Download or read book The Lives and Legacies of a Carceral Island written by Ann Curthoys and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a biographical history of Rottnest Island, a small carceral island offshore from Western Australia. Rottnest is also known as Wadjemup, or "the place across the water where the spirits are", by Noongar, the Indigenous people of south-western Australia. Through a series of biographical case studies of the diverse individuals connected to the island, the book argues that their particular histories lend Rottnest Island a unique heritage in which ​Indigenous, maritime, imperial, colonial, penal, and military histories intersect with histories of leisure and recreation. Tracing the way in which Wadjemup/Rottnest Island has been continually re-imagined and re-purposed throughout its history, the text explores the island’s carceral history, which has left behind it a painful community memory. Today it is best known as a beach holiday destination, a reputation bolstered by the "quokka selfie" trend, the online posting of photographs taken with the island’s cute native marsupial. This book will appeal to academic readers with an interest in Australian history, Aboriginal history, and the history of the British Empire, especially those interested in the burgeoning scholarship on the concept of "carceral archipelagos" and island prisons.

Download or read book Imperial Theory and Colonial Pragmatism written by David J. Gilchrist and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the role played by co-operative agriculture as a critical economic model which, in Australia, helped build public capital, drive economic development and impact political arrangements. In the case of colonial Western Australia, the story of agricultural co-operation is inseparable from that of the story of Charles Harper. Harper was a self-starting, pioneering frontiersman who became a political, commercial and agricultural leader in the British Empire’s most isolated colony during the second half of the Victorian era. He was convinced of the successful economic future of Western Australia but also pragmatic enough to appreciate that the unique challenges facing the colony were only going to be resolved by the application of unorthodox thinking. Using Harper’s life as a foil, this book examines Imperial economic thinking in relation to the co-operative form of economic organisation, the development of public capital, and socialism. It uses this discussion to demonstrate the transfer of socialistic ideas from the centre of the Empire to the farthest reaches of the Antipodes where they were used to provide a rhetorical crutch in support of purely pragmatic co-operative establishments.

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Download or read book Reminiscences of Fifty Years Residence in Western Australia written by J. T. Reilly and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Norcia Mission; treatment of Aborigines at Broome; conflict between settlers and Aborigines; the native question; Beagle Bay Mission established at King Sound; Aborigines Protection Board; provisions for Aborigines in W.A. Constitution; Royal Commission on native welfare proposed.

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Download or read book The Brand on His Coat written by Rica Erickson and published by Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press ; Beaverton, Or. : International Scholarly Book Services. This book was released on 1983 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies of selected convicts transported to Western Australia between 1850 and 1868 ; references to contact with Aboriginal people.

Download or read book History of West Australia written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P.19-30; Physical & mental characteristics; common origin of dialects; clothing & scarification; decorations of the Ngurla tribe; general beliefs (Perth area); marriage; shelters & huts; corroborees, body painting for ceremonies; general life, hunting, etc, making of weirs; cave paintings (upper Glenelg River & York district); burial; (mainly quotes Grey); p.81-101; Native strife & progressive incidents, 1833-35 Conflicting sentiments regarding natives; King Georges Sound & Swan River natives in affray; crimes committed; story of Yagan; place names around Perth; depredations, treatment of natives.

Download or read book Dictionary of Western Australians written by Rica Erickson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third volume in the Dictionary of Western Australians, and covers the period of 1829 to 1888.

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