A History of Victoria
A History of Victoria

Author: Geoffrey Blainey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-07-10

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1107292778

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A History of Victoria is a lively account of the people, places and events that have shaped Victoria, from the arrival of the first Aboriginal peoples through to the present day. In his inimitable style, Geoffrey Blainey considers Victoria's transformation from rural state to urban society. He speculates on the contrasts between Melbourne and Sydney, and describes formative events in Victoria's history, including the exploits of Ned Kelly, the rise of Australian Football and the Olympics of 1956. Melbourne's latest population boom, sprawling suburbs and expanding ethnic communities are explored. Blainey also casts light on Victoria's recent political history. This edition features sections on the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009, the end of the drought and the controversy surrounding the Wonthaggi desalination plant. New illustrations, photographs and maps enrich the narrative. Written by one of Australia's leading historians, this book offers remarkable insight into Victoria's unique position within Australian history.

Migrant Housing
Migrant Housing

Author: Mirjana Lozanovska

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-01

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1351330136

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Migrant Housing, the latest book by author Mirjana Lozanovska, examines the house as the architectural construct in the processes of migration. Housing is pivotal to any migration story, with studies showing that migrant participation in the adaptation or building of houses provides symbolic materiality of belonging and the platform for agency and productivity in the broader context of the immigrant city. Migration also disrupts the cohesion of everyday dwelling and homeland integral to housing, and the book examines this displacement of dwelling and its effect on migrant housing. This timely volume investigates the poetic and political resonance between migration and architecture, challenging the idea of the ‘house’ as a singular theoretical construct. Divided into three parts, Histories and theories of post-war migrant housing, House/home and Mapping migrant spaces of home, it draws on data studies from Australia and Macedonia, with literature from Canada, Sweden and Germany, to uncover the effects of unprivileged post-war migration in the late twentieth century on the house as architectural and normative model, and from this perspective negotiates the disciplinary boundaries of architecture.

The Silent Showman
The Silent Showman

Author: Michael Tallis

Publisher: Wakefield Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9781862547353

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George Tallis arrived in Australia as a 17-year-old immigrant in 1886, and rose to become head of J.C. Williamson Ltd, the world's largest entertainment organisation. This book is his story, an intriguing view of Australian entertainment between 1886 and 1938.

Sun Pictures of Victoria
Sun Pictures of Victoria

Author: Dianne Reilly

Publisher:

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13:

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Includes photographs of an Aboriginal farm and farmers at the Mt. Franklin Aboriginal Reserve; others of Aboriginal camp and tribesmen (some identified as Wurundjeri) showing evidence of European contact; cicatrisation; weapons.