A global racecourse : work, culture and horse sports
- Authors: McConville, Chris
- Date: 2008
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Cyklon and the Caulfield Cup, 1915-21: Local 'bubble' or global 'spectacular?'
- Authors: McConville, Chris
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: A global racecourse : work, culture and horse sports p. 13-26
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Globalism's 'other' invader: Equine influenza
- Authors: McConville, Chris
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: A global racecourse : work, culture and horse sports p. 159-162
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Introducing Turfed out
- Authors: McConville, Chris
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: A global racecourse : work, culture and horse sports p. 141-143
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Queensland's popular movement in town planning
- Authors: McConville, Chris
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Cities, citizens and environmental reform : histories of Australian town planning associations p. 407
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'Wonderland', planning in a populist Queensland 1931-78
- Authors: McConville, Chris
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Cities, Citizens and Environmental Reform : Histories of Australian Town Planning Associations. p. 287-312
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- Description: In Queensland, popular movements for planning had arisen in the 1910s - noble enterprises, driven by hopes for fairness and equality. Bereft of common purpose and popular interest by 1962, the most influential of these organisations, the Queensland Town Planning Association (QTPA), collapsed.
Sunshine Coast
- Authors: McConville, Chris
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Queensland Historical Atlas p.
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The Australian pub
- Authors: Kirkby, Diane , Luckins, Tanja , McConville, Chris
- Date: 2010
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- Description: The pub is one of Australia's most-loved institutions. The Australian Pub takes us on an intoxicating journey through the colourful history of this Australian icon: from its colonial origins along the waterfronts and roadways through to the mid-twentieth century and onto boutique bars.
Chinese places: ethnography and landscape
- Authors: McConville, Chris , Reeves, Keir
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Historic Environment Vol. 23, no. 3 (2011), p. 24-29
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- Description: Chinese immigrants and especially the Chinese on the goldfields of Victoria, now figure centrally in history curricula and in heritage and tourist promotions most prominently of course, through Bendigo’s Chinese Heritage Precinct and the Gum San Heritage Centre in Ararat. These public representations of nineteenth-century diversity draw equally from a reflexive, culturally-informed historiography and a radically transformed popular culture in Australia, Victoria in particular (Waterhouse 2009: 11–14). No doubt, when heritage analysis of the central goldfields was first systematised, following the Victorian Historic Buildings Act (1974) and a subsequent sequence of municipal conservation studies, the Chinese appeared as something of a curiosity, on the margins of the enterprise of mining and peripheral to the heritage of goldfields towns (Davison 1991). Only after decades of research and widening perceptions of what could be properly classed as heritage, has Chinese settlement emerged as critical to assessment and interpretation, and of course heritage tourism, within townships as well as in state forests and national parks. Perhaps coincidentally this interest in Chinese heritage parallels a revival of Chinese immigration to Australia, in a broad view, comparable to the peaks of the nineteenth-century gold era. And yet, in part because so many remnants of the work of Chinese settlers have been erased, and their intricate mining systems fragmented, these sites unintentionally revert to the status occupied years ago by their creators – as eccentric curiosities.
Cultural landscape and goldfield heritage: Towards a land management framework for the historic South-West Pacific gold mining landscapes
- Authors: Reeves, Keir , McConville, Chris
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Landscape Research Vol. 36, no. 2 (2011), p. 191-207
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- Description: This article investigates how cultural landscapes (especially the potentially limiting organically evolved landscape) can be used as a research framework to evaluate historical mining heritage sites in Australia and New Zealand. We argue that when mining heritage sites are read as evolved organic landscapes and linked to the surrounding forested and hedged farmland, the disruptive aspects of mining are masked. Cultural landscape is now a separate listing for World Heritage sites and includes associative and designed landscape as well as those that have evolved organically. These usages have rarely been scrutinized with care. We analyse how mid-nineteenth century goldmining sites can be best thematically interpreted and understood for their heritage, indeed World Heritage, significance and, where appropriate, developed for their sustainable heritage tourism potential. Drawing on a number of research disciplines, a schematic framework is offered for interpreting and classifying these new world cultural landscapes based upon analysis of gold-rush heritage sites throughout the Trans-Tasman world. We evaluate and apply this framework to place-based case studies in Victoria, Australia and Otago, New Zealand
Forging imperial and Australasian identities: Australian rules football in New Zealand during the nineteenth century
- Authors: McConville, Chris , Hess, Rob
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of the History of Sport Vol. 29, no. 17 (November 2012 2012), p. 2360-2371
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- Description: The localised successes but geographic boundedness of Australian Rules football raise interesting questions about the relationship of sports to the regional character of the South-West Pacific. Although it is called Australian, the game has historically been restricted to roughly half of the population of the colonies and states, failing to capitalise on its initial flowering in Queensland and New South Wales. In the nineteenth century, it was better known by its urban (Melbourne) and colonial (Victorian) origins. Although sport historians have occasionally sought to explain the game's failure to win popular followings in northern Australia, the more intriguing question is why it failed to survive in New Zealand-the colony that had most in common with the game's birthplace in Victoria. This paper explores the diffusion of the code to New Zealand during the colonial era, and discusses the wider ramifications for its eventual loss of purchase across the Tasman Sea.
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Horseracing: Local traditions and global connections
- Authors: McConville, Chris
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: The Cambridge Companion to Horseracing p. 191-206
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- Description: Invented in 1855 by Admiral Rous, the dictatorial handicapper for the English Jockey Club, the weight-for-age scale (WFA) has shaped global racing and breeding for more than 150 years. A remarkably resilient measure, WFA cemented an all-pervasive ‘Englishness’ across the sport and Rous’s scale still ensures consistent global standards in thoroughbred racing. Rous arrived in Sydney Harbour in 1827, a British naval captain commanding the frigate Rainbow. He had soon formed a thoroughbred-importing firm in Launceston. Rous stood his own English stallion, Emigrant, so as to improve the colonial-breds, and after a posting to India, returned to Sydney with the thoroughbred mare, Iris. He then acquired 5,000 hectares of good horse pasture near today’s Canberra. Despite such colonial opportunities, Rous turned his back on New South Wales, sailing for England in 1829 where he survived a court martial, before turning to a career as steward and handicapper with the Jockey Club. On the one hand, Rous embodies the English character of racing, disseminated from Ascot and Newmarket to far-off corners of the globe. On the other, in his brief Antipodean sojourn, Rous’s breeding efforts hybridised the thoroughbred and played a part in the divergent trajectory of racing and breeding in Australasia and Asia. For unlike other sporting spectaculars, thoroughbred racing has benefited from a long tradition of globalising figures, Rous amongst them. Some aspects of this globalism are no doubt intensifying. Fees paid for services by shuttle stallions or the riches lavished on winners of events like the Japan Cup point to a global commerce in racing, breeding and increasingly in gambling. By the same token, alongside such signs of global interchange, we can still find places in which horses and horsepeople inhabit an intensely familiar landscape, where horizons are narrowing rather than broadening. Looking over a lush Ballydoyle in Ireland, Vincent O’Brien, one of the guiding hands in the global Coolmore bloodstock business once confided, ‘I could never leave here.’ Racing people have acquired the language of globalism and yet their dreams can remain unshakeably localised.
Melbourne Crime: From War to Depression, 1919-1929
- Authors: McConville, Chris
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text
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Dreamer, radical and gambler : Some unlikely Scottish emigrants?
- Authors: McConville, Chris
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Scots under the Southern Cross p. 79-88
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- Description: On 30 November 1900, the Caledonian Society held Melbourne's last nineteeth century St Andrew's Day Dinner. It was an occasion for reflection on the past, rather than looking forward to the new century and those who spoke at the gathering routinely recited achievements of the century just closing, when Scottish emigrants had shaped locales across the British Empire. Scots, although acknowledged as poets, were lauded as 'shrewd, hard-headed, money-making' colonists who had take a leading role in the great advances of the nineteenth century.
Dams, Freeways and Aerospace : How Australian Environmentalists responded to Transnationalism and World Heritage, 1964-1984
- Authors: McConville, Chris
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Journal of Politics and History Vol. 61, no. 3 (2015), p. 381-396
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- Description: Australian environmentalists have confidently staked a claim to leading roles in both activism at a global scale and in bringing transnational ideas to bear, successfully, on local environmental issues. Amongst these successes, World Heritage listing for south-west Tasmania stands out. But failures to comprehend Australia's metropolitan character and slowness in accepting Aboriginal rights to land meant that environmentalists have not made much use of this global recognition. In that light, the heroic self-image of environmental movements, 1964-84, deserves reconsideration. The activities considered here were all, in one way or another, reactions to a rapid industrial modernising of post-war Australia. Iconic events, the formation of the Australian Conservation Foundation, the struggle over south-west Tasmania and Green Bans in Sydney and Melbourne remained local in objectives and ideas. In contrast the anti-Concorde campaign was integrated into a transnational protest movement. Yet it is overlooked in adulatory histories of Australian environmentalism. In reacting to a modernising Australia, environmentalists took up some transnational ideas and responded positively to mediators in their transmission. In the long run, however, a limited acceptance of transnational expertise, especially as regards cultural heritage and urbanism, calls into question the self-ascribed vanguard role of Australian environmental movements. © 2015 Federation University Australia. Australian Journal of Politics and History © 2015 School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, School of Political Science and International Studies, The University of Queensland and Wiley Publishing Asia Pty.
Transcontinental and Transnational Links in Social Movements and Environmental Policies in the Twentieth Century
- Authors: Kirchhof, Astrid , McConville, Chris
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Journal of Politics and History Vol. 61, no. 3 (2015), p. 331-338
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- Description: For a sub-discipline that takes as its subject the natural world — which is never contained by human-made borders — environmental history has remained stubbornly wedded to the nation-state.
“Tasman world’: investigating the gold rush era linkages and subsequent regional development between Otago and Victoria”
- Authors: McConville, Chris , Reeves, Keir , Reeves, Andrew
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Rushing for Gold: Life and commerce on the Goldfields of New Zealand and Australia Chapter 2 p. 23-40
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- Description: Assertions about common characteristics across the Tasman Sea, together with hints at subtle differences, have coloured accounts of Australia and New Zealand through to the twenty-first century. In some more recent descriptive accounts, however, the difference have lost their subtlety and come to count for more than commonality, to the chagrin of at least one historian James Belich. " From Chapter"