Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780731627257
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
The Postal History of New South Wales, 1788-1901
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780731627257
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780731627257
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
The Europeans in Australia
Author: Alan Atkinson
Publisher: UNSW Press
ISBN: 174224243X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
'It is the duty of historians to be, wherever they can, accurate, precise, humane, imaginative - using moral imagination above all – and even-handed.' - Alan Atkinson The second of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement by Britain. It tells of the political and intellectual origins of this extraordinary undertaking that began during the 1780s, a decade of extraordinary creativity and the climax of the European Enlightenment. Volume Two, Democracy, takes the story from around 1815 to the early 1870s. By exploring the nineteenth-century ‘communications revolution’ Atkinson casts new light on the way Australia first found its place in a ‘global’ world. This volume is more than a story of geography and politics. It describes the way people thought and felt. Throughout the trilogy Atkinson traces subtle and sudden shifts of ‘common imagination’ by analysing the lives of both powerful and ordinary Australians. He sets out the ideas and the imagery that moved and marked the people. This book, like all his work, is grounded in thorough and rigorous scholarship yet imbued with compassion and insight. Written ‘from the inside’, it is – as he says – history ‘caught up with the flesh and memory it describes’. The culmination of an extraordinary career in the writing and teaching of Australian history,The Europeans in Australia grapples with the Australian historical experience as a whole from the point of view of the settlers from Europe. Ambitious and unique, it is the first such large, single-author account since Manning Clark’s A History of Australia.
Publisher: UNSW Press
ISBN: 174224243X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
'It is the duty of historians to be, wherever they can, accurate, precise, humane, imaginative - using moral imagination above all – and even-handed.' - Alan Atkinson The second of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement by Britain. It tells of the political and intellectual origins of this extraordinary undertaking that began during the 1780s, a decade of extraordinary creativity and the climax of the European Enlightenment. Volume Two, Democracy, takes the story from around 1815 to the early 1870s. By exploring the nineteenth-century ‘communications revolution’ Atkinson casts new light on the way Australia first found its place in a ‘global’ world. This volume is more than a story of geography and politics. It describes the way people thought and felt. Throughout the trilogy Atkinson traces subtle and sudden shifts of ‘common imagination’ by analysing the lives of both powerful and ordinary Australians. He sets out the ideas and the imagery that moved and marked the people. This book, like all his work, is grounded in thorough and rigorous scholarship yet imbued with compassion and insight. Written ‘from the inside’, it is – as he says – history ‘caught up with the flesh and memory it describes’. The culmination of an extraordinary career in the writing and teaching of Australian history,The Europeans in Australia grapples with the Australian historical experience as a whole from the point of view of the settlers from Europe. Ambitious and unique, it is the first such large, single-author account since Manning Clark’s A History of Australia.
The Exhibit of New South Wales Postal History to 1870
Oceans of Consolation
Author: David Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150173458X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
"An ocean of consolation" was what one young Irish emigrant in rural Australia called a letter from his father in County Clare in 1855. Similar strength of feeling is often found in the intriguing letters that David Fitzpatrick has unearthed for this extraordinary collection. Oceans of Consolation offers historians and family researchers novel and sophisticated ways of reading old letters. It opens to us the daily preoccupations of ordinary women and men with little education and fewer material possessions, as they try to overcome the separation from family and friends created by emigration. Fitzpatrick includes the personal correspondence of fourteen families of Irish emigrants in the Australian colonies, giving equal attention to letters to and from Australia. He reproduces in full more than one hundred letters dating from 1843 to 1906, and includes a generous selection of contemporary engravings and photographs. Fitzpatrick's detailed commentaries offer biographical narratives for all of these emigrants, tracing their Irish backgrounds and Australian careers. Parting company with editors of comparable collections, he pays special attention to the words and idiom by which letterwriters expressed their everyday concerns and sought or offered reassurance and advice. He believes that personal letters provide not only unique evidence of the hopes and fears of emigrants but also an important avenue for exploring popular Irish culture.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150173458X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
"An ocean of consolation" was what one young Irish emigrant in rural Australia called a letter from his father in County Clare in 1855. Similar strength of feeling is often found in the intriguing letters that David Fitzpatrick has unearthed for this extraordinary collection. Oceans of Consolation offers historians and family researchers novel and sophisticated ways of reading old letters. It opens to us the daily preoccupations of ordinary women and men with little education and fewer material possessions, as they try to overcome the separation from family and friends created by emigration. Fitzpatrick includes the personal correspondence of fourteen families of Irish emigrants in the Australian colonies, giving equal attention to letters to and from Australia. He reproduces in full more than one hundred letters dating from 1843 to 1906, and includes a generous selection of contemporary engravings and photographs. Fitzpatrick's detailed commentaries offer biographical narratives for all of these emigrants, tracing their Irish backgrounds and Australian careers. Parting company with editors of comparable collections, he pays special attention to the words and idiom by which letterwriters expressed their everyday concerns and sought or offered reassurance and advice. He believes that personal letters provide not only unique evidence of the hopes and fears of emigrants but also an important avenue for exploring popular Irish culture.
The American Philatelist
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stamp collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Beginning with 1894 consists mainly of the Proceedings [etc.] of the American philatelic association.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stamp collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Beginning with 1894 consists mainly of the Proceedings [etc.] of the American philatelic association.
Philatelic Literature Review
The Postal History of the Colony of Western Australia 1829-1901, and the Postmarks Used in the Colony
Author: George E. Owen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Australian national bibliography
Author:
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1818
Book Description
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1818
Book Description
The Postal History and Postmarks of the Colony of Western Australia, 1829-1901
Author: George E. Owen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Postage Stamps and Postal History of Western Australia: The Colonial postmarks, 1829-1901
Author: Mogens Juhl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780959375213
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780959375213
Category : Postage stamps
Languages : en
Pages :
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