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Book Cardwell Shire Story

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dorothy Jones
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9789120109947
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book Cardwell Shire Story written by Dorothy Jones and published by . This book was released on with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Review of Cardwell Shire Story

Download or read book Review of Cardwell Shire Story written by Geoffrey Bolton and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In the Eye of the Beholder

Download or read book In the Eye of the Beholder written by Barbara Dawson and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2014-11-19 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fresh perspective in the debate on settler perceptions of Indigenous Australians. It draws together a suite of little known colonial women (apart from Eliza Fraser) and investigates their writings for what they reveal about their attitudes to, views on and beliefs about Aboriginal people, as presented in their published works. The way that reader expectations and publishers’ requirements slanted their representations forms part of this analysis. All six women write of their first-hand experiences on Australian frontiers of settlement. The division into ‘adventurers’ (Eliza Fraser, Eliza Davies and Emily Cowl) and longer-term ‘settlers’ (Katherine Kirkland, Mary McConnel and Rose Scott Cowen) allows interrogation into the differing representations between those with a transitory knowledge of Indigenous people and those who had a close and more permanent relationship with Indigenous women, even encompassing individual friendship. More pertinently, the book strives to reveal the aspects, largely overlooked in colonial narratives, of Indigenous agency, authority and individuality.

Book Cardwell Shire Library Service

Download or read book Cardwell Shire Library Service written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home page of the Cardwell Shire Library Service. The Web site provides information about the Library Service including the libraries' opening hours, locations and services. The site also provides community information including a history of the Shire; information about local history services and resources (including information about the Cardwell Shire Museum and Historical Society); a directory of Council members; Shire statistics; and a listing of community events.

Book A History of Queensland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ross Fitzgerald
  • Publisher : University of Queensland Press(Australia)
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book A History of Queensland written by Ross Fitzgerald and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 1986 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  Red Ted

Download or read book Red Ted written by Ross Fitzgerald and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. G. Theodore, one of Australia's most enterprising and unusual political figures, was Treasurer and Premier of Queensland and later Federal Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister of Australia in the Scullin Labor government.

Book Workers in Bondage

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kay Saunders
  • Publisher : University of Queensland Press
  • Release : 2013-07-01
  • ISBN : 1921902108
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Workers in Bondage written by Kay Saunders and published by University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on thorough documentary research in archives and newspapers, Workers in Bondage begins with the origins of servitude during the convict era in Queensland before its separation from New South Wales in 1859. The study then focuses in on Queensland’s Pacific Islander labor force, examining the reconstruction of the Queensland sugar industry after the withdrawal of Islander labor and describing the realities of white labor and the early trade union struggles in the sugar industry. Underlying the text is an analysis of labor manipulation by capitalism in a new colony during a time of transition from slavery to indenture in the British Empire. This is a comprehensive and insightful academic examination of the little known history of the enslavement of Pacific Island workers in Australian convict-era industries, as well as a wider study of race relations in a frontier society.

Book Handbook of Australian Languages

Download or read book Handbook of Australian Languages written by Robert M. W. Dixon and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1979 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and includes a sample text and vocabulary text. The contributions to this volume are salvage studies, giving all the information that is available on four languages which are on the point of extinction, and an assessment of what linguistic impressions can be inferred from the scant material that is available on the extinct languages of Tasmania.

Book The Great Barrier Reef

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ben Daley
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-07-17
  • ISBN : 113593441X
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book The Great Barrier Reef written by Ben Daley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Barrier Reef is located along the coast of Queensland in north-east Australia and is the world's largest coral reef ecosystem. Designated a World Heritage Area, it has been subject to increasing pressures from tourism, fishing, pollution and climate change, and is now protected as a marine park. This book provides an original account of the environmental history of the Great Barrier Reef, based on extensive archival and oral history research. It documents and explains the main human impacts on the Great Barrier Reef since European settlement in the region, focusing particularly on the century from 1860 to 1960 which has not previously been fully documented, yet which was a period of unprecedented exploitation of the ecosystem and its resources. The book describes the main changes in coral reefs, islands and marine wildlife that resulted from those impacts. In more recent decades, human impacts on the Great Barrier Reef have spread, accelerated and intensified, with implications for current management and conservation practices. There is now better scientific understanding of the threats faced by the ecosystem. Yet these modern challenges occur against a background of historical levels of exploitation that is little-known, and that has reduced the ecosystem's resilience. The author provides a compelling narrative of how one of the world's most iconic and vulnerable ecosystems has been exploited and degraded, but also how some early conservation practices emerged.

Book Searching for Aboriginal Languages

Download or read book Searching for Aboriginal Languages written by R. M. W. Dixon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating account of fieldwork on endangered Aboriginal languages in the tropical rainforest of Queensland during the 1960s.

Book Walks  Tracks and Trails of Queensland s Tropics

Download or read book Walks Tracks and Trails of Queensland s Tropics written by Derrick Stone and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queensland’s tropics provide numerous environments for enjoyable walking: lush rainforests, cloud-shrouded mountains, extinct volcanoes, savanna woodlands, and magnificent beaches on the coast and Great Barrier Reef islands. This book brings together more than 150 of the best walks, tracks or trails in Queensland’s tropics, located within the coastal strip between Rockhampton and Cooktown. Walks vary from short boardwalk strolls in the lowland rainforests of Daintree National Park to 4-6 day hiking and camping trips on Hinchinbrook Island. Other routes follow old gold miners’ and forestry tracks or coaching routes or feature historical sites, rivers, lagoons, geological and geographical formations or much earlier Aboriginal communication tracks where Dreamtime stories add a further dimension. Man-made environments of abandoned gold towns, heritage riverfronts, Art Deco streetscapes and Second World War installations also feature. Most routes are best completed during the ‘Dry’ season (May to October) and walked by moderately fit individuals. Most do not require specialist navigation or bushcraft skills. Walks, Tracks and Trails of Queensland’s Tropics highlights the best the region has to offer. Easy-to-interpret maps are included to help you navigate, and the book’s size makes it convenient to carry in the backpack.

Book Imperial Emotions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jane Lydon
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2019-10-17
  • ISBN : 1108498361
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book Imperial Emotions written by Jane Lydon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the politicisation of empathy across the British empire during the nineteenth century and traces its legacies into the present.

Book Palm Island

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joanne Watson
  • Publisher : Aboriginal Studies Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0855757035
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book Palm Island written by Joanne Watson and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In November 2004, Mulrunji Doomadgee's tragic death triggered civil unrest within the Indigenous community of Palm Island. This led to the first prosecution of a Queensland police officer in relation to a death in custody. In Palm Island, Joanne Watson gives the first substantial history of the island from pre-contact to the present.

Book Smugglers and Sailors

Download or read book Smugglers and Sailors written by David Day and published by Agps Press Publication. This book was released on 1992 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of the official history of the Australian Customs Service 1788-1901 which also serves as a history of early Australian society. Covers all the states with a concentration on New South Wales and includes a chapter on 'Border Custom'. Includes a bibliography and an index. The author was formerly a Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge. Also issued simultaneously in a limited leatherbound edition.

Book Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia No  48   1962

Download or read book Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia No 48 1962 written by and published by Aust. Bureau of Statistics. This book was released on with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Bibliography of Queensland History

Download or read book A Bibliography of Queensland History written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of Australian Languages

Download or read book Handbook of Australian Languages written by R.M.W. Dixon and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1981-12-31 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook makes available short grammatical sketches of Australian languages. Each grammar is written in a standard format, following guidelines provided by the editors, and includes a sample text and vocabulary text. The contributions to this volume are salvage studies, giving all the information that is available on four languages which are on the point of extinction, and an assessment of what linguistic impressions can be inferred from the scant material that is available on the extinct languages of Tasmania.