Author: Lorinda Cramer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350069647
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 335
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In gold-rush Australia, social identity was in flux: gold promised access to fashionable new clothes, a grand home, and the goods to furnish it, but could not buy gentility. Needlework and Women's Identity in Colonial Australia explores how the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters who migrated to the newly formed colony of Victoria used their needle skills as a powerful claim to social standing. Focusing on one of women's most common daily tasks, the book examines how needlework's practice and products were vital in the contest for social position in the turmoil of the first two decades of the Victorian rush from 1851. Placing women firmly at the center of colonial history, it explores how the needle became a tool for stitching together identity. From decorative needlework to household making and mending, women's sewing was a vehicle for establishing, asserting, and maintaining social status. Interdisciplinary in scope, Needlework and Women's Identity in Colonial Australia draws on material culture, written primary sources, and pictorial evidence, to create a rich portrait of the objects and manners that defined genteel goldfields living. Giving voice to women's experiences and positioning them as key players in the fabric of gold-rush society, this volume offers a fresh critical perspective on gender and textile history.
Author: John Constable (Principal of Cirencester College.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Author: Andrew John Jukes
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Author: Edward William Lewis Davies
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Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Author: Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Author: Charles Boner
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Category : Forest animals
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Author: Longmans, Green and co
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Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Author: Trudi Tate
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786735555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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The Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war. A vicious struggle between imperial Russia and an alliance of the British, French and Ottoman Empires, it was the first conflict to be reported first-hand in newspapers, painted by official war artists, recorded by telegraph and photographed by camera. In her new short history, Trudi Tate discusses the ways in which this novel representation itself became part of the modern war machine. She tells forgotten stories about the war experience of individual soldiers and civilians, including journalists, nurses, doctors, war tourists and other witnesses. At the same time, the war was a retrograde one, fought with the mentality, and some of the equipment, of Napoleonic times. Tate argues that the Crimean War was both modern and old-fashioned, looking backwards and forwards, and generating optimism and despair among those who lived through it. She explores this paradox while giving full coverage to the bloody battles (Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman), the siege of Sebastopol, the much-derided strategies of the commanders, conditions in the field and the cultural impact of the anti-Russian alliance.
Author: John Selby Watson
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Languages : en
Pages : 728
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Author: John Selby Watson
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Languages : en
Pages : 750
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