Fettered Frontier

Author : Jennifer Harrison
Publisher : Boolarong Press and Brisbane History Group
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781922643612

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Fettered Frontier by Jennifer Harrison Pdf

Historian Jennifer Harrison’s latest book Fettered Frontier, Founding the Moreton Bay Settlement 1822–1826, a companion volume to Shackled: Female Convicts at Moreton Bay 1826 –1839 (2016) investigates the struggle to locate and establish an outpost in remote Moreton Bay. She uses original government correspondence, diaries, journals and maps and also examines the many mangled foundation stories from the time of the original site at Redcliffe and its removal to a location on the Brisbane River. The search for the river involved several exploratory voyages, the discovery of convict timber getters who had totally lost their bearings and the helpful local Aboriginal people. The stream, shrouded by mangroves, was finally discovered. A significantly sized waterway, it was appropriately named for Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane as was the campsite on its bank. Much research has concentrated on accurately re-creating economic, climatic and legal back stories together with defining the characters who made the decisions in London, Port Jackson (Sydney) and locally as well as the convicts who undertook the heavy manual work. Happy 200th Birthday, Brisbane — you have come a long way.

Author : Robert Edmund Strahorn
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822031033079

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The Hand-book of Wyoming and Guide to the Black Hills and Big Horn Regions by Robert Edmund Strahorn Pdf

Author : Rod Fisher
Publisher : Brisbane History Group Inc
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781763505308

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Like Father, Like Son by Rod Fisher Pdf

This study evolved from the author’s examination of a series of sketches undertaken by a young Englishman during his sojourn in Brisbane, the seat of government of the newly created Colony of Queensland. Initial research revealed a somewhat hazy outline of his ancestry and early life, until an independent researcher in the UK, preparing a photographic study of his subsequent built legacy, discovered a key piece of the jigsaw. This book is the culmination of the author’s subsequent research, carried out in three corners of the globe, which now shines a definitive light on the lineage of Richard Harding Watt. He was a wealthy business man and developer of a number of distinctive heritage listed buildings in Knutsford, perhaps best known as the model for Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel Cranford.

Author : Ernest Staples Osgood
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1929-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816658411

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The Day of the Cattleman by Ernest Staples Osgood Pdf

The Day of the Cattleman was first published in 1929. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The legend of the Wild West, as celebrated in thousands upon thousands of western stories and movies, radio and television programs, has a firm grip on the imaginations of both young and old, not only in America but in many other lands. But, popular though such versions are, they do not tell how the west was really won. Professor Osgood's account sets the record straight for those who want authentic history rather than melodramatic fiction. "The range cattleman," Professor Osgood writes, "has more solid achievements to his credit than the creation of a legend. He was the first to utilize the semi-arid plains. Using the most available natural resources, the native grasses, as a basis, he built up a great and lucrative enterprise, attracted eastern and foreign capital to aid him in the development of a new economic area, stimulated railroad building in order that the product of the ranges might get to an eastern market, and laid the economic foundation of more than one western commonwealth." Professor Osgood traces the rise and fall of the range cattle industry, particularly in Montana and Wyoming, from 1845 to the turn of the century. He gives a detailed account of the activities of the stock growers' associations and of the cattlemen's relations with the railroads and with the Federal government. The book has won critical acclaim both in this country and abroad. The Saturday Review has described it as an "honest, scientific, and thorough examination" of a "semi-epic phase of Western life, now almost completely dead." In England, the Times Literary Supplement called it "the only substantial record of this particular chapter in the history of the West."

Author : Rajmohan Gandhi
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789351181651

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Ghaffar Khan by Rajmohan Gandhi Pdf

Born into the Muhammadzai tribe, from the Charsadda valley in the Pakhtun heartland, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was a passionate believer in the nonviolent core of Islam and sought to wean his people-the fierce warrior Pakhtuns or Pathans of the North-West Frontier Province-from their violent traditions and fight for a separate Pakhtun homeland that would no longer be a buffer between Russia and Britain in the Great Game. In 1929 came Mahatma Gandhi's call for nonviolent resistance against British rule and Badshah Khan responded by raising the Khudai Khidmatgars (Servants of God), an army of 1,00,000 men who pledged themselves to the service of mankind and nonviolence as a creed. For this, and for his steadfast devotion to his principles, this towering figure was imprisoned for a total of twenty-seven years, first by the British and later by the Pakistani government. This is a perceptive biography that offers fresh insights into the life and achievements of an extraordinary man, drawing close parallels with the life of Mahatma Gandhi, his brother in spirit.The author looks at Ghaffar Khan 'with the spectacles of today rather than those of 1947', emphasizing that for people in the twenty-first century who live in the shadow of 9/11, Badshah Khan's unwavering commitment to nonviolence and Hindu-Muslim unity offers valuable lessons.

Author : Kathryn Edwards
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004475779

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Families and Frontiers by Kathryn Edwards Pdf

As put forth by Edwards, the eastern duchy and the western county of Burgundy constituted a frontier society from the death of Charles the Bold in 1477 until 1540. Through detailed case studies and family reconstructions of elites from the Saône River valley, specifically the cities of Dijon, Dole, and Besançon, this book examines the social, cultural, political, and economic relationships of the Burgundians on a local level. Edwards successfully challenges the national models still frequently used in modern historiography and offers a provocative alternative to better understand this anomalous area and the creation of pre-modern regional identity.

Author : Dolly Jørgensen,Sverker Sörlin
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780774825740

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Northscapes by Dolly Jørgensen,Sverker Sörlin Pdf

This book argues that the unique environments of the North have been borne of the relationship between humans and nature. Approaching the topic through the lens of environmental history, the contributors examine a broad range of geographies, including those of Iceland and other islands in the Northern Atlantic, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the Pacific Northwest, and Canada, over a time span ranging from CE 800 to 2000. Northscapes is bound together by the intellectual project of investigating the North both as an imagined and mythologized space and as an environment shaped by human technology. The North offers a valuable analytical framework that surpasses nation-states and transgresses political and historical borders. This volume develops rich explorations of the entanglements of environmental and technological history in the northern regions of the globe

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Frontier Peoples of India by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Connor
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0868407569

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The Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1838 by John Connor Pdf

This text is a comprehensive military history of frontier conflict in Australia. Covering the first 50 years of British occupation in Australia, the book examines in detail how both sides fought on the frontier and examines how Aborigines developed a form of warfare differing from tradition.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Wyoming
ISBN : IND:30000117716682

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Annals of Wyoming by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Wyoming
ISBN : NWU:35556017340779

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Wyoming History Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles R. McKirdy
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1604739878

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Lincoln Apostate by Charles R. McKirdy Pdf

In 1847, in a small rural courthouse in Coles County, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln represented a Kentucky slave owner named Robert Matson in his attempt to recover a runaway slave woman and her four children. Most Americans, even those with a penchant for the nation's history, have never heard of this court case. This is no coincidence. Lincoln's involvement in the case has troubled and bewildered most students and biographers of the "Great Emancipator." In many assessments, the case inspires rationalizations and distortions; in others, avoidance and denial. These approaches are a disservice to the man and to those who seek to understand him. In Lincoln Apostate: The Matson Slave Case, lawyer and historian Charles R. McKirdy digs behind the myths and evasions to determine why Lincoln chose to advocate property rights grounded in a system that he claimed to abhor and pursue the continued enslavement of five of its most vulnerable and sympathetic victims. In a careful and readable blend of narrative and analysis, the book finds the answer in the time and place that was Lincoln's Illinois in 1847, in the laws and judicial decisions that provided the legal backdrop against which the drama of the Matson case was played out, and in the man that Lincoln was thirteen years before he became president. The discussion of Lincoln's decision to represent Matson and the description of the trial itself take nothing at face value. The author examines primary and secondary sources for the ribbon of truth shorn of preconceptions and hollow justifications. Lincoln Apostate scrutinizes Lincoln's motives for choosing as he did and explores the ideals and fears of this very complex man.

Author : Sir William Henry Sleeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Dacoits
ISBN : OXFORD:590915748

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Report on Budhuk Alias Bagree Decoits, and Other Gang Robbers by Hereditary Profession by Sir William Henry Sleeman Pdf

Author : Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 913 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547669234

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The Winning of the West: A History of the American Frontiers by Theodore Roosevelt Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Winning of the West: A History of the American Frontiers" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This four-volume edition by one of the most admired Presidents of the United States thoroughly explains the historical process of the conquest of the American West and how the Americans fought Indian tribes, British, French, and Spanish troops to become the greatest power of the world. Contents: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi 1769-1776 The Spread of the English-speaking Peoples The French of the Ohio Valley The Appalachian Confederacies The Algonquins of the Northwest Boon and the Long Hunters; and Their Hunting in No-man's-land Sevier, Robertson, and the Watauga Commonwealth Lord Dunmore's War The Battle of the Great Kanawha; and Logan's Speech Boon and the Settlement of Kentucky The Southern Backwoodsmen Overwhelm the Cherokees Growth and Civil Organization of Kentucky From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi 1777-1783 The War in the Northwest Clark's Conquest of the Illinois Clark's Campaign Against Vincennes Continuance of the Struggle in Kentucky The Moravian Massacre Kentucky Until the End of the Revolution The Holston Settlements King's Mountain Robertson Founds the Cumberland Settlement What the Westerners Had Done During the Revolution The Founding of the Trans- Alleghany Commonwealths 1784-1790 The Inrush of Settlers The Indian Wars The Navigation of the Mississippi Separatist Movements and Spanish Intrigues Kentucky's Struggle for Statehood The War in the Northwest...

Author : David Dary
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015004994615

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Cowboy Culture by David Dary Pdf

Winner of the Cowboy Hall of Fame Wrangler Award, the Western Writers of America's Spur Award, and the Westerners International Best Nonfiction Book Award. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.