Forty-five Years' Experiences in North Queensland
Author: William Richard Onslow Hill
Publisher:
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReminiscences of life with the native mounted police - places from Rockhampton - Cairns.
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By the Book
Author: Patrick Buckridge
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780702234682
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"By the Book is an indispensable history of the literature of Queensland from its establishment as a separate colony in the mid-nineteenth century through major economic, political and cultural transformations to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Queensland figures in the Australian imagination as a frontier, a place of wild landscapes and wilder politics, but also as Australia's playground, a soft tourist paradise of warm weather and golden beaches. Based partly on real historical divergences from the rest of Australia, these contradictory images have been questioned and scrutini.
A Cavalcade of Queensland's Crimes and Criminals
Author: Jarvis Finger
Publisher: Boolarong Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1922109053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Cavalcade of Queenslands Crimes and Criminals, for every year following the colonys separation from New South Wales from 1859 to 1920, Jarvis Finger has recounted Queenslands most notable crimes.
The Way We Civilise
Author: Rosalind Kidd
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780702229619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of government intervention in the lives of Australian Aboriginal people living in Queensland over a 150-year period to 1988. Reveals conflicts between state and federal politicians over Aboriginal affairs, struggles between churches and government, and the activities of vested interests that competed to retain Aboriginals as cheap or unpaid labor. Includes bandw photos. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Nomads of the 19th Century Queensland Goldfields
Author: Lennie Wallace
Publisher: Boolarong Press
Published: 2012-07-20
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1921920599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Gympie in the south, through Mount Morgan and Canoona on the central coast, to Palmer River and Hodgkinson in the tropical north, the 19th century Queensland goldfields were a magnet for tumultuous swarms of nomadic fossickers. They were also a breeding ground for true leaders of men. ‘Dr Jack’ Hamilton he was one of those natural leaders. He healed the sick and the wounded he was a prodigious bare-knuckle puglist and he fearlessly defended the underdog. Subsequently in 1878 he became a Queensland politician and for the miners rights.
Men and Manliness on the Frontier
Author: R. Hogg
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-11-14
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1137284250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Workers in Bondage
Author: Kay Saunders
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Published: 2013-07-01
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1921902108
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased 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.
Journal and Proceedings
Author: Royal Australian Historical Society
Publisher:
Published: 1901
Total Pages: 400
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes the Society's Annual report and statement of accounts.
Among Australia's Pioneers
Author: Margaret Slocomb
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1452524807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe almost simultaneous abolition of the slave trade and the cessation of convict transportation to the colony of New South Wales'now eastern mainland Australia'started a quest by the squatter pastoralists for alternative sources of cheap labor for their vast sheep runs. Over a period of five years, beginning from 1848, around three thousand Chinese men and boys from Fujian Province were recruited under conditions little different from the slave trade. In Among Australia's Pioneers, author Margaret Slocomb focuses on the experiences of approximately two hundred of these Chinese laborers between 1848 and 1853. Her research examines their working conditions during the five-year indenture period and also traces the lives of several of the men who, at the end of their contract, chose to remain in those districts, which, by then, had become familiar to them. Perhaps they regarded themselves as pioneer immigrants. Slocomb recounts the experiences of these men on the dangerous northern frontier of European settlement. While some succumbed to the despair and loneliness of a shepherd's life, others survived their indenture and went on to play an important role in the emerging society of the new colony of Queensland. They may certainly be counted among the nation's pioneers.
In the Eye of the Beholder
Author: Barbara Dawson
Publisher: ANU Press
Published: 2014-11-19
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1925021971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a fresh perspective in the debate on settler perceptions of Indigenous Australians. It draws together a suite of little known colonial women (apart from Eliza Fraser) and investigates their writings for what they reveal about their attitudes to, views on and beliefs about Aboriginal people, as presented in their published works. The way that reader expectations and publishers’ requirements slanted their representations forms part of this analysis. All six women write of their first-hand experiences on Australian frontiers of settlement. The division into ‘adventurers’ (Eliza Fraser, Eliza Davies and Emily Cowl) and longer-term ‘settlers’ (Katherine Kirkland, Mary McConnel and Rose Scott Cowen) allows interrogation into the differing representations between those with a transitory knowledge of Indigenous people and those who had a close and more permanent relationship with Indigenous women, even encompassing individual friendship. More pertinently, the book strives to reveal the aspects, largely overlooked in colonial narratives, of Indigenous agency, authority and individuality.
