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Royal Historical Society Of Victoria Rhsv Victorian Historical Journal Nos 293
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Download or read book Port Fairy written by Marten A. Syme and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning a period of 180 years, the history of Port Fairy commences with contact with the Aboriginal occupants of the land, whaling, and the development of James Atkinson's Special Survey until the sale of these lands from 1885. The story is then presented in four eras - approximately terminating in 1921, 1947, 1980 and 2018. These parts are segmented into transport, industry, environment, municipal administration, community buildings and services and community and sporting organisations, plus some chapters regarding the local contribution to overseas conflicts, the railway and essential services. The book is extensively referenced, with 68 illustrations and 10 maps and a full index.
Book Synopsis Postmodern Crises by : Mark Lipovetsky
Download or read book Postmodern Crises written by Mark Lipovetsky and published by Ars Rossica. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodern Crises collects previously published and yet unpublished Mark Lipovetsky's articles on Russian literature and film. Written in different years, they focus on cultural and aesthetic crises that, taken together, constitute the postmodern condition of Russian culture. The reader will find here articles about classic subversive texts (such as Nabokov's Lolita), performances (Pussy Riot), and recent, but also subversive, films. Other articles discuss such authors as Vladimir Sorokin, such sociocultural discourses as the discourse of scientific intelligentsia; post-Soviet adaptations of Socialist Realism, and contemporary trends of "complex" literature, as well as literary characters turned into cultural tropes (the Strugatsky's progressors). The book will be interesting for teachers and scholars of contemporary Russian literature and culture; it can be used both in undergraduate and graduate courses.
Book Synopsis A City Lost and Found by : Robyn Annear
Download or read book A City Lost and Found written by Robyn Annear and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Old landmarks fall in nearly every block ... and the face of the city is changing so rapidly that the time is not too far distant when a search for a building 50 years old will be in vain.” — Herald, 1925. The demolition firm of Whelan the Wrecker was a Melbourne institution for a hundred years (1892-1992). Its famous sign – ‘Whelan the Wrecker is Here’ on a pile of shifting rubble – was a laconic masterpiece and served as a vital sign of the city’s progress. It’s no stretch to say that over three generations, the Whelan family changed the face of Melbourne, demolishing hundreds of buildings in the central city alone. In A City Lost and Found, Robyn Annear uses Whelan’s demolition sites as portals to explore layers of the city laid bare by their pick-axes and iron balls. Peering beneath the rubble, she brings to light fantastic stories about Melbourne’s building sites and their many incarnations. This is a book about the making – and remaking – of a city.
Download or read book First People written by Gary Presland and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eastern Kulin, like indigenous people all over Australia, believed that they were an integral part of the land; for them nature and culture had been created as one by ancestral beings.
Book Synopsis Progressive New World by : Marilyn Lake
Download or read book Progressive New World written by Marilyn Lake and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paradox of progressivism continues to fascinate more than one hundred years on. Democratic but elitist, emancipatory but coercive, advanced and assimilationist, Progressivism was defined by its contradictions. In a bold new argument, Marilyn Lake points to the significance of turn-of-the-twentieth-century exchanges between American and Australasian reformers who shared racial sensibilities, along with a commitment to forging an ideal social order. Progressive New World demonstrates that race and reform were mutually supportive as Progressivism became the political logic of settler colonialism. White settlers in the United States, who saw themselves as path-breakers and pioneers, were inspired by the state experiments of Australia and New Zealand that helped shape their commitment to an active state, women’s and workers’ rights, mothers’ pensions, and child welfare. Both settler societies defined themselves as New World, against Old World feudal and aristocratic societies and Indigenous peoples deemed backward and primitive. In conversations, conferences, correspondence, and collaboration, transpacific networks were animated by a sense of racial kinship and investment in social justice. While “Asiatics” and “Blacks” would be excluded, segregated, or deported, Indians and Aborigines would be assimilated or absorbed. The political mobilizations of Indigenous progressives—in the Society of American Indians and the Australian Aborigines’ Progressive Association—testified to the power of Progressive thought but also to its repressive underpinnings. Burdened by the legacies of dispossession and displacement, Indigenous reformers sought recognition and redress in differently imagined new worlds and thus redefined the meaning of Progressivism itself.
Download or read book Mallee Country written by Richard Broome and published by . This book was released on 2019-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening and burning the mallee to make way for wheat. Government backed settlement schemes devastated lives and country, but some farmers learnt how to survive the droughts, dust storms, mice, locusts and salinity - as well as the vagaries of international markets - and became some of Australia's most resilient agriculturalists. In mallee country, innovation and tenacity have been neighbours to hardship and failure.Mallee Country is a story of how land and people shape each other. It is the story of how a landscape once derided by settlers as a 'howling wilderness' covered in 'dismal scrub' became home to citizens who delighted in mallee fauna and flora and fought to conserve it for future generations. And it is the story of the dreams, sweat and sorrows of people who face an uncertain future of depopulation and climate change with creativity and hope.
Book Synopsis Port of Melbourne 1835-1976 by : Olaf Ruhen
Download or read book Port of Melbourne 1835-1976 written by Olaf Ruhen and published by Stanmore, N.S.W. : Cassell Australia. This book was released on 1976 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Port of Melbourne 1835-1976 is the story of the many challenges and difficulties encountered and the successes registered in the building of a port which in many ways is Australia's greatest terminal.
Book Synopsis The Church on Bakery Hill by : Anne Doggett
Download or read book The Church on Bakery Hill written by Anne Doggett and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the way one particular church has made a difference in the lives of the people, and in the development of a community, over the course of a fascinating 162 years.
Download or read book Black Snake written by Leo Kennedy and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Leo Kennedy is the great-grandson of Sergeant Michael Kennedy. Raised in the shadow of his great-grandfather's murder, Leo witnessed the deep psychological wounds inflicted on successive generations of his family - and the families of other victims - as the Ned Kelly myth grew around them and the sacrifice of their loved ones was forgotten. Leo himself was nicknamed 'Red Ned' at school and taunted for being on the wrong side of Australian history. Now, for the first time, and in brilliant prose that brings these historical episodes to life, Black Snake challenges the legend of Ned Kelly. Instead of celebrating an heroic man of the people, it gives voice to the victims of a merciless gang of outlaws. This is a captivating true story, gleaned from meticulous research and family history, of two men from similar backgrounds whose legacies were distorted by history.
Download or read book A Second Chance written by Margaret Taft and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Yiddish speakers from Eastern Europe brought few material possessions but clung to a language and a culture that defined who they were, a way of life that had endured pogroms, persecution and a genocide that pushed them to the brink of extinction. Melbourne gave them a second chance at life, an opportunity to rebuild a secular Yiddish world that sat at the core of their existence. A community centre quickly became the beating heart of Yiddish Melbourne. The arts flourished, newspapers were launched and schools were established. But these immigrants also brought their competing political ideals, hotly contested notions of what it meant to be a Jew and how to live life in this furthest corner of the world. But the Australian authorities only grudgingly accepted them as immigrants, in restricted numbers and under the sponsorship of Jews already living here. Yiddish speakers, with their boisterous demeanour and high visibility challenged the authority of the established Jewish community. Using the voices of the immigrants themselves and archival sources, the authors give a compelling account of how these Yiddish speakers came to shape, change and define an entire community"--Back cover.
Book Synopsis Returning the Kulkyne by : John Burch
Download or read book Returning the Kulkyne written by John Burch and published by . This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kulkyne is a unique environment of semi-permanent lakes and woodlands formed the Murray River overflowing into the Mallee south of Mildura. Before colonial occupation, it was one of the most densely settled areas of Aboriginal Australia. Returning the Kulkyne tells the story of the colonial discovery and use of the Kulkyne tells the story of the colonial discovery and use of the Kulkyne as a squatting station, and later as a state forest. The land's Aboriginal owners resisted their dispossession, remained independent and made a place for themselves in the pastoral world, but colonial settlement devastated their communities and they were wrongly declared extinct.
Book Synopsis Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia by : Fred Cahir
Download or read book Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia written by Fred Cahir and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indigenous Australians have long understood sustainable hunting and harvesting, seasonal changes in flora and fauna, predator–prey relationships and imbalances, and seasonal fire management. Yet the extent of their knowledge and expertise has been largely unknown and underappreciated by non-Aboriginal colonists, especially in the south-east of Australia where Aboriginal culture was severely fractured. Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia is the first book to examine historical records from early colonists who interacted with south-eastern Australian Aboriginal communities and documented their understanding of the environment, natural resources such as water and plant and animal foods, medicine and other aspects of their material world. This book provides a compelling case for the importance of understanding Indigenous knowledge, to inform discussions around climate change, biodiversity, resource management, health and education. It will be a valuable reference for natural resource management agencies, academics in Indigenous studies and anyone interested in Aboriginal culture and knowledge.
Download or read book Sport in Victoria written by Dave Nadel and published by Ryan Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the result of contributions from a wide range of sports writers, officials and historians, relates the fascinating history of over 100 sports played in Victoria since the 1830s. It also covers the important events, venues, clubs and leagues which characterise Victoria's sporting culture. Published under the auspices of the Australian Society for Sports History.
Book Synopsis Environmental History of Water by : Petri S. Juuti
Download or read book Environmental History of Water written by Petri S. Juuti and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Water Development Report 2003 pointed out the extensive problem that: 'Sadly, the tragedy of the water crisis is not simply a result of lack of water but is, essentially, one of poor water governance.' Cross-sectional and historical intra-national and international comparisons have been recognized as a valuable method of study in different sectors of human life, including technologies and governance. Environmental History of Water fills this gap, with its main focus being on water and sanitation services and their evolution. Altogether 34 authors have written 30 chapters for this multidisciplinary book which divides into four chronological parts, from ancient cultures to the challenges of the 21st century, each with its introduction and conclusions written by the editors. The authors represent such disciplines as history of technology, history of public health, public policy, development studies, sociology, engineering and management sciences. This book emphasizes that the history of water and sanitation services is strongly linked to current water management and policy issues, as well as future implications. Geographically the book consists of local cases from all inhabited continents. The key penetrating themes of the book include especially population growth, health, water consumption, technological choices and governance. There is great need for general, long-term analysis at the global level. Lessons learned from earlier societies help us to understand the present crisis and challenges. This new book, Environmental History of Water, provides this analysis by studying these lessons.
Book Synopsis Kyneton, from Past to Present by : Ken McKimmie
Download or read book Kyneton, from Past to Present written by Ken McKimmie and published by . This book was released on 2021-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Kelly Gang Unmasked by : Ian MacFarlane
Download or read book The Kelly Gang Unmasked written by Ian MacFarlane and published by OUP Australia & New Zealand. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This controversial book re-examines the story of the Kelly Gang in fascinating detail and with many new insights. The mythology created by pro-Kelly writers is critically explored, unravelled, and often found wanting. Many missing official documents have been identified for the first time.
Book Synopsis Geoffrey Blainey by : Richard Allsop
Download or read book Geoffrey Blainey written by Richard Allsop and published by Australian History. This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia's "greatest living historian." However, Blainey has also been a controversial figure. His 1984 comments about Asian immigration triggered a major political controversy. In turn, the reaction of his critics raised fundamental questions about freedom of speech and set the scene for the "history wars" fought out in Australia over the past three decades. Many academic historians were amongst Blainey's critics. After 1984, Blainey became stereotyped as a "conservative historian" and thus outside the bounds of academic history, yet much of Blainey's historical writing, both in method and outlook, has been far from conservative. Geoffrey Blainey: Writer, Historian, Controversialist challenges simplistic descriptions of Blainey's work. It sheds an important light not just on Blainey's career, but also on the past and present practice of history in Australia.
