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Studies from Terra Australis to Australia / edited by John Hardy and Alan Frost.
Record no.:
6533
Author:
Hardy, J. P. (John Philips), 1933-, editor.;
Frost, Alan, 1943-, editor.;
Australian Academy of the Humanities;
Publisher:
Canberra :: Australian Academy of the Humanities,
Year:
1989.
Series:
Occasional paper / Australian Academy of the Humanities,, 1443-7678 ;; no. 6;
Description:
274 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Voyages and travels.;
Australia - Colonization - History.;
Australia - Historical geography.;
Australia - History.;
Australia - History - 1788-1900.;
Australia - Discovery and exploration.;
Notes:
Essays in this volume were originally presented as papers at the Australian Academy of Humanities' bicentennial conference "Terra Australis to Australia'
Barr Smith Library copy bound with: Four centres of classical learning in Renaissance Italy -- Peasants in history and literature : symposium -- The press, the law, and beyond : a view from the Press Council : Esso lecture delivered in the Coombs Lecture Theatre at the Australian National University, Friday, 6 September 1985 -- The flow of culture, Tasmanian studies -- The peopling of the British peripheries in the eighteenth century.
Includes bibliographical references.Noel Dan
Gift ;
2023.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0909897166 :;
Abstract:
The Australian continent / John Chappell -- The coming of the Aborigines / Rhys Jones -- Aboriginal societies / Kenneth Maddock -- Early Asian contacts with the continent / Colin Jack-Hinton -- A Portuguese discovery? / Helen Wallis -- Terra Australis
/ Carlos Martinez Shaw -- From secret to common knowledge / Gunter Schilder -- New Holland / Glyndwr Williams -- French exploration in the Pacific in the 18th century / Elliott Forsyth -- Pacific exploration in the 1780s and 1790s / Barry Gough -- The great era of Pacific exploration / David Mackay -- The first fleet / Roger Knight -- The colony's health / James Watt -- The fatal shortage / Eric Jones, Geoffrey Raby -- To establish a commerce of this sort / Isabel McBryde -- The spread of colonization / Geoffrey Bolton -- An English home in the Antipodes / David Irwin -- Nostalgia and patriotism in Colonial Australia / Robert Dixon -- Going away, coming home / Alan Frost -- Southern cross, northern crosses / Greg Dening.

"The essays in this volume were originally presented as papers at the Australian Academy of Humanities' bicentennial conference 'Terra Australis to Australia'."--Back cover.
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