This time it was a book by the historian Patrick O'Farrell, The Irish in Australia, a leaving present to our family after a big trip to Australia and New Zealand in 1999. Flicking through it and looking at the photographs I noticed a familiar figure from museum memorabilia on the First ...
Mark McKenna opens his 2011 biography of the Australian historian Manning Clark (1915-1991) with a beautiful section describing Clark’s voice. ‘His voice sounded the entire person.’ We read accounts of what Clark sounded like from different people who knew him, weaving snippets of quotes, ra...
http://msowww.anu.edu.au/~pfrancis/pink/press_release.txt Embargoed until 11am, Thursday 6th May SOME BLACK HOLES ARE PINK A group of Australian astronomers have found that some black holes are bright pink! Black holes have captured the imagination of the public over the years with some ...
Kennan, George –[732 Pages, 55.61 MB] – George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 – March 17, 2005) was an American adviser, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as “the father of containment” and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. He later wrote ...
Julian Thomas is well-known to historians of Australian (and particularly Victorian) history, but I hadn’t read his work before, and obviously Giese herself – a psychologist herself, rather than a historian- was delighted to discover him for the first time. Through George Foley, we catch a...
266 pp. ISBN 978-0-472-11945-5, $50 (cloth).Barbara Floyd is well known as an Ohio historian and univ... Q Skrabec - 《Enterprise & Society》 被引量: 0发表: 2017年 "Tenacious of Their Lands": Fortifying the District of Mashpee, 1834-1842 Tenacious of Their Lands is a focused ...
“It was the first money back guarantee ever offered in New Zealand by any firm,” says Ian Hunter, business historian. “And his mission statement was, potentially, only the second one ever found in the world.” Laidlaw’s stated aims were simple to build the greatest business in New ...
Drawing on materials from published and unpublished sources in America and Great Britain, historian Andrew Rotter uncovers and analyzes the surprisingly complex reasons for America's fateful decision to provide economic ... More »37. Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in...
[ATF spooks]…sought evidence relating to arson of construction and police equipment…Social movement historian Dan Berger said this low-tech type of surveillance and related behavior – blasting sirens and flashing lights, following people – has precedence dating at least to the civil rights era....
Although historian John Connor (2005:18) has argued that drill was relatively rare among the Victorian and southern NSW versions of the Native Police, the iteration that became the Queensland NMP appointed a sergeant major in the 1850s specifically to drill new recruits, a role taken on by ...