The Sydney Record

The Sydney Record PDF Author:
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Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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The Sydney Record

The Sydney Record PDF Author:
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Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Records of the Australian Museum

Records of the Australian Museum PDF Author: Australian Museum
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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Historical Records of Australia

Historical Records of Australia PDF Author:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 962

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Obituaries from the Sydney Post-record

Obituaries from the Sydney Post-record PDF Author: Wayne Macvicar
Publisher: Halifax, N.S. : Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia
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Category : Death notices
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Historical Records of Australia

Historical Records of Australia PDF Author: Australia. Parliament. Joint Library Committee
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 788

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Official Record of the Debates ...

Official Record of the Debates ... PDF Author: Australia. Constitutional Convention
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Category : Constitutional conventions
Languages : en
Pages : 1288

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A Century of Journalism

A Century of Journalism PDF Author: Sydney Morning Herald
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 850

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Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia

Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia PDF Author:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1106

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Issues for 1901/07-1901/20 include corrected statistics for the period 1788 to 1900.

Dig

Dig PDF Author: David Nichols
Publisher: Verse Chorus Press
ISBN: 1891241613
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 611

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David Nichols tells the story of Australian rock and pop music from 1960 to 1985 – formative years in which the nation cast off its colonial cultural shackles and took on the world. Generously illustrated and scrupulously researched, Dig combines scholarly accuracy with populist flair. Nichols is an unfailingly witty and engaging guide, surveying the fertile and varied landscape of Australian popular music in seven broad historical chapters, interspersed with shorter chapters on some of the more significant figures of each period. The result is a compelling portrait of a music scene that evolves in dynamic interaction with those in the United States and the UK, yet has always retained a strong sense of its own identity and continues to deliver new stars – and cult heroes – to a worldwide audience. Dig is a unique achievement. The few general histories to date have been highlight reels, heavy on illustration and short on detail. And while there have been many excellent books on individual artists, scenes and periods, and a couple of first-rate encylopedias, there’s never been a book that told the whole story of the irresistible growth and sweep of a national music culture. Until now . . .

Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad PDF Author: Eric Foner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393244385
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom. More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom. A deeply entrenched institution, slavery lived on legally and commercially even in the northern states that had abolished it after the American Revolution. Slaves could be found in the streets of New York well after abolition, traveling with owners doing business with the city's major banks, merchants, and manufacturers. New York was also home to the North’s largest free black community, making it a magnet for fugitive slaves seeking refuge. Slave catchers and gangs of kidnappers roamed the city, seizing free blacks, often children, and sending them south to slavery. To protect fugitives and fight kidnappings, the city's free blacks worked with white abolitionists to organize the New York Vigilance Committee in 1835. In the 1840s vigilance committees proliferated throughout the North and began collaborating to dispatch fugitive slaves from the upper South, Washington, and Baltimore, through Philadelphia and New York, to Albany, Syracuse, and Canada. These networks of antislavery resistance, centered on New York City, became known as the underground railroad. Forced to operate in secrecy by hostile laws, courts, and politicians, the city’s underground-railroad agents helped more than 3,000 fugitive slaves reach freedom between 1830 and 1860. Until now, their stories have remained largely unknown, their significance little understood. Building on fresh evidence—including a detailed record of slave escapes secretly kept by Sydney Howard Gay, one of the key organizers in New York—Foner elevates the underground railroad from folklore to sweeping history. The story is inspiring—full of memorable characters making their first appearance on the historical stage—and significant—the controversy over fugitive slaves inflamed the sectional crisis of the 1850s. It eventually took a civil war to destroy American slavery, but here at last is the story of the courageous effort to fight slavery by "practical abolition," person by person, family by family.