Author: Francis Gordon ClarkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
The land of contrarieties
Author: Francis Gordon ClarkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Dislocating the Frontier
Author: Deborah Bird RosePublisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1920942378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
The frontier is one of the most pervasive concepts underlying the production of national identity in Australia. Recently it has become a highly contested domain in which visions of nationhood are argued out through analysis of frontier conflict. DISLOCATING THE FRONTIER departs from this contestation and takes a critical approach to the frontier imagination in Australia. The authors of this book work with frontier theory in comparative and unsettling modes. The essays reveal diverse aspects of frontier images and dreams - as manifested in performance, decolonising domains, language, and cross-cultural encounters.
The Assembly Herald
Author: The Southlanders
Author: Lady Mary FoxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The Southlanders
Author: SouthlandersFrom Squire to Squatter: A Tale of the Old Land and the New
Author: Gordon StablesPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465508775
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Replenishing the Earth
Author: James BelichPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199604541
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
Pioneering study of the anglophone 'settler boom' in North America, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand between the early 19th and early 20th centuries, looking at what made it the most successful of all such settler revolutions, and how this laid the basis of British and American power in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Koala
Author: Ann Mozley MoyalPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643094016
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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 koalas 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 Australias 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.
Virtual Voyages
Author: Paul Longley ArthurPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 9781843313182
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'. Written at the height of the era of European maritime exploration, these bizarre and captivating tales, with their wildly imaginative visions of antipodean inversion and strangeness, reveal a hidden history of attitudes to colonization. By exposing the relationship between myth and reality in the antipodes, this book casts new light on the power of fiction to influence history. In the post-colonial studies field, books about travel writing and empire have tended to focus on the high period of nineteenth-century imperialism and on the colonial settings of Africa and India. This book offers a fresh perspective by focussing on the eighteenth century, and referring to the geographical region of Australia and the Pacific, which has had far less attention. The book also breaks new ground by being the first to approach the genre of the imaginary voyage from a post-colonial perspective. In addition to the new insights into European colonialism that it offers, the book illustrates many broader themes in eighteenth-century history and thought. These include connections between the rise of science and modern imperialism, the development of narrative history and fiction and the influence of romanticism, the evolution of the early novel in Britain and France, and the role of mythology in the development of national identity.
Author: Bacon