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Author : Niall Brennan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780855720759
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (27 download)
Download or read book John Wren, Gambler written by Niall Brennan and published by . This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Niall Brennan
Publisher : [Melbourne] : Hill of Content
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book John Wren: Gambler, His Life and Times written by Niall Brennan and published by [Melbourne] : Hill of Content. This book was released on 1971 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Niall Brennan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)
Download or read book John Wren, gambler written by Niall Brennan and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Strangio
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522861822
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Neither Power Nor Glory written by Paul Strangio and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Frank Hardy published Power Without Glory, his notorious novel about corruption and venality in the Victorian Labor Party, it quickly came to be seen as a true account of the party. Until now, there has been no authoritative chronicle of the struggles of political Labor in Victoria, from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century through to the calamitous split of the 1950s. By conventional measures these were fallow years. Ensnared by the colony's powerful liberal protectionist tradition in the late nineteenth century, Victorian Labor then found itself hindered by a grossly unfair electoral system and the lack of a constituency outside Melbourne's industrial suburbs. But exile from government also meant that the party developed its own distinctive traditions and culture. It was a unique and intriguing species among the state Labor parties. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, Neither Power Nor Glory fills an important gap in Australian political history and our understanding of the Labor Party. It is also a timely antidote to nostalgia about Labor's past. In Victoria at least, that past was anything but golden.
Author : Kristin Otto
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921520779
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Capital written by Kristin Otto and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1901 the Australian colonies came together to form a new nation which, for the next twenty-six years, was governed from Melbourne. It was a small city, a place where people knew each other-not just the people who mattered, but those who didn't yet-where small changes loomed large and the import of big changes could scarcely be imagined. Yet in the extraordinary first quarter of the twentieth century the world lurched headlong into a new era. And this overgrown town, in all but name the nation's capital, oversaw the birth of modern Australia. In Capital, Kristin Otto describes how it happened. She looks at the developments that shaped the world we know today- from the story of Helena Rubinstein and the invention of the cosmetics industry, to the world's first feature film, to confectionery king Mac Robertson, packaging pioneer and author of the city's first motor car fatality. And she traces, with the lightest of touches, the web of influence, friendship and sheer coincidence that held it alltogether. For anyone who knowsMelbourne, Capital will be a fascinating conversation with an old friend. For anyone who doesn't, it will be a compelling introduction to a new one.
Author : Jan McMillen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134916485
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Gambling Cultures written by Jan McMillen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-12-20 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : James Morton
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522860389
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Gangland Melbourne written by James Morton and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gangland Melbourne details the exploits of an unforgettable cast of villains, crooks and mobsters who have defined the criminal and gangland scene in Melbourne from the late 1800s to the present day. In this compelling book, Britain’s top true crime author James Morton and barrister and legal broadcaster Susanna Lobez track the rise and fall of Melbourne’s standover men, contract killers, robbers, brothel keepers and drug dealers, and also examine the role the police have played in both helping and hindering the growth of these criminal empires. In particular, Melbourne’s criminal past is explored through its famous villainous families, the Painters’ and Dockers’ union war of the 1970s and the more recent underworld gangland killings.Vivid and explosive, Gangland Melbourne is compulsive reading.
Author : Denis Joseph Murphy
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 9780702222894
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (228 download)
Download or read book T.J. Ryan written by Denis Joseph Murphy and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is timely that this new edition should be published in the historic first year of the Labor government of Wayne Goss, a leader who has already invited comparisons with T. J. Ryan. T. J. Ryan was a natural leader. In 1915 he was elected Labor Premier of Queensland against the turbulent background of World War I. His Labor government set the foundations for Labor rule in Queensland which lasted until the 1957 split. Denis Murphy's fascinating biography concentrates on Ryan the politician, a consummate tactician and leader of great ability whose untimely death in the early 1920s robbed him of the chance to lead the nation. During his years as Premier of Queensland and Deputy Leader of the Federal Australian Labor Party, Ryan passed major reforms in labor laws, from the rending issues of conscription to censorship and industrial unrest. This biography recaptures the tumultuous times of the early twentieth century, set against the struggle for power and political intrigue.
Author : Daibhi O. Croinin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019821751X
Total Pages : 1017 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)
Download or read book A New History of Ireland: Ireland under the Union, II, 1870-1921 written by Daibhi O. Croinin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1017 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kristin Otto
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1921776854
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Yarra written by Kristin Otto and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erudite, affectionate and witty, with more meanders and diversions than the river itself, Yarra is a fascinating read and a fitting tribute to the 'noble stream'. From the creation stories of Kulin owners and geologist blow-ins to the twenty-first-century waterside building boom, Otto traces the course of Melbourne's murky river.
Author : Janette-Susan Bailey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137589078
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Dust Bowl written by Janette-Susan Bailey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the Dust Bowl story beyond Depression America to describe the ‘dust bowl’ concept as a transnational phenomenon, where during World War Two, US and Australian national mythologies converged. Dust Bowl begins with Depression America, the New Deal and the US Dust Bowl where massive dust storms darkened the skies of the Great Plains and triggered a major national and international media event and generated imagery describing a failed yeoman dream, Dust Bowl refugees, and the coming of a new American Desert. Dust Bowl traces the evolution of this imagery to Australia, World War Two and New Deal-inspired stories of conservation-mindedness, soil erosion and enemies, sheep-farmers and traitors, creeping deserts and human extinction, super-human housewives and natural disaster and finally, grand visions of a nation-building post-war scheme for Australia’s iconic Snowy River‒that vision became the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme.
Author : James Morton
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522859445
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Dangerous To Know written by James Morton and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling authors of Gangland Australia comes Dangerous to Know, an A to Z of Australasian crimes, criminals and their victims. James Morton and Susanna Lobez have trawled through written records to compile this snappy yet comprehensive account of the bad, mad and plain notorious. All the names are here, from Ronald Ryan (the last man hanged in Australia), to the Carlton Crew. An unmissable book, in one handy volume, for anyone who wants to know all there is to know about Australia's dark underbelly.
Author : Constance Larmour
Publisher : Hale & Iremonger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Labor Judge written by Constance Larmour and published by Hale & Iremonger. This book was released on 1985 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oliver MacDonagh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040118909
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Ireland and Irish-Australia written by Oliver MacDonagh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish contribution to Australian history goes both deep and wide. Originally published in 1986 the essays in this collection contribute both to the understanding of Ireland’s place in Australian history and to the interpretation of the Irish scene in the nineteenth century. Ranging from law to W. B. Yeats, and from monumental sculpture to violence and crime, the papers reflect the diversity of the Irish-Australian experience and the persistence of a distinctively Irish culture even when transported across the world.
Author : W. E. Vaughan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191574589
Total Pages : 1017 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book A New History of Ireland, Volume VI written by W. E. Vaughan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 1017 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and archaeological evidence, through the Middle Ages, down to the present day. Volume VI opens with a character study of the period, followed by ten chapters of narrative history, and a study of Ireland in 1914. It includes further chapters on the economy, literature, the Irish language, music, arts, education, administration and the public service, and emigration.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Labour History written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Morton
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522869696
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Dangerous to Know Updated Edition written by James Morton and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dangerous to Know documents murders known and not so well known, conmen and their victims, street gangs of the early twentieth century, crime lords of the 1920s, dock wars of the 1970s, bikers, sex offenders, and the drug gangs of today as well as the wrongly accused and wrongly convicted. They're all here, as well as some of the police, lawyers and judges who have tried to deal with them.
