Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 34,58 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Centennial International Exhibition
ISBN :
also records of the manner in which the work of the different sections of of the exhibition was carried out, the official awards of the executive commisioners, the catalogue of exhibits, together with sundry illustrations.
Author : Lyn Spillman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 13,1 MB
Release : 1997-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521574327
What do people think when they imagine themselves as part of a nation? Nation and Commemoration answers this question in an exploration of the creation and recreation of national identities through commemorative activities. Extending recent work in cultural sociology and history, Lyn Spillman compares centennial and bicentennial celebrations in the United States and Australia to show how national identities can emerge from processes of 'cultural production'. She systematically analyses the symbols and meanings of national identity in these two 'new nations', identifying changes and continuities, similarities and differences in how visions of history, place in the world, politics, land, and diversity have been used to express nationhood. The result is a deeper understanding, not only of American and Australian national identities, but also of the global process of nation-formation.
Author : Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain)
Publisher :
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 1890
Category :
ISBN :
Author : John McAleer
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 14,39 MB
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1526118343
Exhibiting the empire considers how a whole range of cultural products – from paintings, prints, photographs, panoramas and ‘popular’ texts to ephemera, newspapers and the press, theatre and music, exhibitions, institutions and architecture – were used to record, celebrate and question the development of the British Empire. It represents a significant and original contribution to our understanding of the relationship between culture and empire. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, individual chapters bring fresh perspectives to the interpretation of media, material culture and display, and their interaction with history. Taken together, this collection suggests that the history of empire needs to be, in part at least, a history of display and of reception. This book will be essential reading for scholars and students interested in British history, the history of empire, art history and the history of museums and collecting.
Author : Jennifer Wellington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 32,62 MB
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 1107135079
A comparative study of how museum exhibitions in Britain, Canada and Australia were used to depict the First World War.
Author : David Scott
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 2008-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0791477428
Examines the images, hopes, and fears that were evoked during China’s century-long subservience to external powers.
Author : Peter Bolger
Publisher : Canberra : Australian National University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN :
A history of Hobart Town, Australia.
Author : Libby Robin
Publisher : Melbourne University
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Environmental protection and responsibility - Australia.
Author : Duncan Elphinstone Cooper
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : 0642104107
The nineteenth century squatter and painter Duncan Elphinstone Cooper spent about thirteen years of his life in the Western District of Victoria where he painted the fifty-four pictures presented in this volume. Most of these are from Cooper's The Challicum Sketch Book, now a treasured part of the collections of the National Library of Australia; the paintings deal almost exclusively with the grazing property of that name — from tent to house and beyond.
Author : Simon Ville
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 43,71 MB
Release : 2014-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1316194485
Australia's economic history is the story of the transformation of an indigenous economy and a small convict settlement into a nation of nearly 23 million people with advanced economic, social and political structures. It is a history of vast lands with rich, exploitable resources, of adversity in war, and of prosperity and nation building. It is also a history of human behaviour and the institutions created to harness and govern human endeavour. This account provides a systematic and comprehensive treatment of the nation's economic foundations, growth, resilience and future, in an engaging, contemporary narrative. It examines key themes such as the centrality of land and its usage, the role of migrant human capital, the tension between development and the environment, and Australia's interaction with the international economy. Written by a team of eminent economic historians, The Cambridge Economic History of Australia is the definitive study of Australia's economic past and present.
