Not Playing the Game: Sport and Australia`s Great War, Xavier Fowler

Автор: Schreuder, Deryck; Ward, Stuart
Название: Australia`s Empire
ISBN: 0199273731 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199273737
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Australia`s Empire is the first collaborative evaluation of Australia`s imperial experience in more than a generation. Bringing together poltical, cultural, and aboriginal understandings of the past, it argues that the legacies of empire continue to influence the fabric of modern Australian society.

Автор: Young Sally
Название: Paper Emperors: The Rise of Australia`s Newspaper Empires
ISBN: 1742234984 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781742234984
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Before newspapers were ravaged by the digital age, they were a powerful force, especially in Australia – a country of newspaper giants and kingmakers.This magisterial book reveals who owned Australia’s newspapers and how they used them to wield political power. A corporate and political history of Australian newspapers spanning 140 years, it explains how Australia’s media system came to be dominated by a handful of empires and powerful family dynasties. Many are household names, even now: Murdoch, Fairfax, Symes, Packer. Written with verve and insight and showing unparalleled command of a vast range of sources, Sally Young shows how newspaper owners influenced policy-making, lobbied and bullied politicians, and shaped internal party politics.The book begins in 1803 with Australia’s first newspaper owner – a convict who became a wealthy bank owner – giving the industry a blend of notoriety, power and wealth from the start. Throughout the twentieth century, Australians were unaware that they were reading newspapers owned by secret bankrupts and failed land boomers, powerful mining magnates, Underbelly-style gangsters, bankers, and corporate titans. It ends with the downfall of Menzies in 1941 and his conviction that a handful of press barons brought him down. The intervening years are packed with political drama, business machinations and a struggle for readers, all while peddling power and influence.It’s an ambitious media and political history, the likes of whichhaven’t been undertaken before in Australia.Explores some of the most interesting and important episodes andrelationships from the birth of the Australian newspaper industryto the 1940s.Newspapers purport to hold the powerful to account but are rarelyheld to account about their own history and influenceSally Young is one of Australia’s leading media historians, and this is a magisterial workPacked with colourful detail, ambitious, grasping characters

Автор: Bergantz Alexis
Название: French Connection: Australia`s Cosmopolitan Ambitions
ISBN: 1742237096 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781742237091
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The French have long been part of the Australian story. From talented gold fields photographer Antoine Fauchery and infighting in the upper echelons of Melbourne society as to who should run Alliance Française to the Playoust family whose Australian-born sons enlisted with the French army in the First World War.
French Connection paints an intricate portrait of the complex connections between the two nations. Alexis Bergantz provides a fascinating insight into how the idea of France influenced a new colony anxious to prove itself. Eager to demarcate themselves from Britain, many Australians saw France as a more cosmopolitan – and decadent – alternative to a stodgy Victorian world order.

Ironically, many of the French in Australia were not exactly the crème de la crème and they too navigated a world of lofty dreams and ideas that were often a far cry from reality. But what exactly did Australian colonists see when they looked to France? How much did the French presence in the Pacific loom over such ideas? And what did the French in Australia themselves make of it all?

Автор: Lachlan Strahan
Название: Justice in Kelly Country: The Story of the Cop Who Hunted Australias Most Notorious Bushrangers
ISBN: 192263350X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781922633507
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Описание: Partway through the Jerilderie Letter, Ned Kelly accused Senior Constable Anthony Strahan of threatening him: he would shoot me ... like a dog. Those few fateful words have echoed through Australian history and been the cause of much bloodshed and violence. They ushered in a national myth: the legend of the Kelly Gang. In the two days after Anthony reputedly made his threat, Ned and his gang shot dead three police in an event now known as the Stringybark Creek killings. Neds reason for opening fire? He thought one cop was Anthony. Lachlan Strahan, Anthonys great-great-grandson, grew up believing Ned Kelly was a heroic outlaw and Anthony the ruthless cop who pursued him. Yet as Lachlan began to explore his ancestors life, he discovered an alternative story. Drawing on letters, police reports and newspapers, Lachlan pieces together the life of Anthony Strahan - a tempestuous Irish immigrant who embodied the thin blue line in the bush for 35 years. Bent on justice, he hunted some of the periods most infamous bushrangers, petty criminals and cattle-stealers. Yet his years-long pursuit of Ned Kelly was never publicly acknowledged, and after his death, the Kelly legend grew to distort his legacy. Did Anthony utter those incendiary words about Ned? Whose version of history do we believe? This is a tale about justice and retribution, morality and vengeance. It is about making a life against the odds in a wild frontier society. It is also a story of inheritance: of the words passed from father to son, and the myths we choose to preserve.

Автор: Tyquin Michael
Название: Madness and the Military: Australia`s Experience of Shell Shock in the Great War
ISBN: 192598446X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781925984460
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Описание: What happened to soldiers who suffered psychologically in the First World War? Here, this long-ignored aspect of Australian military history is closely and compassionately examined and linked with so-called shell shock and moral injury.

Автор: Fielding Marcus
Название: Les Knight: Australia`s Dambuster
ISBN: 0648355284 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780648355281
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Les Knight, a young man from Camberwell, Victoria was like many who joined to serve his country during the Second World War. But unlike many others his skill as a Lancaster pilot enabled him to successfully breach the Eder Dam in the now infamous Dambusters Raid. At the age of 22 Les was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and became a national hero.

But his war service continued and four months after the Dambusters Raid his aircraft was badly damaged. On this occasion Les' skill and bravery were again on display as he held the stricken plane steady to allow his seven crewmates to be able to bale out.

Then, as he searched for a place to ditch the aircraft, he steered clear of a Dutch village in order to avoid any civilian injuries. The aircraft hit the ground hard, cartwheeled and Les was killed.

Five of the seven crew members were able to evade being captured by the Germans and with the help of underground movements were returned to England. The other two were captured and detained in POW camps until war's end. All seven returned home to continue their lives, marry and have children. Their lives are Les' legacy.

This is the remarkable story of one brave Australian who answered his country's calling and who demonstrated courage far beyond expectation. His gravestone carries the inscription 'Let us be Worthy'. The village of Den Ham have never forgotten the bravery of this young Australian pilot. His grave has always been immaculately kept.

Автор: Allen, Richard Baker, Kimbal
Название: Australia`s first families of wine
ISBN: 0522875203 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780522875201
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Australia's First Families of Wine celebrates eleven of Australia's most iconic and important wine families and the vineyards and businesses they have built. With more than 5,000 hectares under vine, the families operate in sixteen wine-growing regions around Australia. They make many of Australia's most distinctive wines and all are household names: Brown Brothers, Tahbilk, Campbells, Yalumba, Henschke, d'Arenberg, Jim Barry, Taylors, McWilliam's, Tyrell's and Howard Park. Australia's First Families of Wine showcases the colourful histories of these spectacular vineyards and historic buildings, exploring the wine industry's transformation into an export-earning powerhouse and detailing the challenges of taking old family businesses into the 21st century.

Автор: Barrkman Joanna
Название: Aboriginal Screen-Printed Textiles from Australia`s Top End
ISBN: 0998044504 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780998044507
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Aboriginal Screen-Printed Textiles from Australia’s Top End presents the work of contemporary Australian textile artists working at five Aboriginal-owned art centers in the Northern Territory: Tiwi Design, Jilamara Arts and Crafts Association, Injalak Arts and Crafts Aboriginal Corporation, B?bbarra Women’s Centre, and Merrepen Arts, Culture and Language. This book traces the history of textile screen printing at these art centers, from its beginnings in the late 1960s to its recent emergence as a vibrant contemporary art form for Aboriginal expression. A profile of each art center is followed by representative artworks. Essays by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal scholars, curators, and practitioners discuss the history, inspiration, and practical processes underlying these striking creations; the ways screen-printed textile designs express the artists’ cultures, identities, and connections to lands; and the art centers’ collaborations with fashion and interior designers.

Автор: Webster Anthony
Название: The Foundation of Australia`s Capital Cities: Geology, Landscape, and Urban Character
ISBN: 1498597955 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498597951
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Описание: The Foundation of Australia`s Capital Cities is the story of how the places chosen for Australia`s seven colonial capitals came to shape their unique urban character and built environments, resulting in development patterns than have persisted today.

Автор: Johnson, Murray
Название: Australia`s ancient aboriginal past
ISBN: 192500371X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781925003710
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: Places the Aboriginal occupation of Australia into a broad framework of human evolution and habitation with a selection of pioneering studies that delve into the mists of antiquity and current controversies.

Автор: Lim
Название: Australia`s Constitution after Whitlam
ISBN: 1107119464 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107119468
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book offers scholars and students of law, legal theory and history a new treatment of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. It traces the emergence of this fundamental constitutional debate in the turbulent Whitlam years and chronicles its subsequent iterations in institutional configurations.

Автор: Dewhirst Catherine, Scully Richard
Название: The Transnational Voices of Australia`s Migrant and Minority Press
ISBN: 3030436381 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030436384
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This edited collection invites the reader to enter the diverse worlds of Australia`s migrant and minority communities through the latest research on the contemporary printed press, spanning the mid-nineteenth century to our current day.