Author: Eric B. Whitehouse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
This collection of reproductions of old maps provides detailed annotations for each map, and information about the author's search for maps in various parts of the world. Presents a case for re-examining the accepted versions of the discovery of Australia. Includes a timeline of ancient documents and an index.
Australia in Old Maps, 820 to 1770
Author: Eric B. Whitehouse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
This collection of reproductions of old maps provides detailed annotations for each map, and information about the author's search for maps in various parts of the world. Presents a case for re-examining the accepted versions of the discovery of Australia. Includes a timeline of ancient documents and an index.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
This collection of reproductions of old maps provides detailed annotations for each map, and information about the author's search for maps in various parts of the world. Presents a case for re-examining the accepted versions of the discovery of Australia. Includes a timeline of ancient documents and an index.
European Perceptions of Terra Australis
Author: Alfred Hiatt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317139453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Terra Australis - the southern land - was one of the most widespread concepts in European geography from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, although the notion of a land mass in the southern seas had been prevalent since classical antiquity. Despite this fact, there has been relatively little sustained scholarly work on European concepts of Terra Australis or the intellectual background to European voyages of discovery and exploration to Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through interdisciplinary scholarly contributions, ranging across history, the visual arts, literature and popular culture, this volume considers the continuities and discontinuities between the imagined space of Terra Australis and its subsequent manifestation. It will shed new light on familiar texts, people and events - such as the Dutch and French explorations of Australia, the Batavia shipwreck and the Baudin expedition - by setting them in unexpected contexts and alongside unfamiliar texts and people. The book will be of interest to, among others, intellectual and cultural historians, literary scholars, historians of cartography, the visual arts, women's and post-colonial studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317139453
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Terra Australis - the southern land - was one of the most widespread concepts in European geography from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, although the notion of a land mass in the southern seas had been prevalent since classical antiquity. Despite this fact, there has been relatively little sustained scholarly work on European concepts of Terra Australis or the intellectual background to European voyages of discovery and exploration to Australia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through interdisciplinary scholarly contributions, ranging across history, the visual arts, literature and popular culture, this volume considers the continuities and discontinuities between the imagined space of Terra Australis and its subsequent manifestation. It will shed new light on familiar texts, people and events - such as the Dutch and French explorations of Australia, the Batavia shipwreck and the Baudin expedition - by setting them in unexpected contexts and alongside unfamiliar texts and people. The book will be of interest to, among others, intellectual and cultural historians, literary scholars, historians of cartography, the visual arts, women's and post-colonial studies.
The Mapping of Terra Australis
Author: Robert Clancy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
A guide to early printed maps of Australia, Antarctica and the South Pacific.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
A guide to early printed maps of Australia, Antarctica and the South Pacific.
Australian Maps
Author:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Italians in Australia
Author: Gianfranco Cresciani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521537780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This 2003 book brings to life the important story of the Italo-Australian community.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521537780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This 2003 book brings to life the important story of the Italo-Australian community.
The Founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Oceania, 1825 to 1850
Author: Ralph M. Wiltgen
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1608995364
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 639
Book Description
The Founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Oceania, 1825-1850 is the first detailed and documentary history of the seminal period of Roman Catholic missionary activity. Beginning with the founding of the Prefecture Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands in 1825 there was continued development in Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia for the next quarter century. By 1850 this vast area of the South Seas could boast of one archdiocese, eight dioceses, and eight vicariates apostolic. This lively, dramatic narrative is told largely through the words of the participants drawn from diaries, documents, and letters found in the archives of the Vatican and several religious orders. The comprehensive tale ranges from the politics of the Vatican to sufferings on outpost islands. The focus of attention shifts from Rome to Paris, Valparaiso, Sydney, Honiara, Auckland, and many other places, in a study of men and institutions, faith and emotion, rivalries and confusions, murder and annexation, God and mammon. Originally published in 1979, this important historical study had been out of print and virtually unavailable for many years until this new edition was completed.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1608995364
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 639
Book Description
The Founding of the Roman Catholic Church in Oceania, 1825-1850 is the first detailed and documentary history of the seminal period of Roman Catholic missionary activity. Beginning with the founding of the Prefecture Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands in 1825 there was continued development in Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia for the next quarter century. By 1850 this vast area of the South Seas could boast of one archdiocese, eight dioceses, and eight vicariates apostolic. This lively, dramatic narrative is told largely through the words of the participants drawn from diaries, documents, and letters found in the archives of the Vatican and several religious orders. The comprehensive tale ranges from the politics of the Vatican to sufferings on outpost islands. The focus of attention shifts from Rome to Paris, Valparaiso, Sydney, Honiara, Auckland, and many other places, in a study of men and institutions, faith and emotion, rivalries and confusions, murder and annexation, God and mammon. Originally published in 1979, this important historical study had been out of print and virtually unavailable for many years until this new edition was completed.
Our Multicultural Heritage, 1788-1945
Author: National Library of Australia
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 9780642106407
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 9780642106407
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Bibliographic Guide to Maps and Atlases
Author:
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Category : Maps
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Maps
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Skin, Kin and Clan
Author: Patrick McConvell
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760461644
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
Australia is unique in the world for its diverse and interlocking systems of Indigenous social organisation. On no other continent do we see such an array of complex and contrasting social arrangements, coordinated through a principle of 'universal kinship' whereby two strangers meeting for the first time can recognise one another as kin. For some time, Australian kinship studies suffered from poor theorisation and insufficient aggregation of data. The large-scale AustKin project sought to redress these problems through the careful compilation of kinship information. Arising from the project, this book presents recent original research by a range of authors in the field on the kinship and social category systems in Australia. A number of the contributions focus on reconstructing how these systems originated and developed over time. Others are concerned with the relationship between kinship and land, the semantics of kin terms and the dynamics of kin interactions.
Publisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760461644
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
Australia is unique in the world for its diverse and interlocking systems of Indigenous social organisation. On no other continent do we see such an array of complex and contrasting social arrangements, coordinated through a principle of 'universal kinship' whereby two strangers meeting for the first time can recognise one another as kin. For some time, Australian kinship studies suffered from poor theorisation and insufficient aggregation of data. The large-scale AustKin project sought to redress these problems through the careful compilation of kinship information. Arising from the project, this book presents recent original research by a range of authors in the field on the kinship and social category systems in Australia. A number of the contributions focus on reconstructing how these systems originated and developed over time. Others are concerned with the relationship between kinship and land, the semantics of kin terms and the dynamics of kin interactions.
Saint Peter and the Vatican
Author: Allen Duston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description