Article: Irish Women in Colonial Australia.(Review) (book review) (book reviews)

Article: Irish Women in Colonial ...
Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society;  June 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Trevor McClaughlin (ed.), Irish Women in Colonial Australia, Sydney, Allen & ... into New South Wales. `Irish women in colonial South Australia ... Pauline Rule's `Sketch of Irish women's experiences in colonial ...

Article: A history of company law in colonial Australia: ...
Melbourne University Law Review;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... context of the economic development of colonial Australia. Australian company law is an example ... important role in the economic success of colonial Australia.] CONTENTS I Introduction II Pre ... and the evolution of company law in colonial Australia presents an interesting case ...

Article: Irruptions of the dreamings in post-colonial ...
Oceania;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT This essay is written round four 'funny stories' from Northern Australia. Metamorphosis instigated by a Dreaming is central to all four stories and this is why the stories are counted as 'funny,' and received with glee. The analysis illuminates a topic that has been attracting attention in

Article: Marked bodies: a corporeal history of colonial ...
Borderlands;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Western imaginings about marked 'primitive' bodies have a long history, yet studies of these practices have remained largely a-historical. Drawing on recent scholarship addressing the history and cultural meanings of the corporeal surface of the Western body this paper presents a preliminary

Article: Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in ...
Journal of Social History;  June 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ...By Joy Damousi (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. x plus 221pp. $64.95/cloth $18.95/paperback). It is impossible to review this book, old adages notwithstanding, without some consideration of its cover. Damousi has eschewed the usual contemporary colonial imagery in favour of slick late

Article: 'War with America': the Trent affair and the experience of news ...
Journal of Australian Studies;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...The European and American conflicts of the nineteenth century were perceived, understood and felt quite differently in the Australian colonies than in Britain. Of course, there was a great commonality of attitude and sentiment between the people of Britain and her colonies on international affairs;

Article: Beyond the limits of location: human environmental disturbance ...
Archaeology in Oceania;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Abstract The expansion of European occupation across Australia was closely circumscribed during the first half century of the colony's existence. Despite this, there is considerable evidence of unsanctioned movements beyond the officially prescribed boundaries. Given their illegal nature,