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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 The Sex Lives of Australians by : Frank Bongiorno
Download or read book The Sex Lives of Australians written by Frank Bongiorno and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2013 ACT Book of the Year Award. Cross-dressing colonists, effeminate bushrangers and women-shortage woes – here is the first ever history of sex in Australia, from Botany Bay to the present-day In this highly readable social history, Frank Bongiorno uses striking examples to chart the changing sex lives of Australians. He shows how an overwhelmingly male penal colony gave rise to a rough and ready culture: the scarcity of women made for strange bedfellows, and the female minority was both powerful and vulnerable. Then came the Victorian era, in which fears of sodomy helped bring an end to the transportation of convicts. The twentieth century saw the rise of the sex expert. Tracing the story up to the present, Bongiorno shows how the quest for respectability always has another side to it, and how the contraceptive pill changed so much. Along the way he raises some intriguing questions – What did it mean to be a ‘mate’? How did modern warfare affect soldiers’ attitudes to sex? Why did the law ignore lesbianism for so long? – and introduces some remarkable characters, both reformers and radicals. This is a thought-provoking story of sex in Australia. With a foreword by Michael Kirby, AC CMG. Shortlisted for the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Awards and the 2013 NSW Premier's History Awards. “Bongiorno has written a major synthesis of an aspect too often forgotten in our historical memories.” - Australian Book Review 'Engaging, open-minded and humorous' – Bookseller+Publisher Magazine “Frank Bongiorno’s The Sex Lives of Australians is one of the most important works of Australian history to be published in the last decade.” - H-Net Review Frank Bongiorno is associate professor of history at the Australian National University and the co-author of A Little History of the Australian Labor Party (2011). He was the London correspondent for Inside Story and has been a regular contributor to the Canberra Times.
Book Synopsis Jacaranda History Alive 8 Australian Curriculum 2E LearnON and Print by : Robert Darlington
Download or read book Jacaranda History Alive 8 Australian Curriculum 2E LearnON and Print written by Robert Darlington and published by Jacaranda. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Australian History for Dummies by : Alex McDermott
Download or read book Australian History for Dummies written by Alex McDermott and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-19 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created especially for the Australian customer! Exciting and informative history of the land down under Australian History For Dummies is your tour guide through the important events of Australia's past, introducing you to the people and events that have shaped modern Australia. Be there as British colonists explore Australia's harsh terrain with varying degrees of success. In this informative guide you'll Find out about Australia's infamous bushrangers Learn how the discovery of gold caused a tidal wave of immigration from all over the world Understand how Australia took two steps forward to become a nation in its own right in 1901, and two steps back when the government was dismissed by the Crown in 1975 Discover the fascinating details that made Australia the country it is today!
Book Synopsis Jacaranda History Alive 7 Australian Curriculum 2E LearnON and Print by : Robert Darlington
Download or read book Jacaranda History Alive 7 Australian Curriculum 2E LearnON and Print written by Robert Darlington and published by Jacaranda. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Primary Australian History written by and published by R.I.C. Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dark Emu written by Bruce Pascoe and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing - behaviors inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag. Gerritsen and Gammage in their latest books support this premise but Pascoe takes this further and challenges the hunter-gatherer tag as a convenient lie. Almost all the evidence comes from the records and diaries of the Australian explorers, impeccable sources.
Book Synopsis Jacaranda History Alive 8 Australian Curriculum 3e learnON and Print by : Robert Darlington
Download or read book Jacaranda History Alive 8 Australian Curriculum 3e learnON and Print written by Robert Darlington and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacaranda History Alive 8 Australian Curriculum Third Edition includes Jacaranda's vastly improved eBook on the new learnON platform: an immersive digital learning environment that enables real-time learning through peer-to-peer connections, complete visibility and immediate feedback. The new digital learning platform includes additional teacher resources, such as formal assessments and curriculum grids.
Book Synopsis Jacaranda History Alive 9 Australian Curriculum 2E LearnON and Print by : Robert Darlington
Download or read book Jacaranda History Alive 9 Australian Curriculum 2E LearnON and Print written by Robert Darlington and published by Jacaranda. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Australian Political Lives by : John Nethercote
Download or read book Australian Political Lives written by John Nethercote and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph brings together some of the best practitioners of the art and craft of political biography in Australia. They are simultaneously some of our best scholars who, at least in part, have turned their attention to writing Australian political lives. They are not merely chroniclers of our times but multidisciplinary analysts constructing layers of explanation and theoretical insight. They include academic, professional and amateur biographers; scholars from a range of disciplines (politics, history, sociology, public administration, gender studies); and politicians who for a time strutted the political stage. The assembled papers explore the strengths and weaknesses of the biographical approach; the enjoyment it can deliver; the problems and frustrations of writing biographies; and the various ways the 'project' can be approached by those constructing these lives. They probe the art and craft of the political biographer.
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Australia by : Norman Abjorensen
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Australia written by Norman Abjorensen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia’s development, from the most unpromising of beginnings as a British prison in 1788 to the prosperous liberal democracy of the present is as remarkable as is its success as a country of large-scale immigration. Since 1942 it has been a loyal ally of the United States and has demonstrated this loyalty by contributing troops to the war in Vietnam and by being part of the “coalition of the willing” in the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 and in operations in Afghanistan. In recent years, it has also been more willing to promote peace and democracy in its Pacific and Asian neighbors. This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Australia covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Australia.
Book Synopsis Family History and Historians in Australia and New Zealand by : Malcolm Allbrook
Download or read book Family History and Historians in Australia and New Zealand written by Malcolm Allbrook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-27 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the turn of the twenty-first century, family history is the place where two great oceans of research are meeting: family historians outside the academy, with traditionally trained, often university-employed historians. This collection is both a testament to dialogue and an analysis of the dynamics of recent family history that derives from the confluence of professional historians with family historians, their common causes and conversations. It brings together leading and emerging Australian and New Zealand scholars to consider the relationship between family history and the discipline of history, and the potential of family history to extend the scope of historical inquiry, even to revitalise the discipline. In Anglo-Western culture, the roots of the discipline’s professionalisation lay in efforts to reconstruct history as objective knowledge, to extend its subject matter and to enlarge the scale of historical enquiry. Family history, almost by definition, is often inescapably personal and localised. How, then, have historians responded to this resurgence of interest in the personal and the local, and how has it influenced the thought and practice of historical enquiry?
Book Synopsis Anzac Memories by : Alistair Thomson
Download or read book Anzac Memories written by Alistair Thomson and published by Monash University Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anzac Memories was first published to acclaim in 1994, and has achieved international renown for its pioneering contribution to the study of war memory and mythology. Michael McKernan wrote that the book gave ‘as good a picture of the impact of the Great War on individuals and Australia as we are likely to get in this generation’, and Michael Roper concluded that ‘an immense achievement of this book is that it so clearly illuminates the historical processes that left men like my grandfather forever struggling to fashion myths which they could live by’. In this new edition Alistair Thomson explores how the Anzac legend has transformed over the past quarter century, how a ‘post-memory’ of the Great War creates new challenges and opportunities for making sense of the national past, and how veterans’ war memories can still challenge and complicate national mythologies. He returns to a family war history that he could not write about twenty years ago because of the stigma of war and mental illness, and he uses newly released Repatriation files to question his own earlier account of veterans’ post-war lives and memories and to think afresh about war and memory.
Download or read book Uncertain Lives written by Jon Stratton and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncertain Lives is the first book to examine the impact of neoliberal policies on everyday life in Australia. Going beyond the discussions of multiculturalism that dominated the 1980s and 1990s, Uncertain Lives examines the persistence of race and racism in the Australian experience. While the governments of John Howard followed the rhetoric of neoliberalism in suggesting that market forces dominated social relations, in reality the racism that had been founded in the White Australia policy became again increasingly acceptable, and accepted, in a society no longer subject to the values of multiculturalism. Uncertain Lives tracks this racism from its pervasiveness in everyday life to the ways race influenced decisions about who would, and would not, be allowed into Australia. From discussions of asylum seekers to migrants to the ways that thinking about the border itself has been transformed, Uncertain Lives charts the recent history of the Australian experience. Uncertain Lives ranges over events such as the Cronulla Riots of 2005 and the 2006 Beaconsfield mine rescue and uses a variety of recent films to highlight the impact of race in a society where liberal and social democratic values have been replaced by neoliberal ideology.
Book Synopsis Australia's History by : Martyn Lyons
Download or read book Australia's History written by Martyn Lyons and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's History: Themes and Debates presents an up-to-date account of issues and debates in Australian history. Written for students and readers who may not be familiar with Australian history, this short volume offers an introduction to the current state of knowledge and issues of concern to Australian historians today. A team of leading contributors tackle major themes related to Aboriginal history. They offer a synthesis of existing work and their own original research that challenges prevailing myths. The result is a succinct appraisal of the exciting and topical issues that inform Australian history-writing now.
Book Synopsis Quarterly Essay 64 The Australian Dream by : Stan Grant
Download or read book Quarterly Essay 64 The Australian Dream written by Stan Grant and published by Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 co-exists 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
Book Synopsis Translating Lives by : Mary Besemeres
Download or read book Translating Lives written by Mary Besemeres and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Australia prides itself on being multicultural, many Australians have little awareness of what it means to live in two cultures at once, and of how much there is to learn about other cultural perspectives.
