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Book Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales

Download or read book Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales written by John Oxley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Book The Forest Flora of New South Wales

Download or read book The Forest Flora of New South Wales written by Joseph Henry Maiden and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of New South Wales from the Records  Governor Phillip  1783 1789

Download or read book History of New South Wales from the Records Governor Phillip 1783 1789 written by George Burnett Barton and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book English Accents

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christiana Payne
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-01-18
  • ISBN : 135115902X
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book English Accents written by Christiana Payne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the century following the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768, British art had an international reputation: prints spread knowledge of the work of British artists around the globe, and it was widely seen as the product of a modern, commercial society, and much admired by artists as diverse as Goya in Spain, Delacroix in France, and Bierstadt in America. In recent years, scholars working on this period have become increasingly aware of the international context of their subject, but there has been no systematic analysis of the reception of British art abroad. This collection of essays looks at the uses made of the paintings of Reynolds, Hogarth, Lawrence and their contemporaries on the continent of Europe, and in the colonies and ex-colonies of Australia and America. The authors go beyond the simple issue of 'influence' to consider how ideas and artistic conventions originating in the British Isles were adapted, appropriated or resisted in these new environments. In the process, some surprising views of British art emerge, demonstrating how a multi-faceted view from the outside can correct and enrich the narrative produced within a national school, and revealing some of the important connections that are obscured when art is studied, as it so often is, within narrow national boundaries.

Book Expedition into Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin Thomas
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-09-04
  • ISBN : 1317630130
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Expedition into Empire written by Martin Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expeditionary journeys have shaped our world, but the expedition as a cultural form is rarely scrutinized. This book is the first major investigation of the conventions and social practices embedded in team-based exploration. In probing the politics of expedition making, this volume is itself a pioneering journey through the cultures of empire. With contributions from established and emerging scholars, Expedition into Empire plots the rise and transformation of expeditionary journeys from the eighteenth century until the present. Conceived as a series of spotlights on imperial travel and colonial expansion, it roves widely: from the metropolitan centers to the ends of the earth. This collection is both rigorous and accessible, containing lively case studies from writers long immersed in exploration, travel literature, and the dynamics of cross-cultural encounter.

Book The British Critic

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1822
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1392 pages

Download or read book The British Critic written by and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 1392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Virtual Voyages

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  • Author : Paul Longley Arthur
  • Publisher : Anthem Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0857284088
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Virtual Voyages written by Paul Longley Arthur and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'. Written at the height of the era of European maritime exploration, these bizarre and captivating tales, with their wildly imaginative visions of antipodean inversion and strangeness, reveal a hidden history of attitudes to colonization. By exposing the relationship between myth and reality in the antipodes, this book casts new light on the power of fiction to influence history. In the post-colonial studies field, books about travel writing and empire have tended to focus on the high period of nineteenth-century imperialism and on the colonial settings of Africa and India. This book offers a fresh perspective by focussing on the eighteenth century, and referring to the geographical region of Australia and the Pacific, which has had far less attention. The book also breaks new ground by being the first to approach the genre of the imaginary voyage from a post-colonial perspective. In addition to the new insights into European colonialism that it offers, the book illustrates many broader themes in eighteenth-century history and thought. These include connections between the rise of science and modern imperialism, the development of narrative history and fiction and the influence of romanticism, the evolution of the early novel in Britain and France, and the role of mythology in the development of national identity.

Book The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food written by Lorna Piatti-Farnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 1135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food explores the relationship between food and literature in transnational contexts, serving as both an introduction and a guide to the field in terms of defining characteristics and development. Balancing a wide-reaching view of the long histories and preoccupations of literary food studies, with attentiveness to recent developments and shifts, the volume illuminates the aesthetic, cultural, political, and intellectual diversity of the representation of food and eating in literature.

Book Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities

Download or read book Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities written by Elizabeth DeLoughrey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines current trends in scholarly thinking about the new field of the Environmental Humanities, focusing in particular on how the history of globalization and imperialism represents a special challenge to the representation of environmental issues. Essays in this path-breaking collection examine the role that narrative, visual, and aesthetic forms can play in drawing attention to and shaping our ideas about long-term and catastrophic environmental challenges such as climate change, militarism, deforestation, the pollution and management of the global commons, petrocapitalism, and the commodification of nature. The volume presents a postcolonial approach to the environmental humanities, especially in conjunction with current thinking in areas such as political ecology and environmental justice. Spanning regions such as Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Australasia and the Pacific, as well as North America, the volume includes essays by founding figures in the field as well as new scholars, providing vital new interdisciplinary perspectives on: the politics of the earth; disaster, vulnerability, and resilience; political ecologies and environmental justice; world ecologies; and the Anthropocene. In engaging critical ecologies, the volume poses a postcolonial environmental humanities for the twenty-first century. At the heart of this is a conviction that a thoroughly global, postcolonial, and comparative approach is essential to defining the emergent field of the environmental humanities, and that this field has much to offer in understanding critical issues surrounding the creation of alternative ecological futures.

Book British Critic  Quarterly Theological Review  and Ecclesiastical Record

Download or read book British Critic Quarterly Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Community Archaeology  Working Ancient Aboriginal Wetlands in Eastern Australia

Download or read book Community Archaeology Working Ancient Aboriginal Wetlands in Eastern Australia written by Wendy Beck and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the results of an investigation of wetland heritage in eastern Australia, with important contributions to the archaeology of the Tasmanian Midlands and the New England Tablelands.

Book Australian Frontier Wars  1788 1838

Download or read book Australian Frontier Wars 1788 1838 written by John Connor and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Swan River to the Hawkesbury, and from the sticky Arnhem Land mangrove to the soft green hills of Tasmania, this book describes the major conflicts fought on the Australian frontier to 1838. Based on extensive research and using overseas frontier wars to add perspective to the Australian experience, 'The Australian Frontier Wars 1788 - 1838' will change our view of Australian history forever.

Book The Life and Times of the Murray Cod

Download or read book The Life and Times of the Murray Cod written by Paul Humphries and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Murray cod is Australia’s largest and most iconic freshwater fish. Tales of the species have long been part of Australian folklore and this book describes its history, biology, cultural significance and conservation. The Life and Times of the Murray Cod reveals the many roles the species has played throughout the history of the continent, from its place at the heart of the Aboriginal creation story of the Murray River, its role as a food source for explorers surveying inland Australia in the early 1800s, to it forming the basis of a commercial fishing industry up to the early 2000s. Living for upwards of half a century and growing to astonishing sizes, today the Murray cod is a hugely popular target for recreational fishing, but its future is anything but assured. In the face of climate change, river management and fishing pressure, much needs to be done to ensure this extraordinary fish swims confidently into the future. The Life and Times of the Murray Cod draws on historical, anecdotal and scientific sources to reveal what makes this remarkable species so special, and will appeal to fishers, natural resource managers, conservationists and any reader interested in natural history.

Book Votes   Proceedings

    Book Details:
  • Author : New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1900
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1240 pages

Download or read book Votes Proceedings written by New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book People  Print   Paper

Download or read book People Print Paper written by Michael Richards and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1988 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Library's major public contribution to the Australian Bicentenary was the travelling exhibition, People, Print & Paper. Celebrating two hundred years of Australian books, this exhibition and the accompanying catalogue bring together a collection of books which gives a fascinating insight into an aspect of Australian life and character which is often overlooked.

Book Transactions and Proceedings at the     General Meeting

Download or read book Transactions and Proceedings at the General Meeting written by Library Association of Australia and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: