Author: Ralph Vincent Billis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Pastoral Pioneers of Port Phillip
Author: Ralph Vincent Billis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Limits of Hope
Author: Marilyn Lake
Publisher: Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Over 10,000 men, women, and children were placed on farms in Australia during the 1920s as part of the soldier plan after World War II. Of the 12,000 families settled in Victoria, a majority failed to establish themselves, and the cost of this ill-conceived plan was enormous, both to the people and the state. This innovative social history focuses on the experiences of the settlers as they struggled against appalling conditions to make ends meet and maintain their dignity.
Publisher: Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Over 10,000 men, women, and children were placed on farms in Australia during the 1920s as part of the soldier plan after World War II. Of the 12,000 families settled in Victoria, a majority failed to establish themselves, and the cost of this ill-conceived plan was enormous, both to the people and the state. This innovative social history focuses on the experiences of the settlers as they struggled against appalling conditions to make ends meet and maintain their dignity.
The Oxford Companion to Australian History
Author: Graeme Davison
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
"The Companion contains approximately 1600 entries, ranging from essays of up to 2000 words to succinct, factual entries of 100 words. There are entries on politicians, colonisers, visionaries, newspaper barons, industrialists, explorers, writers, artists, and scientists. All the most famous Australians appear in the Companion, including Don Bradman, Ned Kelly, John Curtin, Joan Sutherland, and Patrick White. There are entries on the states, key institutions, prominent families, and famous or infamous events, such as Gallipoli, the Dismissal, the Rum Rebellion, and the Waterloo Creek Massacre. There are numerous extended essays on key facets of our national life - political, social, cultural, scientific, military, and economic. Readers will find incisive entries on matters such as art, capital punishment, gambling, language, literature, military history, and republicanism."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
"The Companion contains approximately 1600 entries, ranging from essays of up to 2000 words to succinct, factual entries of 100 words. There are entries on politicians, colonisers, visionaries, newspaper barons, industrialists, explorers, writers, artists, and scientists. All the most famous Australians appear in the Companion, including Don Bradman, Ned Kelly, John Curtin, Joan Sutherland, and Patrick White. There are entries on the states, key institutions, prominent families, and famous or infamous events, such as Gallipoli, the Dismissal, the Rum Rebellion, and the Waterloo Creek Massacre. There are numerous extended essays on key facets of our national life - political, social, cultural, scientific, military, and economic. Readers will find incisive entries on matters such as art, capital punishment, gambling, language, literature, military history, and republicanism."--BOOK JACKET.
Yvain
Author: Chretien de Troyes
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300187580
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300187580
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.
The Lands Manual
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781875173037
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A guide of providing details of how to publish and broaden perspectives when writing local histories
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781875173037
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A guide of providing details of how to publish and broaden perspectives when writing local histories
Recollections of Squatting in Victoria
Author: Edward Micklethwaite Curr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Numerous accounts of contact with natives - Tongala Station (Goulburn R.) - attitude of settlers towards natives; Detailed account of Bangerang tribe marriage, food, hunting, cooking, types of ovens, laws, tribal & inter-tibal relationships, initiation, life cycle, camp life infanticide, tribal etiquette, fire making, mode of burial, physical & mental characteristics, courage; Plates : Aborigines on the Murray; A young native wearing an oppossum-skin cloak; Native of the Bogan; Maps: Squatters rungs in the 1840s; Early squatting rung in the Kilmore-Heathcote District; The Goulburn blacks tribal lands -- Maps show distribution of tribes and sections of Bangerang.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Numerous accounts of contact with natives - Tongala Station (Goulburn R.) - attitude of settlers towards natives; Detailed account of Bangerang tribe marriage, food, hunting, cooking, types of ovens, laws, tribal & inter-tibal relationships, initiation, life cycle, camp life infanticide, tribal etiquette, fire making, mode of burial, physical & mental characteristics, courage; Plates : Aborigines on the Murray; A young native wearing an oppossum-skin cloak; Native of the Bogan; Maps: Squatters rungs in the 1840s; Early squatting rung in the Kilmore-Heathcote District; The Goulburn blacks tribal lands -- Maps show distribution of tribes and sections of Bangerang.
General Report on the Eleventh Census of New South Wales
Author: New South Wales. Bureau of Statistics and Economics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New South Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New South Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Joseph Hawdon
Author: Brian Packard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646311906
Category : Colonists
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Biography of a drover and pastoralist who emigrated from Britain to Australia in 1834 and was instrumental in opening up grazing land in south-eastern Australia.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780646311906
Category : Colonists
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Biography of a drover and pastoralist who emigrated from Britain to Australia in 1834 and was instrumental in opening up grazing land in south-eastern Australia.
Arriving
Author: Richard Broome
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780949288011
Category : Victoria
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Migration means more than a shift from one place to another. It is an awesome uprooting from one's birthplace, home and culture which requires difficult, even painful adjustments from old ways to new. Over the last 150 years, almost two million people have immigrated permanently to Victoria, where they populated and changed the land, and were in turn affected by it. Long before this, unknown numbers of Indigenous Australians also moved here. "Arriving" tells the story of the various waves of newcomers to Victoria and explains why and how they came, and what became of them once here.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780949288011
Category : Victoria
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Migration means more than a shift from one place to another. It is an awesome uprooting from one's birthplace, home and culture which requires difficult, even painful adjustments from old ways to new. Over the last 150 years, almost two million people have immigrated permanently to Victoria, where they populated and changed the land, and were in turn affected by it. Long before this, unknown numbers of Indigenous Australians also moved here. "Arriving" tells the story of the various waves of newcomers to Victoria and explains why and how they came, and what became of them once here.
Our Australian Cousins
Author: James Inglis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Little mention of Aborigines.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Little mention of Aborigines.