The Australians

Author : John Hirst
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458762963
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Australians written by John Hirst and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there an Australian national character? What are its distinguishing features? Over the years, how have insiders and outsiders summed up this country and its people, and how have Australians responded to outside criticism? In The Australians, John Hirst gathers together the key assessments of the national character, on topics as diverse as sport, war, mateship, humour, put-downs, suburbia and going native. There is celebration and criticism. There is humour and insight. There is the difference between what Australians think of themselves and what they are really like. Contributors include Winston Churchill, Ned Kelly, Tim Flannery, Henry Lawson, Peter Cosgrove, Germaine Greer, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Captain James Cook, David Malouf, Mark Twain, H.G. Wells, Patrick White, Oscar Wilde and Tim Winton.

Author : Warren Bonett
Publisher : Scribe Publications
ISBN 13 : 1921640766
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Australian Book of Atheism written by Warren Bonett and published by Scribe Publications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does the Anzac ethos have roots in atheism? Does prayer have a place in Parliament? Should 'creation science' be taught in Australian schools? The Australian Book of Atheism is the first collection to explore atheism from an Australian viewpoint. Bringing together essays from 33 of the nation's pre-eminent atheist, rationalist, humanist, and sceptical thinkers, it canvasses a range of opinions on religion and secularism in Australia.

Author : Richard Broome
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1760872628
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aboriginal Australians written by Richard Broome and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast sweeping story of Aboriginal Australia from 1788 is told in Richard Broome's typical lucid and imaginative style. This is an important work of great scholarship, passion and imagination.' - Professor Lynette Russell, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University In the creation of any new society, there are winners and losers. So it was with Australia as it grew from a colonial outpost to an affluent society. Richard Broome tells the history of Australia from the standpoint of the original Australians: those who lost most in the early colonial struggle for power. Surveying over two centuries of Aboriginal-European encounters, he shows how white settlers steadily supplanted the original inhabitants, from the shining coasts to inland deserts, by sheer force of numbers, disease, technology and violence. He also tells the story of Aboriginal survival through resistance and accommodation, and traces the continuing Aboriginal struggle to move from the margins of a settler society to a more central place in modern Australia. Broome's Aboriginal Australians has long been regarded as the most authoritative account of black-white relations in Australia. This fifth edition continues the story, covering the impact of the Northern Territory Intervention, the mining boom in remote Australia, the Uluru Statement, the resurgence of interest in traditional Aboriginal knowledge and culture, and the new generation of Aboriginal leaders. 'Richard Broome's historical analysis breaks the back of every theoretical argument about colonialism and establishes a clear pathway to understanding the present situation.' - Sharon Meagher, Aboriginal Education Development Officer, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide

Author : John Bradley Hirst
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1863954082
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Australians written by John Bradley Hirst and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating collection, John Hirst has assembled the key assessments of the national character of Australia and Australians. There are insiders and outsiders. There is celebration and criticism. There is the difference between what Australians think of themselves and what they are really like. Hirst provides a set of dazzling introductory essays to accompany his selections. Contributors include Winston Churchill, Tim Flannery, Carmen Lawrence, Charles Dickens, Captain James Cook, Barry Humphries, H.G. Wells, Peter Cosgrove, and many, many more.

Author : Francis William Lauderdale Adams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108030653
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Australians written by Francis William Lauderdale Adams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1893, this book describes the life and culture of Australia in the last years of the nineteenth century.

Author : Alan Ross
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571297528
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cape Summer and the Australians in England written by Alan Ross and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Ross (1922-2001) - distinguished poet, travel writer, and editor of London Magazine - also managed to excel in the role of cricket correspondent for the Observer, in which capacity he followed England/MCC on tours of Australia, South Africa and the West Indies. In the book-length accounts he published of these tours, his lifelong love of the game found glorious expression. Cape Summer and the Australians in England (1957) treats the 1956 Ashes series, memorable above all for the bowling performance of Jim Laker; and the following winter's MCC tour to apartheid South Africa, where one of England's strongest ever sides had an unexpectedly tough contest and where, as ever, Ross's discerning eye and finessing pen were alive to dimensions of the game beyond the boundary rope.

Author : R. Hugh Knyvett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 3752364440
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Over There With the Australians written by R. Hugh Knyvett and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Over There With the Australians by R. Hugh Knyvett

Author : Patrick MacGill
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diggers: The Australians in France written by Patrick MacGill and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diggers' is an absorbing World War I fiction by Patrick MacGill, an Irish journalist and writer known as "The Navvy Poet" because he had worked as a navvy before he began writing. This work is historically significant as it comes from a man who witnessed the war first-hand. MacGill served with the London Irish Rifles during the First World War and was injured at the Battle of Loos on 28 October 1915. He was then recruited into military intelligence.

Author : Richard Beard
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448129907
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Beat the Australians written by Richard Beard and published by Random House. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Feeling the way I do now, it's not a feeling I ever want to have again.' Andrew Flintoff speaks for a nation. The Ashes, 2006/07: Australia 5 England 0. The nightmare returns. For twenty years, Australia has produced competitors so gritty they order sandwiches with sand in, and not just at cricket. Fourth in the medals table at the Athens Olympics, Tour de France contenders, Davis Cup champions, and the Socceroos 3--1 winners over England. For Richard Beard, the football was the last straw. So, on the well-established principle that if you want something doing ..., he travelled down to Australia for seven rounds of hand-to-hand sporting combat, to find out just what makes the Australians so good, and how to beat them.

Author : Arthur St. John Adcock
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australasia Triumphant!: With the Australians and New Zealanders in the Great War on Land and Sea written by Arthur St. John Adcock and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Australasia Triumphant!: With the Australians and New Zealanders in the Great War on Land and Sea" by Arthur St. John Adcock. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.