Bibliography of the Mining History of Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea

(1990) Female desires: The meaning of World War II Australian Historical Studies: Vol 24, No 95, pp 267-284

Female desires: The meaning of World War II

This thesis is about the genesis and development of the first pidgin English in Australia, called here New South Wales Pidgin. It presents a detailed analysis of the history of the language and a diachronic analysis of developments in the grammar and lexicon of the language. 'Melaleuka' refers to the model devised for the purposes of this thesis to explain the hypothesis on which the work is premised—that NSW Pidgin existed in two dialect forms. The time frame addressed is from the late eighteenth century when the language had its inception to the middle of the nineteenth century when it was consolidated. The geographical area of study encompasses the states of New South Wales and Victoria. The area was known as the colony of New South Wales until the middle of the nineteenth century.

Melaleuka : a history and description of New South Wales pidgin

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Empire of Culture: U.S. Entertainers and the Making of the Pacific Circuit, 1850-1890.

The ‘beginnings’ of Australian history are always difficult to determine. In addition to Indigenous systems of knowledge with their own epistemologies, understanding ancient Australia involves the disciplines of archaeology, anthropology and linguistics, as well as history. These disciplines developed out of earlier forms of knowledge whereby European explorers, settlers, naturalists, ethnologists, antiquarians and collectors sought to ascertain the Australian past. In the absence of written records, archaeologists have played a leading role in reconstructing this past. Initially relying on the stratified sequence of excavated material to produce a relative chronology of cultural change, from the 1950s they were able to employ new methods of dating their discoveries – first radiocarbon dating and later electron spin resonance and luminescence methods. During the 1950s it was commonly believed that people had occupied Australia no earlier than 10,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age, and it was only in 1962 that radiocarbon dates exceeded 10,000 years. The earliest known occupation stretched to 20,000 years ago by 1965, 30,000 years by 1969 and 40,000 by 1973. Within this enlarged chronology, a rapid occupation was posited along with a narrative of adaptation to diverse environments and growing technological sophistication. These findings coincided with demands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for self-determination and a growing non-Indigenous appreciation of Indigenous cultures. The common view that Australia had only an abbreviated history gave way to a new awareness of a deep past. Popular interest was served by surveys such as The Prehistory of Australia (1969) by the pioneer archaeologist John Mulvaney, and Josephine Flood's The Archaeology of the Dreamtime (1983). Some historians sought to explore the implications of this extended human occupation, among them Geoffrey Blainey in The Triumph of the Nomads (1975) and Noel Butlin in Economics and the Dreamtime (1993). Yet the increasingly technical nature of archaeology has forged new partnerships with natural history and environmental sciences.

The past 50,000 years: an archaeological view

Young America and Australian gold: Americans and the gold rush of the 1850's

They came in hundreds of thousands--soldiers, sailors, pilots, marines, nurses, merchant seamen. Young Americans were everywhere in Australia when "down under" became the rallying ground for the fight against the Japanese. The impact they made--sometimes violent, often emotional, frequently funny, --was felt for years afterward in both predictable and unexpected ways. This book tells the story of that friendly invasion for the first time. Using interviews, letters, diaries, and other materials gathered during the authors' extensive travels throughout the United States and Australia, this book vividly illustrates how the "Yanks" and the "Aussies," in and out of uniform, responded to each other. It shows how the "American invasion" affected the Australian identity and laid the groundwork for a new association between the two countries. About the Authors: Daniel Potts, now an Australian citizen and Associate Professor of History at Monash University in Melbourne, was born in the U.S.Annette Potts, his wife and a native Australian, has collaborated with him on several previous books about Australian-American relations.

Annette Potts

Papers

Young America and Australian gold: Americans and the gold rush of the 1850's

Yanks down under, 1941-45 : the American impact on Australia

The Negro and the Australian Gold Rushes, 1852-1857

Yanks Down Under, 1941-45

Experiences of a forty-niner in Australia and New Zealand