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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"2103 Historical Studies"”.
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‘Our champion and gentleman’ : Dick Reynolds and the Essendon Football Club, 1933-1951
Dick Reynolds was one of Australian Rules football’s finest ever contributors, yet he has rarely featured in the corpus of literature on the history of the game. At the height of his fame he was compared with Australia’s finest sportsman of the era, Don Bradman, and he also drew comparisons with …
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Australian cold warrior : the anti-communism of W. C. Wentworth
This thesis is a case study of the Australian anti Communist W. C. Wentworth. His wide range of associations and interests makes Wentworth an ideal subject. It will examine his anti-Communism and the various ways it manifested itself in his thoughts, policies and actions over his long political …
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'An army of warriors, these Anzacs' : legend and illusion in the first AIF
… a distorted, albeit generally positive, historical view of Australian soldiers.
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Immigrant placemaking in colonial Australia : the Italian-speaking settlers of Daylesford
The Italian-speaking settlers of nineteenth century Daylesford were among the first sizeable group of non-English speakers to contest the prevailing Anglo-centricism and to help pave the way towards Australia's multicultural future. The examination of this group interweaves the particular histories …
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Fear of peace? : Australian government responses to the peace movement 1949-1959
This thesis is concerned with the Menzies Government and ASIO's responses to the threat posed by the Communist inspired peace movement during the early Cold War period, between 1949 and 1959. The thesis will particularly focus on the Government's efforts to restrict the movements of peace activists …
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The Sixties - the lived experience
The period commonly referred to as the Sixties, which in fact mainly covered the years between 1967 and 1975, was a time when society’s accepted values were questioned, undermined and sometimes overthrown. In Australia, opposition to the Vietnam War was at the heart of this turmoil. It is commonly …
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1954, Addio Trieste ... the Triestine community of Melbourne
… in the Australian city of Melbourne in a historical context, this study highlights the importance of both the past and the present experience in the process of migrant settlement and identity construction.
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The Port Phillip magistrates, 1835-1851
Social histories of how people lived in the early years of the Australian colonies have generally underestimated the significance of the magistracy. This dissertation undertakes a detailed legal examination of a sample of the cases brought before the magistrates of the Port Phillip District, as …
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The Australian experience of psychological casualties in war, 1915-1939
Based on 104 of Personal Case files and a wide range of further primary material, this dissertation explores the Australian experience of shell shock from 1915 until 1939. This thesis encompasses the impact of war-induced psychological disorder on soldiers at the front and in the hospital and …
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The development of Australian Army jungle warfare doctrine and training, 1941-1945
This thesis examines the development of Australian Army jungle warfare doctrine and training during the Second World War. The Australian Army transformed itself from a military force ill-prepared for conflict of any type in 1939 into one of the most professional, experienced and highly trained …
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A man of principle? : a political biography of Standish Michael Keon
The following study will be broken into five sections. The first will general account of Keon's whole life and thus illustrate that he was motivated by three general principles- aiding individuals from modest socio-economic standing, Catholicism, and disdain for the major anti- Labor parties. The …
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Australian stories of coffee in Melbourne and environs: a selective cultural history
It is difficult to locate the genesis of any subject of creative and critical inquiry. However, I consider I embarked on this MA research project because having a decent coffee was important to me, and I did not know why. I recall the precise moment I realised I was attaching special meaning to …
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Mary Gaunt: a biography
If a nation's story is told by the weaving together of the strands of individual lives, the biographies of its achievers, then the story of Mary Gaunt adds an important thread of colour and interest to the tapestry of Australia's identity. Born on the Victorian goldfields in 1861, she grew up in …
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i = Galois : a fictional biography of the French mathematician Evariste Galois (1811-1832) : together with a methodological introduction and select bibliography
… valuable insights and new perspectives on historical figures. In the final analysis, this fictional biography will provide one possible solution (as with mathematics there may be other solutions) to the problem of textualising a three-dimensional character-study of the life, work and death …
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Swaraj and sweepers : the JP Movement and the future of transformational politics
The thesis examines the question of how democracy might be deepened, particular so that it becomes more inclusive of currently marginalised groups and can thus meet their needs more fully. It focuses on India, drawing on interviews and visits to organisations, as well as on secondary sources, but …
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Australian rules football and distributive justice
Australian Rules football captures the public imagination like no other sport in the country, commanding an almost religious following and monopolising the media. A number of economic and social goods are produced, especially by or through the Australian Football League. Australian football has …
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Hard sell: Australian football in Sydney
Australian Rules football is the nation's most popular spectator sport. Few sporting activities can match the fanaticism, emotion and passion that the game generates. In Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, and Tasmania, Australian Rules football plays a large part in the livelihood of …
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'Feats of fancy' and 'marvels of muscle': a social history of swimming in late colonial Melbourne
The history of competitive swimming in nineteenth century Australia has been relatively well documented, with several publications dedicated to the social, cultural and statistical dimensions of the sport. However, little academic attention has been directed toward the manner in which swimming was …
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A riotous black man from way down south: an historical novel, exegesis and response to examiners
… Black Man From Way Down South. This is an historical novel which comprises the first volume of a projected trilogy. It is a bildungsroman based loosely upon the life of John Joseph, the first man of thirteen prisoners tried for High treason following the Eureka Stockade uprising.
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Performing belonging: meeting on and in the earth
… Assuming that the personal, social, historical and spatial are inseparable and interdependent, I have chosen a site that is particularly evocative of my (and hopefully other Australians too), exploration of connection to this country.
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