The Royal Navy In Indigenous Australia 1795 1855

Author : Daniel Simpson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030600976

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The Royal Navy in Indigenous Australia, 1795–1855 by Daniel Simpson Pdf

This book offers the first in-depth enquiry into the origins of 135 Indigenous Australian objects acquired by the Royal Navy between 1795 and 1855 and held now by the British Museum. In response to increasing calls for the ‘decolonisation’ of museums and the restitution of ethnographic collections, the book seeks to return knowledge of the moments, methods, and motivations whereby Indigenous Australian objects were first collected and sent to Britain. By structuring its discussion in terms of three key ‘stages’ of a typical naval voyage to Australia—departure from British shores, arrival on the continent’s coasts, and eventual return to port—the book offers a nuanced and multifaceted understanding of the pathways followed by these 135 objects into the British Museum. The book offers important new understandings of Indigenous Australian peoples’ reactions to naval visitors, and contains a wealth of original research on the provenance and meaning of some of the world’s oldest extant Indigenous Australian object collections.

Author : Howard Morphy,Robyn McKenzie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000515541

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Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value by Howard Morphy,Robyn McKenzie Pdf

Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value focuses on the ways in which museums and the use of their collections have contributed to, and continue to be engaged with, value creation processes. Including chapters from many of the leading figures in museum anthropology, as well as from outstanding early-career researchers, this volume presents a diverse range of international case studies that bridge the gap between theory and practice. It demonstrates that ethnographic collections and the museums that hold and curate them have played a central role in the value creation processes that have changed attitudes to cultural differences. The essays engage richly with many of the important issues of contemporary museum discourse and practice. They show how collections exist at the ever-changing point of articulation between the source communities and the people and cultures of the museum and challenge presentist critiques of museums that position them as locked into the time that they emerged. Museums, Societies and the Creation of Value provides examples of the productive outcomes of collaborative work and relationships, showing how they can be mutually beneficial. The book will be of great interest to researchers and students engaged in the study of museums and heritage, anthropology, culture, Indigenous peoples, postcolonialism, history and sociology. It will also be of interest to museum professionals.

Author : Anna Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009195928

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The Antipodean Laboratory by Anna Johnston Pdf

Johnston shows how colonial knowledge from Australia influenced global thinking about religion, science, and society. Using a rich variety of sources including botanical illustrations, Victorian literature and convict memoirs, this multi-disciplinary study charts how new ways of identifying ideas were forged and circulated between colonies.

Author : Jessie Mitchell
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781921862113

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In Good Faith? by Jessie Mitchell Pdf

In the early decades of the 19th century, Indigenous Australians suffered devastating losses at the hands of British colonists, who largely ignored their sovereignty and even their humanity. At the same time, however, a new wave of Christian humanitarians were arriving in the colonies, troubled by Aboriginal suffering and arguing that colonists had

Author : Marsden Hordern
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780522863574

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King of the Australian Coast by Marsden Hordern Pdf

Phillip Parker King has been described as the greatest of Australia’s early marine surveyors. But while the achievements of Cook and Flinders are widely known, this is the first telling of King’s story. Unlike Cook and Flinders, King was Australian-born—the son of Philip Gidley King, governor of New South Wales. In a series of gruelling voyages between 1817 and 1822, King charted most of the north-west coast of Australia from the eastern tip of Arnhem Land all the way round to Cape Leeuwin and King George Sound. He surveyed Macquarie Harbour in Van Diemen’s Land and the treacherous waters inside the Great Barrier Reef, filling gaps in the work of his famous predecessors. Marsden Hordern, a splendid storyteller, creates for the reader a sense of following, engrossed, in King’s wake. The hazards of reefs, shoals and tides are ever-present, as is delight in unfamiliar wildlife and curiosity about the Aboriginal people. The question left hanging is whether King might be better known today had he been a less capable, good and faithful servant of the Crown, and more inclined to the excess and ineptitude of certain other early explorers. Winner of the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award for General History. Companion volume to Mariners are Warned!, another prize-winning maritime biography by the same author.

Author : Charles Smith Morris,Daniel Garrison Brinton,Marcus Benjamin,Amos Emerson Dolbear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NYPL:33433003239849

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The American Educator by Charles Smith Morris,Daniel Garrison Brinton,Marcus Benjamin,Amos Emerson Dolbear Pdf

Author : Elections Canada
Publisher : Chief Electoral Officer of Canada
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000061501614

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A History of the Vote in Canada by Elections Canada Pdf

Cet ouvrage couvre la période qui va de 1758 à nos jours.

Author : Felix Driver ,Mark Nesbitt,Caroline Cornish
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781787355088

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Mobile Museums by Felix Driver ,Mark Nesbitt,Caroline Cornish Pdf

Mobile Museums presents an argument for the importance of circulation in the study of museum collections, past and present. It brings together an impressive array of international scholars and curators from a wide variety of disciplines – including the history of science, museum anthropology and postcolonial history - to consider the mobility of collections. The book combines historical perspectives on the circulation of museum objects in the past with contemporary accounts of their re-mobilisation, notably in the context of Indigenous community engagement. Contributors seek to explore processes of circulation historically in order to re-examine, inform and unsettle common assumptions about the way museum collections have evolved over time and through space. By foregrounding questions of circulation, the chapters in Mobile Museums collectively represent a fundamental shift in the understanding of the history and future uses of museum collections. The book addresses a variety of different types of collection, including the botanical, the ethnographic, the economic and the archaeological. Its perspective is truly global, with case studies drawn from South America, West Africa, Oceania, Australia, the United States, Europe and the UK. Mobile Museums helps us to understand why the mobility of museum collections was a fundamental aspect of their history and why it continues to matter today. Praise for Mobile Museums 'This book advances a paradigm shift in studies of museums and collections. A distinguished group of contributors reveal that collections are not dead assemblages. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries were marked by vigorous international traffic in ethnography and natural history specimens that tell us much about colonialism, travel and the history of knowledge – and have implications for the remobilisation of museums in the future.’ – Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge 'The first major work to examine the implications and consequences of the migration of materials from one scientific or cultural milieu to another, it highlights the need for a more nuanced understanding of collections and offers insights into their potential for future re-mobilisation.' – Arthur MacGregor

Author : Simon Ville,Glenn Withers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781316194485

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The Cambridge Economic History of Australia by Simon Ville,Glenn Withers Pdf

Australia's economic history is the story of the transformation of an indigenous economy and a small convict settlement into a nation of nearly 23 million people with advanced economic, social and political structures. It is a history of vast lands with rich, exploitable resources, of adversity in war, and of prosperity and nation building. It is also a history of human behaviour and the institutions created to harness and govern human endeavour. This account provides a systematic and comprehensive treatment of the nation's economic foundations, growth, resilience and future, in an engaging, contemporary narrative. It examines key themes such as the centrality of land and its usage, the role of migrant human capital, the tension between development and the environment, and Australia's interaction with the international economy. Written by a team of eminent economic historians, The Cambridge Economic History of Australia is the definitive study of Australia's economic past and present.

Author : Keith Smith
Publisher : Rosenberg Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 1921719001

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Mari Nawi by Keith Smith Pdf

This book reveals the significant role Aboriginal men and women played in Australia's early maritime history. Its focus is the Indigenous people who sailed on English ships through Port Jackson to destinations throughout the world in the period 1790-1850. Theirs was a canoe culture and they called the foreign ships mari nawi, meaning 'large canoes.' With remarkable resilience, they became guides, go-betweens, boatmen, sailors, sealers, steersmen, whalers, pilots, and trackers - valued for their skills and knowledge. Some, such as Musquito, Bulldog, and Dual, were exiled as Aboriginal 'convicts.' These seafarers faced cruel seas, winds, and currents. Some survived shipwrecks or were marooned for months without supplies on isolated islands. They sailed the Australian coast to sealing and whaling grounds in Bass Strait, to the icy sub-Antarctic and New Zealand, and to international destinations like Timor, Mauritius, Bengal, Britain, Canada, Hawaii, Tahiti, San Francisco, and Rio de Janeiro. Mari Nawi: Aboriginal Odysseys is illustrated with rarely seen portraits, landscapes, and ship images by English, French, and Russian artists. The book is based on previously unpublished sources, such as ship's musters, logs, journals, dispatches, and shipping records.

Author : Surekha Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107036673

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Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human by Surekha Davies Pdf

Davies examines how Renaissance illustrated maps shaped ideas about peoples of the Americas, revealing relationships between civility, savagery and monstrosity.

Author : W.H. De Puy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries, American
ISBN : UIUC:30112063938085

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The Century Reference Library of Universal Knowledge by W.H. De Puy Pdf

Author : Barbara Dawson
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781925021974

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In the Eye of the Beholder by Barbara Dawson Pdf

This book offers a fresh perspective in the debate on settler perceptions of Indigenous Australians. It draws together a suite of little known colonial women (apart from Eliza Fraser) and investigates their writings for what they reveal about their attitudes to, views on and beliefs about Aboriginal people, as presented in their published works. The way that reader expectations and publishers’ requirements slanted their representations forms part of this analysis. All six women write of their first-hand experiences on Australian frontiers of settlement. The division into ‘adventurers’ (Eliza Fraser, Eliza Davies and Emily Cowl) and longer-term ‘settlers’ (Katherine Kirkland, Mary McConnel and Rose Scott Cowen) allows interrogation into the differing representations between those with a transitory knowledge of Indigenous people and those who had a close and more permanent relationship with Indigenous women, even encompassing individual friendship. More pertinently, the book strives to reveal the aspects, largely overlooked in colonial narratives, of Indigenous agency, authority and individuality.

Author : Charles White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Australia
ISBN : NYPL:33433075953244

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Convict Life in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land by Charles White Pdf

Author : Sarah Carter,Patricia Alice McCormack
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781897425824

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Recollecting by Sarah Carter,Patricia Alice McCormack Pdf

Recollecting is a rich collection of essays that illuminate the lives of late eighteenth-century to the mid twentieth-century Aboriginal women, who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West. Some essays focus on individual women - a trader, a performer, a non-human woman - while others examine cohorts of women - wives, midwives, seamstresses, nuns. Authors look beyond the documentary record and standard representations of women, drawing also on records generated by the women themselves, including their beadwork, other material culture, and oral histories.