convict husbands in Van Diemen's Land and the plight they endured on arrival; and the new emigration debate arising from the Ripon Regulations of 1831, providing for 'the total alteration of the mode of disposing of the vacant lands in the Colony'. In many ways this volume--which, in addition to the voluminous despatches, contains some one hundred and fifty thousand words of editorial analysis and researched commentary--forms a gateway to modern Australia. It portrays the evolution of free population and progressive economic growth that Governor George Arthur hoped would lead to a 'new Alexandria', and the radical step of expatriating the Aboriginals from their traditional lands. The former development was to lead to the dissolution of the bonds of convict Australia, the latter to the failed Batman treaty and then to the systematic dispossession of the Aboriginals, the restitution for which remains one of the foremost political questions in modern Australia.
Koala
Author: Ann MoyalPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643099182
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The koala is both an Australian icon and an animal that has attained ‘flagship’ status around the world. Yet its history tells a different story. While the koala figured prominently in Aboriginal Dreaming and Creation stories, its presence was not recorded in Australia until 15 years after white settlement. Then it would figure as a scientific oddity, despatched to museums in Britain and Europe, a native animal driven increasingly from its habitat by tree felling and human settlement, and a subject of relentless hunting by trappers for its valuable fur. It was not until the late 1920s that slowly emerging protective legislation and the enterprise of private protectors came to its aid. This book surveys the koala’s fascinating history, its evolutionary survival in Australia for over 30 million years, its strikingly adaptive physiognomy, its private life, and the strong cultural impact it has had through its rich fertilisation of Australian literature. The work also focuses on the complex problems of Australia’s national wildlife and conservation policies and the challenges surrounding the environmental, economic and social questions concerning koala management. Koala embraces the story of this famous marsupial in an engaging historical narrative, extensively illustrated from widely sourced pictorial material.
Australian Science in the Making
Author: R. W. HomePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521396400
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
In this 1989 volume the Australian Academy of Science celebrates and assesses two centuries of Australian science.
Shaping Science and Industry
Author: C. B. SchedvinPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0049090364
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Pastoral Australia
Author: Michael PearsonPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643102132
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Pastoral Australia tells the story of the expansion of Australia's pastoral industry, how it drove European settlement and involved Aboriginal people in the new settler society. The rural life that once saw Australia 'ride on the sheep's back' is no longer what defines us, yet it is largely our history as a pastoral nation that has endured in heritage places and which is embedded in our self-image as Australians. The challenges of sustaining a pastoral industry in Australia make a compelling story of their own. Developing livestock breeds able to prosper in the Australian environment was an ongoing challenge, as was getting wool and meat to market. Many stock routes, wool stores, abattoirs, wharf facilities, railways, roads, and river and ocean transport systems that were developed to link the pastoral interior with the urban and market infrastructure still survive. Windmills, fences, homesteads, shearing sheds, bores, stock yards, travelling stock routes, bush roads and railheads all changed the look of the country. These features of our landscape form an important part of our heritage. They are symbols of a pastoral Australia, and of the foundations of our national identity, which will endure long into the future.