Commandant of Solitude

Commandant of Solitude
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Publisher : Melbourne University Press
Total Pages : 478
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000035541667
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Commandant of Solitude by : Collet Barker

Diaries of Collet Barker; Raffles Bay region - race relations , traditional society, vocabulary and place names, Aborigines at Raffles Bay 1829; Aboriginal class divisions; massacre King George Sound region - Nyungar and Mineng people; race relations, traditional beliefs on creation, ghosts, snakes, star lore; birth; body scars; burial beliefs; ceremonial exchange; ceremonies; children; customs, manners; feuds; ceremonial role of women; fire stick hunting; fishing; food; hunting rights; initiation; kinship relations; marriage; name avoidance; property rights; rituals; spears; vocabulary; Mineng names of seasons; list of Nyungar people 1821-1835.

The Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1838

The Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1838
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Publisher : UNSW Press
Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : 0868407569
ISBN-13 : 9780868407562
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis The Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1838 by : John Connor

This text is a comprehensive military history of frontier conflict in Australia. Covering the first 50 years of British occupation in Australia, the book examines in detail how both sides fought on the frontier and examines how Aborigines developed a form of warfare differing from tradition.

The Commandant

The Commandant
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Publisher : Abrams
Total Pages : 53
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ISBN-10 : 9781468300918
ISBN-13 : 1468300911
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis The Commandant by : Rudolf Hoess

This chilling memoir presents “a graphic and compelling self-portrait” of the Nazi war criminal who oversaw Auschwitz concentration camp (Jewish Book World). SS officer Rudolph Hoess was the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz. After the war, he was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death by the Polish Supreme National Tribunal. The amoral sensibility Hoess displayed regarding all that went on in the charnel factory where the industrialization of death was practiced—where probably three million people were literally worked to death, shot or gassed—is still almost beyond belief today. Editor Jurg Amann has taken Hoess's text and produced a work of vital historical importance. The Commandant presents an excruciating insight into Hitler's Final Solution and the nature of evil itself through the prism of the Nazis' totalitarian system, one Hoess and so many others felt no need to question. Ian Buruma's introduction sets this frightening work within a both moral and historical context.

Commandant of Solitude

Commandant of Solitude
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Publisher : Melbourne University Press
Total Pages : 480
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015029110353
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Commandant of Solitude by : Collet Barker

Diaries of Collet Barker; Raffles Bay region - race relations , traditional society, vocabulary and place names, Aborigines at Raffles Bay 1829; Aboriginal class divisions; massacre King George Sound region - Nyungar and Mineng people; race relations, traditional beliefs on creation, ghosts, snakes, star lore; birth; body scars; burial beliefs; ceremonial exchange; ceremonies; children; customs, manners; feuds; ceremonial role of women; fire stick hunting; fishing; food; hunting rights; initiation; kinship relations; marriage; name avoidance; property rights; rituals; spears; vocabulary; Mineng names of seasons; list of Nyungar people 1821-1835.

Solitude's End

Solitude's End
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Publisher : Rampart Publishing
Total Pages : 193
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ISBN-10 : 9780994438676
ISBN-13 : 0994438672
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Solitude's End by : Mike Waller

Echo Bourke is a survivor. She must escape her world at any cost, and nothing, not even an invading alien empire, will get in her way. Sole survivor of the brutal massacre of her colony by a race called the Tolleani, she searches for her chance for revenge. Her problem? Barbus Koll, a dangerous killer with an ego the size of a planet, the maniacal commander of the alien base left on her world. To escape, she needs a ship. Only Koll — and the fact Echo can’t fly — stands between her and freedom. When Ben Teague, the pilot of a human vessel captured by Koll, escapes and stumbles upon Echo's forest hideaway, she sees her way out, but soon learns he has an agenda of his own and needs her help to succeed. If she helps him, both of them could die. "Solitude's End" is the first stand alone novel in the "Echo's Way" series by multi-award-winning author Mike Waller. This action packed adventure set on a distant colonial planet in the distant future will take you on a ride that will grip you until the end.

The Universal Library

The Universal Library
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 634
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ISBN-10 : UIUC:30112106512236
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis The Universal Library by :

Commandant's Bulletin

Commandant's Bulletin
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 52
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ISBN-10 : MINN:30000011646639
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis Commandant's Bulletin by :

Captain Of Solitude

Captain Of Solitude
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Publisher : Desert Dreams
Total Pages : 250
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781642555608
ISBN-13 : 1642555606
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Captain Of Solitude by : Bob Innes

This historical novel tells the story of Captain Collet Barker of the 39th Regiment, during his time in the early settlement of Australia, from 1827-1831. The book is based on considerable research, and on his journals, assembled while he was the Commandant at Raffles Bay in northern Australia, and later at King Georges Sound in Western Australia (modern-day Albany). Barker had troops and convicts under his command, and he handled his duties with aplomb, but he was particularly noted for his close relationship with the Aboriginal people he interacted with at both settlements. This relationship makes the tragic climax all the more poignant.

Deleuzian Fabulation and the Scars of History

Deleuzian Fabulation and the Scars of History
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9780748641758
ISBN-13 : 0748641750
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Deleuzian Fabulation and the Scars of History by : Ronald Bogue

The concept of fabulation makes a late appearance in Deleuze's career and in only limited detail, but by tracing its connections to other concepts and situating them within Deleuze's general aesthetics, Ronald Bogue develops a theory of fabulation which he proposes as the guiding principle of a Deleuzian approach to literary narrative.Fabulation, he argues, entails becoming-other, experimenting on the real, legending, and inventing a people to come, as well as an understanding of time informed by Deleuze's Chronos/Aion distinction and his theory of the three passive syntheses of time. In close readings of contemporary novels by Zakes Mda, Arundhati Roy, Roberto Bolano, Assia Djebar and Richard Flanagan, he demonstrates the usefulness of fabulation as a critical tool, while exploring the problematic relationship between history and story-telling which all five novelists adopt as a central thematic concern.This is an original and exciting project by a highly respected specialist in the field.