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Brisbane Burns
Author | : Sharyn Merkley |
Publsiher | : Australian Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781925644005 |
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1864 was a tough year for the fledgling town of Brisbane as two devastating fires swept through its commercial hub. This book is the first comprehensive historical record of both the ordinary and well-known citizens of the early settlement city who survived the fire’s ravages to lay the foundations of Australia’s third biggest city.
The Defeat of Distance
Author | : John Gunn |
Publsiher | : john gunn |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 0702217077 |
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Pugh s Queensland Almanac Law Calendar Directory and Coast Guide
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Queensland |
ISBN | : OXFORD:555072323 |
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Octopus Crowd
Author | : Stephen Mullins |
Publsiher | : University Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2019-08-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780817320249 |
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A detailed study of the origins and demise of schooner-based pearling in Australia For most of its history, Australian pearling was a shore-based activity. But from the mid-1880s until the World War I era, the industry was dominated by highly mobile, heavily capitalized, schooner-based fleets of pearling luggers, known as floating stations, that exploited Australia’s northern continental shelf and the nearby waters of the Netherlands Indies. Octopus Crowd: Maritime History and the Business of Australian Pearling in Its Schooner Age is the first book-length study of schooner-based pearling and explores the floating station system and the men who developed and employed it. Steve Mullins focuses on the Clark Combination, a syndicate led by James Clark, Australia’s most influential pearler. The combination honed the floating station system to the point where it was accused of exhausting pearling grounds, elbowing out small-time operators, strangling the economies of pearling ports, and bringing the industry to the brink of disaster. Combination partners were vilified as monopolists—they were referred to as an “octopus crowd”—and their schooners were stigmatized as hell ships and floating sweatshops. Schooner-based floating stations crossed maritime frontiers with impunity, testing colonial and national territorial jurisdictions. The Clark Combination passed through four fisheries management regimes, triggering significant change and causing governments to alter laws and extend maritime boundaries. It drew labor from ports across the Asia-Pacific, and its product competed in a volatile world market. Octopus Crowd takes all of these factors into account to explain Australian pearling during its schooner age. It argues that the demise of the floating station system was not caused by resource depletion, as was often predicted, but by ideology and Australia’s shifting sociopolitical landscape
The Burns Supper
Author | : Clark McGinn |
Publsiher | : Luath Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2019-02-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781912387564 |
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When did Burns Suppers start? Why is it celebrated all over the world? Who can join in the fun? Spanning the history of the phenomenon, from the year of its creation in 1801 to the present day, this book offers you everything you need to know about the Burns Supper, and the poet for whom it is held every year. From the origins of the custom to its modern day interpretations, from the rituals and traditions to the fun and fellowship, this first full-length study of the unique annual celebration of Scotland's national poet answers every question you can think of, along with every one you can't.
Fragments of the Everyday
Author | : Richard Stone |
Publsiher | : National Library Australia |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 0642276013 |
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Richard Stone has drawn on his extensive knowledge of the National Library of Australia's treasure trove of ephemera to compile this fascinating visual journey. Whether designed to inform, persuade or shock, these remarkable 'reminders' are a fascinating record of Australian life over the last 150 years.
Votes Proceedings
Author | : New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1268 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : New South Wales |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105119247125 |
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