Making Australian History

Author : Anna Clark
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760898526

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'Clarke brings a historian's erudition to the ideas. Absolutely engrossing and it's beautifully written. ' KATE GRENVILLE A few years ago Anna Clark saw a series of paintings on a sandstone cliff face in the Northern Territory. There were characteristic crosshatched images of fat barramundi and turtles, as well as sprayed handprints and several human figures with spears. Next to them was a long gun, painted with white ochre, an unmistakable image of the colonisers. Was this an Indigenous rendering of contact? A work of history? Each piece of history has a message and context that depends on who wrote it and when. Australian history has swirled and contorted over the years: the history wars have embroiled historians, politicians and public commentators alike, while debates over historical fiction have been as divisive. History isn’t just about understanding what happened and why. It also reflects the persuasions, politics and prejudices of its authors. Each iteration of Australia’s national story reveals not only the past in question, but also the guiding concerns and perceptions of each generation of history makers. Making Australian History is bold and inclusive: it catalogues and contextualises changing readings of the past, it examines the increasingly problematic role of historians as national storytellers, and it incorporates the stories of people.

Author : Anna Clark
Publisher : Random House Australia
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9781760898519

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Australian history has been revised and reinterpreted by successive generations of historians, writers, governments and public commentators, yet there has been no account of the ways it has changed, who makes history, and how. Making Australian History responds to this critical gap in Australian historical research.A few years ago Anna Clark saw a series of paintings on a sandstone cliff face in the Northern Territory. There were characteristic crosshatched images of fat barramundi and turtles, as well as sprayed handprints and several human figures with spears. Next to them was a long gun, painted with white ochre, an unmistakable image of the colonisers. Was this an Indigenous rendering of contact? A work of history?Each piece of history has a message and context that depends on who wrote it and when. Australian history has swirled and contorted over the years: the history wars have embroiled historians, politicians and public commentators alike, while debates over historical fiction have been as divisive. History isn't just about understanding what happened and why. It also reflects the persuasions, politics and prejudices of its authors. Each iteration of Australia's national story reveals not only the past in question, but also the guiding concerns and perceptions of each generation of history makers.Making Australian History is bold and inclusive: it catalogues and contextualises changing readings of the past, it examines the increasingly problematic role of historians as national storytellers, and it incorporates the stories of people.

Author : Deborah Gare,David Ritter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Australia
ISBN : 0170346927

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Making Australian History by Deborah Gare,David Ritter Pdf

Making Australian History: Perspectives on the past since 1788 is an exciting new text that meets an unusual gap in the literature of Australian history. It presents students with an in-depth, multi-authored collection of articles, documents and short essays that are structured around the major themes discussed in most Australian history courses.

Author : Jane Carey,Claire McLisky
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781743321331

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Creating White Australia by Jane Carey,Claire McLisky Pdf

The adoption of White Australia as government policy in 1901 demonstrates that whiteness was crucial to the ways in which the new nation of Australia was constituted. And yet, historians have largely overlooked whiteness in their studies of Australia's racial past. Creating White Australia takes a fresh approach to the question of ‘race’ in Australian history. It demonstrates that Australia's racial foundations can only be understood by recognising whiteness too as 'race'. Including contributions from some of the leading as well as emerging scholars in Australian history, it breaks new ground by arguing that ‘whiteness’ was central to the racial ideologies that created the Australian nation. This book pursues the foundations of white Australia across diverse locales. It also situates the development of Australian whiteness within broader imperial and global influences. As the recent apology to the Stolen Generations, the Northern Territory Intervention and controversies over asylum seekers reveal, the legacies of these histories are still very much with us today.

Author : Alex McDermott
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780730376439

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Australian History for Dummies by Alex McDermott Pdf

Created especially for the Australian customer! Exciting and informative history of the land down under Australian History For Dummies is your tour guide through the important events of Australia's past, introducing you to the people and events that have shaped modern Australia. Be there as British colonists explore Australia's harsh terrain with varying degrees of success. In this informative guide you'll Find out about Australia's infamous bushrangers Learn how the discovery of gold caused a tidal wave of immigration from all over the world Understand how Australia took two steps forward to become a nation in its own right in 1901, and two steps back when the government was dismissed by the Crown in 1975 Discover the fascinating details that made Australia the country it is today!

Author : Martin Crotty,David Andrew Roberts
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781921410567

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Turning Points in Australian History by Martin Crotty,David Andrew Roberts Pdf

This exciting and stimulating book looks back at turning points and crucial moments in Australian history. Rather than arguing that there have been forks on a pre-determined road, the book challenges us to think about other paths or better paths that might have led to different outcomes.

Author : Sir Henry Parkes
Publisher : London Longmans, Green 1892.
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Australia
ISBN : BSB:BSB11572378

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Fifty Years in the Making of Australian History by Sir Henry Parkes Pdf

Author : Mei-fen Kuo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1525215639

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Making Chinese Australia by Mei-fen Kuo Pdf

Making Chinese Australia demonstrates how the interpretations and narratives of journalists and editors of Chinese - Australian newspapers played a powerful role in shaping the social identities and historical awareness of Chinese Australians. Mei - fen Kuo is an Australian author.

Author : Kate Grenville
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459620018

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Searching for the Secret River by Kate Grenville Pdf

'Searching for the Secret River is the extraordinary story of how Kate Grenville came to write her award-winning novel, The Secret River. It all began with her ancestor Solomon Wiseman transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life who later became a wealthy man and built his colonial mansion on the Hawkesbury. Increasingly obse...

Author : David Hunt
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781743822043

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Girt Nation by David Hunt Pdf

David Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australia's transformation from aspiration to nation - an epic tale of charlatans and costermongers, of bush bards and bushier beards, of workers and women who weren't going to take it anymore. Girt Nation introduces Alfred Deakin, the Liberal necromancer whose dead advisors made Australia a better place to live, and Banjo Paterson, the jihadist who called on God and the Prophet to drive the Australian infidels from the Sudan 'like sand before the gale'. And meet Catherine Helen Spence, the feminist polymath who envisaged a utopian future of free contraceptives, easy divorce and immigration restrictions to prevent the 'Chinese coming to destroy all we have struggled for!' Thrill as Jandamarra leads the Bunuba against Western Australia, and Valentine Keating leads the Crutchy Push, an all-amputee street gang, against the conventionally limbed. Gasp as Essendon Football Club trainer Carl von Ledebur injects his charges with crushed dog and goat testicles. Weep as Scott Morrison's communist great-great-aunt Mary Gilmore holds a hose in New Australia. And marvel at how Labor, a political party that spent a quarter of a century infighting over how to spell its own name, ever rose to power. 'Makes you wish David Hunt had been your history teacher. Laugh-out-loud funny and you'll actually learn something.' —Mark Humphries 'An entertaining and instructive historical romp through the formative period of Australian nation-making with a colourful cast of rhymesters, revolutionaries, rebels, racists, reprobates and rabbits.' —Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, The Australian National University 'Once again, David Hunt uses his sharpened wit to chisel away at misconceptions from Australian history leaving us with the cold, hard truth of how our nation came to be.' —Osher Günsberg 'Australian history told intelligently, but with more humour than ever before ... Girt Nation is fabulous storytelling, putting meat on the bones of the national story.' —The Weekend Australian

Author : Nicolas Peterson,Lindy Allen,Louise Hamby
Publisher : Academic Monographs
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780522855685

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The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections by Nicolas Peterson,Lindy Allen,Louise Hamby Pdf

This volume of original essays brings together, for the first time, histories of the making and of the makers of most of the major Indigenous Australian museum collections. These collections are a principal source of information on how Aboriginal people lived in the past. Knowing the context in which any collection was created-the intellectual frameworks within which the collectors were working, their collecting practices, what they failed to collect, and what Aboriginal people withheld-is vital to understanding how any collection relates to the Aboriginal society from which it was derived. Once made, collections have had mixed fates: some have become the jewel of a museum's holdings, while others have been divided and dispersed across the world, or retained but neglected. The essays in this volume raise issues about representation, institutional policies, the periodisation of collecting, intellectual history, material culture studies, Aboriginal culture and the idea of a 'collection'.

Author : Kate Grenville
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459620032

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The Secret River by Kate Grenville Pdf

'Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and Australian Book Industry Awards, Book of the Year. After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children in tow, he arrives in a harsh land that feels at first like a de...

Author : David Uren
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781863957540

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Takeover by David Uren Pdf

Did the Chiko Roll change Australian history? As a matter of fact, yes. Efforts by the reviled US company IT&T to take over the company making the Roll in the early 1970s marked a turning point in Australian foreign investment policy. And this is just one of the strange twists and turns in the buying and selling of Australia. Takeover is an authoritative, engaging account of the history of foreign investment in Australia – both the economics and the politics. It explores the strange coalitions of left and right that have sought to insulate us from the world economy and the equally unpredictable forces that have embraced it. It is a story of the fights between the protectionists and free traders of the nineteenth century, of our relationships with the US, Britain, Japan and China, and of the rise of Google and Uber. Australia’s economy has been built on the back of foreign capital – alone among nations advanced or emerging, we have been able to run deficits with the world throughout our history precisely because foreigners are so keen to invest here. Yet there is an insecurity about the source of our prosperity coming from somewhere else. Where does the national interest lie, and what issues are at stake?

Author : Gwendolen Swinburne
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547063032

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A Source Book of Australian History by Gwendolen Swinburne Pdf

"A Source Book of Australian History" is a concise full history of Australia from the discovery of Tasmania to the National Australian Convention and the establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia. The book was aimed at students interested in learning the subject. Each chapter has a short synopsis at the beginning to better comprehend the subject.

Author : Allan Gyngell,Michael Wesley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0521539978

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Making Australian Foreign Policy by Allan Gyngell,Michael Wesley Pdf

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