Author: Edward Shann Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316601676 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 473
Book Description
Originally published in 1930, this book provides an account of Australian economic development from 1788 up until the early twentieth century. The text is divided into three main sections: 'Convicts, Wool, and Gold 1788-1860'; 'Colonial Particularism 1860-1900'; 'The Commonwealth'. Notes are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in perspectives on the development of Australia and economic history.
Author: Carl Bridge Publisher: ISBN: 9781921612107 Category : Australia Languages : en Pages : 342
Book Description
Marks the centenary of the posting of the first Australian High Commissioner in London, so beginning what is today Australia's oldest diplomatic mission. In 1910, when Sir George Reid was appointed its first High Commissioner in London, Australia was a self-governing but not yet sovereign state and the Australian Governor-General remained the most important channel of communication between the Australian and United Kingdom governments until the late 1920s. The book traces the history of the office and in doing so illuminates the larger story of Australian-United Kingdom relations in the twentieth century, the evolution of Australia from British colony to sovereign state and the gradual transition of the United Kingdom from head of an empire to member of the European Union.
Author: Peter Davies Publisher: Sydney University Press ISBN: 1920899790 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 134
Book Description
The archaeological assemblage from the Hyde Park Barracks is one of the largest, most comprehensive and best preserved collections of artefacts from any 19th-century institution in the world. Concealed for up to 160 years in the cavities between floorboards and ceilings, the assemblage is a unique archaeological record of institutional confinement, especially of women. The underfloor assemblage dates to the period 1848 to 1886, during which a female Immigration Depot and a Government Asylum for Infirm and Destitute Women occupied the second and third floors of the Barracks. Over the years the women discarded and swept beneath the floor thousands of clothing and textile fragments, tobacco pipes, religious items, sewing equipment, paper scraps and numerous other objects, many of which rarely occur in typical archaeological deposits. These items are presented in detail in this book, and provide unique insight into the private lives of young female migrants and elderly destitute women, most of whom will never be known from historical records.
Author: James Wightman Davidson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Islands of the Pacific Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
The influence of explorers, missionaries, beachcombers, labour traders and colonial administrators upon the culture of the Pacific Islands' peoples.
Author: Edward Shann
Author: University of North Carolina (1793-1962)
Author: Carl Bridge
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Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author: Peter Davies
Author: Eric Parker
Author: Alexander Meyrick Broadley
Author: Basil Lubbock
Author: James Wightman Davidson