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Author : Francis Gordon Clarke
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book The land of contrarieties written by Francis Gordon Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deborah Bird Rose
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1920942378
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book Dislocating the Frontier written by Deborah Bird Rose and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The frontier is one of the most pervasive concepts underlying the production of national identity in Australia. Recently it has become a highly contested domain in which visions of nationhood are argued out through analysis of frontier conflict. DISLOCATING THE FRONTIER departs from this contestation and takes a critical approach to the frontier imagination in Australia. The authors of this book work with frontier theory in comparative and unsettling modes. The essays reveal diverse aspects of frontier images and dreams - as manifested in performance, decolonising domains, language, and cross-cultural encounters.
Author : Gordon Stables
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465508775
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book From Squire to Squatter: A Tale of the Old Land and the New written by Gordon Stables and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Belich
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019161971X
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book Replenishing the Earth written by James Belich and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are we speaking English? Replenishing the Earth gives a new answer to that question, uncovering a 'settler revolution' that took place from the early nineteenth century that led to the explosive settlement of the American West and its forgotten twin, the British West, comprising the settler dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Between 1780 and 1930 the number of English-speakers rocketed from 12 million in 1780 to 200 million, and their wealth and power grew to match. Their secret was not racial, or cultural, or institutional superiority but a resonant intersection of historical changes, including the sudden rise of mass transfer across oceans and mountains, a revolutionary upward shift in attitudes to emigration, the emergence of a settler 'boom mentality', and a late flowering of non-industrial technologies -wind, water, wood, and work animals - especially on settler frontiers. This revolution combined with the Industrial Revolution to transform settlement into something explosive - capable of creating great cities like Chicago and Melbourne and large socio-economies in a single generation. When the great settler booms busted, as they always did, a second pattern set in. Links between the Anglo-wests and their metropolises, London and New York, actually tightened as rising tides of staple products flowed one way and ideas the other. This 're-colonization' re-integrated Greater America and Greater Britain, bulking them out to become the superpowers of their day. The 'Settler Revolution' was not exclusive to the Anglophone countries - Argentina, Siberia, and Manchuria also experienced it. But it was the Anglophone settlers who managed to integrate frontier and metropolis most successfully, and it was this that gave them the impetus and the material power to provide the world's leading super-powers for the last 200 years. This book will reshape understandings of American, British, and British dominion histories in the long 19th century. It is a story that has such crucial implications for the histories of settler societies, the homelands that spawned them, and the indigenous peoples who resisted them, that their full histories cannot be written without it.
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Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)
Download or read book Presbyterian Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Assembly Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Dunlap
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521651738
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nature and the English Diaspora written by Thomas Dunlap and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-28 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comparative history of the development of ideas about nature, particularly of the importance of native nature in the Anglo settler countries of the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. It examines the development of natural history, settlers' adaptations to the end of expansion, scientists' shift from natural history to ecology, and the rise of environmentalism. Addressing not only scientific knowledge but also popular issues from hunting to landscape painting, this book explores the ways in which English-speaking settlers looked at nature in their new lands.
Author : Cindy Lane
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443875791
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
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.
Author : Lady Mary Fox
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Southlanders written by Lady Mary Fox and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Longley Arthur
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843313182
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)
Download or read book Virtual Voyages written by Paul Longley Arthur and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'. Written at the height of the era of European maritime exploration, these bizarre and captivating tales, with their wildly imaginative visions of antipodean inversion and strangeness, reveal a hidden history of attitudes to colonization. By exposing the relationship between myth and reality in the antipodes, this book casts new light on the power of fiction to influence history. In the post-colonial studies field, books about travel writing and empire have tended to focus on the high period of nineteenth-century imperialism and on the colonial settings of Africa and India. This book offers a fresh perspective by focussing on the eighteenth century, and referring to the geographical region of Australia and the Pacific, which has had far less attention. The book also breaks new ground by being the first to approach the genre of the imaginary voyage from a post-colonial perspective. In addition to the new insights into European colonialism that it offers, the book illustrates many broader themes in eighteenth-century history and thought. These include connections between the rise of science and modern imperialism, the development of narrative history and fiction and the influence of romanticism, the evolution of the early novel in Britain and France, and the role of mythology in the development of national identity.
