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An Excursion To Port Arthur In 1842
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Book Synopsis Place Meaning and Attachment by : Dak Kopec
Download or read book Place Meaning and Attachment written by Dak Kopec and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutions have gripped many countries, leading to the destruction of buildings, places, and artifacts; climate change is threatening the ancestral homes of many, the increasingly uneven distribution of resources has made the poor vulnerable to the coercive efforts by the rich, and social uncertainty has led to the romanticizing of the past. Humanity is resilient, but we have a fundamental need for attachment to places, buildings, and objects. This edited volume will explore the different meanings and forms of place attachment and meaning based on our histories and conceptualization of material artifacts. Each chapter examines a varied relationship between a given society and the meaning formed through myth, symbols, and ideologies manifested through diverse forms of material artifacts. Topics of consideration examine place attachment at many scales including at the level of the artifact, human being, building, urban context, and region. We need a better understanding of human relationships to the past, our attachments to the events and places, and to the external influences on our attachments. This understanding will allow for better preservation methods pertaining to important places and buildings, and enhanced social wellbeing for all groups of people. Covering a broad range of international perspectives on place meaning from the United States to Europe, Asia to Russia, and Africa to Australia, this book is an essential read for students, academics, and professionals alike.
Book Synopsis Life Courses of Young Convicts Transported to Van Diemen's Land by : Emma D. Watkins
Download or read book Life Courses of Young Convicts Transported to Van Diemen's Land written by Emma D. Watkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on digital criminal records, this book traces the life courses of young convicts who were sentenced at the Old Bailey and transported to Van Diemen's Land in the early 19th century. It explores the everyday lives of the convicts pre- and post-transportation, focusing on their crimes, punishments, education, employment and family life right up to their deaths. Emma D. Watkins contextualizes these young convicts within the punishment system, economy and culture that they were thrust into by their forced movement to Australia. This allows an understanding of the factors which determined their chances of achieving a 'settled life' away from crime in the colony. Packed with case studies offering vivid accounts of the offenders' lives, Life Courses of Young Convicts Transported to Van Diemen's Land makes an important contribution to the history of transportation, social history and Australian history.
Book Synopsis The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens by : Steve Harris
Download or read book The Lost Boys of Mr Dickens written by Steve Harris and published by Melbourne Books. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As engrossing as a novel, this story of the death of childhood in the cradle of the world's mightiest empire, and the atmospheric tale of crime and punishment leading to a sensational murder trial is from another time but implicitly raises questions which remain with us today.Steve Harris' book humanises a most bizarre social experiment and brings out its grotesqueness in dramatic form. The tale is so comprehensively and authentically written that it is a service to Australian and British readers.- Tom Keneally, winner of the Booker Prize and Miles Franklin Award
Book Synopsis Recovering Convict Lives by : Richard Tuffin
Download or read book Recovering Convict Lives written by Richard Tuffin and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Heritage-listed Port Arthur penitentiary is one of Australia’s most visited historical sites, attracting over 400,000 visitors each year. Designed to incarcerate 480 men, between 1856 and 1877 thousands of convicts passed through it. In 2013, archaeologists began one of the largest ever excavations of an Australian convict site. Recovering Convict Lives: A Historical Archaeology of the Port Arthur Penitentiary makes their findings available to general readers for the first time. Extensively illustrated, it is a fascinating journey into the inner workings of the penal system and the day-to-day lives of Port Arthur convicts. Through the things they left behind – the sandstone base of a prison wall, a clay pipe discarded in a washroom, gambling tokens dropped between floorboards – this book tells their stories. Praise for Recovering Convict Lives 'In this richly illustrated volume readers will be taken on an archaeological tour of a lost world of work, leisure and punishment. A forensic reconstruction of one of Australia’s most iconic buildings, Recovering Convict Lives peels away the layers of time to reveal the hidden history of everyday life in a penal station.' - Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, author of Closing Hell’s Gates 'Recovering Convict Lives is the kind of substantial and significant publication that does justice to one of Australia’s most iconic heritage sites. The authors skillfully combine complex evidence from diverse sources in order to produce a nuanced and detailed account of the experiences of those who lived at the penitentiary. The discussion ranges seamlessly between fine-grained glimpses of individual lives and the global systems and processes that structured local action. Flowing, readable text and abundant illustrations are partnered with ready access to technical archaeological reports provided in an online repository, an elegant solution that allows readers to choose the amount of detail they want. The authors powerfully demonstrate the value of an integrated, multidisciplinary approach and showcase the strengths of historical archaeology as a discipline at the intersection of documentary and non-documentary evidence. Recovering Convict Lives presents some of the "unwritten histories" of Port Arthur - stories of places, spaces and lives that have been not previously seen. This impressive book provides a compelling argument for the need to tell and understand convict stories in order to understand the genesis of modern systems of incarceration.' - Professor Susan Lawrence, author of Sludge: Disaster on Victoria’s Goldfields
Book Synopsis A Shot of History: Convict Hell by : David W. Cameron
Download or read book A Shot of History: Convict Hell written by David W. Cameron and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2022 marks the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the penal settlement at Macquarie Harbour. This convict penal settlement located on the isolated primeval rugged west coast of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) quickly gained a reputation as an ‘Earthy Hell’. Colonial historian John West succinctly recorded in 1852: ‘The name Macquarie Harbour is associated exclusively with remembrance of inexpressible depravity, degradation, and woe. Sacred to the genius of torture, Nature concurred with the objects of its separation from the rest of the world, to exhibit some notion of a perfect misery. There, man lost the aspect and the heart of man …. This region is lashed with tempests: the sky is cloudy, and the rain falls more frequently than elsewhere. In its chill and humid climate, animal life is preserved with difficulty; half the goats died in one season, and sheep perished; vegetation, except in its coarsest and most massive forms is situated and precarious …. The passage to this dreary dwelling place was tedious and often dangerous. The prisoners, confined in a narrow space, were tossed for weeks on an agitated sea. As they approached, they beheld a narrow opening chocked with a bar of sand and crossed with peril. This they called Hell’s Gate – not less appropriate to the place than to the character and torment of the inhabitants: beyond they saw impenetrable forests, skirted with an impervious thicket; and beyond still enormous mountains covered with snow, which rose to the clouds like walls of adamant: every object wore the air of rigour, ferocity, and sadness’. This was just the beginning for those sentenced to Macquarie Harbour the barbaric treatment from officials and fellow convicts alike, resulted in Macquarie Harbour representing a true convict hell hole, not only resulting in murder, but in cannibalism by several men in their attempts to escape.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Books, Pamphlets, Pictures, and Maps in the Library of Parliament to September, 1911 by : Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (Australia)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books, Pamphlets, Pictures, and Maps in the Library of Parliament to September, 1911 written by Commonwealth Parliamentary Library (Australia) and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Australian Autobiographical Narratives: To 1850 by : Kay Walsh
Download or read book Australian Autobiographical Narratives: To 1850 written by Kay Walsh and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1993 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive guide to published Australian autobiographical writing which deals with life in Australia up to 1850. Entries are listed alphabetically by author's name. Includes three separate indexes to personal names, places and subjects. Walsh has worked on numerous Australian reference publications. Hooton teaches English at the Australian Defence Force Academy and is co-author of 'The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature' (1985); Walsh is assisting her in preparing a new edition.
Book Synopsis Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute by : Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain)
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute written by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H. M. S. Fly, Commanded by Captain F. P. Blackwood in Torres Strait, New Guinea, and Other Islands of the Eastern Archipelago, During the Years 1842 - 46 by : Joseph Beete Jukes
Download or read book Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H. M. S. Fly, Commanded by Captain F. P. Blackwood in Torres Strait, New Guinea, and Other Islands of the Eastern Archipelago, During the Years 1842 - 46 written by Joseph Beete Jukes and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H. M. S. Fly by : Joseph Beete Jukes
Download or read book Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H. M. S. Fly written by Joseph Beete Jukes and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Europeans in Australia by : Alan Atkinson
Download or read book The Europeans in Australia written by Alan Atkinson and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.
Book Synopsis Tasmania's Convicts by : Alison Alexander
Download or read book Tasmania's Convicts written by Alison Alexander and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the convicts arriving in Van Diemen's Land' it must have felt as though they'd been sent to the very ends of the earth. In Tasmania's Convicts Alison Alexander tells the history of the men and women transported to what became one of Britain's most notorious convict colonies. Following the lives of dozens of convicts and their families' she uncovers stories of success' failure' and everything in between. While some suffered harsh conditions' most served their time and were freed' becoming ordinary and peaceful citizens. Yet over the decades' a terrible stigma became associated with the convicts' and they and the whole colony went to extraordinary lengths to hide it. The majority of Tasmanians today have convict ancestry' whether they know it or not. While the public stigma of its convict past has given way to a contemporary fascination with colonial history' Alison Alexander debates whether the convict past lingers deep in the psyche of white Tasmania.
Book Synopsis Australian History Live! by : Ian Warden
Download or read book Australian History Live! written by Ian Warden and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2013 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of virtual time-travellings back to Australiae(tm)s past. AustralianHistory Live! is a compelling look at Australian history using first person accounts asreported in the press and in journals and diaries. Included in the collection are grippingaccounts of occasions both great and minor. Here you can find the heart wrenchingaccount of a bewildered little terrier dog refusing to leave the bayoneted dead body ofits master just killed at the Eureka Stockade. Read an amazing description of BertHinkler landing his absurdly tiny little aeroplane (hee(tm)d just flown it across the world in aworld-record time) on the straight at Flemington Racecourse. Share scientist FrancisRatcliffee(tm)s experience of being caught and shaken by a very wild willy-willy.
Book Synopsis Convicts and Colonial Society, 1788-1868 by : Lloyd Evans
Download or read book Convicts and Colonial Society, 1788-1868 written by Lloyd Evans and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1984 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The British Empire in the Victorian Press, 1832-1867 by : E. M. Palmegiano
Download or read book The British Empire in the Victorian Press, 1832-1867 written by E. M. Palmegiano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987. In this volume, the author unearths the rich sources for the study of colonial history provided by the myriad periodical publications which flourished in the early and mid-Victorian period. This was an age in which the printed word reigned supreme as a form of communication. Through the extensive listing of this bibliography – close to 3000 entries drawn from some fifty London-based magazines – we see the rich and diverse threads which interwove to form the colourful fabric which was the British Empire at the height of its grandeur.
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Book Synopsis Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country by : James Anthony Froude
Download or read book Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country written by James Anthony Froude and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the first printing of Sartor resartus, as well as other works by Thomas Carlyle.
