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Book The Russians at Port Jackson  1814 1822

Download or read book The Russians at Port Jackson 1814 1822 written by Glynn Barratt and published by Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. This book was released on 1981 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnographic reports and comments on Aboriginal life and culture by naval officers; commentaries on Aboriginal artefacts held in the Miklukho-Maklay Institure of Anthropology and Ethnography, Leningrad; includes biographical and bibliographic material.

Book The Russians and Australia

Download or read book The Russians and Australia written by Glynn Barratt and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for his pioneering work on Russia's early exploits in Australia and the Pacific, historian Glynn Barratt again breaks new ground in presenting the first comprehensive study of Russian naval, social, mercantile, and scientific enterprise in New South Wales between 1807 and 1835.

Book Russian View of Honolulu  1809 1826

Download or read book Russian View of Honolulu 1809 1826 written by Glynn Barratt and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1988-09-15 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating eye-witness accounts of Honolulu in the early 19th century are collected in this book.

Book The Archaeology of Difference

Download or read book The Archaeology of Difference written by Anne Clarke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Archaeology of Difference presents a new and radically different perspective on the archaeology of cross-cultural contact and engagement. The authors move away from acculturation or domination and resistance and concentrate on interaction and negotiation by using a wide variety of case studies which take a crucially indigenous rather than colonial standpoint.

Book The Birth of Sydney

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tim Flannery
  • Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
  • Release : 2015-01-07
  • ISBN : 0802191088
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book The Birth of Sydney written by Tim Flannery and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the #1 international bestseller, The Weather Makers, provides a stunning portrait of Australia’s cultural capital. Sydney, Australia, is one of the world’s most beautiful and fascinating cities, home to over five million people and a popular tourist destination. In The Birth of Sydney, scientist and historian Tim Flannery blends the writings of Australian explorers, settlers, leaders, journalists, and visitors to construct a compelling narrative history of the great metropolis—from its founding as a remote penal colony of the British Empire in 1788 to its emergence as a vital trading power in the nineteenth century. Together, their voices and experiences create an unforgettable panoramic portrait of the early life of the majestic harbor city.

Book Pictorial History Eastern Suburbs

Download or read book Pictorial History Eastern Suburbs written by Alan Sharpe and published by Kingsclear Books Pty Ltd. This book was released on 1999 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Violence and Warfare among Hunter Gatherers

Download or read book Violence and Warfare among Hunter Gatherers written by Mark W Allen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did warfare originate? Was it human genetics? Social competition? The rise of complexity? Intensive study of the long-term hunter-gatherer past brings us closer to an answer. The original chapters in this volume examine cultural areas on five continents where there is archaeological, ethnographic, and historical evidence for hunter-gatherer conflict despite high degrees of mobility, small populations, and relatively egalitarian social structures. Their controversial conclusions will elicit interest among anthropologists, archaeologists, and those in conflict studies.

Book Empire of Political Thought

Download or read book Empire of Political Thought written by Bruce Buchan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book about how European colonists in Australia represented the Indigenous peoples they found there, and the tasks of governing them within the terms of Western political thought. It emphasises how the framework of ideas drawn from the traditions of Western political thought was employed in the imperial government of Indigenous peoples.

Book Sydney s Aboriginal Past

Download or read book Sydney s Aboriginal Past written by Val Attenbrow and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing the diversity of Aboriginal life in the Sydney region, this study examines a variety of source documents that discuss not only Aboriginal life before colonization in 1788 but also the early years of first contact. This is the only work to explore the minutiae of Sydney Aboriginal daily life, detailing the food they ate; the tools, weapons, and equipment they used; and the beliefs, ceremonial life, and rituals they practiced. This updated edition has been revised to include recent discoveries and the analyses of the past seven years, adding yet more value to this 2004 winner of the John Mulvaney award for best archaeology book from the Australian Archaeological Association. The inclusion of a special supplement that details the important sites in the Sydney region and how to access them makes the book especially appealing to those interested in visiting the sites.

Book Transgressions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ingereth Macfarlane
  • Publisher : ANU E Press
  • Release : 2007-12-01
  • ISBN : 1921313439
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Transgressions written by Ingereth Macfarlane and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume brings together an innovative set of readings of complex interactions between Australian Aboriginal people and colonisers. It has its origins in 2003 when Mark Hannah, then a doctoral student in the Centre for Cross Cultural Research at The Australian National University, invited a group of early career scholars to meet in Canberra. They brought their diverse social science and humanities backgrounds to the uncovering of creative Indigenous responses to the colonial encounter in Australia, and fresh ways of writing about these. Their studies were focused in diverse parts of Australia and on different time periods, but shared a common interest in developing critical re-assessments of Australian colonial and anti-colonial histories. Their meeting encouraged face-to-face exchanges that could short-circuit the isolation often experienced by cross-disciplinary, original scholars. It also emphasised writerly aspects of creative thinking, promoting the portrayal of character, alternative prose styles and inventive narrative forms. The authors' responses to these invitations have flavoured the commissioned papers presented here. The critical and creative drives which inform them shines out in their writing. They are exciting and sometimes surprising in the angles they take, and the cross-overs of genre or subject that they offer."--Provided by publisher.

Book Sydney Harbour

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian Hoskins
  • Publisher : UNSW Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1921410167
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Sydney Harbour written by Ian Hoskins and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1925 DH Lawrence described a huge, restless, modern Sydney, whose million inhabitants seem to slip like fishes from one side of the harbour to the other. What was true then had been the case for centuries before, and decades since. Explores the story of this great waterway.

Book The Archaeology of Rock Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Chippindale
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780521576192
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book The Archaeology of Rock Art written by Christopher Chippindale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictures, painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces, are amongst our loveliest relics from prehistory. This pioneering set of sparkling essays goes beyond guesses as to what the pictures mean, instead exploring how we can reliably learn from rock-art as a material record of distant times: in short, rock-art as archaeology. Sometimes contact-period records offer some direct insight about indigenous meaning, so we can learn in that informed way. More often, we have no direct record, and instead have to use formal methods to learn from the evidence of the pictures themselves. The book's eighteen papers range wide in space and time, from the Palaeolithic of Europe to nineteenth-century Australia. Using varied approaches within the consistent framework of informed and proven methods, they make key advances in using the striking and reticent evidence of rock-art to archaeological benefit.

Book The Russian Discovery of Hawai  i

Download or read book The Russian Discovery of Hawai i written by Glynn Barratt and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Australian Frontier Wars  1788 1838

Download or read book The Australian Frontier Wars 1788 1838 written by John Connor and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is a comprehensive military history of frontier conflict in Australia. Covering the first 50 years of British occupation in Australia, the book examines in detail how both sides fought on the frontier and examines how Aborigines developed a form of warfare differing from tradition.

Book A Military History of Victoria  Australia 1803 1945

Download or read book A Military History of Victoria Australia 1803 1945 written by Bob Marmion and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a case study of possibly the most complex defensive system in Australia between 1803 and 1945. Defending Victoria was such a wide ranging and demanding task that the colony, and later the state, of Victoria was known as the Gibraltar of the South. This book fills a major gap in Australian military and naval history. Using Victoria as a case study, the book shows how defence developed from the idea of a basic sand fort emanating from a fear of French invasion during the early 19th century, into a complex, modern three-dimensional defensive system incorporating air, land and sea defences as well as radar and secret defence technology by the 1940s. The book is not a simple narration of facts and events, but a substantial addition to Australian military history, on account of its extensive analysis of the political, social, economic and technological factors which impacted defence over many decades of the 19th century.

Book Science  Empire and the European Exploration of the Pacific

Download or read book Science Empire and the European Exploration of the Pacific written by Tony Ballantyne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays assesses the interrelationship between exploration, empire-building and science in the opening up of the Pacific Ocean by Europeans between the early 16th and mid-19th century. It explores both the role of various sciences in enabling European imperial projects in the region, and how the exploration of the Pacific in turn shaped emergent scientific disciplines and their claims to authority within Europe. Drawing on a range of disciplines (from the history of science to geography, imperial history to literary criticism), this volume examines the place of science in cross-cultural encounters, the history of cartography in Oceania, shifting understandings of race and cultural difference in the Pacific, and the place of ships, books and instruments in the culture of science. It reveals the exchanges and networks that connected British, French, Spanish and Russian scientific traditions, even in the midst of imperial competition, and the ways in which findings in diverse fields, from cartography to zoology, botany to anthropology, were disseminated and crafted into an increasingly coherent image of the Pacific, its resources, peoples, and histories. This is a significant body of scholarship that offers many important insights for anthropologists and geographers, as well as for historians of science and European imperialism.

Book King Plates

Download or read book King Plates written by Jakelin Troy and published by Aboriginal Studies Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descriptions and illustrations of gorgets (breastplates) held by the National Museum of Australia; history of king plates; list of references to Aboriginal people wearing gorgets and known Aboriginal gorgets.