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Book Westralian Portraits

Download or read book Westralian Portraits written by Lyall J. Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles by N.J. Green, R. Davidson, G. Russo, S.T. Woenne and H. Dent & G. Hawker separately annotated.

Book Westralian Voices

Download or read book Westralian Voices written by Marian Aveling and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Article by L. Stevenson and C.T. Stannage separately annotated.

Book The Workshops

Download or read book The Workshops written by Patrick Bertola and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March of 1994, the state government of Western Australia closed the Government Railway Workshop at Midland, amidst widespread community outrage. This volume records the history of this important industrial facility.

Book Forest Family

    Book Details:
  • Author : John C. Ryan
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2018-06-12
  • ISBN : 9004368655
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Forest Family written by John C. Ryan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forest Family highlights the importance of the old-growth forests of Southwest Australia to art, culture, history, politics, and community identity. The volume weaves together the natural and cultural histories of Southwest eucalypt forests, spanning pre-settlement, colonial, and contemporary periods. The contributors critique a range of content including historical documents, music, novels, paintings, performances, photography, poetry, and sculpture representing ancient Australian forests. Forest Family centers on the relationship between old-growth nature and human culture through the narrative strand of the Giblett family of Western Australia and the forests in which they settled during the nineteenth century. The volume will be of interest to general readers of environmental history, as well as scholars in critical plant studies and the environmental humanities.

Book Unfinished Voyages

Download or read book Unfinished Voyages written by Graeme Henderson and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable guide for maritime archeologists, recreational divers, historians and others interested in the drama adventure and romance of Western Australia's rich maritime history.

Book Western Australian Art and Artists  1900 1950

Download or read book Western Australian Art and Artists 1900 1950 written by Janda Gooding and published by Western Australia State Government. This book was released on 1987 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tales from Boomtown

Download or read book Tales from Boomtown written by Peter Kennedy and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals first-hand the issues linked with changes to the social fabric of Australia; the jailing of two Premiers and a deputy Premier; the ruthless removal of a Premier mid-term; the election of the nation's first female Premier, and the sensational 'WA Inc' Royal Commission. Many interviews were conducted, including those of key national figures to make this account of how the boom-bust West was led into its status as an economic powerhous of the twenty first century.

Book Between Duty and Design

Download or read book Between Duty and Design written by John J. Taylor and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. The architectural work of Joseph John Talbot Hobbs is impossible to overlook in Perth and Western Australia. It dominates public spaces as well as domestic and business streetscapes. A strong sense of duty determined that the diminutive fifty-year-old architect-soldier J.J. Talbot Hobbs would in 1914 voyage to the First World War, where he survived the horrors of Gallipoli and the Western Front. Hobbs' powerful organisational skills positioned him as Australia's highest ranking soldier in Europe after the Great War. Organiser of Australian war memorials in France and Belgium, his stellar designs both there and throughout Western Australia are now largely forgotten. Who was J.J. Talbot Hobbs that he was considered to be of such importance at the time of his death that a memorial was built in one of the most prominent places in the state's capital city of Perth? Between Duty and Design is a meticulous biography of the man: soldier and architect, highlighting his place as a citizen of national importance.

Book Nugget Coombs

Download or read book Nugget Coombs written by Tim Rowse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2002 biography of H. C. 'Nugget' Coombs, one of the most influential Australians of the twentieth century.

Book Myths and Memories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cindy Lane
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2015-02-27
  • ISBN : 1443875791
  • Pages : 367 pages

Download or read book Myths and Memories written by Cindy Lane and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the perceptions of European travelling writers about southern Western Australia between 1850 and 1914. Theirs was a narrow vision of space and people in the region, shaped by their individual personalities, their position in society, and the prevailing discourses and ideologies of the age. Christian, Enlightenment, and Romantic philosophies had a major influence on their responses to the land – its cultivation and conservation, and its aesthetic qualities – and on their views of both indigenous and settler colonial society – their class and assumptions of race and ethnicity. The travelling men and women perpetuated an idealised view of a colonised landscape, and a “pioneer” community that eliminated class struggle and inequality, even though an analysis of their observations suggests otherwise. Nevertheless, although limited, their narratives are invaluable as a reflection of opinions, attitudes and knowledge prevalent during an age of imperialism. Their perspectives reveal unique viewpoints that differ from those of immigrants who wrote about their hopes and fears in making a new life for themselves. These travellers were economically secure, literate and educated; foundations which provide an insight into the way power and privilege, implicit in their writings, governed the way they imagined Western Australia in the colonial and immediate post-federation period. The tinted lenses through which European travelling writers narrowly observed space and people, presented a mythical, imagined sense of southern Western Australia.

Book Aborigines of the West

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ronald Murray Berndt
  • Publisher : Nedlands [Australia] : University of Western Australia Press for the Education Committee of the 150th Anniversary Celebrations ; Forest Grove, Ore : Agent U.S.A., International Scholarly Book Service
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 564 pages

Download or read book Aborigines of the West written by Ronald Murray Berndt and published by Nedlands [Australia] : University of Western Australia Press for the Education Committee of the 150th Anniversary Celebrations ; Forest Grove, Ore : Agent U.S.A., International Scholarly Book Service. This book was released on 1979 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers by K. Akerman, C.H. Berndt, R.M. Berndt, W.J.K. Christensen, K. Colbung, I.M. Crawford, J. Davis, W.H. Douglas, A.P. Elkin, D.A. Gray, M.C. George, R.K. Green, M.C. Howard, S. Kaldor, I. Malcolm, E. Kolig, T.J.N. Long, R. McKeich, R.F. Morland, K.R. McKelson, C.F. Makin, S.J. Meagher, W.D.L. Ride, C.D. Metcalfe, C.F. Mounsey, M.L. OBrien, H. Petri, M.V. Robinson, B.C. Shaw, J.L. Sherwood, J.E. Stanton, R. Tonkinson, K.C. Truscott, E.G. Vaszolyi, J.M. Wilson, M.J. Winch, S.T. Woenne, B.J. Wright, separately annotated.

Book  It s Still in My Heart this is My Country

Download or read book It s Still in My Heart this is My Country written by John Thomas Host and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepared as expert evidence in the Single Noongar Claim, examines the historiography and anthropology of the South-west, and the survival of Noongar tradition, law and custom, and oral history.

Book A Community Enterprise

    Book Details:
  • Author : Malcolm Tull
  • Publisher : Liverpool University Press
  • Release : 2017-10-18
  • ISBN : 1786949245
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book A Community Enterprise written by Malcolm Tull and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume concerns the history of the Australian port of Fremantle, located on the edge of Western Australia and the Indian Ocean, throughout the hundred years of frequent changes to its structure and function between 1897 and 1997. Tull’s aim is to use Fremantle as a prime example of the complex network of a Port, as a community and a place of vast and varied maritime business endeavours. He seeks to erase the perception of ports as ‘passive links in the international transport chain’ in order to draw ports to the attention and further research of maritime historians. The chapters are arranged thematically rather than chronologically, and includes statistical appendices, a bibliography, and an index, for ease of navigation.

Book Geographers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick H. Armstrong
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2015-12-14
  • ISBN : 1474226914
  • Pages : 213 pages

Download or read book Geographers written by Patrick H. Armstrong and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annual collection of studies of individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from all parts of the world, and include famous names as well as those less well known: explorers, independent thinkers and scholars. Each paper describes the geographer's education, life and work and discusses their influence and spread of academic ideas. Each study includes a select bibliography and brief chronology. The work includes a general index and a cumulative index of geographers listed in volumes published to date.

Book The British Australasian and New Zealand Mail

Download or read book The British Australasian and New Zealand Mail written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fuss that Never Ended

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deborah Gare
  • Publisher : Melbourne University Publish
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780522850345
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book The Fuss that Never Ended written by Deborah Gare and published by Melbourne University Publish. This book was released on 2003 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is time to reassess the work of Geoffrey Blainey, and consider his role in Australian history, politics and public life. Geoffrey Blainey has steered Australian history into the nation's conversation. No one would dispute that he is a courageous public intellectual, a writer of rare grace and a master storyteller. And he has indeed provoked a rare fuss, both public and professional, with some of his comments on Asian immigration and Aboriginal land rights. Blainey has challenged the academic history profession, not only with his ideas but also by his practice. A brilliant student, he looked set for Oxford but chose instead the austere west coast of Tasmania for his postgraduate research. For the next decade he earned a living with his pen. And instead of political history in the traditional academic mould, he wrote corporate histories that dispensed with footnotes. Always probing and speculative, Blainey has dislodged many of the keystones in our understandings of Australia's past. He was one of the first to write about the expansive social history of this land before 1788; he questioned whether Botany Bay was founded primarily as a convict colony; he argued that the Eureka uprising had economic rather than political causes; and he identified sport as a neglected key to the Australian character. His controversial views earned such newspaper headlines as 'Brave Man Set Upon by Thugs for Telling Truth'. In The Fuss That Never Ended a lively and distinguished assembly of fellow historiansandmdash;of various ages, interests and political stancesandmdash;take a fresh look at Blainey's remarkable and sometimes controversial career.

Book The Official Guide to Western Australia

Download or read book The Official Guide to Western Australia written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: