Download or read book A Peculiar People written by Gavin Souter and published by Xoum Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1893 almost 500 Australians set out by ship to plant a communist utopia in the heart of Paraguay. Led by socialist journalist and activist, William Lane, their aim was to realise the cherished Australian principles of equality and mateship. It was not to be. Expulsions and secessions began early; in mid-1894 Lane himself seceded with a loyal minority and founded Cosme, some forty-five miles south of the original settlement, but two years later the new colony had deteriorated and dwindled. Acclaimed historian Gavin Souter unravels the history of the New Australia movement, exploring the motivations and motives of its members, its organisation, the conflicts and dissension and the final disillusionment. He suggests a number of factors contributing to the venture’s failure, not the least being William Lane’s contradictory personality. Meticulously researched and based on countless interviews with descendants of the original settlers, A Peculiar People is a work of literary as well as historical value. Winner of the Foundation of Australian Literary Studies award, it brings the fascinating story of idealism, courage and human fallibility to vivid life. Reviews of A Peculiar People ‘The most complete, objective and altogether satisfying account – by turns ironic, sardonic, compassionate, frequently evocative and finally haunting.’ Australian Book Review ‘An excellent book, lively in its narrative and judicious in its interpretations.’ The Age ‘Souter … writes with admirable clarity and can make a story, period and cast of people come alive – exciting, absurd and gallant by turns.’ The Bulletin
Download or read book Ticket to Paradise written by Ben Stubbs and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wilds of Paraguay live blue-eyed South Americans with surnames like Smith and McCreen. This is the intriguing story of their ancestors, an idealistic Australian journalist called William Lane, and a colony called New Australia. In 1893, Australian journalist William Lane dreamed of creating a utopia where his socialist ideals could flourish, far away from his home in Queensland. He enlisted 238 followers and convinced them to sail across the Pacific with him to Paraguay, where he intended to create a paradise where brotherhood would be the order of the day and where hard work would reap its own rewards. And then reality set in. Expecting green and fertile fields, the New Australians found instead a dustbowl; expecting wine, women and song, they realised that their leader wanted them to remain abstemious and monogamous. this was not paradise but a kind of hell and Lane woudl face open rebellion from his followers. In 2010, Australian travel writer Ben Stubbs made his own trek to the wilds of central Paraguay to discover the remnants of New Australia and to search out the stories of those who stayed behind. He discovers a series of utopian colonies, including New Japan and New Germany, and their inhabitants, who lead strange double lives, caught between the countries they think of as home and the one they live in every day. Funny, unexpected and fascinating, this is an adventure travel story with a difference.
Download or read book The Australian Colony in Paraguay written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Paraguay written by Great Britain. Foreign Office and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Australia Colony Paraguay written by Gilbert Casey and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lane s Utopia written by H. G. Greenway and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Manuscript of "A few memories of the past from Paraguay" (38p.) signed S.D.Y.? Greenway; 2. Transcript of Communism in practice: how a colony fared in Paraguay" (4p.); 3. Typescript of "Lane's utopia" (4p.); 4. "Notes from the Colonia Nueva Australia" (copied from the originals in April 1926), signed H.W. Greenway; 5. May 1898 issue of Cosme monthly from Colonia Cosme, Paraguay (signed by H.G. Greenway); 6. Notes and currency.
Download or read book Paraguay written by Great Britain. Foreign Office and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ticket to Paradise written by Ben Stubbs and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wilds of Paraguay live blue-eyed South Americans with surnames like Smith and McCreen. This is the intriguing story of their ancestors, an idealistic Australian journalist called William Lane, and a colony called New Australia. In 1893, Australian journalist William Lane dreamed of creating a Utopia where his socialist ideals could flourish, far away from his home in Queensland. He enlisted 238 followers and convinced them to sail across the Pacific with him to Paraguay, where he intended to create a paradise where brotherhood would be the order of the day and where hard work would reap its own rewards. And then reality set in. Expecting green and fertile fields, the New Australians found instead a dustbowl; expecting wine, women and song, they realised that their leader wanted them to remain abstemious and monogamous. this was not paradise but a kind of hell and Lane would face open rebellion from his followers. In 2010, Australian travel writer Ben Stubbs made his own trek to the wilds of central Paraguay to discover the remnants of New Australia and to search out the stories of those who stayed behind. He discovers a series of Utopian colonies, including New Japan and New Germany, and their inhabitants, who lead strange double lives, caught between the countries they think of as home and the one they live in every day. Funny, unexpected and fascinating, this is an adventure travel story with a difference.
Download or read book Paraguay written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Paradise Mislaid written by Anne Whitehead and published by ISBS. This book was released on 1997 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Download or read book Australia s Forgotten Soldiers from Paraguay written by Robert Barnes and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quarter of a century ago a large number of people left Australia with the idea of foundling a New Australia a communistic paradise in the wilds of Paraguay, in South Am3erica (states The Diggers' Gazette). The attempt was a disastrous failure, but it is interesting to learn that the half-dozen families still left of the original settlers at Colonia Cosme sent 14 volunteers to the war practically every fit man. One was 56 years old , and others were so young when they left Australia that they could not remember it at all. And they had to travel a thousand miles, presumably at their own expense, to reach the coast at Buenos Ayres. Probably this fine result was due to a survival of the influence of William Lane, the founder of the colony, who was always a strongly British in sentiment, lost a son in the war., and was largely instrumental, as editor of a daily newspaper in New Zealand, in getting compulsory service adopted there.
Download or read book Women of The Workingman s Paradise written by Anne Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exiled Among Nations written by John P. R. Eicher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how religious migrants engage with the phenomenon of nationalism, through two groups of German-speaking Mennonites.
Download or read book Fruitlands written by Richard Francis and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a definitive account of Fruitlands, one of history's most unsuccessful, but most significant, utopian experiments. It was established in Massachusetts in 1843 by Bronson Alcott (whose ten year old daughter Louisa May, future author of Little Women, was among the members) and an Englishman called Charles Lane, under the watchful gaze of Emerson, Thoreau, and other New England intellectuals. Alcott and Lane developed their own version of the doctrine known as Transcendentalism, hoping to transform society and redeem the environment through a strict regime of veganism and celibacy. But physical suffering and emotional conflict, particularly between Lane and Alcott's wife, Abigail, made the community unsustainable. Drawing on the letters and diaries of those involved, the author explores the relationship between the complex philosophical beliefs held by Alcott, Lane, and their fellow idealists and their day to day lives. The result is a vivid and often very funny narrative of their travails, demonstrating the dilemmas and conflicts inherent to any utopian experiment and shedding light on a fascinating period of American history.
Download or read book The Workingman s Paradise written by John Miller and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is very useful for those wishing to understand the context of the rise of the union movement in Australia. The Workingman's Paradise is set in the context of the defeat of the shearers' and maritime workers' strikes of the early 1890s.
Download or read book Immigrant Group Settlements in Paraguay written by Joseph Winfield Fretz and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
