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Author | : Ian Warden |
Publisher | : National Library Australia |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0642277788 |
This book is a collection of virtual time-travellings back to Australiae(tm)s past. AustralianHistory Live! is a compelling look at Australian history using first person accounts asreported in the press and in journals and diaries. Included in the collection are grippingaccounts of occasions both great and minor. Here you can find the heart wrenchingaccount of a bewildered little terrier dog refusing to leave the bayoneted dead body ofits master just killed at the Eureka Stockade. Read an amazing description of BertHinkler landing his absurdly tiny little aeroplane (hee(tm)d just flown it across the world in aworld-record time) on the straight at Flemington Racecourse. Share scientist FrancisRatcliffee(tm)s experience of being caught and shaken by a very wild willy-willy.
Author | : Frank Bongiorno |
Publisher | : Black Inc. |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2015-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1921870664 |
Winner of the 2013 ACT Book of the Year Award. Cross-dressing colonists, effeminate bushrangers and women-shortage woes – here is the first ever history of sex in Australia, from Botany Bay to the present-day In this highly readable social history, Frank Bongiorno uses striking examples to chart the changing sex lives of Australians. He shows how an overwhelmingly male penal colony gave rise to a rough and ready culture: the scarcity of women made for strange bedfellows, and the female minority was both powerful and vulnerable. Then came the Victorian era, in which fears of sodomy helped bring an end to the transportation of convicts. The twentieth century saw the rise of the sex expert. Tracing the story up to the present, Bongiorno shows how the quest for respectability always has another side to it, and how the contraceptive pill changed so much. Along the way he raises some intriguing questions – What did it mean to be a ‘mate’? How did modern warfare affect soldiers’ attitudes to sex? Why did the law ignore lesbianism for so long? – and introduces some remarkable characters, both reformers and radicals. This is a thought-provoking story of sex in Australia. With a foreword by Michael Kirby, AC CMG. Shortlisted for the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Awards and the 2013 NSW Premier's History Awards. “Bongiorno has written a major synthesis of an aspect too often forgotten in our historical memories.” - Australian Book Review 'Engaging, open-minded and humorous' – Bookseller+Publisher Magazine “Frank Bongiorno’s The Sex Lives of Australians is one of the most important works of Australian history to be published in the last decade.” - H-Net Review Frank Bongiorno is associate professor of history at the Australian National University and the co-author of A Little History of the Australian Labor Party (2011). He was the London correspondent for Inside Story and has been a regular contributor to the Canberra Times.
Author | : Anisa Puri |
Publisher | : Australian History |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : 9781922235787 |
'Life is long. When you're forty-eight, there's been a lot of stuff that's happened (laughs). It's got elements of comedy and there are elements of heartache and drama and thriller and it's got so many things in it.' Rhonda King, born 1965 'I really like the idea that in maybe a hundred years someone could listen and hear about my life to learn about what living in 2012 or 2013 was like. Think that's really cool.' Adam Farrow-Palmer, born 1988 Australian Lives: An Intimate History illuminates Australian life across the 20th and into the 21st century: how Australian people have been shaped by the forces and expectations of contemporary history and how, in turn, they have made their lives and created Australian society. From oral history interviews with Australians born between 1920 and 1989, fifty narrators reflect on their diverse experiences as children and teenagers, in midlife and in old age, about faith, migration, work and play, aspiration and activism, memory and identity, pain and happiness. In Australian Lives you can read and in the e-version of the book listen to the comedy, heartache and drama of ordinary Australians' extraordinary lives. As our interviewee Kim Bear (born 1959) explains, 'Stories are a great way to inform people about what it is to be human. Even if you say one thing that resonates...there's that connection made.'
Author | : Robert Darlington |
Publisher | : Jacaranda |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2017-11-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780730346630 |
Author | : ANISA PURI AND ALISTAIR. THOMSON |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017 |
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ISBN | : 9781525253386 |
Author | : National Library of Australia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : HISTORY |
ISBN | : 9780642277602 |
This book is a collection of virtual time-travellings back to Australia's past. Australian History Live! is a compelling look at Australian history using first person accounts as reported in the press and in journals and diaries. Included in the collection are gripping accounts of occasions both great and minor. Here you can find the heart wrenching account of a bewildered little terrier dog refusing to leave the bayoneted dead body of its master just killed at the Eureka Stockade. Read an amazing description of Bert Hinkler landing his absurdly tiny little aeroplane (he'd just flown it across.
Author | : Bruce Pascoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2015-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781922142436 |
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing - behaviors inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag. Gerritsen and Gammage in their latest books support this premise but Pascoe takes this further and challenges the hunter-gatherer tag as a convenient lie. Almost all the evidence comes from the records and diaries of the Australian explorers, impeccable sources.
Author | : Robert Darlington |
Publisher | : Jacaranda |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2017-11-27 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : 9780730346517 |
Author | : Martyn Lyons |
Publisher | : UNSW Press |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780868407906 |
Australia's History: Themes and Debates presents an up-to-date account of issues and debates in Australian history. Written for students and readers who may not be familiar with Australian history, this short volume offers an introduction to the current state of knowledge and issues of concern to Australian historians today. A team of leading contributors tackle major themes related to Aboriginal history. They offer a synthesis of existing work and their own original research that challenges prevailing myths. The result is a succinct appraisal of the exciting and topical issues that inform Australian history-writing now.
Author | : Nick Dyrenfurth |
Publisher | : UNSW Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781742232843 |
Celebrating the 120th anniversary of the Australian Labor Party (ALP)-one of the oldest labor parties in the world and the first to form a government-this short and lively book recounts ALP's history from its origins during the late 19th century through present day. The book details the party's numerous successes in winning government at all levels and its policymaking that has transformed lives, as well as demonstrating how the ALP has attracted an extraordinary range of members, parliamentary representatives, leaders, unionists, activists and, indeed, opponents. The ALP has been a central force in Australia throughout the 20th century, and this concise chronicle tells the story of their triumphs and crises, their colorful characters and famed members, and their evolving aspirations. Nick Dyrenfurth is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Sydney. Frank Bongiorno is a senior lecturer at the Menzies Center for Australian Studies and Department of History at King's College London.