Author: Samuel MossmanPublisher: London : Addey
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Australia Visited and Revisited
Author: Samuel MossmanPublisher: London : Addey
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
New Towns in the New World
Author: David Allan HamerPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231066204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Hamer has written a broad, comparative overview of the evolution of British-derived urban traditions in four former colonies: the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Names and Naming
Author: Guy PuzeyPublisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1783094931
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
This book explores international trends in naming and contributes to the growing field of onomastic enquiry. Naming practices are viewed here through a critical lens, demonstrating a high level of political and social engagement in relation to how we name people and places. The contributors to this publication examine why names are not only symbols of a person or place, but also manifestations of cultural, linguistic and social heritage in their own right. Presenting analyses of geographically and culturally diverse perspectives and case studies, the book investigates how names can represent deeper kinds of identity, act as objects of attachment and dependence, and reflect community mores and social customs while functioning as powerful mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion. The book will be of interest to researchers in onomastics, sociology, human geography, linguistics and history.
Mineral Products of New South Wales
Author: Harrie WoodAustralians and the Gold Rush
Author: Jay MonaghanPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520323564
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.
Catalogue of the Books, Pamphlets, Pictures, and Maps in the Library of Parliament to September, 1911
Author: Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (Australia)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Emigrants' Letters from Australia. Selected, with critical and explanatory remarks, by S. M.
Author: Samuel MOSSMANAboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia
Author: Fred CahirPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 1486306136
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Indigenous Australians have long understood sustainable hunting and harvesting, seasonal changes in flora and fauna, predator–prey relationships and imbalances, and seasonal fire management. Yet the extent of their knowledge and expertise has been largely unknown and underappreciated by non-Aboriginal colonists, especially in the south-east of Australia where Aboriginal culture was severely fractured. Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia is the first book to examine historical records from early colonists who interacted with south-eastern Australian Aboriginal communities and documented their understanding of the environment, natural resources such as water and plant and animal foods, medicine and other aspects of their material world. This book provides a compelling case for the importance of understanding Indigenous knowledge, to inform discussions around climate change, biodiversity, resource management, health and education. It will be a valuable reference for natural resource management agencies, academics in Indigenous studies and anyone interested in Aboriginal culture and knowledge.
Works on New South Wales
Author: Public Library of New South WalesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New South Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
The Road to Batemans Bay
Author: Alastair GreigPublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760466069
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Road to Batemans Bay is the story of competing ventures to create ‘the Great Southern Township’ on the South Coast of New South Wales in the early 1840s. The idea of developing the furthest reaches of settlement was linked to the hopes of southern woolgrowers for a road from their properties to the coast, over the Great Dividing Range. The township proponents dreamed that having a quicker and cheaper connection to Sydney would allow them to open a port second only to Port Jackson. The scene begins with the proposed coastal township of St Vincent, in an age of optimism: settlement is expanding, exports are growing and land prices are soaring, generating Australia’s first land boom. Before long, however, the colony experiences a catastrophic economic depression whose ‘pestilential breath’ infects those with a stake in the coastal townships. Alastair Greig follows the fate of these individuals, while also speculating on the broader fate of South Coast development during the mid-nineteenth century. Greig gives a unique insight into many aspects of colonial life—including the worlds of Sydney’s merchants, auctioneers, land speculators, surveyors, map-makers and lawyers—as well as its maritime challenges. The Road to Batemans Bay is a chronicle of how Australia first developed its land-gambling habit and how land speculation led to the road to ruin.