Mad on Radium: New Zealand in the Atomic Age, Rebecca Priestley

Автор: Roger F. Robison
Название: Mining and Selling Radium and Uranium
ISBN: 3319118293 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319118291
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Presented here is the story of the mining and sale of uranium and radium ore through biographical vignettes, chemistry, physics, geology, geography, occupational health, medical utilization, environmental safety and industrial history.

Автор: Stephen Mullins
Название: Octopus Crowd: Maritime History and the Business of Australian Pearling in Its Schooner Age
ISBN: 0817320245 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780817320249
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: A detailed study of the origins and demise of schooner-based pearling in Australia. For most of its history, Australian pearling was a shore-based activity. But from the mid-1880s until the World War I era, the industry was dominated by highly mobile, heavily capitalized, schooner-based fleets of pearling luggers, known as floating stations, that exploited Australia's northern continental shelf and the nearby waters of the Netherlands Indies. Octopus Crowd:Maritime History and the Business of Australian Pearling in Its Schooner Age is the first book-length study of schooner-based pearling and explores the floating station system and the men who developed and employed it.   Steve Mullins focuses on the Clark Combination, a syndicate led by James Clark, Australia's most influential pearler. The combination honed the floating station system to the point where it was accused of exhausting pearling grounds, elbowing out small-time operators, strangling the economies of pearling ports, and bringing the industry to the brink of disaster. Combination partners were vilified as monopolists—they were referred to as an ""octopus crowd""—and their schooners were stigmatized as hell ships and floating sweatshops.   Schooner-based floating stations crossed maritime frontiers with impunity, testing colonial and national territorial jurisdictions. The Clark Combination passed through four fisheries management regimes, triggering significant change and causing governments to alter laws and extend maritime boundaries. It drew labor from ports across the Asia-Pacific, and its product competed in a volatile world market. Octopus Crowd takes all these factors into account to explain Australian pearling during its schooner age. It argues that the demise of the floating station system was not caused by resource depletion, as was often predicted, but by ideology and Australia's shifting sociopolitical landscape.

Автор: Isobelle Barrett Meyering
Название: Feminism and the Making of a Child Rights Revolution: 1969-1979
ISBN: 0522877834 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780522877830
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: When Australian women's liberationists challenged prevailing expectations of female domesticity, they were accused of being anti-mother and anti-child. Feminism and the Making of a Child Rights Revolution provides a much-needed reassessment of this stereotype. Drawing on extensive archival research and personal accounts, it places feminists at the forefront of a new wave of children's rights activism that went beyond calls for basic protections for children, instead demanding their liberation. Historian Isobelle Barrett Meyering revisits this revolutionary approach and charts the debates it sparked within the women's movement. Her examination of feminists' ground-breaking campaigns on major social issues of the 1970s-from childcare to sex education to family violence-also reveals women's concerted efforts to apply this ideal in their personal lives and to support children's own activism. Feminism and the Making of a Child Rights Revolution sheds light on the movement's expansive vision for social change and its lasting impact on the way we view the rights of women and children.

Автор: Heather Dalton
Название: Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion, and Exile, 1550-1850
ISBN: 9463722319 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789463722315
Издательство: NBN International
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Описание: Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion, and Exile, 1550--1850 brings together eleven original essays by an international group of scholars, each investigating how family, or the idea of family, was maintained or reinvented when husbands, wives, children, apprentices, servants or slaves separated, or faced separation, from their household. The result is a fresh and geographically wide-ranging discussion about the nature of family and its intersection with travel over three hundred years -- a period during which roles and relationships, within and between households, were increasingly affected by trade, settlement, and empire building. The imperial project may have influenced different regions in different ways at different times yet, as this collection reveals, families, especially those transcending national ties and traditional boundaries, were central to its progress. Together, these essays bring new understandings of the foundations of our interconnected world and of the people who contributed to it.

Автор: Matthew Lavine
Название: The First Atomic Age
ISBN: 1349455474 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349455478
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: At the close of the 19th century, strange new forms of energy arrested the American public`s attention in ways that no scientific discovery ever had before. This groundbreaking cultural history tells the story of the first nuclear culture, one whose lasting effects would be seen in the familiar "atomic age" of the post-war twentieth century.

Автор: Melosi, Martin V.
Название: Atomic age america
ISBN: 0205742548 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780205742547
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Atomic Age America looks at the broad influence of atomic energy, focusing particularly on nuclear weapons and nuclear power on the lives of Americans within a world context.

Автор: Fox Alastair
Название: Coming-Of-Age Cinema in New Zealand
ISBN: 1474429459 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474429450
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This is the first book to investigate the coming-of-age genre as a significant phenomenon in New Zealand`s national cinema, tracing its development and elucidating its role in cultural change.

Автор: Andersson, Axel
Название: Hero for the atomic age
ISBN: 1788742753 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788742757
Издательство: Peter Lang
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In English and many other languages the name «Kon-Tiki» is a byword for adventure and the exotic. The journey of the Kon-Tiki from Peru to Polynesia in 1947 became one of the founding myths of the postwar world. In the voyage of six Scandinavians and a parrot on a balsa raft across the Pacific Ocean the classic journey of discovery was re-invented for generations to come. Kon-Tiki spoke of heroism, masculinity, free-spirited rebellion against scientific dogmatism, and the promise of an attainable exotic world, while it updated these mythological staples to fit the times. After years of relentless media exploitation of the 101-day raft journey, Heyerdahl emerged as the protagonist in a legend that helped to create a new postwar West. A Hero for the Atomic Age tells the story of how Heyerdahl organized an expedition to sail a balsa raft from Callao in Peru to the Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia, and explains how he turned this physical crossing into an epic narrative that became imbued with a universal appeal. The book also addresses the problematic nature of Heyerdahl’s theory that a white culture-bearing race had initiated all the world’s great civilizations.

Автор: Lavine
Название: The First Atomic Age
ISBN: 1137307218 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137307217
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: At the close of the 19th century, strange new forms of energy arrested the American public`s attention in ways that no scientific discovery ever had before. This groundbreaking cultural history tells the story of the first nuclear culture, one whose lasting effects would be seen in the familiar "atomic age" of the post-war twentieth century.