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A concise history of Australia
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This paper revisited A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Australia's past and its relationship to the present, integrating new scholarship with the historical record, bringing together the long narrative of Australia's First Nations' peoples; the arrival of Europeans and the era of colonies, convicts, gold and free settlers; the foundation of a nation state; and the social, cultural, political and economic developments that created a modern Australia.Abstract:
Stuart Macintyre, one of Australia's most highly regarded historians, revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Australia's past and its relationship to the present. Integrating new scholarship with the historical record, the fifth edition of A Concise History of Australia brings together the long narrative of Australia's First Nations' peoples; the arrival of Europeans and the era of colonies, convicts, gold and free settlers; the foundation of a nation state; and the social, cultural, political and economic developments that created a modern Australia. As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, Macintyre's Australia remains one of achievements and failures. So too the future possibilities are deeply rooted in the country's past endeavours. A Concise History of Australia is an invitation to examine this past.read more
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Australian Soul: Religion and Spirituality in the 21st Century
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the qualities of spiritual and religious life in Australia and the changing social location of religion and spirituality, from Christendom to comfortable on the margins.
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Systematic Gender Violence and the Rule of Law: Aboriginal Communities in Australia and Post-War Liberia
Fynn Bruey,Veronica Patience +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the extent to which the Western concept of the rule of law impacts systematic violence against Indigenous girls and women in Australia and post-war Liberia, and found that although the principle of the Rule of Law is an emancipatory tool for justice and redress generally, it can also be an apparatus for persistent systemic violence against women.
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Water rights reform: lessons for institutional design.
TL;DR: Buckland and Zabel as mentioned in this paper describe the workings of these systems, and report abstraction fees that are typically around the equivalent of US$0.01-0.02 for one cubic meter, but in some cases significantly more.
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Making ‘the One Day of the Year’: a Genealogy of Anzac Day to 1918
TL;DR: The authors examines the early years of Anzac Day, providing an account of its troubled history from 1915 to the 1918 commemorations, concluding that Anzac lost impetus as a genuinely national civic commemoration through 1917 and 1918 as it struggled to meet the demands placed upon it by the mounting stresses of war.
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The European Miracle: Environments, economies and geopolitics in the history of Europe and Asia
TL;DR: In this paper, the economic condition forming where natural environments and political systems meet is explained as a favoured interaction between them, contrasting with the frustrating pattern of their interplay in the Ottoman empire, India and China.
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GUNS, GERMS AND STEEL - A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years
TL;DR: Guns, Germs, and Steel as mentioned in this paper is a ground-breaking and humane work of popular science that presents a synthesis of history, biology, ecology, ecology and linguistics.
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Lords of all the world : ideologies of empire in Spain, Britain and France c.1500-c.1800
TL;DR: Pagden as discussed by the authors compares theories of empire as they emerged in, and helped to define, the great colonial powers-Spain, Britain, and France-describes the different ways and arguments these countries used to legitimate the seizure and subjugation of aboriginal lands and peoples.