Author : James Maclehose
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 11,69 MB
Release : 1977
Category : New South Wales
ISBN :
First published as Maclehoses Picture of Sydney..., 1839; Physical description; tooth avulsion; weapons and tools, particularly spear and boomerang; an affray in which four Comleroy were slain.
Author : Jonathan Wantrup
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 47,66 MB
Release : 2024-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1040289371
This book is a demonstration of the richness, worth and vitality of Australian documentary record. At the same time, it is an introduction to collecting Australiana for those who, if not already bitten by the book bug, have been dangerously exposed to it. Readers who are immune to the attractions of collecting but who value our past and its books will also find something to interest them in the following pages.
Author : Jane Franklin
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0642107491
Jane Franklin's diary account of her travels from Van Diemen's Land to Port Phillip and then overland from Melbourne to Sydney in 1839 provides a detailed and colourful snapshot of colonial society recorded by a sharply observant witness -- back cover. includes brief references to Aboriginal people.
Author : Ken R. Manley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 159752719X
This pioneering study describes the quest of Baptists in the different colonies (later states) to develop their identity as Australians and Baptists. The first comprehensive history of Baptists in Australia with a national focus, the Baptist story is traced from their beginnings in 1831 with the first baptisms in Woolloomooloo Bay (Sydney) in 1832 down to modern times. Changes and continuities, achievements and failures are carefully analyzed and related to the wider social, political and cultural context.The first volume covers the period from 1831 until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 and shows how a strong sense of becoming an Australian Church shaped much of their development from the various types of British Baptists who began the movement in the new nation. What it meant to be an Australian Baptist is described using denominational newspapers, church records and personal memoirs.
Author : Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain). Library
Publisher : London : The Institute
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 50,21 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Commonwealth countries
ISBN :
Author : John Alexander Ferguson
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 40,20 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780642990464
Author : Janette Holcomb
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,50 MB
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1783081252
Establishing business enterprise in a tiny, remote penal settlement appears to defy the principles of sustainable demand and supply. Yet early Sydney attracted a number of business entrepreneurs, including Campbell, Riley and Walker. If the development of private enterprise in early colonial Australia is counterintuitive, an understanding of its rationale, nature and risk strategies is the more imperative. This book traces the development of private enterprise in Australia through a study of the antecedents, connections and commercial activities of early Sydney merchants.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 47,12 MB
Release : 1888
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Alastair Davidson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 17,77 MB
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521522953
In the modern State, power rests on the consensus of the citizens. They accord its institutions the authority to regulate society. State theory suggests that this authority is a right to speak on certain matters in certain ways and to have the audience agree with those statements. It is a matter of an authorised language; all others fall into the category of ratbaggery. In this 1991 book, the first major book applying State theory to Australia, Alastair Davidson shows how Australian citizens were formed in the nineteenth century, and how their particular characteristics led to the empowering of a certain language of power: legalism. He further shows that this made the judiciary the most powerful arm of government - unlike countries where the people arm sovereign and the legislature supreme - because the judiciary has the last say on all issues and in its own language.
Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1425 pages
File Size : 29,7 MB
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135456631
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
