The A to Z of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia
The A to Z of the Discovery and Exploration of Australia

Author: Alan Day

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2009-06-19

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 081086326X

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This engaging reference examines the history of, the search for, and the discovery of Australia, taking full account of the evidence for and the speculation surrounding possible earlier contacts by the Ancient Egyptians, Arabs, and Chinese seamen. Day brings the expeditions to life, expressing the desires that drove great sea captains deeper into turbulent waters searching for caches of spice, silks, and precious metals. Covers a wide variety of topics, including _ Seamen from eight nations _ The recovery of storm wrecked ships _ Diplomatic treaties _ Priority of discovery disputes _ Military and civil explorers and surveyors _ Topographical features _ Geographical terms and places _ Rivers and river system

Conciliation on Colonial Frontiers
Conciliation on Colonial Frontiers

Author: Kate Darian-Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-02-11

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1317800052

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Spanning the late 18th century to the present, this volume explores new directions in imperial and postcolonial histories of conciliation, performance, and conflict between European colonizers and Indigenous peoples in Australia and the Pacific Rim, including Aotearoa New Zealand, Hawaii and the Northwest Pacific Coast. It examines cultural "rituals" and objects; the re-enactments of various events and encounters of exchange, conciliation and diplomacy that occurred on colonial frontiers between non-Indigenous and Indigenous peoples; commemorations of historic events; and how the histories of colonial conflict and conciliation are politicized in nation-building and national identities.

Outback Ghettos
Outback Ghettos

Author: Peggy Brock

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993-11-29

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780521447089

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Focusing on three communities in South Australia, this book looks at the institutionalisation of Aboriginal people and the consequences of this for both Aborigines and Australian society in general.

Out of the Silence
Out of the Silence

Author: Robert Foster

Publisher: Wakefield Press

Published: 2012-09-27

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1743051727

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This book explores the nature and extent of violence on South Australia's frontiers in light of the foundational promise to provide Aboriginal people with the protection of the law, and the resonances of that in social memory. What do we find when we compare the history of the frontier with the patterns of how it is remembered and forgotten?

Marshal South and the Ghost Mountain Chronicles
Marshal South and the Ghost Mountain Chronicles

Author: Marshal South

Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780932653666

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In the 1940s, Marshal South chronicled his family's controversial primitive lifestyle on Ghost Mountain, in what is now Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in southern California, through popular monthly articles written for Desert Magazine. This is the complete collection, along with never-before-published photos of the family.