A History of Queensland
Title | A History of Queensland PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Evans |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2007-07-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521876923 |
A History of Queensland explores from the time of earliest human habitation up to the present.
Geographic History of Queensland
Title | Geographic History of Queensland PDF eBook |
Author | Archibald Meston |
Publisher | |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | Local history |
ISBN |
Early Days in North Queensland
Title | Early Days in North Queensland PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Palmer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN |
Chap. 11; North Queensland Aborigines; Gulf country - raised sleeping benches, wet weather gunyahs; cave drawings near Cooktown, Roper R., ; Limmens Bight; canoes; black magic beliefs; astrology; cannibalism; Foods, fishing (Wide Bay); Class divisions of Yerunthully tribe.
Colonialism's Currency
Title | Colonialism's Currency PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Gettler |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2020-07-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0228002540 |
Money, often portrayed as a straightforward representation of market value, is also a political force, a technology for remaking space and population. This was especially true in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Canada, where money - in many forms - provided an effective means of disseminating colonial social values, laying claim to national space, and disciplining colonized peoples. Colonialism's Currency analyzes the historical experiences and interactions of three distinct First Nations - the Wendat of Wendake, the Innu of Mashteuiatsh, and the Moose Factory Cree - with monetary forms and practices created by colonial powers. Whether treaty payments and welfare provisions such as the paper vouchers favoured by the Department of Indian Affairs, the Canadian Dominion's standardized paper notes, or the "made beaver" (the Hudson's Bay Company's money of account), each monetary form allowed the state to communicate and enforce political, economic, and cultural sovereignty over Indigenous peoples and their lands. Surveying a range of historical cases, Brian Gettler shows how currency simultaneously placed First Nations beyond the bounds of settler society while justifying colonial interventions in their communities. Testifying to the destructive and the legitimizing power of money, Colonialism's Currency is an intriguing exploration of the complex relationship between First Nations and the state.
Queensland's Threatened Animals
Title | Queensland's Threatened Animals PDF eBook |
Author | Lee K. Curtis |
Publisher | CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Pages | 467 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0643096140 |
Queensland is home to 70% of Australia's native mammals (226 species), over 70% of native birds (630 species), just over half of the nation's native reptiles (485) and native frogs (127), and more than 11,000 native plant species. Hundreds of these have a threatened status. In order for Queensland to maintain and recover a healthy biodiversity, Australians must address the serious problems faced by their natural environment - habitat loss, inappropriate land management, change in fire regimes, pollution of natural resources, proliferation of invasive species and climate change. This comprehensive and practical guide to Queensland's threatened animals features up-to-date distribution data, photos and maps for most of Queensland's threatened animals. KEY FEATURES * Includes up-to-date distribution data, photos and maps * Includes a comprehensive list of resources, with key state, national and international organizations involved in the recovery of threatened species * Complemented by an open access website that will be updated on a regular basis
Flooded Forest and Desert Creek
Title | Flooded Forest and Desert Creek PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew Colloff |
Publisher | CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2014-08-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 064310920X |
The ecology and life history of the most widely distributed species of Eucalyptus in Australia – the river red gum.
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine
Title | The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Jackson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 692 |
Release | 2011-08-25 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0191617512 |
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. In recent decades, the history of medicine has emerged as a rich and mature sub-discipline within history, but the strength of the field has not precluded vigorous debates about methods, themes, and sources. Bringing together over thirty international scholars, this handbook provides a constructive overview of the current state of these debates, and offers new directions for future scholarship. There are three sections: the first explores the methodological challenges and historiographical debates generated by working in particular historical ages; the second explores the history of medicine in specific regions of the world and their medical traditions, and includes discussion of the `global history of medicine'; the final section analyses, from broad chronological and geographical perspectives, both established and emerging historical themes and methodological debates in the history of medicine.