1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990003307500403321

Autore

Britton, James

Titolo

Language and learning / James Britton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Harmondsworth, : Pelican Books, 1982

Descrizione fisica

298 p. ; 18 cm

Collana

A Pelican book

Disciplina

401

Locazione

DECLI

Collocazione

401 BRI

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996390454503316

Autore

N. N

Titolo

An account of the defeat of Count Teckely and of his being slain [[electronic resource] ] : together with a total rout, given to the Turkish army by the united forces of the Christian Emperour and the King of Poland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by E. Mallet, [1683]

Descrizione fisica

1 sheet (2 p.)

Soggetti

Turco-Polish Wars, 1683-1699

Austro-Turkish War, 1683-1699

Broadsides17th century.England

Poland History John III Sobieski, 1674-1696

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Signed at end: N.N.

Date of publication from Wing.



"Entred according to order"

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786618603321

Autore

Driscoll Catherine

Titolo

The Australian country girl : history, image, experience / / Catherine Driscoll

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Ashgate, , 2016

ISBN

1-4724-0109-3

1-317-04090-2

1-317-04089-9

1-315-61381-6

1-4094-4689-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Disciplina

305.40994

Soggetti

Rural girls - Australia

Rural women - Australia

Country life - Australia

Rural-urban relations - Australia

Women - Australia - Identity

Sociology, Rural - Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'The Australian Country Girl'; Part I: Assembling Australian  Country Girlhood; 1 Becoming a Country Girl (Gough, Kate, the CWA, and Me); 2 Miss Showgirl (Rural Girlhood and Representation); Part II: History, Image, Experience; 3 The Bush-Girl (a Pastoral); 4 The Country Town Girl (a Soap Opera); Part III: Place and Practice; 5 Subjects of Distance:  (Country) Girl Culture Capital; 6 Home Economics (Nowhere to Go,



Nothing to Do); 7 Ex-Country Girls (a Human Geography); Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Australia, 'country girl' names a field of experiences and life-stories by girls and women who have grown up outside of the demographically dominant urban centres. It also names a set of ideas about Australia that is surprisingly consistent across the long twentieth century despite also working as an index of changing times. This book offers a fresh perspective on this history and a new focus on the ever-changing experience of Australian rural life. It argues that the country girl has not only been a long-standing counterpart to the Australian bush man she has, more importantly, figured as