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  • 1
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    A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong : The Diaries of Chaloner Alabaster, 1855–1856 (2023)
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    ISBN: 9781760465926 , 9781760465919
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (234 p.)
    Keywords: Alabaster, Chaloner Diaries ; Alabaster, Chaloner - 1838-1898 ; 1840-1842 ; Diplomats Diaries ; English diaries ; Diplomatic and consular service, British Diaries ; Diaries, letters & journals ; Asian history ; Colonialism & imperialism ; Diplomates - Grande-Bretagne - Journaux intimes ; Journaux intimes anglais - Chine - Hongkong ; Service diplomatique et consulaire britannique - Chine - Hongkong - Journaux intimes ; Diplomatic and consular service, British ; Diplomatic relations ; Diplomats ; English diaries ; diaries ; Diaries ; History ; Personal narratives ; Diaries ; Journaux intimes ; China Personal narratives History Opium War, 1840-1842 ; Great Britain Foreign relations ; Hong Kong (China) Foreign relations ; Chine - Histoire - 1840-1842 (Guerre de l'opium) - Récits personnels ; Grande-Bretagne - Relations extérieures - Chine - Hongkong ; China ; China - Hong Kong ; Great Britain ; Hong Kong ; Alabaster ; Victorian period ; China Consular Service ; diary
    Abstract: In August 1855, 16-year-old Chaloner Alabaster left England for Hong Kong, to take up a position as a student interpreter in the China Consular Service. He would stay for almost 40 years, climbing the rungs of the service and eventually becoming consul-general of Canton. When he retired he returned to England and received a knighthood. He died in 1898. Throughout his adult life, Alabaster kept diaries. In the first four volumes of these diaries, collected here by Benjamin Penny, the teenage Alabaster recorded his thoughts and observations, told himself anecdotes, and exploded in outbursts of anger and frustration. He was young and enthusiastic, and the everyday sights, sounds and smells of Hong Kong were novel to him. He describes how the Chinese people around him ironed clothes, dried flour and threshed rice; how they gambled, prepared their food and made bean curd; and what opera, new year festivities and the birthday of the Heavenly Empress were like. Like many a young Victorian, he was also a keen observer of natural history, fascinated by fireflies and ants, corals and sea slugs, and the volcanic origins of the landscape. Alabaster's diaries are a unique, vibrant and riveting record of life in the young British colony on the cusp of the Second Opium War. With A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong, Penny sheds new light on the history of the region
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    Archaeological Perspectives on Conflict and Warfare in Australia and the Pacific (2022)
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    ISBN: 9781760464899 , 9781760464882
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (280 p.)
    Keywords: Australasian & Pacific history ; Archaeology
    Abstract: When James Boswell famously lamented the irrationality of war in 1777, he noted the universality of conflict across history and across space – even reaching what he described as the gentle and benign southern ocean nations. This volume discusses archaeological evidence of conflict from those southern oceans, from Palau and Guam, to Australia, Vanuatu and Tonga, the Marquesas, Easter Island and New Zealand. The evidence for conflict and warfare encompasses defensive earthworks on Palau, fortifications on Tonga, and intricate pa sites in New Zealand. It reports evidence of reciprocal sacrifice to appease deities in several island nations, and skirmishes and smaller scale conflicts, including in Easter Island. This volume traces aspects of colonial-era conflict in Australia and frontier battles in Vanuatu, and discusses depictions of World War II materiel in the rock art of Arnhem Land. Among the causes and motives discussed in these papers are pressure on resources, the ebb and flow of significant climate events, and the significant association of conflict with culture contact. The volume, necessarily selective, eclectic and wide-ranging, includes an incisive introduction that situates the evidence persuasively in the broader scholarship addressing the history of human warfare
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    Uncovering Pacific Pasts : Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (2022)
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    ISBN: 9781760464875 , 9781760464868
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (614 p.)
    Keywords: Australasian & Pacific history ; Archaeology
    Abstract: Objects have many stories to tell. The stories of their makers and their uses. Stories of exchange, acquisition, display and interpretation. This book is a collection of essays highlighting some of the collections, and their object biographies, that were displayed in the Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania (UPP) exhibition. The exhibition, which opened on 1 March 2020, sought to bring together both notable and relatively unknown Pacific material culture and archival collections from around the globe, displaying them simultaneously in their home institutions and linked online at www.uncoveringpacificpasts.org. Thirty‑eight collecting institutions participated in UPP, including major collecting institutions in the United Kingdom, continental Europe and the Americas, as well as collecting institutions from across the Pacific
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    Histories of Australian Rock Art Research (2022)
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    ISBN: 9781760465360 , 9781760465353
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (306 p.)
    Series Statement: Terra Australis
    Keywords: Australasian & Pacific history ; Archaeology
    Abstract: Australia has one of the largest inventories of rock art in the world with pictographs and petroglyphs found almost anywhere that has suitable rock surfaces - in rock shelters and caves, on boulders and rock platforms. First Nations people have been marking these places with figurative imagery, abstract designs, stencils and prints for tens of thousands of years, often engaging with earlier rock markings. The art reflects and expresses changing experiences within landscapes over time, spirituality, history, law and lore, as well as relationships between individuals and groups of people, plants, animals, land and Ancestral Beings that are said to have created the world, including some rock art. Since the late 1700s, people arriving in Australia have been fascinated with the rock art they encountered, with detailed studies commencing in the late 1800s. Through the 1900s an impressive body of research on Australian rock art was undertaken, with dedicated academic study using archaeological methods employed since the late 1940s. Since then, Australian rock art has been researched from various perspectives, including that of Traditional Owners, custodians and other community members. Through the 1900s, there was also growing interest in Australian rock art from researchers across the globe, leading many to visit or migrate to Australia to undertake rock art research. In this volume, the varied histories of Australian rock art research from different parts of the country are explored not only in terms of key researchers, developments and changes over time, but also the crucial role of First Nations people themselves in investigations of this key component of their living heritage
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    On Taungurung Land : Sharing History and Culture (2020)
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    ISBN: 9781760464073
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 166 pages)
    Series Statement: Aboriginal History Monographs
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Patterson, Roy Henry On Taungurung Land
    Keywords: Aboriginal Australians Social life and customs ; Aboriginal Australians Social conditions ; Aboriginal Australians History ; HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand ; Aboriginal Australians ; Aboriginal Australians ; Social conditions ; Aboriginal Australians ; Social life and customs ; e-books ; History ; Livres numériques ; Victoria
    Abstract: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Note on terminology -- Preface -- Introduction: Meeting and working with Uncle Roy -- Part 1: Sharing Taungurung history -- 1. An overview of Taungurung history since invasion -- 2. Acheron Aboriginal Station: Land that 'ever should be theirs' -- 3. Mohican Aboriginal Station: 'Forced miles from the spot they cherished' -- 4. Breaking up Mohican Aboriginal Station: 'They got sick of being shunted around' -- 5. Children of Coranderrk, 1870-86 -- Part 2: Sharing Taungurung culture
    Abstract: 6. 'Knowledge cost ya nothing and is not heavy to carry around': Taungurung bush tucker, bush medicine and bushcraft -- 7. 'Without culture, you've got nothing': Taungurung cultural heritage -- 8. Conclusion -- Bibliography
    Abstract: On Taungurung Land: Sharing History and Culture is the first monograph to examine how the Taungurung Nation of central Victoria negotiated with protectors and pastoralists to retain possession of their own country for as long as possible. Historic accounts, to date, have treated the histories of Acheron and Mohican Aboriginal stations as preliminary to the establishment of the more famous Coranderrk on Wurundjeri land. Instead of 'rushing down the hill' to Coranderrk, this book concentrates upon the two foundational Aboriginal stations on Taungurung Country. A collaboration between Elder Uncle Roy Patterson and Jennifer Jones, the book draws upon Taungurung oral knowledge and an unusually rich historical record. This fine-grained local history and cultural memoir shows that adaptation to white settlement and the preservation of culture were not mutually exclusive. Uncle Roy shares generational knowledge in this book in order to revitalise relationships to place and establish respect and mutual practices of care for Country
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    Forts and Fortification in Wallacea : Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Investigations (2020)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (306 p.)
    Keywords: Australasian & Pacific history ; Archaeology
    Abstract: This volume presents ground-breaking research on fortified sites in three parts of Wallacea by a highly regarded group of scholars from Australia, Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States. In addition to surveying and dating defensive sites in often remote and difficult terrain, the chapters provide an important and scholarly set of archaeological and ethnohistoric studies that investigate the origin of forts in Wallacea. Socio-political instability from climate events, the materialisation of indigenous belief systems, and the substantial impact of imperial expansion and European colonialism are examined and comprise a significant addition to our knowledge of conflict and warfare in an under-studied part of the Indo-Pacific. The archaeological record for past conflict is frequently ambiguous and the contribution of warfare to social development is mired in debate and paradox. Authors demonstrate that forts and other defensive constructions are costly and complicated structures that, while designed and built to protect a community from a threat of imminent violence, had (and have) complicated life histories as a result of their architectural permanence, strategic locations and traditional cultural and political significance. Understanding why conflict outbreaks – like human colonisation – often appear in the past as a punctuated event can best be approached through long-term records of conflict and violence involving archaeology and allied historical disciplines, as has been successfully done here. The volume is essential reading for archaeologists, cultural heritage managers and those with an interest in conflict studies.' — Professor Geoffrey Clark, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra
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    TA 30 - Archaeological Science Under a Microscope : Studies in Residue and Ancient DNA Analysis in Honour of Thomas H. Loy (2009)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 9781921536854
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 electronic resource (270 p.)
    Keywords: Archaeology
    Abstract: These highly varied studies, spanning the world, demonstrate how much modern analyses of microscopic traces on artifacts are altering our perceptions of the past. Ranging from early humans to modern kings, from ancient Australian spears or Mayan pots to recent Maori cloaks, the contributions demonstrate how starches, raphides, hair, blood, feathers, resin and DNA have become essential elements in archaeology’s modern arsenal for reconstructing the daily, spiritual, and challenging aspects of ancient lives and for understanding human evolution. The book is a fitting tribute to Tom Loy, the pioneer of residue studies and gifted teacher who inspired and mentored these exciting projects
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    New Directions in Archaeological Science (TA28) (2009)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (261 p.)
    Keywords: Archaeology
    Abstract: Archaeological Science meetings will have a personality of their own depending on the focus of the host archaeological fraternity itself. The 8th Australasian Archaeometry meeting follows this pattern but underlying the regional emphasis is the continuing concern for the processes of change in the landscape that simultaneously effect and illuminate the archaeological record. These are universal themes for any archaeological research with the increasing employment of science-based studies proving to be a key to understanding the place of humans as subjects and agents of change over time. This collection of refereed papers covers the thematic fields of geoarchaeology, archaeobotany, materials analysis and chronometry, with particular emphasis on the first two. The editors Andrew Fairbairn, Sue O’Connor and Ben Marwick outline the special value of these contributions in the introduction. The international nature of archaeological science will mean that the advances set out in these papers will find a receptive audience among many archaeologists elsewhere. There is no doubt that the story that Australasian archaeology has to tell has been copiously enriched by incorporating a widening net of advanced science-based studies. This has brought attention to the nature of the environment as a human artefact, a fact now more widely appreciated, and archaeology deals with these artefacts, among others, in this way in this publication
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    TA31: The Early Prehistory of Fiji (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781921666070
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Keywords: Antiquities, Prehistoric; Fiji. ; Excavations (Archaeology); Fiji. ; History ; Prehistoric archaeology ; Fiji; Antiquities.
    Abstract: I enjoyed reading this volume. It is rare to see such a comprehensive report on hard data published these days, especially one so insightfully contextualised by the editors’ introductory and concluding chapters. These scholars and the others involved in the work really know their stuff, and it shows. The editors connect the preoccupations of Pacific archaeologists with those of their colleagues working in other island regions and on “big questions” of colonisation, migration, interaction and patterns and processes of cultural change in hitherto-uninhabited environments. These sorts of outward-looking, big-picture contextual studies are invaluable, but all too often are missing from locally- and regionally-oriented writing, very much to its detriment. In sum, the work strongly advances our understanding of the early prehistory of Fiji through its well-integrated combination of original research and the reinterpretation of existing knowledge in the context of wider theoretical and historical concerns. In doing so The Early Prehistory of Fiji makes a truly substantial contribution to Pacific and archaeological scholarship
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    Oceanic Encounters: Exchange, Desire, Violence (2009)
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    ISBN: 9781921536298
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    Pages: 1 electronic resource (344 p.)
    Keywords: linguistics ; History ; Anthropology
    Abstract: This volume, the result of ongoing collaborations between Australian and French anthropologists, historians and linguists, explores encounters between Pacific peoples and foreigners during the longue durée of European exploration, colonisation and settlement from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. It deploys the concept of ‘encounter’ rather than the more common idea of ‘first contact’ for several reasons. Encounters with Europeans occurred in the context of extensive prior encounters and exchanges between Pacific peoples, manifest in the distribution of languages and objects and in patterns of human settlement and movement. The concept of encounter highlights the mutuality in such meetings of bodies and minds, whereby preconceptions from both sides were brought into confrontation, dialogue, mutual influence and ultimately mutual transformation. It stresses not so much prior visions of ‘strangers’ or ‘others’ but the contingencies in events of encounter and how senses other than vision were crucial in shaping reciprocal appraisals. But a stress on mutual meanings and interdependent agencies in such cross-cultural encounters should not occlude the tumultuous misunderstandings, political contests and extreme violence which also characterised Indigenous-European interactions over this period
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    Our Unswerving Loyalty : A documentary survey of relations between the Communist Party of Australia and Moscow, 1920?1940 (2008)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 9781921313967
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (379 p.)
    Keywords: History ; Politics & government
    Abstract: The story of the Communist Party of Australia has been told in various ways. Until now, however, archival collections that have borne on this story have been relatively inaccessible to the ordinary, interested reader. This book begins to redress that deficiency by bringing together 85 key documents from the Russian State Archives of Social and Political History (RGASPI), selected from a collection of thousands of documents concerning the relations between the Communist International and the Communist Party of Australia. The selection focuses on the relationship between the CPA and the Comintern because the activities of the CPA are essentially incomprehensible without understanding the international communist context within which the CPA operated. That context was dominated by the newly-created Soviet state and its decision to authorize and utilize a network of communist parties throughout the world. The documents in this work suggest three major propositions about the relationship between the CPA and the Comintern. First, that the Comintern was crucial in the formation of the CPA, via its emissaries, instructions and authority. Second, that the Comintern played a major role in directing the policies of the CPA in domestic matters (not to mention in international matters, where the Comintern’s decisions were supreme). And third, that the leadership of the CPA was, from 1929 onwards, shaped, trained and authorized by the Comintern. With access to the documents, readers now have a chance not just to hear the voices of the times, but to make their own judgements about the relationship between the CPA and Moscow. The book also includes two extended introductory essays that outline the development of the Comintern and its relations with the CPA, as well as supporting materials that provide information on individuals, organizations and tactics mentioned within the documents themselves
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    Our Unswerving Loyalty : A documentary survey of relations between the Communist Party of Australia and Moscow, 1920?1940 (2008)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 9781921313967
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 electronic resource (379 p.)
    Keywords: Communist International. ; Communist Party of Australia. ; Communism Australia. ; History ; Politics & government ; Australia Politics and government, 1901-1945. ; Australia Relations ; Soviet Union. ; Soviet Union Relations ; Australia.
    Abstract: The story of the Communist Party of Australia has been told in various ways. Until now, however, archival collections that have borne on this story have been relatively inaccessible to the ordinary, interested reader. This book begins to redress that deficiency by bringing together 85 key documents from the Russian State Archives of Social and Political History (RGASPI), selected from a collection of thousands of documents concerning the relations between the Communist International and the Communist Party of Australia. The selection focuses on the relationship between the CPA and the Comintern because the activities of the CPA are essentially incomprehensible without understanding the international communist context within which the CPA operated. That context was dominated by the newly-created Soviet state and its decision to authorize and utilize a network of communist parties throughout the world.The documents in this work suggest three major propositions about the relationship between the CPA and the Comintern. First, that the Comintern was crucial in the formation of the CPA, via its emissaries, instructions and authority. Second, that the Comintern played a major role in directing the policies of the CPA in domestic matters (not to mention in international matters, where the Comintern’s decisions were supreme). And third, that the leadership of the CPA was, from 1929 onwards, shaped, trained and authorized by the Comintern. With access to the documents, readers now have a chance not just to hear the voices of the times, but to make their own judgements about the relationship between the CPA and Moscow.The book also includes two extended introductory essays that outline the development of the Comintern and its relations with the CPA, as well as supporting materials that provide information on individuals, organizations and tactics mentioned within the documents themselves
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    Islands of Inquiry: Colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes (TA29) : Colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes (2008)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (510 p.)
    Keywords: Archaeology
    Abstract: This collection makes a substantial contribution to several highly topical areas of archaeological inquiry. Many of the papers present new and innovative research into the processes of maritime colonisation, processes that affect archaeological contexts from islands to continents. Others shift focus from process to the archaeology of maritime places from the Bering to the Torres Straits, providing highly detailed discussions of how living by and with the sea is woven into all elements of human life from subsistence to trade and to ritual. Of equal importance are more abstract discussions of islands as natural places refashioned by human occupation, either through the introduction of new organisms or new systems of production and consumption. These transformation stories gain further texture (and variety) through close examinations of some of the more significant consequences of colonisation and migration, particularly the creation of new cultural identities. Afinal set of papers explores the ways in which the techniques of archaeological science have provided insights into the fauna of islands and the human history of such places. Islands of Inquiry highlights the importance of an archaeologically informed history of landmasses in the oceans and seas of the world
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    Indigenous Biography and Autobiography (2008)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 9781921536359
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    Pages: 1 electronic resource (180 p.)
    Keywords: Biography: general ; History
    Abstract: In this absorbing collection of papers Aboriginal, Maori, Dalit and western scholars discuss and analyse the difficulties they have faced in writing Indigenous biographies and autobiographies. The issues range from balancing the demands of western and non-western scholarship, through writing about a family that refuses to acknowledge its identity, to considering a community demand not to write anything at all.The collection also presents some state-of-the-art issues in teaching Indigenous Studies based on auto/biography in Austria, Spain and Italy
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    First Contacts in Polynesia : The Samoan Case (1722-1848) Western Misunderstandings about Sexuality and Divinity (2008)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 9781921536021
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 electronic resource (241 p.)
    Keywords: History ; Anthropology
    Abstract: This book explores the first encounters between Samoans and Europeans up to the arrival of the missionaries, using all available sources for the years 1722 to the 1830s, paying special attention to the first encounter on land with the Lapérouse expedition. Many of the sources used are French, and some of difficult accessibility, and thus they have not previously been thoroughly examined by historians. Adding some Polynesian comparisons from beyond Samoa, and reconsidering the so-called ‘Sahlins-Obeyesekere debate’ about the fate of Captain Cook, ‘First Contacts’ in Polynesia advances a hypothesis about the contemporary interpretations made by the Polynesians of the nature of the Europeans, and about the actions that the Polynesians devised for this encounter: wrapping Europeans up in ‘cloth’ and presenting ‘young girls’ for ‘sexual contact’. It also discusses how we can go back two centuries and attempt to reconstitute, even if only partially, the point of view of those who had to discover for themselves these Europeans whom they call ‘Papalagi’. The book also contributes an additional dimension to the much-touted ‘Mead-Freeman debate’ which bears on the rules and values regulating adolescent sexuality in ‘Samoan culture’. Scholars have long considered the pre-missionary times as a period in which freedom in sexuality for adolescents predominated. It appears now that this erroneous view emerged from a deep misinterpretation of Lapérouse’s and Dumont d’Urville’s narratives
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    A Time Bomb Lies Buried : Fiji's Road to Independence, 1960-1970 (2008)
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (106 p.)
    Keywords: History ; Politics & government
    Abstract: A Time Bomb Lies Buried discusses the debates which took place in Suva and London as well as the politics and processes which led Fiji to independence in 1970 after 96 years of colonial rule. It provides an essential background to understanding the crises and convulsions which have haunted Fiji ever since in its search for a constitutional settlement for its multiethnic population
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    Dreamtime Superhighway (TA27) : Sydney Basin Rock Art and Prehistoric Information Exchange (2008)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 9781921536175
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 electronic resource (380 p.)
    Keywords: Archaeology
    Abstract: Dreamtime Superhighway presents a thorough and original contextualization of the rock art and archaeology of the Sydney Basin. By combining excavation results with rock art analysis it demonstrates that a true archaeology of rock art can provide insights into rock art image-making in people’s social and cultural lives. Based on a PhD dissertation, this monograph is a significantly revised and updated study which draws forcefully on rich and new data from extensive recent research—much of it by McDonald herself. McDonald has developed a model that suggests that visual culture—such as rock artmaking and its images and forms—could be understood as a system of communication, as a way of signaling group identifying behaviour. For the archaeologist of art, the anthropologist of art and those of us who try to think about past worlds… this monograph is a must read
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    The axe had never sounded : Place, people and heritage of Recherche Bay, Tasmania (2007)
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    ISBN: 9781921313219
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 electronic resource (141 p.)
    Keywords: History ; Archaeology
    Abstract: ‘This book meets well the triple promise of the title – the inter-connections of place, people and heritage. John Mulvaney brings to this work a deep knowledge of the history, ethnography and archaeology of Tasmania. He presents a comprehensive account of the area’s history over the 200 years since French naval expeditions first charted its coastlines. The important records the French officers and scientists left of encounters with Aboriginal groups are discussed in detail, set in the wider ethnographic context and compared with those of later expeditions.‘The topical issues of understanding the importance of Recherche Bay as a cultural landscape and its protection and future management inform the book. Readers will be challenged to consider the connections between people and place, and how these may constitute significant national heritage.’Professor Isabel McBryde, AO, FRAI, FAHA, FSAThe Australian National University
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    Lithics in the land of the lightning brothers : The Archaeology of Wardaman Country, Northern Territory (2007)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 9781921313295
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 electronic resource (221 p.)
    Keywords: Cave dwellings; Australia; Victoria River Region (N.T.) ; Excavations (Archaeology); Australia; Victoria River Region (N.T.) ; Social archaeology; Australia; Victoria River Region (N.T.) ; Stone implements; Australia; Victoria River Region (N.T.) ; Wardaman (Australian people); Australia; Victoria River Region (N.T.); Antiquities. ; Archaeology ; Victoria River Region (N.T.); Antiquities.
    Abstract: Lithics in the Land of the Lightning Brothers skilfully integrates a wide range of data-raw-material procurement, tool design, reduction and curation, patterns of distribution and association-to reveal the major outlines of Wardaman prehistory. At the same time, the book firmly situates data and methods in broad theoretical context. In its regional scope and thorough technological approach, this book exemplifies the best of recent lithic analysis and hunter-gatherer archaeology.Any archaeologist who confronts the challenge of classifying retouched stone tools should consult this volume for a clear demonstration of reduction intensity as a source of size and form variation independent of “type.” Yet the demonstration is not merely methodological; Clarkson shows how the measurement of reduction intensity informs analysis of technological diversity and other cultural practices.In Clarkson’s hands, Wardaman prehistory emerges as a particular record of the human past. Yet the book is also a case study in prolonged cultural response to environmental conditions and the way in which cultures persist and reproduce themselves over long spans of time. The result is an analytical tour de force that will guide hunter-gatherer archaeology in Australia and elsewhere for years to come
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    Transgressions : critical Australian Indigenous histories (2007)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (249 p.)
    Keywords: History ; Anthropology
    Abstract: This volume brings together an innovative set of readings of complex interactions between Australian Aboriginal people and colonisers. The underlying theme is that of ‘transgression’, and Michel Foucault’s account of the necessary dynamic that exists between transgression and limit. We know what constitutes the limit, not by tracing or re-stating the boundaries, but by crossing over them. By exploring the mechanisms by which limits are set and maintained, unexamined cultural assumptions and dominant ideas are illuminated. We see the expectations and the structures that inform and support them revealed, often as they unravel. Such illuminations and revelations are at the core of the Australian Indigenous histories presented in this collection
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    NGOs and Post-Conflict Recovery : The Leitana Nehan Women's Development Agency, Bougainville (2006)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 9781920942182
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (190 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Hakena, Helen NGOs and Post-Conflict Recovery : The Leitana Nehan Women’s Development Agency, Bougainville
    DDC: 303.66
    Keywords: History
    Abstract: Preliminary Pages -- Chapter 1 - Bougainville from crisis to peace -- Chapter 2 - We must help ourselves -- Chapter 3 - Projects, partners and politics -- Chapter 4 - Strengthening communities for peace -- Chapter 5 - From peace to progress -- Chapter 6 - Gender, development and peace -- Chapter 7 - Partnership, post-conflict development and peace-building -- Chapter 8 - Non-government organisations, peace-building and global networks -- Epilogue -- Appendixes -- References -- Index
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    Dislocating the Frontier : Essaying the Mystique of the Outback (2006)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 9781920942373
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 electronic resource (207 p.)
    Keywords: Frontier and pioneer life; Australia. ; History ; Australia; Historiography. ; Australia; History; Philosophy.
    Abstract: History; Frontier; Pioneer life; Australia
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    Performance Measurement, Reporting, Obstacles and Accountability : Recent Trends and Future Directions (2006)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 9781920942793
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 electronic resource (115 p.)
    Keywords: History ; Philosophy
    Abstract: Philosophy; History
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    Coastal Themes: An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland : An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland (2006)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (314 p.)
    Keywords: Archaeology
    Abstract: Archeology; Aboriginal australians; Antiquities; Queensland; Australia
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    Connected Worlds : History in Transnational Perspective (2006)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (278 p.)
    Keywords: History
    Abstract: Transnational history; Australia
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    Performance Measurement, Reporting, Obstacles and Accountability : Recent Trends and Future Directions (2006)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (115 p.)
    Keywords: History ; Philosophy
    Abstract: Philosophy; History
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    Dislocating the Frontier : Essaying the Mystique of the Outback (2006)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (207 p.)
    Keywords: History
    Abstract: History; Frontier; Pioneer life; Australia
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    NGOs and Post-Conflict Recovery : The Leitana Nehan Women?s Development Agency, Bougainville (2006)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (182 p.)
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    Keywords: History ; Non-profitmaking organizations
    Abstract: Non governmental organizations; Women; History; Papua new guinea
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    Coastal themes : an archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland (2006)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 1920942963 , 9781920942960
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 314 pages) , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    Series Statement: Terra Australis 24
    Series Statement: Terra Australis
    Keywords: Aboriginal Australians; Australia; Queensland, South East; Antiquities. ; Coastal archaeology; Australia; Queensland, South East. ; Excavations (Archaeology); Australia; Queensland, South East. ; Archaeology ; Queensland, South East; Antiquities. ; Queensland ; Aborigines
    Abstract: Archeology; Aboriginal australians; Antiquities; Queensland; Australia
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    The Austronesians : Historical and Comparative Perspectives (2006)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 9781920942854
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 electronic resource (367 p.)
    Keywords: Austronesian languages Congresses. ; Comparative civilization Congresses. ; Prehistoric peoples Islands of the Pacific ; Congresses. ; Prehistoric peoples Southeast Asia ; Congresses. ; History ; Islands of the Pacific Civilization ; Congresses. ; Southeast Asia Civilization ; Congresses.
    Abstract: Anthropology; Archeology; Social life; Customs; History; Asia; Madagascar; Islands of the pacific
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    Australian Political Lives : Chronicling political careers and administrative histories (2006)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 9781920942748
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 electronic resource (130 p.)
    Keywords: Biography: general ; History
    Abstract: Biography; Politicians; History; Australia
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    Connected worlds : history in transnational perspective (2005)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 9781920942458 , 1920942459
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 electronic resource (x, 278 pages)
    Keywords: Historiography; Congresses. ; World history; Congresses. ; History ; Australia; Historiography; Congresses. ; Geschichtswissenschaft ; Supranationalität ; Interkulturalität
    Abstract: Transnational history; Australia
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    In the service of the Company Volume I : Letters of Sir Edward Parry, Commissioner to the Australian Argicultural Company: June 1832 - March 1834 (2005)
    Canberra : ANU Press
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    ISBN: 9781920942298
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 electronic resource (453 p.)
    Keywords: History
    Abstract: Australian agricultural company; Archives; Correspondence; Pioneers; History; Australia
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