Workers in Bondage

Workers in Bondage
Author: Kay Saunders
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2013-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1921902108

Based on thorough documentary research in archives and newspapers, Workers in Bondage begins with the origins of servitude during the convict era in Queensland before its separation from New South Wales in 1859. The study then focuses in on Queensland’s Pacific Islander labor force, examining the reconstruction of the Queensland sugar industry after the withdrawal of Islander labor and describing the realities of white labor and the early trade union struggles in the sugar industry. Underlying the text is an analysis of labor manipulation by capitalism in a new colony during a time of transition from slavery to indenture in the British Empire. This is a comprehensive and insightful academic examination of the little known history of the enslavement of Pacific Island workers in Australian convict-era industries, as well as a wider study of race relations in a frontier society.

An Economic History of Australia

An Economic History of Australia
Author: Edward Shann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2016-02-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1316601676

Originally published in 1930, this book provides an account of Australian economic development from 1788 up until the early twentieth century. The text is divided into three main sections: 'Convicts, Wool, and Gold 1788-1860'; 'Colonial Particularism 1860-1900'; 'The Commonwealth'. Notes are incorporated throughout. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in perspectives on the development of Australia and economic history.

State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2016

State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2016
Author: Peter Grant
Publisher: Minority Rights Group
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2016-07-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1907919805

The unique cultures of minorities and indigenous peoples worldwide – spanning a wide variety of customs and practices – are under threat. This year’s edition of State of the World’s Minorities and Indigenous Peoples highlights the impact of land dispossession, forced assimilation and other forms of discrimination on the most fundamental aspects of their identity, including language, art, traditional knowledge and spirituality. But while the effects of this attrition can be devastating, minority and indigenous cultures have also been critical in strengthening communities and providing activists with a platform to fight for their rights. As this volume illustrates, ensuring that the cultural freedoms of minorities and indigenous peoples are protected is essential if their other rights are also to be respected.

Early Days in North Queensland

Early Days in North Queensland
Author: Edward Palmer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1903
Genre: Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN:

Chap. 11; North Queensland Aborigines; Gulf country - raised sleeping benches, wet weather gunyahs; cave drawings near Cooktown, Roper R., ; Limmens Bight; canoes; black magic beliefs; astrology; cannibalism; Foods, fishing (Wide Bay); Class divisions of Yerunthully tribe.

Ruling the World

Ruling the World
Author: Alan Lester
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2021-01-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108426204

Reveals how the British Empire's governing men enforced their ideas of freedom, civilization and liberalism around the world.

The Story of the Blacks

The Story of the Blacks
Author: Charles White
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2016-09-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781537655574

The Story of the Blacks: The Aborigines of Australia by Charles White, first published in 1904. The black race of Australia will in a short time be but a memory, for the final issue in the unequal struggle between the white man and his coloured brother is not far off, and the last chapter of the history of the aborigines is even now being written. In dealing with this subject I do not purpose devoting much time to speculation concerning their origin; that is a division in which the general reader could not be expected to take any interest, howsoever attractive it may be to scientists.

Giblin's Platoon

Giblin's Platoon
Author: William Coleman
Publisher: ANU E Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2006-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1920942505

"This book tells the story of four men - L.F.Giblin, J.B. Brigden, D.B.Copland, and Roland Wilson - who, in 1920s Tasmania, formed a personal and intellectual bond that was to prove a pivot of economic thought, policy-making and institution-building in mid-century Australia."--p. ix.