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  • Canberra : ANU Press
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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781760465926 , 9781760465919
    Language: Undetermined
    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
    Note: English
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  • 2
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    Canberra : ANU Press
    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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  • 3
    ISBN: 9781921536298
    Language: English
    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
    Note: English
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  • 4
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    Canberra : ANU Press
    ISBN: 9781921666070
    Language: English
    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
    Note: English
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  • 5
    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
    Note: English
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9781921313967
    Language: English
    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
    Note: English
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  • 7
    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
    Note: English
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  • 8
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    Canberra : ANU Press
    Language: English
    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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  • 9
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    Canberra : ANU Press
    ISBN: 9781921536359
    Language: English
    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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  • 10
    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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  • 11
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    Canberra : ANU Press
    Language: English
    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
    Note: English
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  • 12
    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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  • 13
    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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  • 14
    ISBN: 9781920942793
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 electronic resource (115 p.)
    Keywords: History ; Philosophy
    Abstract: Philosophy; History
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  • 15
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (207 p.)
    Keywords: History
    Abstract: History; Frontier; Pioneer life; Australia
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  • 16
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (278 p.)
    Keywords: History
    Abstract: Transnational history; Australia
    Note: English
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  • 17
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (115 p.)
    Keywords: History ; Philosophy
    Abstract: Philosophy; History
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  • 18
    ISBN: 9781920942748
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 electronic resource (130 p.)
    Keywords: Biography: general ; History
    Abstract: Biography; Politicians; History; Australia
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  • 19
    ISBN: 9781920942182
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 electronic resource (182 p.)
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    Keywords: Humanitarian assistance; Papua New Guinea; Bougainville Island. ; Non-governmental organizations; Papua New Guinea; Bougainville Island. ; Peace-building; Papua New Guinea; Bougainville Island. ; Women and peace; Papua New Guinea; Bougainville Island. ; Women in development; Papua New Guinea; Bougainville Island. ; History ; Non-profitmaking organizations ; Bougainville Island (Papua New Guinea); History.
    Abstract: Non governmental organizations; Women; History; Papua new guinea
    Note: English
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  • 20
    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
    Note: English
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  • 21
    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
    Note: English
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  • 22
    ISBN: 9781920942298
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 electronic resource (453 p.)
    Keywords: History
    Abstract: Australian agricultural company; Archives; Correspondence; Pioneers; History; Australia
    Note: English
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