Download or read book Colonial Settlers on the River Torrens written by Roger Irvine and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kaurna people lived peacefully and productively along the River Torrens, or Karrawirra Parri, for millennia. This book describes their way of life and their displacement by the first generation of European settlers. The outstanding achievement of the settlers on the upper Torrens was the contribution they made to the development of horticulture. They transitioned from grains and livestock to producing huge quantities of melons and an impressive diversity of fruits, vines and vegetables. Roger Irvine details the lives of these settler families, including notables such as Charles Campbell who gave his name to 'Campbell Town', Joseph Ind whose property 'Little Paradise' provided a name for another suburb, and A.J. Murray who chose 'Athelstone' as the name of his farm, for reasons now difficult to trace. The inhabitants of the upper Torrens have witnessed many changes, including both setbacks and successes. Colonial Settlers on the River Torrens reflects on an area that has had many incarnations, and the river that continues to flow through it.
Download or read book Early Experiences of Colonial Life in South Australia written by John Wrathall Bull and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent written by Beate Neumeier and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecocritical Concerns and the Australian Continent investigates literary, historical, anthropological, and linguistic perspectives in connection with activist engagements. The necessary cross-fertilization between these different perspectives throughout this volume emerges in the resonances between essays exploring recurring concerns ranging from biodiversity and preservation policies to the devastating effects of the mining industries, to present concerns and futuristic visions of the effects of climate change. Of central concern in all of these contexts is the impact of settler colonialism and an increasing turn to indigenous knowledge systems. A number of chapters engage with questions of ecological imperialism in relation to specific sociohistorical moments and effects, probing early colonial encounters between settlers and indigenous people, or rereading specific forms of colonial literature. Other essays take issue with past and present constructions of indigeneity in different contexts, as well as with indigenous resistance against such ascriptions, while the importance of an understanding of indigenous notions of “care for country” is taken up from a variety of different disciplinary angles in terms of interconnectedness, anchoredness, living country, and living heritage.
Download or read book The Early History of South Australia written by John Blacket and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Foundation and Settlement of South Australia 1829 1845 written by Archibald Grenfell Price and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Foundation and Settlement of South Australia 1829 1945 written by Archibald Grenfell Price and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paradise of Dissent South Australia 1829 1857 written by Douglas Pike and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A intriguing and comprehensive history describes the growth of South Australia from 1829 when it was born in the imagination of liberal theorists in England, to 1857 when the colony became self-governing. It is a pioneering book about pioneers.
Download or read book A South Australian Romance written by John Blacket and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The foundation of this Colony [South Australia], and the formation of the Methodist Church therein, run parallel. They are strangely interlinked ... It is our intention to give - not an up-to-date history of the Colony, nor of the Church, but a vivid picture of early colonial life, and of the romantic circumstances under which a Church was formed and the pleasing rate at which it grew." From Chapter One Introductory
Download or read book Early Experiences of Life in South Australia written by John Wrathall Bull and published by Adelaide : E.S.Wigg ; London : S.Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington. This book was released on 1884 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pioneer Settlement written by American Geographical Society of New York and published by Freeport, N.Y : Books for Libraries Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Settler Society in the Australian Colonies written by Angela Woollacott and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the rising numbers of free settlers from the 1820s to the 1860s, their dependence on Aboriginal, immigrant, and convict under-paid laborers, and the slow development of representative government.
Download or read book Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia written by South Australia. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maritime Animals written by Kaori Nagai and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores nonhuman animals’ involvement with human maritime activities in the age of sail—as well as the myriad multispecies connections formed across different geographical locations knitted together by the long history of global ship movement. Far from treating the ship as a confined space defined by the sea, Maritime Animals considers the ship’s connections to broader contexts and networks and covers a variety of locations, from the Canadian Arctic to the Pacific Islands. Each chapter focuses on the oceanic experiences of a particular species, from ship vermin, animals transported onboard as food, and animal specimens for scientific study to livestock, companion and working animals, deep-sea animals that find refuge in shipwrecks, and terrestrial animals that hunker down on flotsam and jetsam. Drawing on recent scholarship in animal studies, maritime studies, environmental humanities, and a wide range of other perspectives and storytelling approaches, Maritime Animals challenges an anthropocentric understanding of maritime history. Instead, this volume highlights the ways in which species, through their interaction with the oceans, tell stories and make histories in significant and often surprising ways. In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume include Anna Boswell, Nancy Cushing, Lea Edgar, David Haworth, Donna Landry, Derek Lee Nelson, Jimmy Packham, Laurence Publicover, Killian Quigley, Lynette Russell, Adam Sundberg, and Thom van Dooren.
Download or read book Rose Summerfield Australian Radical written by Steve J. Shone and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose Summerfield: Australian Radical outlines the largely forgotten achievements of this overlooked labor union activist and socialist sympathetic to anarchist, feminist, and secularist ideas: a dynamic speaker, who eventually emigrated to Paraguay to live on a utopian commune called Cosme. In this first book-length study of Summerfield, Shone supplements existing scholarship with new information, revealing to a much fuller extent Summerfield’s contributions to radical thought, documenting the substantial scope of her contributions to women’s rights activism in New South Wales in the 1890s, a topic that has previously been almost completely ignored.
Download or read book Mary Thomas written by Beth Duncan and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1836 Mary Thomas, aged 49, abandoned her comfortable life and home in London for a tent in the sandhills of Holdfast Bay. This is the story of her struggle to hold her family together through controversies and conflicts, economic difficulties and tragedy; a tale of endurance and ultimately of triumph against the odds.
Download or read book Why Australia Prospered written by Ian W. McLean and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Why Australia Prospered is a fascinating historical examination of how Australia cultivated and sustained economic growth and success. Beginning with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth century, Ian McLean argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity across nearly two centuries was reached and maintained by several shifting factors. These included imperial policies, favorable demographic characteristics, natural resource abundance, institutional adaptability and innovation, and growth-enhancing policy responses to major economic shocks, such as war, depression, and resource discoveries. Natural resource abundance in Australia played a prominent role in some periods and faded during others, but overall, and contrary to the conventional view of economists, it was a blessing rather than a curse. McLean shows that Australia's location was not a hindrance when the international economy was centered in the North Atlantic, and became a positive influence following Asia's modernization. Participation in the world trading system, when it flourished, brought significant benefits, and during the interwar period when it did not, Australia's protection of domestic manufacturing did not significantly stall growth. McLean also considers how the country's notorious origins as a convict settlement positively influenced early productivity levels, and how British imperial policies enhanced prosperity during the colonial period. He looks at Australia's recent resource-based prosperity in historical perspective, and reveals striking elements of continuity that have underpinned the evolution of the country's economy since the nineteenth century.
Download or read book History of Australian Land Settlement 1788 1920 written by Stephen Henry Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
