The Australian Academy of Humanities proceedings 1990
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Release : 1991
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ISBN : 9780909897239
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Release : 1991
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Author : Australian Academy of the Humanities
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Page : 196 pages
File Size : 39,61 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Humanities
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Author : Diane Langmore
Publisher : The Miegunyah Press
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 28,98 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 052285382X
Volume 17 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography contains 658 biographies of individuals who died between 1981 and 1990. The first of two volumes for the decade, it presents a colourful mosaic of twentieth-century Australian life. It contains biographies of well-known identities such as Sir Henry Bolte, Sir Robert Askin, Sir Reginald Ansett, Sir Macfarlane Burnet, Sir Raphael and Lady Cilento, Sir Arthur Coles, Robert Holmes-O-Court, Sir Warwick Fairfax, Sir Edmund Herring, Albert Facey, Donald Friend, Sir Roy Grounds, Sir Bernard Heinze and Sir Robert Helpmann. Eminent Australian women in the volume include Dame Elizabeth Couchman, Dame Kate Campbell, Dame Doris Fitton, Dame Zara Holt and Lady (Maie) Casey. Although many of the women achieved prominence in those professions conventionally regarded as the preserve of women, othersandmdash;such as Ruby Boye-Jones, coast-watcher; Ellen Cashman, union organiser; Elsie Chauvel, film-maker; Dorothy Crawford, radio producer; Ruth Dobson, diplomat; Mary Hodgkin, anthropologist; Margaret Kelly, restaurateur; and Patricia Jarrett, journalistandmdash;demonstrate that some women at least were breaking free of the constraints of traditional expectations. The lives of fifteen Indigenous Australians are included, as are those of a number of immigrants who fled from persecution in Europe to establish a new life in Australia.
Author : Australian Academy of the Humanities
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Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,30 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Humanities
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Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 17,21 MB
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Author : Australian Academy of the Humanities
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Page : 132 pages
File Size : 10,8 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Humanities
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Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 1734 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Bibliography, National
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Release : 1997
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ISBN : 9780909897390
Author : Tom Griffiths
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 1996-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521483490
Hunters and Collectors is about historical consciousness and environmental sensibilities in European Australia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is in part a collective biography of amateur antiquarians, archaeologists, naturalists, journalists and historians: people who shaped the Australian historical imagination. Dr Griffiths illuminates the way these avid collectors and investigators of the Australian land and of its indigenous inhabitants contributed a sense of identity at colony-wide and eventually nationwide level. He also considers the rise of professional history, anthropology and archaeology in the universities, which ignored the efforts of the amateurs. Griffiths shows how the seemingly trivial activities of these hunters and collectors feed into the political and environmental debates of the 1990s. This book is outstanding in its originality, interpretative insight and literary flair.
Author : Jim Davidson
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Historians
ISBN : 1742241344
A biography of a 20th-century Australian historian and an outstanding scholar in the humanities and social science fields, this thorough account highlights the accomplishments of W.K. Hancock. Compelling and informative, this chronicle features the scope of Hancock's work across three continents, including his mission to Uganda on behalf of the British government in 1954, his tracking of British mobilizations during World War II, and his founding of the Australian National University. Illuminating an extraordinary life and career, this examination celebrates the author of Australia.