Author: Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia, 1866, 1867 (MELBOURNE)Publisher:
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Languages : en
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Intercolonial Exhibition ... Official Record, Containing Introduction, Catalogues, Reports and Awards of the Jurors, and Essays and Statistics on the Social and Economic Resources of the Australasian Colonies. Published by Authority of the Commissioners. (Appendix Containing ... Information ... Collected and Arranged by J.G. Knight.).
Author: Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia, 1866, 1867 (MELBOURNE)Publisher:
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Languages : en
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British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: Intercolonial Exhibition of Australasia, Melbourne 1866-67
Author: Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 512
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General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
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A History of Tasmania, from Its Discovery in 1642 to the Present Time
Author: James FentonPublisher:
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Category : Tasmania
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
James Fenton (1820-1901) was born in Ireland and emigrated to Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen's Land) with his family in 1833. He became a pioneer settler in an area on the Forth River and published this history of the island in 1884. The book begins with the discovery of the island in 1642 and concludes with the deaths of some significant public figures in the colony in 1884. The establishment of the colony on the island, and the involvement of convicts in its building, is documented. A chapter on the native aborigines gives a fascinating insight into the attitudes of the colonising people, and a detailed account of the removal of the native Tasmanians to Flinders Island, in an effort to separate them from the colonists. The book also contains portraits of some aboriginal people, as well as a glossary of their language.
Hobart Town
Author: Peter BolgerPublisher: Canberra : Australian National University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A history of Hobart Town, Australia.
Government Records about the Australian Capital Territory
Author: Ted LingPublisher:
ISBN: 9781922209023
Category : Australian Capital Territory
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Research guide
Victorian Glassworlds
Author: Isobel ArmstrongPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191607126
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Isobel Armstrong's startlingly original and beautifully illustrated book tells the stories that spring from the mass-production of glass in nineteenth-century England. Moving across technology, industry, local history, architecture, literature, print culture, the visual arts, optics, and philosophy, it will transform our understanding of the Victorian period. The mass production of glass in the nineteenth century transformed an ancient material into a modern one, at the same time transforming the environment and the nineteenth-century imagination. It created a new glass culture hitherto inconceivable. Glass culture constituted Victorian modernity. It was made from infinite variations of the prefabricated glass panel, and the lens. The mirror and the window became its formative elements, both the texts and constituents of glass culture. The glassworlds of the century are heterogeneous. They manifest themselves in the technologies of the factory furnace, in the myths of Cinderella and her glass slipper circulated in print media, in the ideologies of the conservatory as building type, in the fantasia of the shopfront, in the production of chandeliers, in the Crystal Palace, and the lens-made images of the magic lantern and microscope. But they were nevertheless governed by two inescapable conditions. First, to look through glass was to look through the residues of the breath of an unknown artisan, because glass was mass produced by incorporating glassblowing into the division of labour. Second, literally a new medium, glass brought the ambiguity of transparency and the problems of mediation into the everyday. It intervened between seer and seen, incorporating a modern philosophical problem into bodily experience. Thus for poets and novelists glass took on material and ontological, political, and aesthetic meanings. Reading glass forwards into Bauhaus modernism, Walter Benjamin overlooked an early phase of glass culture where the languages of glass are different. The book charts this phase in three parts. Factory archives, trade union records, and periodicals document the individual manufacturers and artisans who founded glass culture, the industrial tourists who described it, and the systematic politics of window-breaking. Part Two, culminating in glass under glass at the Crystal Palace, reads the glassing of the environment, including the mirror, the window, and controversy round the conservatory, and their inscription in poems and novels. Part Three explores the lens, from optical toys to 'philosophical' instruments as the telescope and microscope were known. A meditation on its history and phenomenology, Victorian Glassworlds is a poetics of glass for nineteenth-century modernity.