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The Australians

Author : John Hirst
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458762963
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book The Australians written by John Hirst and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there an Australian national character? What are its distinguishing features? Over the years, how have insiders and outsiders summed up this country and its people, and how have Australians responded to outside criticism? In The Australians, John Hirst gathers together the key assessments of the national character, on topics as diverse as sport, war, mateship, humour, put-downs, suburbia and going native. There is celebration and criticism. There is humour and insight. There is the difference between what Australians think of themselves and what they are really like. Contributors include Winston Churchill, Ned Kelly, Tim Flannery, Henry Lawson, Peter Cosgrove, Germaine Greer, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Captain James Cook, David Malouf, Mark Twain, H.G. Wells, Patrick White, Oscar Wilde and Tim Winton.

The Australian Book of Atheism

Author : Warren Bonett
Publisher : Scribe Publications
ISBN 13 : 1921640766
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book The Australian Book of Atheism written by Warren Bonett and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the Anzac ethos have roots in atheism? Does prayer have a place in Parliament? Should 'creation science' be taught in Australian schools? The Australian Book of Atheism is the first collection to explore atheism from an Australian viewpoint. Bringing together essays from 33 of the nation's pre-eminent atheist, rationalist, humanist, and sceptical thinkers, it canvasses a range of opinions on religion and secularism in Australia.

Aboriginal Australians

Author : Richard Broome
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1760872628
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Aboriginal Australians written by Richard Broome and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast sweeping story of Aboriginal Australia from 1788 is told in Richard Broome's typical lucid and imaginative style. This is an important work of great scholarship, passion and imagination.' - Professor Lynette Russell, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University In the creation of any new society, there are winners and losers. So it was with Australia as it grew from a colonial outpost to an affluent society. Richard Broome tells the history of Australia from the standpoint of the original Australians: those who lost most in the early colonial struggle for power. Surveying over two centuries of Aboriginal-European encounters, he shows how white settlers steadily supplanted the original inhabitants, from the shining coasts to inland deserts, by sheer force of numbers, disease, technology and violence. He also tells the story of Aboriginal survival through resistance and accommodation, and traces the continuing Aboriginal struggle to move from the margins of a settler society to a more central place in modern Australia. Broome's Aboriginal Australians has long been regarded as the most authoritative account of black-white relations in Australia. This fifth edition continues the story, covering the impact of the Northern Territory Intervention, the mining boom in remote Australia, the Uluru Statement, the resurgence of interest in traditional Aboriginal knowledge and culture, and the new generation of Aboriginal leaders. 'Richard Broome's historical analysis breaks the back of every theoretical argument about colonialism and establishes a clear pathway to understanding the present situation.' - Sharon Meagher, Aboriginal Education Development Officer, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide

The Australians

Author : John Bradley Hirst
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1863954082
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book The Australians written by John Bradley Hirst and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating collection, John Hirst has assembled the key assessments of the national character of Australia and Australians. There are insiders and outsiders. There is celebration and criticism. There is the difference between what Australians think of themselves and what they are really like. Hirst provides a set of dazzling introductory essays to accompany his selections. Contributors include Winston Churchill, Tim Flannery, Carmen Lawrence, Charles Dickens, Captain James Cook, Barry Humphries, H.G. Wells, Peter Cosgrove, and many, many more.

The Australians

Author : Francis William Lauderdale Adams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108030653
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Australians written by Francis William Lauderdale Adams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1893, this book describes the life and culture of Australia in the last years of the nineteenth century.

Cape Summer and the Australians in England

Author : Alan Ross
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571297528
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Cape Summer and the Australians in England written by Alan Ross and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Ross (1922-2001) - distinguished poet, travel writer, and editor of London Magazine - also managed to excel in the role of cricket correspondent for the Observer, in which capacity he followed England/MCC on tours of Australia, South Africa and the West Indies. In the book-length accounts he published of these tours, his lifelong love of the game found glorious expression. Cape Summer and the Australians in England (1957) treats the 1956 Ashes series, memorable above all for the bowling performance of Jim Laker; and the following winter's MCC tour to apartheid South Africa, where one of England's strongest ever sides had an unexpectedly tough contest and where, as ever, Ross's discerning eye and finessing pen were alive to dimensions of the game beyond the boundary rope.

Over There With the Australians

Author : R. Hugh Knyvett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 3752364440
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Over There With the Australians written by R. Hugh Knyvett and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Over There With the Australians by R. Hugh Knyvett

The Diggers: The Australians in France

Author : Patrick MacGill
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Diggers: The Australians in France written by Patrick MacGill and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diggers' is an absorbing World War I fiction by Patrick MacGill, an Irish journalist and writer known as "The Navvy Poet" because he had worked as a navvy before he began writing. This work is historically significant as it comes from a man who witnessed the war first-hand. MacGill served with the London Irish Rifles during the First World War and was injured at the Battle of Loos on 28 October 1915. He was then recruited into military intelligence.

How to Beat the Australians

Author : Richard Beard
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448129907
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book How to Beat the Australians written by Richard Beard and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Feeling the way I do now, it's not a feeling I ever want to have again.' Andrew Flintoff speaks for a nation. The Ashes, 2006/07: Australia 5 England 0. The nightmare returns. For twenty years, Australia has produced competitors so gritty they order sandwiches with sand in, and not just at cricket. Fourth in the medals table at the Athens Olympics, Tour de France contenders, Davis Cup champions, and the Socceroos 3--1 winners over England. For Richard Beard, the football was the last straw. So, on the well-established principle that if you want something doing ..., he travelled down to Australia for seven rounds of hand-to-hand sporting combat, to find out just what makes the Australians so good, and how to beat them.

Australasia Triumphant!: With the Australians and New Zealanders in the Great War on Land and Sea

Author : Arthur St. John Adcock
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Australasia Triumphant!: With the Australians and New Zealanders in the Great War on Land and Sea written by Arthur St. John Adcock and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Australasia Triumphant!: With the Australians and New Zealanders in the Great War on Land and Sea" by Arthur St. John Adcock. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Australianama

Author : Samia Khatun
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190922605
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Australianama written by Samia Khatun and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charts the history of South Asian diaspora, weaving together stories of various peoples colonized by the British Empire.

First Australians

Author : Rachel Perkins
Publisher : The Miegunyah Press
ISBN 13 : 0522859542
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book First Australians written by Rachel Perkins and published by The Miegunyah Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Australians is the dramatic story of the collision of two worlds that created contemporary Australia. Told from the perspective of Australia's first people, it vividly brings to life the events that unfolded when the oldest living culture in the world was overrun by the world's greatest empire. Seven of Australia's leading historians reveal the true stories of individuals—both black and white—caught in an epic drama of friendship, revenge, loss and victory in Australia's most transformative period of history. Their story begins in 1788 in Warrane, now known as Sydney, with the friendship between an Englishman, Governor Phillip, and the kidnapped warrior Bennelong. It ends in 1992 with Koiki Mabo's legal challenge to the foundation of Australia. By illuminating a handful of extraordinary lives spanning two centuries, First Australians reveals, through their eyes, the events that shaped a new nation. Note: This is the unillustrated version ofFirst Australians.

The Australian Dream

Author : Stan Grant
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1925435369
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book The Australian Dream written by Stan Grant and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Quarterly Essay 64, Stan Grant takes a deep and passionate look at Indigenous futures, in particular the fraught question of remote communities. In a landmark essay, Stan Grant writes Indigenous people back into the economic and multicultural history of Australia. This is the fascinating story of how fringe dwellers fought not just to survive, but to prosper. Their legacy is the extraordinary flowering of Indigenous success - cultural, sporting, intellectual and social - that we see today. Yet this flourishing coexists with the boys of Don Dale and the many others like them who live in the shadows of the nation. Grant examines how such Australians have been denied the possibilities of life, and argues eloquently that history is not destiny; that culture is not static. In doing so, he makes the case for a more capacious Australian Dream. "The idea that I am Australian hits me with a thud. It is a blinding self-realisation that collides with the comfortable notion of who I am. To be honest, for an Indigenous person, it can feel like a betrayal somehow - at the very least, a capitulation. We are so used to telling ourselves that Australia is a white country: am I now white? The reality is more ambiguous ... To borrow from Franz Kafka, identity is a cage in search of a bird." —Stan Grant, The Australian Dream This issue also contains correspondence discussing Quarterly Essay 63, Enemy Within, from Patrick Lawrence, Nicole Hemmer, Bruce Wolpe, Dennis Altman, David Goodman, Patrick McCaughey, Gary Werskey, and Don Watson.

How our Village Beat the Australians

Author : Hugh De Selincourt
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1473355508
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book How our Village Beat the Australians written by Hugh De Selincourt and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the finest English sport stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Australian Archaeologist's Book of Quotations

Author : Mike Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922235749
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book The Australian Archaeologist's Book of Quotations written by Mike Smith and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I used to begin a course on Australian economic history in the accepted manner with the European explorations of the eighteenth century until one day the archaeologist, John Mulvaney, enquired what I said about the earlier 99 per cent of time embraced by the human history of Australia." -- Geoffrey Blainey, 1975 *** "The discoverers, explorers and colonists of the three million square miles which are Australia, were its Aborigines." -- John Mulvaney, 1969 *** "Perhaps we should call what the Aborigines did 'fire-stick farming'." -- Rhys Jones, 1969 *** Australian archaeology has been involved in a great enterprise over the last 60 years, uncovering the deep past of a desert continent and the history of its first people. This book is a guide to the catchphrases of the discipline. It is a meditation on science and place, culture and politics, deep time and the Dreaming - and it is steeped in an appreciation of good writing and a well-turned phrase. Woven in among these quotations is the story of how Australians, as a nation, are coming to terms with ancient Australia. The entries are drawn from letters, journals, histories, poems, newspapers, and novels. Each has been chosen because it is a pithy summation of an issue. Combined, these map the development of the field and encourage a dialogue between science and the humanities. *** Librarians: ebook available on ProQuest and EBSCO *** "The Australian Archaeologist's Book of Quotations is a veritable time-traveller's guide for making sense of a continent, a nation, and its people. The editors, archaeologist Mike Smith and historian Billy Griffiths, have served up a smorgasbord of archaeological appetisers, with a feast of pithy insights into how Australians are coming to terms with ancient Australia." -- Ruth A. Morgan, Australian Book Review, October 2015 ? ? ? ?(Series: Australian History) Subject: History, Archaeology, Australian Studies, Aboriginal Studies]

In the Australian Bush and on the Coast of the Coral Sea

Author : Richard Wolfgang Semon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book In the Australian Bush and on the Coast of the Coral Sea written by Richard Wolfgang Semon and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One chapter on natives; Physical characteristics of Burnett and Mary River tribes; Weapons, general ecology, marriage systems of Dieri, Kurnai, Gurnditschmara, Narinjeri and Burnett R. natives.

A Peculiar People

Author : Gavin Souter
Publisher : Xoum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1922057029
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book A Peculiar People written by Gavin Souter and published by Xoum Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1893 almost 500 Australians set out by ship to plant a communist utopia in the heart of Paraguay. Led by socialist journalist and activist, William Lane, their aim was to realise the cherished Australian principles of equality and mateship. It was not to be. Expulsions and secessions began early; in mid-1894 Lane himself seceded with a loyal minority and founded Cosme, some forty-five miles south of the original settlement, but two years later the new colony had deteriorated and dwindled. Acclaimed historian Gavin Souter unravels the history of the New Australia movement, exploring the motivations and motives of its members, its organisation, the conflicts and dissension and the final disillusionment. He suggests a number of factors contributing to the venture’s failure, not the least being William Lane’s contradictory personality. Meticulously researched and based on countless interviews with descendants of the original settlers, A Peculiar People is a work of literary as well as historical value. Winner of the Foundation of Australian Literary Studies award, it brings the fascinating story of idealism, courage and human fallibility to vivid life. Reviews of A Peculiar People ‘The most complete, objective and altogether satisfying account – by turns ironic, sardonic, compassionate, frequently evocative and finally haunting.’ Australian Book Review ‘An excellent book, lively in its narrative and judicious in its interpretations.’ The Age ‘Souter … writes with admirable clarity and can make a story, period and cast of people come alive – exciting, absurd and gallant by turns.’ The Bulletin