Author: George BenthamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Flora Australiensis
Author: George BenthamThe Cambridge Economic History of Australia
Author: Simon VillePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316194485
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Australia's economic history is the story of the transformation of an indigenous economy and a small convict settlement into a nation of nearly 23 million people with advanced economic, social and political structures. It is a history of vast lands with rich, exploitable resources, of adversity in war, and of prosperity and nation building. It is also a history of human behaviour and the institutions created to harness and govern human endeavour. This account provides a systematic and comprehensive treatment of the nation's economic foundations, growth, resilience and future, in an engaging, contemporary narrative. It examines key themes such as the centrality of land and its usage, the role of migrant human capital, the tension between development and the environment, and Australia's interaction with the international economy. Written by a team of eminent economic historians, The Cambridge Economic History of Australia is the definitive study of Australia's economic past and present.
A Statistical Account of the Seven Colonies of Australasia
Author: T. A. CoghlanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth
Author: Sir John QuickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
Statistical Account of the Seven Colonies of Australasia
Author: New South Wales. Bureau of Statistics and EconomicsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australasia
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
A History of Capital Punishment in the Australian Colonies, 1788 to 1900
Author: Steven AndersonPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030537676
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive overview of capital punishment in the Australian colonies for the very first time. The author illuminates all aspects of the penalty, from shortcomings in execution technique, to the behaviour of the dying criminal, and the antics of the scaffold crowd. Mercy rates, execution numbers, and capital crimes are explored alongside the transition from public to private executions and the push to abolish the death penalty completely. Notions of culture and communication freely pollinate within a conceptual framework of penal change that explains the many transformations the death penalty underwent. A vast array of sources are assembled into one compelling argument that shows how the ‘lesson’ of the gallows was to be safeguarded, refined, and improved at all costs. This concise and engaging work will be a lasting resource for students, scholars, and general readers who want an in-depth understanding of a long feared punishment. Dr. Steven Anderson is a Visiting Research Fellow in the History Department at The University of Adelaide, Australia. His academic research explores the role of capital punishment in the Australian colonies by situating developments in these jurisdictions within global contexts and conceptual debates.
A Documentary History of Australia: Colonial Australia, 1875-1900
Author: Francis Keble CrowleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel
Author: David CarterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009093207
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel is an authoritative volume on the Australian novel by more than forty experts in the field of Australian literary studies, drawn from within Australia and abroad. Essays cover a wide range of types of novel writing and publishing from the earliest colonial period through to the present day. The international dimensions of publishing Australian fiction are also considered as are the changing contours of criticism of the novel in Australia. Chapters examine colonial fiction, women's writing, Indigenous novels, popular genre fiction, historical fiction, political novels, and challenging novels on identity and belonging from recent decades, not least the major rise of Indigenous novel writing. Essays focus on specific periods of major change in Australian history or range broadly across themes and issues that have influenced fiction across many years and in many parts of the country.
Report
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay
Author: Watkin TenchPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay" by Watkin Tench. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.