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Fashioned from Penury - Dress as Cultural Practice in Colonial Australia by Margaret Maynard
Category: Fashion | Series: Studies in Australian History Ser.
From the first white settlement clothing was of vast social significance to Australians. It was central to the ways class and status were negotiated and equally significant for marking out sexual differences. Dress was implicated in definitions of morality, in the relationship between Europeans and Abor ...Show more
Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia by Tom Griffiths
Category: Australian History | Series: Studies in Australian History
Hunters and Collectors is about historical consciousness and environmental sensibilities in European Australia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is in part a collective biography of amateur antiquarians, archaeologists, naturalists, journalists and historians: people who shaped the Aust ...Show more
The Captive Republic - A History of Republicanism in Australia 1788-1996 by Mark McKenna
Category: History | Series: Studies in Australian History Ser.
This first comprehensive history of republican thought and activity in Australia traces debate around an Australian republic from 1788 to the present. It explains the pivotal role played by republican philosophies, both before and after federation, and illustrates the striking similarities between the a ...Show more
The Rule of Law in a Penal Colony - Law and Politics in Early New South Wales by David Neal
Category: History | Series: Studies in Australian History Ser.
Ironically, the first civil case to be heard in Australia occurred at the behest of two convicts under sentence. Of course, convicts had first-hand experience of criminal law, but all the settlers were part of a culture which emphasised the rule of law as the guarantee of its fundamental political value ...Show more
To Constitute a Nation - A Cultural History of Australia's Constitution by Helen Irving
Category: Fiction | Series: Studies in Australian History Ser.
This imaginative and resonant book looks at the constitution as a cultural artifact. Irving looks beyond the well-known events, places and figures to locate federation and the constitution in the context of broader social, political and cultural changes. Despite its paradoxical construction, there is so ...Show more
Woman Suffrage in Australia by Audrey Oldfield
Category: History | Series: Studies in Australian History Ser.
With the granting of the vote to women in 1902 Australian suffragist Rose Scott told male politicians that their names would be remembered when the names of the suffragettes had been forgotten. Her words have held true for the best part of this century, until the publication of this 1993 book. Woman Suf ...Show more
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