The Fatal Shore
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The Fatal Shore
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Author : Robert Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1988-02-12
The Fatal Shore written by Robert Hughes and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-02-12 with History categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This incredible true history of the colonization of Australia explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today. "One of the greatest non-fiction books I’ve ever read ... Hughes brings us an entire world." —Los Angeles Times Digging deep into the dark history of England's infamous efforts to move 160,000 men and women thousands of miles to the other side of the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Hughes has crafted a groundbreaking, definitive account of the settling of Australia. Tracing the European presence in Australia from early explorations through the rise and fall of the penal colonies, and featuring 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps, The Fatal Shore brings to life the history of the country we thought we knew.
Freedom On The Fatal Shore
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Author : John Hirst
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2008-05-01
Freedom On The Fatal Shore written by John Hirst and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-05-01 with History categories.
Freedom on the Fatal Shore brings together John Hirst's two books on the early history of New South Wales. Both are classic accounts which have had a profound effect on the understanding of our history. This combined edition includes a new foreword by the author. Convicts with their "own time", convicts with legal rights, convicts making money, convicts getting drunk - what sort of prison was this? Hirst describes how the convict colony actually worked and how Australian democracy came into being, despite the opposition of the most powerful. He writes: "This was not a society that had to become free; its freedoms were well established from the earliest times." “Colonial Australia was a more ‘normal’ place than one might imagine from the folkloric picture of society governed by the lash and the triangle, composed of groaning white slaves tyrannised by ruthless masters. The book that best conveys this and has rightly become a landmark in recent studies of the System is J.B. Hirst’s Convict Society and Its Enemies.” —Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore “Anyone with an interest in Australian political culture will find The Strange Birth of Colonial Democracy invaluable.” —Professor Colin Hughes, former Electoral Commissioner for the Commonwealth
The Fatal Shore
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Author : Robert Hughes
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 1988-02-12
The Fatal Shore written by Robert Hughes and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-02-12 with History categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This incredible true history of the colonization of Australia explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today. "One of the greatest non-fiction books I’ve ever read ... Hughes brings us an entire world." —Los Angeles Times Digging deep into the dark history of England's infamous efforts to move 160,000 men and women thousands of miles to the other side of the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Hughes has crafted a groundbreaking, definitive account of the settling of Australia. Tracing the European presence in Australia from early explorations through the rise and fall of the penal colonies, and featuring 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps, The Fatal Shore brings to life the history of the country we thought we knew.
The Fatal Shore
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Author : Robert Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Fatal Shore written by Robert Hughes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Australia categories.
The Fatal Shore reveals the full extent of Australia's role as the concentration camp of Georgian England, and in doing so has set new standards in the writing of narrative history
Uncorrected Proof
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Author : Robert Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Uncorrected Proof written by Robert Hughes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Australia categories.
How Australia was born out of the suffering and brutality of England's infamous convict transportation system - the epic story of a jail that became a flourishing nation, from the landing of the first fleet in 1788 to the last, 80 turbulent years later.
Gallipoli
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Author : Harvey Broadbent
language : en
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Release Date : 2009
Gallipoli written by Harvey Broadbent and has been published by Michael Joseph this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey) categories.
It was an adventure to die for. A daring attempt to force the Dardanelles and capture the Turkish capital Constantinople. For the Allies it was the Trojan War and crusade combined. The Gallipoli Campaing was to become one of the most savagely contested of the First World War.On 25 April 1915, Allied troops stormed the cliffs of Gallipoli. Twenty-eight thousand Australians were killed and wounded in the bloody, eight-month campaign. The raging battles of the Landing, the desperate assault on Lone Pine, the gallant but futile charge at the Nek, are all engraved on the national psyche. Gallipoli is now regarded as a defining episode in Australian history. It is an extraordinary story of determination and courage, as the intrepid and resourceful Anzacs displayed the spirit that was to distinguish them on the Western Front as the Empire's most formidable offensive troops.This book by Harvey Broadbent, a leading authority on the campaign and producer of the acclaimed ABC documentary Gallipoli: The Fatal Shore, seeks to convey the story of Gallipoli to Australians of all ages. It features a foreword by General Peter Cosgrove, Chief of the Australian Defence Force.
Freedom On The Fatal Shore
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Author : John Bradley Hirst
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2008
Freedom On The Fatal Shore written by John Bradley Hirst and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
Freedom on the Fatal Shorebrings together John Hirst's two books on the early history of New South Wales. Both are classic accounts which have had a profound effect on the understanding of our history. They also have long been unavailable, either new or second-hand. This combined edition includes a new foreword by Hirst. These are works that bring to vivid life the early days of convict Australia. They change our sense of how a colony that was also intended to be a prison actually worked, and how Australian democracy came into being, despite the opposition of the most powerful. Hirst overturns the standard picture, arguing- "This was not a society that had to become free; its freedoms were well established from the earliest times." "Colonial Australia was a more 'normal' place than one might imagine from the folkloric picture of society governed by the lash and the triangle, composed of groaning white slaves tyrannised by ruthless masters. The book that best conveys this and has rightly become a landmark in recent studies of the System is J. B. Hirst's Convict Society and its Enemies." - Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore"Anyone with an interest in Australian political culture will find The Strange Birth of Colonial Democracyinvaluable." - Professor Colin Hughes, former Chief Electoral Commissioner for the Commonwealth.
Things I Didn T Know
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Author : Robert Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-06-30
Things I Didn T Know written by Robert Hughes and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Robert Hughes, one of the most illuminating minds ever to have taken on the subjects of art and culture, uses his same critical abilities to give us a brutally intimate account of his early life, up until the time he quit Australia for the United States. Part memoir, part history lesson, part philosophical tract, Hughes uses his own experiences to examine the nature of art, war, sex, religion, writing and life itself. Piercing, razor-sharp, and above all, fearless, this is by far Hughes's most personal writing to date.
The Spectacle Of Skill
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Author : Robert Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2015-11-17
The Spectacle Of Skill written by Robert Hughes and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-17 with Art categories.
“I am completely an elitist, in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I love the spectacle of skill, whether it’s an expert gardener at work, or a good carpenter chopping dovetails . . . I don’t think stupid or ill-read people are as good to be with as wise and fully literate ones. I would rather watch a great tennis player than a mediocre one . . . Consequently, most of the human race doesn’t matter much to me, outside the normal and necessary frame of courtesy and the obligation to respect human rights. I see no reason to squirm around apologizing for this. I am, after all, a cultural critic, and my main job is to distinguish the good from the second-rate.” Robert Hughes wrote with brutal honesty about art, architecture, culture, religion, and himself. He translated his passions—of which there were many, both positive and negative—brilliantly, convincingly, and with vitality and immediacy, always holding himself to the same rigorous standards of skill, authenticity, and significance that he did his subjects. There never was, and never will be again, a voice like this. In this volume, that voice rings clear through a gathering of some of his most unforgettable writings, culled from nine of his most widely read and important books. This selection shows his enormous range and gives us a uniquely cohesive view of both the critic and the man. Most revealing, and most thrilling for Hughes’s legions of fans, are the never-before-published pages from his unfinished second volume of memoirs. These last writings show Robert Hughes at the height of his powers and can be read only with pleasure and a tinge of sadness that his extraordinary voice is no longer here to educate us as well as to clarify and define our world.
Barcelona
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Author : Robert Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2001
Barcelona written by Robert Hughes and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Architecture categories.
Focusing on the architectural foundations of this extraordinary city, Robert Hughes' account of Barcelona's growth in relation to the region of Catalunya also features political, economic and military drama.