Pioneers in Australasia
Title | Pioneers in Australasia PDF eBook |
Author | Harry Johnston |
Publisher | |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Australasia |
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Ecological Pioneers
Title | Ecological Pioneers PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Mulligan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2001-10-22 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780521009560 |
Whenever the history of ecological thought has been written the contributions of Australian thinkers have been omitted. Yet Australia as a continent of extreme, rare and complex environments has produced a startling group of ecological pioneers. Across a wide range of human endeavour, Australian thinkers and innovators - whether they have thought of themselves as environmentalists or not - have made some truly original contributions to ecological thought. Ecological Pioneers traces the emergence of ecological understandings in Australia. By constructing a social history with chapters focusing on different fields in the arts, sciences, politics and public life, the authors bring to life the work of significant individuals. Some of the ecological pioneers featured include Joseph Banks, Russell Drysdale, Judith Wright, Myles Dunphy, Philip Crosbie Morrison, Vincent Serventy, Francis Ratcliffe, the Gurindji and Yolngu peoples, Bill Mollison, Jack Mundey, Val Plumwood, Michael Leunig, and many more.
Croatians in Australia
Title | Croatians in Australia PDF eBook |
Author | Ilija Šutalo |
Publisher | Wakefield Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781862546516 |
Ilija Sutalo has given us a detailed and fascinating insight into Croatian settlers from the 1800s to the present, the likes of which has never before been attempted. Yet Croatians have been here for 150 years, and, by the 1930s, were well organised and conscious of their heritage. A people without whom Australia could not have developed and grown.
Among Australia's Pioneers
Title | Among Australia's Pioneers PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Slocomb |
Publisher | Archway Publishing |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1452524807 |
The 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.
Apollo and the Pioneers
Title | Apollo and the Pioneers PDF eBook |
Author | A. H. Kornweibel |
Publisher | Perth : Music Council of Western Australia |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 1973-01-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780959890501 |
Pioneers of Modernism
Title | Pioneers of Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Harriet Edquist |
Publisher | Miegunyah Press |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
Remedying a neglected part of architectural history, this volume presents the work of four of Australia's most innovative arts and crafts architects—Walter Butler, Harold Desbrowe-Annear, Walter Liberty Vernon, and Robin Dods. The influence of the arts-and-crafts movement in Australia has long been lost between the far better known Gothic and classical revivals and the modernist movement, and obscured by the chronological construction of "federation" architecture, but this study, along with the accompanying photographs and plans, brings to life the simple lines of their design and illustrates why it is so deserving of further recognition.
The Naval Pioneers of Australia
Title | The Naval Pioneers of Australia PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Becke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | Australia |
ISBN |