Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 19

Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 19
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Publisher : ANU Press
Total Pages : 970
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ISBN-10 : 9781760464134
ISBN-13 : 1760464139
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 19 by : Melanie Nolan

Volume 19 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) contains concise biographies of individuals who died between 1991 and 1995. The first of two volumes for the 1990s, it presents a colourful montage of late twentieth-century Australian life, containing the biographies of significant and representative Australians. The volume is still in the shadow of World War II with servicemen and women who enlisted young appearing, but these influences are dimming and there are now increasing numbers of non-white, non-male, non-privileged and non-straight subjects. The 680 individuals recorded in volume 19 of the ADB include Wiradjuri midwife and Ngunnawal Elder Violet Bulger; Aboriginal rights activist, poet, playwright and artist Kevin Gilbert; and Torres Strait Islander community leader and land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo. HIV/AIDS child activists Tony Lovegrove and Eve Van Grafhorst have entries, as does conductor Stuart Challender, ‘the first Australian celebrity to go public’ about his HIV/AIDS condition in 1991. The arts are, as always, well-represented, including writers Frank Hardy, Mary Durack and Nene Gare, actors Frank Thring and Leonard Teale and arts patron Ian Potter. We are beginning to see the effects of the steep rise in postwar immigration flow through to the ADB. Artist Joseph Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotkowski was born in Poland. Pilar Moreno de Otaegui, co-founded the Spanish Club of Sydney. Chinese restaurateur and community leader Ming Poon (Dick) Low migrated to Victoria in 1953. Often we have a dearth of information about the domestic lives of our subjects; politician Olive Zakharov, however, bravely disclosed at the Victorian launch of the federal government’s campaign to Stop Violence Against Women in 1993 that she was a survivor of domestic violence in her second marriage. Take a dip into the many fascinating lives of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.

‘True Biographies of Nations?’

‘True Biographies of Nations?’
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Publisher : ANU Press
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9781760462758
ISBN-13 : 1760462756
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis ‘True Biographies of Nations?’ by : Karen Fox

Dictionaries of national biography are a long-established and significant genre of biographical and historical writing, existing in many forms across the globe. This book brings together practitioners from around the English‑speaking world to reflect on national biographical dictionary projects’ recent cultural journeys, and the challenges presented to them by such developments as the transition to a digital environment, a new alertness to the need to represent diversity, and the rise of transnationalism. Exploring their paths forward, the chapters of this book collectively make a powerful argument for the continued value and importance of large‑scale collaborative biographical dictionary research.

Fortunate Voyager

Fortunate Voyager
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Publisher : Melbourne University Press
Total Pages : 319
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ISBN-10 : 0522862071
ISBN-13 : 9780522862072
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Fortunate Voyager by : Philip Ayres

"One life, many roles- soldier, brilliant barrister, High Court judge, Governor-General, Australian diplomat, mediator in Northern Ireland, member of the first war crimes tribunal since Nuremburg and Tokyo, head of UN and Commonwealth missions to crisis zones from Cambodia to Burma to Bangladesh, Sir Ninian Stephen is the recipient of five knighthoods and the most honoured Australian in history--and yet precisely because so much of his work was international it has rarely received the notice it deserves in his home country. In this, the first whole-of-life biography of the subject, Philip Ayres traces Stephen's early life in Scotland, England and around continental Europe, from Edinburgh and the Highlands to the spa towns of France and Germany, from the ski runs above Montreux to the Nuremberg Rally of 1938, including the details of his education at outstanding British and Swiss schools and his highly unorthodox 'family' life as an only child with an absent father, the details of which, like so much here, have never previously been revealed. All this constitutes the unknown Ninian Stephen, and yet so much else in this book is new- the wartime Stephen, the barrister S

Douglas Copland

Douglas Copland
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Publisher : Melbourne University Press
Total Pages : 548
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ISBN-10 : 0522862845
ISBN-13 : 9780522862843
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Douglas Copland by : Marjorie Harper

"In Australia the name Copland is one to be conjured with.' The Canadian ambassador to China was addressing the diplomatic corps gathered to farewell Professor Douglas Copland, Australia's second Minister to China. It was early 1948, and Copland was leaving China to become founding Vice-Chancellor of the new Australian National University in Canberra. The compliment was a reference to Copland's outstanding career in Australia as an academic, applied economist, administrator and public intellectual. His academic writings were numerous and timely, his newspaper articles were widely syndicated and he was constantly in demand as a public speaker and broadcaster. Copland's name is perpetuated by a lecture theatre at the University of Melbourne, a building at ANU, a secondary college in the Canberra suburb of Melba and by a series of lectures sponsored by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia."

Fortunate Life

Fortunate Life
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Publisher : Fremantle Press
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 9781925591415
ISBN-13 : 1925591417
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Fortunate Life by : A.B. Facey

Albert Facey’s story is the story of Australia.Born in 1894, and first sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer and farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy, surviving Gallipoli, raising a family through the Depression, losing a son in the Second World War, and meeting his beloved Evelyn with whom he shared nearly sixty years of marriage.Despite enduring unimaginable hardships, Facey always saw his life as a fortunate one.A true classic of Australian literature, Facey’s simply penned story offers a unique window onto the history of Australian life through the greater part of the twentieth century – the extraordinary journey of an ordinary man.

Australian Dictionary of Biography

Australian Dictionary of Biography
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Publisher : Australian Dictionary of Biogr
Total Pages : 516
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015078232306
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Australian Dictionary of Biography by : Douglas Pike

Since 1966 the Australian Dictionary of Biography has provided Australians with concise, informative and fascinating descriptions of prominent men and women of this country who contributed their vision and energies to a growing nation.

Courtesan and Countess

Courtesan and Countess
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Publisher : Melbourne University Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0522868835
ISBN-13 : 9780522868838
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Courtesan and Countess by : comtesse Céleste Vénard de Chabrillan

Text in English; unpublished memoirs originally written in French.

Not Forgotten

Not Forgotten
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Publisher : Coventry Press
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 0648725154
ISBN-13 : 9780648725152
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Not Forgotten by : Anne Benjamin

Not Forgotten celebrates the lives of our forebears, the flesh and blood people who passionately believed that what they could bring to Australian children was worth the struggle.