Australian travellers in the South Seas / / Nicholas Halter |
Autore | Halter Nicholas |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Canberra, : ANU Press, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (396 pages) |
Disciplina | 820.935894 |
Collana | Pacific |
Soggetto topico | Travelers' writings, Australian - History and criticism |
Soggetto non controllato |
travel writing
Pacific Islands Tourism travel Australian history |
ISBN | 1-76046-415-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Note -- Introduction -- 1. Fluid Boundaries and Ambiguous Identities -- 2. Steamships and Tourists -- 3. Polynesian Promises -- 4. Degrees of Savagery -- 5. In Search of a Profitable Pacific -- 6. Conflict, Convicts and the Condominium -- 7. Preserving Health and Race in the Tropics -- Conclusion -- Appendix: An Annotated Bibliography of Australian Travel Writing -- Bibliography. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910440650403321 |
Halter Nicholas
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Consolidated Gold Fields in Australia : rise and decline of a British mining house, 1926-1998 / / Robert Porter |
Autore | Porter Robert <1956-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | ANU Press, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (504 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 338.762234220968 |
Soggetto topico |
Australia
Australasian & Pacific history Colonialism & imperialism |
Soggetto non controllato |
British Mining House
Cecil Rhodes Australian history gold fields Australian gold fields |
ISBN | 1-76046-350-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | pt. 1. Context consolidated gold fields. 1. The Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa ; 2. New horizons for a British mining house -- pt. 2. Early investments in Australia. 3. Western Australian gold ; 4. Broader associations ; 5. Lake George and New Guinea -- pt. 3. A new force in Australian mining 1960 1966. 6. A new approach to Australia ; 7. New men and a new model ; 8. A range of investments -- pt. 4. Expansion, consolidation and restructuring 1966 1981. 9. Move to an Australian shareholding ; 10. Expansion and consolidation 1966 1976 ; 11. Acquisition and diversification ; 12. Portfolio challenges ; 13. Portfolio review 1975 1981 -- pt. 5. A majority Australian owned mining company 1981 1989. 14. Formation of a diversified mining company ; 15. The initial years ; 16. New interests and diversification ; 17. The challenges of the parent -- pt. 6. The final decade 1990 1998. 18. Hanson on the Register ; 19. Tumultuous years 1990 1994 ; 20. Final years ; 21. The end of an era. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910403770103321 |
Porter Robert <1956->
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History Wars : The Peter Ryan - Manning Clark Controversy |
Autore | Munro Doug |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Canberra, : ANU Press, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (230 pages) |
Soggetto topico |
Australasian & Pacific history
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 |
Soggetto genere / forma | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Soggetto non controllato |
History Wars
Culture Wars Academic controversies Manning Clark Australian history |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part 1. Wider setting. 1. Manning Clark and Peter Ryan ; 2. The Australian History Wars -- Part 2. Contention and dissension. 3. Criticisms, reaction and counter-reaction ; 4. Errors, great and small ; 5. Justified or not? ; 6. A complicit academy? -- Part 3. Ruminations. 7. Deliberation: Manning Clark and the History Wars ; 8. Reflection: Peter Ryans motives ; 9. Aftermath: The dissembling publisher, Quadrant and the History Wars. |
Altri titoli varianti | History Wars |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910508501403321 |
Munro Doug
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In from the cold : reflections on Australia's Korean War / / edited by John Blaxland, Michael Kelly and Liam Brewin Higgins |
Autore | Blaxland John |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | ANU Press, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxxvi, 312 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 951.9042 |
Soggetto topico | Korean War, 1950-1953 - Participation, Australian |
Soggetto non controllato |
Korean War
Australia military history Australian history |
ISBN | 1-76046-273-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part 1. Politics by other means: Strategic aims and responses. Setting a new paradigm in world order: the United Nations action in Korea / Robert ONeill ; The Korean War: which one? When? / Allan Millett ; Chinas war for Korea: geostrategic decisions, war fighting experience and high priced benefits from intervention, 1950 53 / Xiaobing Li ; Fighting in the giants playground: Australians in the Korean War / Cameron Forbes ; The transformation of the Republic of Korea Army: wartime expansion and doctrine changes, 1951 53 / Jongnam Na -- Part 2. Korean skies and Korean waters. The air war in Korea: Coalition air power in the context of limited war / Richard Hallion ; Offensive air operations over Korea: the first challenge for Australian naval aviation / Jack McAffrie -- Part 3. From generals to lieutenants: command in the war. Australian higher command in the Korean War: the experience of Brigadier John Wilton / David Horner ; The reliving of minor tactics: reflections of a platoon commanders war in Korea / Colin Kahn -- Part 4. The war on the ground. The Battle of Maryang San: Australias finest feat of arms in the Korean War? / Bob Breen ;Conquering Kowang San, assaulting United: myth and misunderstanding in the shade of Maryang San, October 1951 / Nigel Steel ; The Battle for Hill 317 (Maryang San): one mans account / William Purves ; The Samichon: a final barb in the Hook, 24 27 July 1953 / Michael Kelly ; Continuing the legacy and beginning a new era: Australian nursing in the Korean War / Rebecca Fleming -- Part 5. Legacies. From Korea to Vietnam: Australian strategic policy after the Korean War / Peter Edwards ; China and the Koreas: an Australian perspective / Rowan Callick -- Conclusion: Korea armistice and reflections for the twenty first century / John Blaxland. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910387757103321 |
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Power and dysfunction : the New South Wales board for the protection of Aborigines 1883-1940 / / Richard Egan |
Autore | Egan Richard (Historian) |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Canberra, : ANU Press, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (370 pages) : illustrations (black and white), colour maps, portraits |
Disciplina | 323.1199159 |
Collana | Aboriginal History Monographs |
Soggetto topico |
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of - Australia - New South Wales - History
Aboriginal Australians - Government policy - Australia - New South Wales - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | History |
Soggetto non controllato |
Aboriginal History
NSW board for the Protection of Aborigines Australian history Indigenous studies policy |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Power & dysfunction : the New South Wales board for the protection of Aborigines 1883-1940 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910508501503321 |
Egan Richard (Historian)
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Why Australia prospered [[electronic resource] ] : the shifting sources of economic growth / / Ian W. McLean |
Autore | McLean Ian W |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (299 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.994 |
Collana | The Princeton Economic History of the Western World |
Soggetto topico |
Economic development - Australia
Economics |
Soggetto non controllato |
Aboriginal economy
Aboriginals Asian industrialization Australia Australian colonies Australian economy Australian history Britain British government China European settlement European settlers First World War GDP India Korean War Second World War agriculture ancient lineage capital flows civilian consumption domestic manufacturing domestic savings drought economic fortunes economic growth economic miracles economic prosperity energy sources farming financial outlays foreign investment free immigrants gold rushes growth economics import process income level industrialization institutional innovation international economic order labor force living standards manufacturing market-oriented approach mineral production mining modernization national prosperity pastoral development per capita income policy reforms political institutions poor countries postwar economic environment poverty productivity prosperity rich economies rich economy shifting basis war outbreak wool boom wool industry world depression world energy world trading system |
ISBN |
1-283-68356-3
1-4008-4543-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Map -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Weaving Analysis and Narrative -- Chapter 2. What Is to Be Explained, and How -- Chapter 3. Origins: An Economy Built from Scratch? -- Chapter 4. Squatting, Colonial Autocracy, and Imperial Policies -- Chapter 5. Becoming Very Rich -- Chapter 6. Depression, Drought, and Federation -- Chapter 7. A Succession of Negative Shocks -- Chapter 8. The Pacific War and the Second Golden Age -- Chapter 9. Shocks, Policy Shift s, and Another Long Boom -- Chapter 10. The Shifting Bases of Prosperity -- Appendix: Note on Statistics and Sources -- References -- Index -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786369003321 |
McLean Ian W
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