Black Kettle and Full Moon

2004-09-01 History

Author : Geoffrey Blainey
Release : 2004-09-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 276/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Black Kettle and Full Moon written by Geoffrey Blainey. This book was released on 2004-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bestselling Black Kettle and Full Moon, master storyteller Geoffrey Blainey takes us on another absorbing journey – a guided tour of a vanished Australia. Covering the years from the first gold rush to World War I. Blainey paints a fascinating picture of how our forebears lived – in the outback, in towns and cities, at sea and on land. He looks at all aspects of daily life, from billycans to brass bands, from ice-making to etiquette, from pipes to pubs. The engaging text is further brought alive by an evocative selection of contemporary illustrations by artists such as Julian Ashton.This is Geoffrey Blainey doing what he does best bringing to life for the modern reader the sighs and sounds and smells of another time.

Black Kettle and Full Moon

2008 Australia

Author : Geoffrey Blainey
Release : 2008
Genre : Australia
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Download or read book Black Kettle and Full Moon written by Geoffrey Blainey. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This master storyteller creates an absorbing journey, a guided tour of a vanished Australia. Covering the years from the first gold rush to World War I, he paints a picture of how immigrants lived, in the outback, on the land, in towns and cities and at sea. He looks at all aspects of daily life, from billycans to brass bands, from ice-making to etiquette, from pipes to pubs.

Replenishing the Earth

2011-05-05 History

Author : James Belich
Release : 2011-05-05
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 541/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Replenishing the Earth written by James Belich. This book was released on 2011-05-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering study of the anglophone 'settler boom' in North America, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand between the early 19th and early 20th centuries, looking at what made it the most successful of all such settler revolutions, and how this laid the basis of British and American power in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World

2023-05-31 Science

Author : Alexandra Roginski
Release : 2023-05-31
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 095/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World written by Alexandra Roginski. This book was released on 2023-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contentious science of phrenology once promised insight into character and intellect through external 'reading' of the head. In the transforming settler-colonial landscapes of nineteenth-century Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, popular phrenologists – figures who often hailed from the margins – performed their science of touch and cranial jargon everywhere from mechanics' institutions to public houses. In this compelling work, Alexandra Roginski recounts a history of this everyday practice, exploring how it featured in the fates of people living in, and moving through, the Tasman World. Innovatively drawing on historical newspapers and a network of archives, she traces the careers of a diverse range of popular phrenologists and those they encountered. By analysing the actions at play in scientific episodes through ethnographic, social and cultural history, Roginski considers how this now-discredited science could, in its own day, yield fleeting power and advantage, even against a backdrop of large-scale dispossession and social brittleness.

Living with Fire

2012 Nature

Author : Christine Hansen
Release : 2012
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 798/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Living with Fire written by Christine Hansen. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Living with Fire historians Tom Griffiths and Christine Hansen trace both the history of fire in the region and the human history of the Steels Creek valley in a series of essays which examine the relationship between people and place. These essays are interspersed with four interludes compiled from material produced by the community.

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