Author: William Charles FosterPublisher: Institution of Surveyors Australia
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell and His World, 1792-1855
Author: William Charles FosterPublisher: Institution of Surveyors Australia
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Wellington's Men in Australia
Author: C. WrightPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230306039
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
An exploration of the little-known yet historically important emigration of British army officers to the Australian colonies in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. The book looks at the significant impact they made at a time of great colonial expansion, particularly in new south Wales with its transition from a convict colony to a free society.
Expedition into Empire
Author: Martin ThomasPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317630122
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Expeditionary journeys have shaped our world, but the expedition as a cultural form is rarely scrutinized. This book is the first major investigation of the conventions and social practices embedded in team-based exploration. In probing the politics of expedition making, this volume is itself a pioneering journey through the cultures of empire. With contributions from established and emerging scholars, Expedition into Empire plots the rise and transformation of expeditionary journeys from the eighteenth century until the present. Conceived as a series of spotlights on imperial travel and colonial expansion, it roves widely: from the metropolitan centers to the ends of the earth. This collection is both rigorous and accessible, containing lively case studies from writers long immersed in exploration, travel literature, and the dynamics of cross-cultural encounter.
Wellington's Men Remembered Volume 2
Author: Janet BromleyPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1848847505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Wellington's Men Remembered is a reference work which has been compiled on behalf of the Association of Friends of the Waterloo Committee and contains over 3,000 memorials to soldiers who fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo between 1808 and 1815, together with 150 battlefield and regimental memorials in 24 countries worldwide.?
Four Centuries of Geological Travel
Author: Patrick Wyse JacksonPublisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862392342
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel focuses on the complexities of geological exploration and will be of particular interest to earth scientists, historians of science and to the general reader interested in science.
The Road to Botany Bay
Author: Paul CarterPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 081666997X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
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The Cartographic Eye
Author: Simon RyanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521577915
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Cartographic Eye is about the mythologies of land exploration, and about space and the colonial enterprise in particular. An innovative investigation of the presumptions, aesthetics and politics of Australian explorers' texts, it concentrates on the period 1820-1880. Simon Ryan looks at the journals of John Oxley, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Sturt and Ludwig Leichhardt and shows that they are not the simple, unadorned observations the authors would have us believe, but are complex networks of tropes. The Cartographic Eye scrutinises and undermines the scientific and literary methodology of exploration. Its insightful analysis of the tendencies of colonialism will make a major contribution to 'new historicist' interrogations of colonialism. It will be a crucial text for readers in Australian literary and cultural studies, and for those interested in colonial discourse and postcolonial theory.
De-Scribing Empire
Author: Alan LawsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134846061
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
De-Scribing Empire is a stunning collection of first-class essays. Collectively they examine the formative role of books, writing and textuality in imperial control and the fashioning of colonial world-views. The volume as a whole puts forward strategies for understanding and neutralising that control, and as such is a major contribution to the field. It will be invaluable for students in post-colonialist criticism.
The Artificial Horizon
Author: Martin Edward ThomasPublisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 9780522851519
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Martin Thomas takes the reader on a journey through a compelling study of culture, landscape and mythology. For both Aboriginal people and their colonisers, the rugged landscape of the Blue Mountains has stood as an intriguing riddle and a stimulus to the imagination. The author evokes this dramatic and bewildering landscape and leads his readers through the cultural history of the locality in order to probe the 'dreamwork of imperialism'.
Convict Workers
Author: Stephen NicholasPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521361262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This work offers a new interpretation of Australia's convict past. It is based on a detailed analysis of records of 20,000 male and female convicts - one in three of those transported to New South Wales between 1817 and 1840.