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Book Philosophy and Memory Traces

Download or read book Philosophy and Memory Traces written by John Sutton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-05 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers interpretations of theories of memory and the body from Descartes to Coleridge.

Book Colonial Queensland

Download or read book Colonial Queensland written by Bill Thorpe and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Book Reminiscences of Queensland 1862 1899

Download or read book Reminiscences of Queensland 1862 1899 written by William Henry Corfield and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Reminiscences of Queensland 1862-1899 by William Henry Corfield

Book Triumph in the Tropics

Download or read book Triumph in the Tropics written by Raphael West Cilento and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P.101-104; Early missionary activities in Queensland; p.114; Poisoning of flour left to be stolen by Aborigines; p.151; Details of white men who have lived with natives; p.117; Account of the Aborigines - ecology, food - gathering economy, inventive ability; Early references to natives; Contact and conflict; Black War - Bunya festival described; Reasons for attacks from 1842 onwards; Specific incidents described; Native Mounted Police Force; Mestons report; p.188-9; Islanders of Torres Straits - early contacts; p.189; Government policy on Aborigines; Laws.

Book Taming the Great South Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : William J Lines
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1991-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520078307
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book Taming the Great South Land written by William J Lines and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taming the Great South Land is the first full-length landscape history of an entire continent occupied by one nation. It is also, in William Lines's telling, a brutal and controversial story. Examining the ways European society rapidly, radically transformed Australia's physical and human landscapes, the author writes candidly of repeated environmental devastation--from the early slaughter of seals and whales to the destructive spread of sheep, through gold rushes and land settlement to British nuclear tests and the modern mining and timber industries. Lines shows how Enlightenment ideas of progress, economic growth, and development were reconstructed on Australian soil, and how the promise of the conquest of nature became a mockery in fact, resulting in the mass dislocation and destruction of indigenous populations. This shocking narrative, thoroughly researched and accessibly written, combines environmental, social, and political history to hard-hitting effect. Taming the Great South Land is the first full-length landscape history of an entire continent occupied by one nation. It is also, in William Lines's telling, a brutal and controversial story. Examining the ways European society rapidly, radically transformed Australia's physical and human landscapes, the author writes candidly of repeated environmental devastation--from the early slaughter of seals and whales to the destructive spread of sheep, through gold rushes and land settlement to British nuclear tests and the modern mining and timber industries. Lines shows how Enlightenment ideas of progress, economic growth, and development were reconstructed on Australian soil, and how the promise of the conquest of nature became a mockery in fact, resulting in the mass dislocation and destruction of indigenous populations. This shocking narrative, thoroughly researched and accessibly written, combines environmental, social, and political history to hard-hitting effect.

Book Invasion and Resistance

Download or read book Invasion and Resistance written by Noel Loos and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Queensland has long been a frontier province of Aboriginal Australia. Well before Europeans penetrated to the south-west Pacific, the Torres Strait Islanders had regular and extensive contact with Aboriginal groups in Cape York Peninsula and the Dutch had visited the coast at intervals since 1606. Not till the coming of the white settler in the mid nineteenth century, however, did ‘invasion’ begin. When it did, the Aborigines were dispossessed of their land and, since in British eyes they had no title to it, resistance was considered a criminal activity. This book studies Aboriginal-European relations on four different frontiers of contact. Though the pastoral industry led to the colonisation of most of North Queensland other parts were also the scene of confrontation: the gold mines, the timber-getting areas of the rainforest which later were settled by farmers and the pearlshell and bêche-de-mer areas on the far north coast. In all areas, despite sometimes armed resistance by the Aborigines, the Europeans imposed their authority. This book has something challenging to say to all white Australians interested in the basic values on which their society is based and is an essential reference for Aborigines wanting to know how and why they were dispossessed.

Book Early Days in North Queensland

Download or read book Early Days in North Queensland written by Edward Palmer and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chap. 11; North Queensland Aborigines; Gulf country - raised sleeping benches, wet weather gunyahs; cave drawings near Cooktown, Roper R., ; Limmens Bight; canoes; black magic beliefs; astrology; cannibalism; Foods, fishing (Wide Bay); Class divisions of Yerunthully tribe.

Book Textual Spaces

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Muecke
  • Publisher : Kensington, NSW : New South Wales University Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Textual Spaces written by Stephen Muecke and published by Kensington, NSW : New South Wales University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the Aboriginal and European construction of meaning through modes of discourse and their textual forms; discourse analysis - anthropological (Berndt), romantic (Bates) and racist (Durack); physicality of text - bodily inscription, narrative (Paddy Roe), performance and memory; problem of authentic history - the story of Pigeon; structuralist and post-structuralist analysis of narrative - custodianship, history, Dreaming, speaking text; Aboriginal literature as political expression - criticism of repression/liberation dualism (Sally Morgan); legal and Aboriginal English; work of Rover Thomas, Sally Morgan and Jimmy Pike and versions of landscape; concepts of pan-Aboriginality (Yothu Yindi) and marginality in the post-modern.

Book Alluvial Mining

    Book Details:
  • Author : Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Great Britain)
  • Publisher : Elsevier Applied Science
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 624 pages

Download or read book Alluvial Mining written by Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Great Britain) and published by Elsevier Applied Science. This book was released on 1991 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book With the White People

Download or read book With the White People written by Henry Reynolds and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1990 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the aboriginal role in the exploration and development of Australia.; Includes: Exploration - Police (Black troopers) - Relationship with the European community - Work (Guides, servants, cooks etc.).

Book The Overlander Song Book

Download or read book The Overlander Song Book written by Ron Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book River of Gold

Download or read book River of Gold written by Hector Holthouse and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wild Days of the Palmer River Gold Rush What with cannibal blacks, pig-tailed Chinamen in thousands, lynch-law hangings, gambling dens, shanty towns, murders, grog-shops and Italian opera singers, the Palmer River Goldfields - properly spun out - should provide enough television material for general exhibition for the next ten years. This one book, River of Gold, could easily be used as the jumping-off ground for the lot. Read it with Hector Holthouse; he will be your guide; he has loved every minute of it, and so will you -Canberra Times The gold rush at Plamer River, on Cape York, lasted about seven years in the 1870s, but with 35,000 diggers it was this country's wildest while it lasted. Holthouse has researched the story of those days well to make a lively and very readable book. -The Bulletin

Book Samuel Walker Griffith

Download or read book Samuel Walker Griffith written by R. B. Joyce and published by St. Lucia, Queenlands ; New York : University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Queensland Government Mining Journal

Download or read book Queensland Government Mining Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Queensland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Raymond Evans
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2007-07-05
  • ISBN : 0521876923
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book A History of Queensland written by Raymond Evans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Queensland explores from the time of earliest human habitation up to the present.

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 Born in the Cattle

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann McGrath
  • Publisher : Allen & Unwin
  • Release : 1987-01-01
  • ISBN : 1742696589
  • Pages : 237 pages

Download or read book Born in the Cattle written by Ann McGrath and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aboriginal stockman in cowboy hat, brightly coloured shirt, jeans and riding boots, is a familiar sight in much of outback Australia. Yet, white Australia has largely excluded Aborigines - men and women - from its national legends. Born in the Cattle tells the story of Aboriginal involvement in the northern cattle industry. It shows how the Aboriginal people excelled at this 'no shame job', how they incorporated it into their world, how they used it to stay on their own land with their kin. Combining new skills with old, they shaped a unique Aboriginal cattle country - and thereby made a major contribution to the economy of Australia's north. Using oral evidence which enables Aboriginal perspectives to emerge in a way not previously possible, Born in the Cattle is a major work of social history, the first to describe the texture of everyday life and work in the outback north before World War II. The story begins with the battle for the waterholes, describes the skills the Aboriginal people brought to work with cattle, reveals for the first time the important role of Aboriginal women, and explores in a new way the complex pattern of relationships between white and black in the outback. 'To protect their country and its people, Aborigines had to teach station whites many things. Aborigines worked the stations; they managed the land in new ways, though following old principles. They have made the cattle industry their own; they are still the majority of those living on northern pastoral stations, and their dynamic culture leaves a distinctive mark on bush life...'