Rascals, Ruffians and Rebels of Early Australia
Author: Frank Clune
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780207156663
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Author: Frank Clune
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780207156663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kirsten McKenzie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-01-14
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1107070732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book charts the political exposés of an escaped convict-turned-activist and sheds new light on nineteenth-century British imperial reform.
Author: Gerald Horne
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2007-05-31
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0824865170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative markets, particularly in the South Pacific, and plantation agriculture grew substantially in disparate areas such as Australia, Fiji, and Hawaii. The increase in production required an increase in labor; in the rush to fill the vacuum, freebooters and other unsavory characters began a slave trade in Melanesians and Polynesians that continued into the twentieth century. The White Pacific ranges over the broad expanse of Oceania to reconstruct the history of "blackbirding" (slave trading) in the region. It examines the role of U.S. citizens (many of them ex-slaveholders and ex-confederates) in the trade and its roots in Civil War dislocations. What unfolds is a dramatic tale of unfree labor, conflicts between formal and informal empire, white supremacy, threats to sovereignty in Hawaii, the origins of a White Australian policy, and the rise of Japan as a Pacific power and putative protector. It also pieces together a wonderfully suggestive history of the African American presence in the Pacific. Based on deft archival research in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, the United States, and Great Britain, The White Pacific uncovers a heretofore hidden story of race, labor, war, and intrigue that contributes significantly to the emerging intersectional histories of race and ethnicity.
Author: Tom Lynch
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2022-11
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 1496233883
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOutback and Out West examines the ecological consequences of a settler-colonial imaginary by comparing expressions of settler colonialism in the literature of the American West and Australian Outback. Tom Lynch traces exogenous domination in both regions, which resulted in many similar means of settlement, including pastoralism, homestead acts, afforestation efforts, and bioregional efforts at “belonging.” Lynch pairs the two nations’ texts to show how an analysis at the intersection of ecocriticism and settler colonialism requires a new canon that is responsive to the social, cultural, and ecological difficulties created by settlement in the West and Outback. Outback and Out West draws out the regional Anthropocene dimensions of settler colonialism, considering such pressing environmental problems as habitat loss, groundwater depletion, and mass extinctions. Lynch studies the implications of our settlement heritage on history, art, and the environment through the cross-national comparison of spaces. He asserts that bringing an ecocritical awareness to settler-colonial theory is essential for reconciliation with dispossessed Indigenous populations as well as reparations for ecological damages as we work to decolonize engagement with and literature about these places.
Author: Graeme Davison
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 746
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Companion contains approximately 1600 entries, ranging from essays of up to 2000 words to succinct, factual entries of 100 words. There are entries on politicians, colonisers, visionaries, newspaper barons, industrialists, explorers, writers, artists, and scientists. All the most famous Australians appear in the Companion, including Don Bradman, Ned Kelly, John Curtin, Joan Sutherland, and Patrick White. There are entries on the states, key institutions, prominent families, and famous or infamous events, such as Gallipoli, the Dismissal, the Rum Rebellion, and the Waterloo Creek Massacre. There are numerous extended essays on key facets of our national life - political, social, cultural, scientific, military, and economic. Readers will find incisive entries on matters such as art, capital punishment, gambling, language, literature, military history, and republicanism."--BOOK JACKET.
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 976
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 1752
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Henry Wilde
Publisher: Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 858
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnique in its field, exhaustive in scope, the Oxford Companion to Australian Literature offers a comprehensive account of Australian writing from European settlement in 1788 to the 1990s. It presents the most important achievements in the fields of fiction, poetry, and drama, and also covers non-fictional prose in journals, diaries, biographies, and autobiographies, and the impact of key historical events on Australian literature. Fully revised and updated, the second edition contains 500 new entries, bringing the total to 3050, reflects the greater influence and volume of women's and multicultural writing, and includes major new articles on crime fiction and the immigrant experience. Written in clear and accessible language, this major reference belongs on the shelf of every library and every lover of world literature.
Author: Ian Duffield
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 266
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocused on the cultural experiences of convict migrants to the Australian penal colonies, important new evidence contained in this volume suggests, that in the 18th and 19th centuries, there were forced labour links to other British colonies too.