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Wesson, Sue C. 1955. "The Aborigines of eastern Victoria and far south-eastern New South Wales, 1830-1910 : an historical geography." Monash University, School of Geography and Environmental Science, 2002. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8708.
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Weeks, Robert. "Transport and trade in South Wales c.1100 - c.1400 : a study in historical geography." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2003. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/transport-and-trade-in-south-wales-c1100--c1400(1a706c57-8a35-4ee3-84b6-9d1826721547).html.
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Enquiries into the medieval history of south Wales have in the past tended to focus on the 'soap opera' history of the elite. This thesis differs in that it examines two aspects that are occasionally touched upon, and which are inextricably linked, but rarely considered in detail: namely the system of transport and trade. Due to the paucity of surviving evidence the study covers a time span of some three hundred years from the reign of Henry I (1100) to the Glyndwr rebellion (1400). It charts the development of trade in an age that saw great political changes leading to the construction of planned towns and, in some places, villages, as well as complex fortifications and the introduction of Latin monasticism. The thesis examines the respective roles of the key influences on transport and trading activity, namely: (i) the players, be they the marcher lords and the Crown, the monasteries, and the merchants and traders themselves; (ii) the places such as towns and villages, ports and landing places; and (iii) the processes that influenced trade including the linkages between settlements - with particular attention to the medieval road system - and markets and fairs. A model is advanced which describes how initially autonomous open country settlements and farmsteads were integrated into a regional network, within and between lordships, as rural commodity producers and consumers grew increasingly dependent on the retail goods and services found in the market towns. These developments are charted as the population grew and rural settlement intensified, so much so that by 1300 South Wales had achieved a level of prosperity unprecedented in its history. It was not to last. Population pressure had driven families to the margins of cultivable land. The imbalance between livestock husbandry and arable risked the danger of soil exhaustion. Disease such as the sheep scab epidemic of the 1280s and the agricultural crises which affected much of Britain between 1315 and 1322 led to famine. Political and social unrest, notably the revolts of Llewelyn ap Gruffudd in 1214, Rhys ap Maredudd in 1295 and Llewelyn Bren in 1316, allied to the decline in seigneurial influence caused the South Wales economy to repeatedly falter. Outbreaks of the plague in the middle of the fourteenth century added to the woe. The Glyndwr rebellion dealt the final fatal blow when many commercial settlements were attacked, including some that were not directly touched by earlier upsets. Prior to the Norman Conquest trade in South Wales had taken place in the open country. By 1400 the dependency that had been built in the preceding three hundred years on the transport and trading network of market towns and rural producers and consumers was shattered sending the economy into long term decline.
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Crickmore, Barbara Lee. "An historical perspective on the academic education of deaf children in New South Wales 1860s - 1990s." Diss., Connect to this title online, 2000. http://www.newcastle.edu.au/services/library/adt/public/adt-NNCU20030228.130002/index.html.
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Hobbs, Roger, and n/a. "The builders of Shoalhaven 1840s-1890s : a social history and cultural geography." University of Canberra. Design & Architecture, 2005. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20070122.163159.
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According to architect Robin Boyd (1952 rev. ed. 1968), ʹthe Australian country house took its pattern, not directly from the English countryside, but second‐hand from the Australian cityʹ in the nineteenth century. This thesis explores the introduction of domestic architectural ideas in the Shoalhaven Local Government Area (LGA) from the 1840s to the 1890s, and concludes that Boydʹs premise, including his five principal plan types, applied in general, subject to regional geographical parameters.
The Illawarra and South Coast districts dominated New South Wales dairy farming by the 1860s. The transfer of architectural ideas to the Shoalhaven LGA was facilitated by steam shipping lines from 1855, as the dominant vector, which provided access to the Sydney markets. Architectural development began with a masonry construction boom during the 1860s and 1870s, followed by a timber construction boom in the 1880s and 1890s. In the Ulladulla District development was influenced by local stonemasons and Sydney architects from the 1860s‐1870s, as well as regional developments in the Illawarra, which also influenced Kangaroo Valley in the 1870s. The Nowra Area, the administrative and commercial focus of the Shoalhaven District from 1870, was where architectural developments in timber and masonry were greatest, influenced by regional developments, Sydney architects and carpenters and builders of German origin and training. A local architectural grammar and style began to develop in the 1880s and 1890s, assisted by the railway, which arrived at Bomaderry near Nowra in 1893. However, the depression and drought of the 1890s resulted in a hiatus in construction, exacerbated by the First World War 1914‐1918, in common with the rest of New South Wales.
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Sullivan, Ian W., and n/a. "Explanation in human geography : some implications for teaching." University of Canberra. Education, 1985. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061109.112319.
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As a teacher of the New South Wales Higher School Certificate
Geography Syllabus in the 1970s, I became aware of problems of
interpretation and implementation of syllabus documents dealing
with models and theories of human aggregate behaviour. A positivistic
underpinning allowed explanation in human geography to employ
deductive - nomological methodology. This field study investigates
a defined literature of academic geography including journals,
and both secondary and tertiary documents to identify the extent
and quality of nomothetic and idiographic traditions from the
late 19th century to the mid 1970s.
The literature prior to the late 1950s revealed a dominant
regional tradition and idiographic methodology with an emphasis
on description of uniqueness of areal phenomena. But underlying
currents of a nomothetic nature, running parallel to this regionalidiographic
tradition,exerted a noticeable challenge to gain acceptance
in geographic circles. This kind of nomothetism was in the
form of environmental determinism which held that physical laws
operating in nature were also at work to shape and direct human
societies. Environmental determinism contained generalised assertions,
enjoyed some appeal, but lacked rigorous justification. Even
within regional frameworks, authors used environmentally induced
determinants to explain the unique character of regions. Not until
the 1930s did environmental determinism lose its appeal, after which
time the regional - idiographic tradition strengthened as an
explanatory mode of human behaviour.
Nomothetism emerged in the late 1950s in Australia in the
application of models and theories explaining human behaviour.
Normative theory was supported by an increased use of quantification
and by the growing preference for systematic studies in
geography. Neither mode of explanation exists at the total exclusion
of the other; so that while nomothetism enjoyed widespread
appeal in academic geography from the late 1950s, significant
challenges were mounted against it because of its inadequacies
as a mode of explaining human aggregate behaviour.
Nomothetic explanation in human geography can be seen at the
research level and in education circles. Many normative models
and theories found their way into senior geography courses to the
extent they promoted a systems approach. Teachers would have been
aware of normative theory in geography from their university
studies and teacher training courses during the late 1950s and
throughout the 1960s.
The tension between associated explanatory modes in systematic
and regional geography becomes apparent in the analysis of the
N.S.W. H.S.C. Geography Syllabus in which confusing statements
raise problems for teachers interpreting and implementing this
prescriptive document.
Given these tensions and problems of explanation in human
geography, the adoption of a critical rationalist viewpoint as
propounded by Karl Popper is suggested as a possible solution
for geography teachers when interpreting a syllabus such as that
of the N.S.W. H.S.C. Falsification rather than verification
should be the node of inquiry towards explanation of human aggregate
behaviour.
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Lambert, Tracey Jennifer, and n/a. "Imprints in the dust : historical and archaeological evidence of mining methods used on goldfields in south-eastern New South Wales and north-eastern Victoria during the 19th and early 20th century." University of Canberra. Resource, Environmental & Heritage Sciences, 1997. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061113.152342.
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Whenman, Ann Maree. "In good faith: A historical study of the provision of religious education for Catholic children not in Catholic schools in New South Wales: The CCD Movement 1880-2000." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2011. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/394b34ec5d99a13a54a321652f5fb256154cf1de93b3395853461f165de9013b/2032687/65136_downloaded_stream_361.pdf.
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This thesis provides a coherent documented history of the provision of religious education to Catholic children who did not attend Catholic schools in New South Wales from 1880 to 2000. The CCD movement is the title generally assigned to a variety of approaches associated with this activity. The Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD) is an association of clergy and lay faithful, within the Catholic tradition, established in the 16th century, devoted to the work of Catholic religious education. In the 20th century the principal concern of the CCD came to be the religious education of Catholic children who were not in Catholic schools.
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Turton, David James. "Australia's Coal Seam Gas Debate: Perspectives across Time, Space, Law and Selected Professions." Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/142834.
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Coal seam gas (CSG) extraction is a source of ongoing controversy
in the Australian States of New South Wales and Queensland.
Primarily composed of methane, CSG has evolved from a gas
extracted in the interests of coal miner safety, to a profitable
concern, source of electricity generation and, arguably, a
transition fuel in a carbon-constrained future. Efforts to
develop Australia’s CSG industry since the early 2000s has
brought the sector into increased geographical proximity with
existing land uses. Arguments over CSG and its potential risks
and benefits remain ongoing, yet the nation’s CSG debate often
lacks historical context, geographical insights, justice research
perspectives and viewpoints from key professionals associated
with this resource. This thesis therefore poses the overarching
question: how can environmental history, legal geography,
procedural and distributive justice, and profession-specific
insights from lawyers, judges and planners, shed light upon this
controversial resource?
Drawing on a typology of relevance for environmental history,
current CSG land access conflicts in Queensland are
contextualised within past efforts in that State to promote
coexistence between grain growers and coal miners, comparing the
State’s statutorily enshrined Land Access Code 2010 with a
voluntary Explorer-Landholder Procedures Guide produced in 1982
by agricultural and mining stakeholders. Building on this
temporal aspect of formal and informal land access agreements, a
legal geography lens is taken to unconventional gas in Australia,
highlighting its value as a tool for investigating CSG –
particularly for investigating the involvement of lawyers and
judges in land use disputes.
Acknowledging that lawyers are multifaceted participants in
Australia’s CSG discussion, an extended study of their
participation in recorded community forums in Queensland and New
South Wales demonstrates this profession’s significant role in
informing community forum audiences about land access laws
concerning CSG, while also critiquing these laws by referring to
personal experiences with the legal process. Viewpoints from
judges associated with CSG-related litigation were also sought
out and framed by both legal geography and procedural and
distributive justice. An examination of a selection of court
judgments concerning CSG revealed that procedural and
distributive justice issues have arisen in New South Wales and
Queensland. These judgments attend to the place of Australian
local governments in negotiations with CSG operators, the
provision of accurate mapping information to landholders by CSG
companies and the nature of effective engagement in community
consultation. Judges were also shown to engage with geographical
concepts in their rulings, namely scale.
Finally, this thesis examines planners in Australia’s CSG
controversy. Advancing research into the roles and
self-perceptions of planners through interviews with planners in
New South Wales and Queensland and related documentary sources,
these professionals were found to be flexible in their approach
to the industry, adopting community advocate, facilitator of
development and social gatekeeper roles as needed. The discussion
and findings of this research pose important questions about CSG
and the multifaceted impacts of this unconventional fossil fuel
– stressing the utility of analysis that is informed by space,
law, history, justice and the expertise of professionals.
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Gray, Sarah Willard. "Abstracting from the landscape a sense of place /." Access electronically, 2008. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/147.
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Crickmore, Barbara Lee. "An Historical Perpsective On the Academic Education Of Deaf Children In New South Wales 1860s-1990s." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/24905.
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This is an historical investigation into the provision of education services for deaf children in the State of New South Wales in Australia since 1860. The main focus is those deaf children without additional disabilities who have been placed in mainstream classes, special classes for the deaf and special schools for the deaf. The study places this group at centre stage in order to better understand their educational situation in the late 1990s. The thesis has taken a chronological and thematic approach. The chapters are defined by significant events that impacted on the education of the deaf, such as the establishment of special schools in New South Wales, the rise of the oral movement, and aftermath of the rubella epidemic in Australia during the 1940s. Within each chapter, there is a core of key elements around which the analysis is based. These key elements tend to be based on institutions, players, and specific educational features, such as the mode of instruction or the curriculum. The study found general agreement that language acquisition was a fundamental prerequisite to academic achievement. Yet the available evidence suggests that educational programs for most deaf children in New South Wales have seldom focused on ensuring adequate language acquisition in conjunction with the introduction of academic subjects. As a result, language and literacy competencies of deaf students in general have frequently been acknowledged as being below those of five their hearing counterparts, to the point of presenting a barrier to successful post-secondary study. It is proposed that the reasons for the academic failings of the deaf are inherent in five themes.PhD Doctorate
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Crickmore, Barbara Lee. "An Historical Perpsective On the Academic Education Of Deaf Children In New South Wales 1860s-1990s." 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/24905.
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This is an historical investigation into the provision of education services for deaf children in the State of New South Wales in Australia since 1860. The main focus is those deaf children without additional disabilities who have been placed in mainstream classes, special classes for the deaf and special schools for the deaf. The study places this group at centre stage in order to better understand their educational situation in the late 1990s. The thesis has taken a chronological and thematic approach. The chapters are defined by significant events that impacted on the education of the deaf, such as the establishment of special schools in New South Wales, the rise of the oral movement, and aftermath of the rubella epidemic in Australia during the 1940s. Within each chapter, there is a core of key elements around which the analysis is based. These key elements tend to be based on institutions, players, and specific educational features, such as the mode of instruction or the curriculum. The study found general agreement that language acquisition was a fundamental prerequisite to academic achievement. Yet the available evidence suggests that educational programs for most deaf children in New South Wales have seldom focused on ensuring adequate language acquisition in conjunction with the introduction of academic subjects. As a result, language and literacy competencies of deaf students in general have frequently been acknowledged as being below those of five their hearing counterparts, to the point of presenting a barrier to successful post-secondary study. It is proposed that the reasons for the academic failings of the deaf are inherent in five themes.PhD Doctorate
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Lydon, Jane. "Many inventions : historical archaeology and the Chinese in the Rocks, Sydney, 1890-1930." Master's thesis, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/144339.
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Reynolds, Ruth Margaret. "Geography, history and the social sciences: the evolution of secondary school syllabuses in New South Wales 1967-1989." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1418094.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)This thesis examines geography, history and social science syllabuses in New South Wales, Australia, in the period 1967 to 1989. Its particular focus is the changing themes and emphases which emerged in these syllabuses during this period and the reasons for these changes. The thesis explores the political, social, cultural and economic contexts of curriculum change; the bureaucratic and administrative processes involved in curriculum modification; the role of individuals - their commitment, skills and philosophies; and the purpose of the language of the curriculum. A major theme underpinning the analyses is the tension between the traditional disciplines and the newer social science disciplines at the school subject level in a period of considerable turmoil in education generally. The thesis will postulate that the fundamental conceptions of the social science movement (introduced to most Australians for the first time at the 'Burwood' Conference in 1967) had a profound impact on the traditional disciplines. Geography and history retained their high status when a Key Learning Area called Human Society and Its Environment was conceived in 1989, but, due to the social science influences, their shape and form changed considerably over the twenty two year period. The theoretical framework for the thesis treats curriculum as a social construction and as something that requires holistic analysis. Of particular importance to curriculum change is the underpinning social philosophy evidenced in the syllabuses of the period under study. This can best be understood against the backdrop of a careful analysis of the society in which they are being developed. To enhance this analysis, document analysis as well as interviews and surveys have been used. In NSW the debate continues as to the appropriateness of the 'Key Learning' structure, and the purpose, content and methodology of the social education area of the curriculum. The debate has implications for a range of related issues, including subject choice, teacher practice and teacher education. The thesis provides insights that should inform the debate around these issues.
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White, John Matthew. "On the road to Nerrigundah : an historical anthropology of indigenous-settler relations in the Eurobodalla region of New South Wales." Phd thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/109810.
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Aside from notable exceptions, the nature and variety of Indigenous participation in
Australian settler economies has been largely neglected in the anthropological and
historical literature. In the Eurobodalla region of the New South Wales south coast,
there has been a significant disjuncture in the regional literature between anglocentric
local histories, and research that acknowledges Aboriginal people through historical
investigations or through the collection of oral histories. There is also a significant
gap in the anthropological literature between the early ethnographies, specific studies
on Aboriginal labour and social conditions that were biased by ideological
presuppositions, and recent work undertaken in relation to judicial processes.
This thesis combines theorising of intercultural domains with a utili sation of notions
of economic hybridity to examine the history of settler-Indigenous relations in the
Eurobodalla and the character of emergent complexes of transactions that entailed a
highly plural range of intercultural interactions, which transformed both Indigenous
and settler subjectivities. The thesis is grounded in historical and local specificity
while it places 'the local' within a broader geopolitical context. Drawing on both
anthropological and historical approaches, the thesis argues that present socioeconomic
conditions in south coast Aboriginal communities can only be understood
through the broader historical context.
The thesis examines the highly localised character of the changes brought about by
European colonisation and the gradual expansion of the settler economy in the
Eurobodalla during the early-mid 19th
century. Aboriginal people were drawn into the
emerging settler economy through reciprocal relationships of labour, while the
presence of settlers was also incorporated into pre-existing, dynamic patterns of
economy and sociality. The evidence suggests that semi-nomadic patterns of mobility
persisted well into the 20th
century, despite the efforts of the Aborigines Protection
Board to curtail this movement. The period between the 1940s and 1970s is
remembered as a relatively bounded era in which Aboriginal families were both on
the run from ' the welfare', and following patterns of seasonal movement (or 'beats').
Aboriginal people were broadly employed in forestry work and seasonal vegetable
picking until both industries collapsed in the late 1970s. Through a range of factors,
including industry decline, increases in Indigenous political agency, the provision of
town housing, welfare and citizenship entitlements and generational change,
Aboriginal people in the Eurobodalla have experienced a fraught transition to the era
of so-called 'self determination'.
The thesis also seeks to 'muddy the waters' of some widespread, but erroneous,
generalisations about settler-Indigenous relations and the manifestation of government
policies. It identities several historical moments (or processes) that are comparable to
trajectories of settler-Indigenous relations elsewhere in Australia. In doing so, this
thesis makes a contribution to knowledge by providing a localised and historically situated
case study o f settler-Indigenous relations. Research of this type has the
potential to mediate the extreme positions generated by the ' history wars'.
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Sargent, Mark. "An examination of the New South Wales electronic gaming machine industry 1995 to 2005 and its historical, regulatory, political and economic contexts." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/936130.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)This thesis examines historical, political, regulatory and economic aspects of gambling policy in New South Wales (NSW), with specific emphasis on the evolution of electronic gaming machine (EGM) gambling as a key element of the State’s fiscal policy. This includes analysis of major regulatory initiatives, including a review of contemporary parliamentary and press material surpassing any identified comparable research on gambling and EGM policy in NSW. It was established that although policy has generally been made on isolated, ad hoc bases, precedents and contexts for subsequent legislation have resulted. It is demonstrated that although these events are prima facie unrelated, they collectively form part of an expansionary progression, largely impelled by governments’ pursuits of taxation revenue. In order to investigate outcomes of this progression, empirical research on EGM gambling over the three terms of the Carr Labor Governments (1995 to 2005) was also undertaken. Access to the restricted, comprehensive NSW EGM gambling database for this period permitted a comparatively more detailed and definitive analysis of EGM gambling than has previously been possible. The empirical research adopts two alternative measures of EGM distribution. These are a conventional ‘EGM density’ measure (the ratio of population to EGMs) and the introduction of a concentration measure, the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (Herfindahl Index). This results in a novel comparative approach to assessing EGM distribution. In addition, regulatory practice and previous studies in the field have customarily relied on the use of one measure of socioeconomic status (SES), ordinarily being the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Socioeconomic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), to assess impacts. This study extends its comparative approach by also adopting a second SEIFA index. The application of Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance (RM ANOVA) testing to the data resulted in identification of statistically significant distributional differences among groups of LGAs on the basis of SES.The findings have implications for policy development, regulatory practice and further research on how these differences affect tax impacts. The thesis establishes that assessment of EGM policy and impacts is to some extent contingent on the measures used in the assessment process. This is particularly relevant to the measure of SES adopted, in which distinct differences were detected, based on the SES characteristics employed. Regarding the distributional findings, EGM gambling measures based on the Herfindahl Index approach were also found to behave differently to orthodox metrics. The importance of these methodologies lies in their applicability to the practical regulation of gambling. The thesis is a contribution to the further understanding of how public policy formulation and implementation in a policy field that is central to government fiscal planning has evolved. The findings indicate that alternative policy determinations may have resulted had different, and perhaps more comprehensive, approaches been employed. These are methodological initiatives that may be prospectively applied in the future development of gambling research and policy.
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Hughes, Joy Noreen, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and School of Humanities. "Hyde Park Asylum for infirm and destitute women, 1862-1886 : an historical study of government welfare for women in need of residential care in New South Wales." 2004. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/25111.
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Hyde Park Asylum for Infirm and Destitute Women, Sydney was the New South Wales government’s first direct initiative in social welfare for the aged with the provision of residential care for women. It was the genesis of a system of destitute asylums (later state hospitals) that lasted for more than a century. For its duration (1862-1886), Hyde Park Asylum was the only one of its type in the colony. This empirical study looks at the day-to-day lives of its inmates at Hyde Park Asylum and follows them to their new home at Newington Asylum on the Parramatta River in 1886. The external and internal administration of the asylum under the Government Asylum’s Boards and later as a sub-department of the Colonial Secretary ‘s office is examined, including the roles of the manager and the matron.Master of Arts (Hons)
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Rosen, Sue Maria, University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, and School of Humanities and Languages. "That den of infamy, the No. 2 Stockade Cox's River : an historical investigation into the construction, in the 1830's, of the Western Road from Mt. Victoria to Bathurst by a convict workforce." 2006. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/29869.
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The overarching question under investigation in this thesis is the extent to which the ideals of penal management as espoused by both British and Colonial authorities were implemented in the day to day administration and management of a convict work force. The focus of the examination is the construction of Major Thomas Mitchell’s line of road between Mt. Victoria and Bathurst in the 1830’s. Specifically the thesis documents the various sites on the line of road with a particular emphasis on the administrative centre and principal facility, No. 2 Stockade Cox’s River, to explain the dynamic interaction of the network and its role in the penal repertoire of New South Wales. In bringing together a large range of sources the thesis has enabled the first thorough reading of the convict sites associated with the Western road. This has led to a multi-dimensional understanding of the place, its people, and the process of its construction. It provides a basis for future scholarship on this neglected network, located almost at the doorstep of greater Sydney, on the western fringe of the Blue Mountains.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Tybussek, Damian Craig. "Men Behaving Badly? The Archaeology of the Digger's Lifestyle and Constructions of Masculinity at the Kiandra Goldrush, 1859-1861." Phd thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/116832.
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This research provides the first in-depth archaeological study of
a goldrush miners’ camp from the early 1850s and 1860s
Australian Goldrushes in Victoria and New South Wales. Focussing
on the Kiandra Goldfield, located in the Snowy Mountains of New
South Wales, which was the scene of a major goldrush in
1859-1861, this research develops a picture of the nature of
everyday life for the miners and businesspeople who participated
in this event. It investigates the historical and archaeological
evidence from the Township Hill miners’ camp (KTH), which was
the main miners’ camp during the rush, through the lens of
gender in order to arrive at a more nuanced understanding of the
nature of goldrush social life. Specifically, as goldrushes were
predominately male events, this research aims to bring the study
of masculinity, which is a burgeoning field in Australian
history, into the domain of Australian historical archaeology.
The Township Hill miners’ camp, excavated between 2003 and 2004
by the former ANU archaeology fieldschool program, provides a
unique opportunity to ascertain how men were behaving at this
goldrush and how they were constructing and maintaining their
masculine identities in this isolated and harsh environment.
This research conducts a reanalysis of the ten excavated KTH huts
and their artefact assemblages which demonstrates how the hut
occupants behaved on a daily basis. Specifically, it utilises a
distribution analysis and consideration of the proportions of
items found within assemblages to demonstrate what cultural
formation processes resulted in their deposition. Combining this
data from the dominant artefact types within the assemblages
allows a model of the waste management strategies used by hut
occupants to be created. The nature of these strategies, as well
as the functional natures of each hut assemblage, provides a
wealth of data on the genders of hut occupants, as well as the
gender identities they were attempting to cultivate.
This research demonstrates that the Township Hill miners’ camp
was predominately occupied by men, but featured a small
population of women. The diggers who occupied the camp
principally negotiated their masculine identities in reference to
the ideal of the respectable digger, but they critically
evaluated different characteristics of this ideal and adopted
some at the expense of others. The small amount of evidence
relating to female miners at the camp suggested that they too had
complex feminine identities that could embrace respectability.
Businesspeople on the other hand, negotiated their gender
identities principally with respect to middle-class gentility and
appear to have made concerted efforts through conspicuous
consumption to differentiate themselves from miners and
demonstrate their social standing. In all, this research has
found that the diggers who formed the core population at the
Kiandra Goldrush were not behaving badly, and instead, considered
themselves to be respectable and participated diligently in these
events to further their dreams of independence and successful
manhood.
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Healy, Matthew. "Hard sell: Australian football in Sydney." Thesis, 2002. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/18171/.
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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
millions of people. However, the game has had a somewhat weaker presence
in the northern states, despite the fact that the expansion of Australian Rules
football has long been on the agenda for administrators of the code.
This thesis examines the entry of Australian Rules football entry into the rugby dominated
domain of Sydney. It traces unsuccessful attempts made by the
Victorian Football Association and the Victorian Football League to promote
the code in Sydney during the 1880s and early part of the nineteenth century,
the hiatus of the middle part of the 1900s when Australian Rules football
seemed to wallow in obscurity, and the League's 'Sydney Experiment' in the
1970s. The thesis then goes on to examine the circumstances surrounding
the relocation of the South Melbourne Football Club to Sydney in 1982, and
the club's subsequent decades in the harbour city.
It is only in recent years that Australian Rules football appears to have finally
made its mark in Sydney. The Sydney Football Club is attracting sizeable
crowds to its home games at the Sydney Cricket Ground, many of the Swans
players have a public presence in Sydney, and the game is receiving regular
positive exposure in the media. The Australian Football League is also playing
a role to ensure this most recent attempt to win over Sydney proves
successful, promising millions of dollars to junior development. The next five
to ten years remain critical in the history of the code. However, as this thesis
demonstrates, professional management, visionary planning, astute marketing
and an appropriate amount of additional infrastructure, has secured Australian
Rules football a firm niche in the rugby stronghold of Sydney.
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Parkes, Robert John Lawrence. "Interrupting History: A critical-reconceptualisation of History curriculum after 'the end of history'." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/24969.
Повний текст джерелаАнотація:
Contemporary Italian philosopher, Gianni Vattimo (1991), has described ‘the end of history’ as a motif of our times. While neo-liberal conservatives such as Francis Fukuyama (1992) celebrated triumphantly, and perhaps rather prematurely after the fall of the Berlin Wall, ‘the end of history’ in the ‘inevitable’ global acceptance of the ideologies of free market capitalism and liberal democracy, methodological postmodernists (including Barthes, Derrida, Baudrillard, Lyotard, and Foucault), mobilised ‘the end of history’ throughout the later half of the twentieth century as a symbol of a crisis of confidence in the discourse of modernity, and its realist epistemologies. This loss of faith in the adequacy of representation has been seen by many positivist and empiricist historians as a threat to the discipline of history, with its desire to recover and reconstruct "the truth" of the past. It is argued by defenders of ‘traditional’ history (from Appleby, Hunt, & Jacob, 1994; R. J. Evans, 1997; Marwick, 2001; and Windschuttle, 1996; to Zagorin, 1999), and some postmodernists (most notably, Jenkins, 1999), that if we accept postmodern social theory, historical research and writing will become untenable. This study re-examines the nature of the alleged ‘threat’ to history posed by postmodernism, and explores the implications of postmodern social theory for History as curriculum. Situated within a broadly-conceived critical-reconceptualist trend in curriculum inquiry, and deploying a form of historically and philosophically oriented ‘deconstructive hermeneutics’, the study explores past attempts to mount, and future possibilities for, a curricular response to the problem of historical representation. The analysis begins with an investigation of ‘end of history’ discourse in contemporary theory. It then proceeds through a critical exploration of the social meliorist changes to, and cultural politics surrounding, the History curriculum in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, from the Bicentennial to the Millennium (1988-2000), a period that marked curriculum as a site of contestation in a series of highly public ‘history wars’ over representations of the nation’s past (Macintyre & Clark, 2003). It concludes with a discussion of the missed opportunities for ‘critical practice’ within the NSW History curriculum. Synthesising insights into the ‘nature of history’ derived from contemporary academic debate, it is argued that what has remained uncontested in the struggle for ‘critical histories’ during the period under study, are the representational practices of history itself. The study closes with an assessment of the (im)possibility of History curriculum after ‘the end of history’. I argue that if History curriculum is to be a critical/transformative enterprise, then it must attend to the problem of historical representation.Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Parkes, Robert John Lawrence. "Interrupting History: A critical-reconceptualisation of History curriculum after 'the end of history'." 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/24969.
Повний текст джерелаАнотація:
Contemporary Italian philosopher, Gianni Vattimo (1991), has described ‘the end of history’ as a motif of our times. While neo-liberal conservatives such as Francis Fukuyama (1992) celebrated triumphantly, and perhaps rather prematurely after the fall of the Berlin Wall, ‘the end of history’ in the ‘inevitable’ global acceptance of the ideologies of free market capitalism and liberal democracy, methodological postmodernists (including Barthes, Derrida, Baudrillard, Lyotard, and Foucault), mobilised ‘the end of history’ throughout the later half of the twentieth century as a symbol of a crisis of confidence in the discourse of modernity, and its realist epistemologies. This loss of faith in the adequacy of representation has been seen by many positivist and empiricist historians as a threat to the discipline of history, with its desire to recover and reconstruct ����the truth���� of the past. It is argued by defenders of ‘traditional’ history (from Appleby, Hunt, & Jacob, 1994; R. J. Evans, 1997; Marwick, 2001; and Windschuttle, 1996; to Zagorin, 1999), and some postmodernists (most notably, Jenkins, 1999), that if we accept postmodern social theory, historical research and writing will become untenable. This study re-examines the nature of the alleged ‘threat’ to history posed by postmodernism, and explores the implications of postmodern social theory for History as curriculum. Situated within a broadly-conceived critical-reconceptualist trend in curriculum inquiry, and deploying a form of historically and philosophically oriented ‘deconstructive hermeneutics’, the study explores past attempts to mount, and future possibilities for, a curricular response to the problem of historical representation. The analysis begins with an investigation of ‘end of history’ discourse in contemporary theory. It then proceeds through a critical exploration of the social meliorist changes to, and cultural politics surrounding, the History curriculum in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, from the Bicentennial to the Millennium (1988-2000), a period that marked curriculum as a site of contestation in a series of highly public ‘history wars’ over representations of the nation’s past (Macintyre & Clark, 2003). It concludes with a discussion of the missed opportunities for ‘critical practice’ within the NSW History curriculum. Synthesising insights into the ‘nature of history’ derived from contemporary academic debate, it is argued that what has remained uncontested in the struggle for ‘critical histories’ during the period under study, are the representational practices of history itself. The study closes with an assessment of the (im)possibility of History curriculum after ‘the end of history’. I argue that if History curriculum is to be a critical/transformative enterprise, then it must attend to the problem of historical representation.PhD Doctorate