Author: Garryowen
Publisher:
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Category : Melbourne (Vic.)
Languages : en
Pages : 586

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Author: Gillian Dooley
Publisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 174305615X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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The European maritime explorers who first visited the bays and beaches of Australia brought with them diverse assumptions about the inhabitants of the country, most of them based on sketchy or non-existent knowledge, contemporary theories like the idea of the noble savage, and an automatic belief in the superiority of European civilisation. Mutual misunderstanding was almost universal, whether it resulted in violence or apparently friendly transactions. Written for a general audience, The First Wave brings together a variety of contributions from thought-provoking writers, including both original research and creative work. Our contributors explore the dynamics of these early encounters, from Indigenous cosmological perspectives and European history of ideas, from representations in art and literature to the role of animals, food and fire in mediating first contact encounters, and Indigenous agency in exploration and shipwrecks. The First Wave includes poetry by Yankunytjatjara Aboriginal poet Ali Cobby Eckermann, fiction by Miles Franklin award-winning Noongar author Kim Scott and Danielle Clode, and an account of the arrival of Christian missionaries in the Torres Strait Islands by Torres Strait political leader George Mye.

Author: Garryowen
Publisher:
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Category : Melbourne
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Author: Geoffrey Blainey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521689878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Geoffrey Blainey turns his attention to the state in which he was born and raised.

Author: Michael Cathcart
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1921656557
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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The long-awaited history that will change the way Australians think about their country. The Water Dreamers is the story of the settlement of Australia: of the scarcity of water and the need to fill an imagined silence with the sounds of civilisation. From the moment the First Fleeters stepped ashore, water determined progress. The Tank Stream that flowed through what is now the Sydney CBD provided fresh water until settlers and their livestock fouled it. Then water from a nearby swamp was piped into the growing settlement. When it ran dry sights were set further afield. The Water Dreamers is an illuminating account of the ways people have imagined and interpreted Australia while struggling to understand this continent and striving to conquer its obstacles. It’s an environmental history and a cultural history with an unmistakable sense of how, today, we are part of that continuing story.

Author: Richard Fotheringham
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702234880
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 852

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Contains the scripts of nine colonial plays, each script has been carefully edited or reconstructed from unique manuscripts or rare colonial printed editions.

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Category : Victoria
Languages : en
Pages : 658

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Author: James Smith
Publisher:
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Category : Victoria
Languages : en
Pages : 630

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Author: John Michael Bennett
Publisher: Federation Press
ISBN: 9781862874091
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Sir William a'Beckett: first Chief Justice of Victoria 1852 1857 (Lives of Australian Chief Justices)

Author: Nicole Starling
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003860761
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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This book explores the history of the Australian temperance movement and the ideas that informed it, offering a detailed examination of the beliefs of evangelicals involved. The temperance movement in Australia was large and influential, and played a vital role in shaping the cultural and political life of the emerging nation across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The study focuses on the relationship between evangelicalism and 'Moral Enlightenment' ideas within the temperance movement between 1832 and 1930. It considers the complex and varied ways in which they interacted within the thinking of the movement’s leaders, enriches discussions regarding religion and secularisation, and offers new insight into the involvement of women. Against the larger horizon of global evangelicalism, the international temperance movement, and the evolution of Australian political culture, the chapters look at the reported words and actions of six key temperance leaders: John Saunders, George Washington Walker, John McEncroe, Alfred Stackhouse, Mary Ann Thomas and Elizabeth Webb Nicholls. The book will be relevant to scholars of religious history and those with an interest in the evangelical Protestant tradition.