Men and Manliness on the Frontier
Men and Manliness on the Frontier

Author: R. Hogg

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-11-14

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1137284250

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In mid-nineteenth-century Britain, there existed a dominant discourse on what it meant to be a man –denoted by the term 'manliness'. Based on the sociological work of R.W. Connell and others who argue that gender is performative, Robert Hogg asks how British men performed manliness on the colonial frontiers of Queensland and British Columbia.

The Queensland Caesar
The Queensland Caesar

Author: Denver Beanland

Publisher: Boolarong Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 192210955X

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This new book provides a fresh analysis of Queensland during the colonial era. It provides new insights into Queenslands past. Sir Thomas McIlwraith thundered across Queensland's political and business landscape for 30 years. The three times Premier took bold and audacious actions, and had the energy and motivation to drive not only the colony's economic development, but also his own business enterprises. The biography analyses McIlwraith's progressive beliefs in economic development, European settlement, railways, responsible government, nationalism, federation, republicanism, defence and foreign policy, issues that are as relevant today as they were in the colonial era. The publication narrates the history of one of Queensland great political figures, charting the trials and tribulations of arguably one of the most significant Scotsmen to come to the Antipodes. Modern day historians have presented McIlwraith as a larger-than-life conservative entrepreneur rather than a classical laissez-faire liberal who strived to make Queensland the premier colony of Australia.

Queensland Lords
Queensland Lords

Author: Janet Spillman

Publisher: Boolarong Press

Published: 2015-09-10

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1925236439

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Edward and Eliza Lord came to Moreton Bay in 1844, arriving as the remote convict outpost was opened up for free settlement. Members of Lancashire merchant families, they had invested their inheritances in NSW lands and a Sydney merchant firm, just before the drought and crash of 1841. They moved north to rebuild their fortunes, settling at Kangaroo Point before moving to the Darling Downs to start new commercial interests. Although financial success continued to elude them, the Lord family contributed to the settlement of colonial Queensland. Edward and Eliza’s great-great-grand-daughter, Janet Spillman, explores the way Queensland moulded the Lord family’s lives, and the way family members contributed to the colony’s development.

Workers in Bondage
Workers in Bondage

Author: Kay Saunders

Publisher: University of Queensland Press

Published: 2013-07-01

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1921902108

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Based on thorough documentary research in archives and newspapers, Workers in Bondage begins with the origins of servitude during the convict era in Queensland before its separation from New South Wales in 1859. The study then focuses in on Queensland’s Pacific Islander labor force, examining the reconstruction of the Queensland sugar industry after the withdrawal of Islander labor and describing the realities of white labor and the early trade union struggles in the sugar industry. Underlying the text is an analysis of labor manipulation by capitalism in a new colony during a time of transition from slavery to indenture in the British Empire. This is a comprehensive and insightful academic examination of the little known history of the enslavement of Pacific Island workers in Australian convict-era industries, as well as a wider study of race relations in a frontier society.

Brisbane Burns
Brisbane Burns

Author: Sharyn Merkley

Publisher: Australian Academic Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1925644006

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1864 was a tough year for the fledgling town of Brisbane as two devastating fires swept through its commercial hub. This book is the first comprehensive historical record of both the ordinary and well-known citizens of the early settlement city who survived the fire’s ravages to lay the foundations of Australia’s third biggest city.

A Biographical Register, 1788-1939
A Biographical Register, 1788-1939

Author: Herbert James Gibbney

Publisher: Canberra : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13:

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Essentially a supplement to the `Australian dictionary of biography' (q.v.) containing brief biographical information on people who were short-listed but not finally included in the work. About 8000 names appear, roughly the same as ADB. Bibliographies and sources are included for each entry. Volume 2 includes an occupational index to the work.