The true story of the Pikeman's Dog at the Eureka Stockade : The rebel's dog with the royal award
- Authors: Williams, Paul
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Book
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- Description: The faithful dog has the ability to become an Australian legend, as has Simpson's Donkey of Gallipoli. The true, heartrending tale of a devoted terrier's reaction to the death of his master, a pikeman at the ill-fated and brutal Eureka Stockade, is what legends are made of.
- Description: 2003008030
Europe's Atlantic empires : Early modern state formation reconsidered
- Authors: Smith, Jeremy
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Political Power and Social Theory Chapter 11 p. 101-150
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- Description: B1
- Description: 2003001225
Bras, breasts and living in the seventies: Historiography in the age of fibs
- Authors: Spencer, Beth
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian Feminist Studies Vol. 22, no. 53 (2007), p. 231-245
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- Description: For some time I have been using fiction as a research technology for exploring issues to do with the historical production of gender, and the complex relationship between bodies and culture; most recently in a novel-in-progress called A Short (Personal) History of the Bra and its Contents and with a protagonist who had her formative adolescent years in Australia in the 1970s. In this artcle I would like to explore some of the methdological challenges of writing postmodern history (history in the 'era of the aporia'), the philosophy of history that underpins my use of fiction - or what might be called 'Ficto-history' - and some of the reasons for my stylistic choices, in particular the use of montage. Within this, I would like to take a look at what might be distinctive about 'Tail End Boomers' or 'Baby Busters' (the original 'Generation X') as the first group to be babysat by television; and why the erasure of this distinctive, and the dominance of the Baby Boomer mythology, matters in our readings of the 1970s as a historical period.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003005720
Radical Tasmania: Rebellion, reaction and resistance: A thesis in creative nonfiction
- Authors: Hodder, Robert
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: Radical Tasmania is a political history of radicals in Tasmania theorised and narrated in creative nonfiction.
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
A public want and a public duty [manuscript] : The role of the Mechanics' Institute in the cultural, social and educational development of Ballarat from 1851 to 1880
- Authors: Hazelwood, Jennifer
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: Mechanics’ Institutes were an integral element of the nineteenth-century British adult education movement, which was itself part of an on-going radicalisation of the working class. Such was the popularity of Mechanics’ Institutes, and so reflective of contemporary British cultural philosophy, that they were copied throughout the British Empire. The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute, established in 1859, instilled a powerful, male-gendered British middle-class influence over the cultural, social and educational development of the Ballarat city. The focus of this study is to identify and analyse the significance of the contribution made by the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute to the evolving cultural development of the wider Ballarat community, with a particular emphasis on the gender and class dimensions of this influence. This is done within the context of debates about ‘radical fragments’ and ‘egalitarianism’. Utilizing a methodology based on an extensive review of archival records, contemporary newspapers held at the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute, and previously published research, this study was able to show that, during the period from its inception in 1859 to 1880, the Institute became a focal point for numerous cultural, social and educational activities. As one of the few institutions open to all classes, it was in a position to provide a significant influence over the developing culture of the Ballarat community. The study has also identified the use made of the Institute’s School of Design by women and the contribution of these educational classes to preparing women for employment outside their traditional roles of wives and mothers. The thesis argues that despite some early radical elements, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute initially espoused liberal egalitarian values. By 1880, however, the Institute was more readily identifiable as reflecting British, male, middle-class values.
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
Prison : Cultural memory and dark tourism
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Book
- Full Text: false
- Description: 2003006371
Eureka Stockade
- Authors: Beggs-Sunter, Anne
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present Chapter p.
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- Description: Ballarat, in the British colony of Victoria, Australia, burst into life as an instant city in 1851, following the discovery of gold. Adventurous men and women from all over the world descended on Ballarat in the 1850s, feverishly attacking the sticky clay at Golden Point. The diggers followed the gold underground, along the course of the ancient rivers, buried by the volcanic eruptions of Mounts Warrenheip and Buninyong. On the flat, 30,000 diggers collected into small cooperatives of “mates” and desperately searched for their personal Eldorado.From the first discoveries in 1851, relations between the miners and the police sent to administer the goldfields were uneasy. The government attempted to collect a monthly license fee for the right to search for gold, but the tax conferred no rights, and licenses were inspected at the point of a bayonet. The more outspoken miners, schooled in the ways of the 1848 revolutions in Europe, led a movement to protest against the gold license. The cry of “No taxation without representation” was raised, echoing the rhetoric of the American Revolution and the Chartist movement for democratic rights in Britain. [EXTRACT]
Locating the Eureka Stockade : Use of a Geographical Information System (GIS) in a historiographical research context
- Authors: Harvey, Jack
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Computers and the Humanities Vol. 37, no. 2 (2003), p. 229-234
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- Description: GIS methodology was used for the purpose of locating the disputed site of a historically significant battle, which took place in 1854 when miners on an Australian gold field staged an armed uprising against government forces. The route of the first survey of the area (1854) and the earliest known contour map (1856-1857) were overlaid on a modern street grid. Other features such as the vantage points of illustrators and the authors of eyewitness accounts were also incorporated. The resulting composite map was used as the key reference framework for comparing and critically evaluating a large body of primary and secondary written accounts, and for reaching a conclusion concerning the site. © 2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003000367
The roaring nineties : A comment on the state of accounting history in the United States
- Authors: Carnegie, Garry
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: The Accounting Historians Journal Vol. 33, no. 1 (2006), p. 203-210
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- Description: This comment on a recent contribution by Fleischman and Radcliffe [2005], entitled "The Roaring Nineties: Accounting History Comes of Age," specifically deals with their cautionary comments on the general condition of accounting history research in the U.S. around the close of that decade. The author contends that public interest in accounting's past is currently strong, especially following the recent corporate scandals and audit failures in the U.S., and points out that accounting history research projects which are of relevance to policy makers and regulators are likely to be both funded and, accordingly, recognized.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003001766
Gatekeepers of knowledge : A consideration of the library, the book and scholar in the western world
- Authors: Zeegers, Margaret , Barron, Deirdre
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book
- Full Text: false
- Description: Throughout its history, the western library has played a significant role in bringing the book into the hands of western scholars. This title analyses that history: examining constructs of librarianship, publishing, and scholarship within that history as gate keeping access to knowledge.
- Description: 2003007959
Eureka and the transformation of the mining industry in mid-nineteenth century Australia
- Authors: Beggs-Sunter, Anne
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 8th National Labour History Conference, Brisbane : 3th October, 2003 p. 29-33
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- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000484
Exploring the dimensions of the international accounting history community
- Authors: Carnegie, Garry , Rodrigues, Lucia Lima
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Accounting History Vol. 12, no. 4 (2007), p. 441-464
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- Description: This study explores the present-day dimensions of the international accounting history community with a focus on examining the formal (that is institutionalized) and informal (that is non-institutionalized) arrangements for accounting history in various countries and regions. Following a review of recent commentaries on the state of accounting history, the study elucidates the dimensions of the field where accounting history associations or special interest groups operate, comprising Australia and New Zealand, China, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Spain and the USA, and also depicts the informal arrangements in place for the accounting history community as identified in France and in the UK. The study is intended to enhance understanding of the nature, size and dynamics of this expanding group of scholars and to assist any future enquiries into the drivers of organizational success and the relative health of accounting history in the different jurisdictions.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003005177
The fall and fall in the legal status of mustelids in New Zealand
- Authors: Wells, Philippa
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Environment and History Vol. 15, no. 3 (2009), p. 343-368
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- Description: Three species of the family Mustelidae (stoats, weasels and ferrets) were initially introduced into New Zealand (and granted statutory protection) in an attempt to control a burgeoning rabbit population. From that point, scientific, political and social debate centred on both the advisability and efficacy of the introduction. Although their legal protection and support was partially removed in 1903, they were not declared statutory 'vermin' for another 50 years. The long road taken by these predators to political perdition signals shifts in political and economic power and reveals dissension and changes in policy direction. © 2009 The White Horse Press.
- Description: 2003007356
Eureka revisited : Contest of memory
- Authors: Beggs-Sunter, Anne
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Book
- Full Text: false
- Description: 2003003926
The Liberator's Birthday
- Authors: Blee, Jillian
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Book
- Full Text: false
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- Description: A1
- Description: 2003000176
Ballarat and its benevolent asylum : A nineteenth-century model of Christian duty, civic progress and social reform
- Authors: Kinloch, Helen
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: "This study of Ballarat and its Asylum covers the period between the 1850s and the early 1900s when an old-age pension was introduced in Victoria. It is essentially a case study. It argues that Ballarat's Asylum progressively developed and expanded upon a model of organised poor relief practiced among the industrial classes in England, in consequence of the perceived need for rapid capital expansion in Australia, and knowledge of the dangers associated with mining, building construction, and other manual work. The introduction of a secular education system in Victoria, together with enthusiasm among producers for technological innovation and skill development, led to changes in the nature and conditions of paid work, as well as to a push among workers and their sympathizers for greater appreciation of past contributions by older workers and the needs of the ill and/or incapacitated. This push was only partially addressed by the Victorian government in 1901 when it introduced the old-age pension."
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
Chicago versus Cambridge in Australia, 1975
- Authors: Millmow, Alex
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Milton Friedman : Nobel monetary economist : A review of his theories and policies Chapter p. 189-206
- Full Text: false
- Description: 2003007351
The Geoffrey Blainey Mining Collection
- Type: Text , Collection
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- Description: The 2002 Professor Blainey donated a collection of his own academic research material to the University of Ballarat. Included in this collection are historical books, papers and other material related to the early history of mining and the central Victorian Goldfields. A second generous donation of material was received in 2005, Some rare, older items in the collection are considered fragile and require special handling. Titles from the Geoffrey Blainey Mining Collection can be searched online via the UB Library catalogue.
The intellectual life of Catherine Helen Spence
- Authors: McFarland, Michele
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: This thesis will argue that Catherine Helen Spence, a writer, preacher and reformer who migrated from Scotland to Australia in 1839, performed the role of a public intellectual in Australia similar to that played by a number of women of letters in Victorian England. While her ideas were strongly influenced by important British and European nineteenth-century intellectual figures and movements, as well as by Enlightenment thought, her work also reflects the different socio-political, historical and cultural environment of Australia. These connections and influences can be seen in her engagement with what were some of the "big ideas" of the nineteenth century, including feminism, socialism, religious scepticism, utopianism and the value of progress. In arguing that Spence was a public intellectual, I will consider the ways in which she used the literary genres of fiction and journalism, as well as her sermons, to try to help her fellow citizens make sense of the world, attempting to organise and articulate some of the significant ideas affecting the political, social and cultural climates in which they lived. Through the exploration of Spence's intellectual work, I will show how she can be regarded as making a significant contribution to nineteenth-century Australian intellectual life, one that has been under-recognised and under-valued.
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
Does accounting history matter?
- Authors: Gomes, Delfina , Carnegie, Garry , Napier, Christopher , Parker, Lee , West, Brian
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Accounting History Vol. 16, no. 4 (2011), p. 389-402
- Full Text: false
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- Description: Building upon panel discussion held at the sixth Accounting History International Conference, a resounding "yes" is offered in response to the question of whether accounting history matters. However, reflecting the viewpoint that accounting history can and should matter more, various suggestions are presented for advancing the quality, relevance and significance of historical research in accounting, commencing with the need to redress persistent misconceptions about the discipline. Practical strategies for enhancing the impact of accounting history scholarship are then developed around the themes of promoting its contemporary relevance and implications, fostering engagement with diverse groups of scholars, writing accounting history in informative and engaging ways, and articulating and developing appropriate methodologies. Finally, the role of accounting historians as "change agents" is explored and advocated. © The Author(s) 2011.