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  • A Trip to the Dominions

    The Scientific Event that Changed Australia

    by Leigh Boucher, Jane Lydon, Ian J. McNiven, Christopher Morton ...
    Series series Australian Studies
    Explore the scientific expedition that transformed Australia.In 1914, the Australian Federal Government sponsored the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) to travel to Australia for its annual conference. This book delves into this pivotal event, where over 150 scientists explored Australian natural sciences, geology, botany, and anthropology. The congress uniquely showcased ... Read more

    $29.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Flash of Recognition

    Photography and the Emergence of Indigenous Rights

    by Jane Lydon ...
    Inspired by the shocking photograph of two Aboriginal men in neck-chains on the cover of Charles Rowley's 1970 classic, The Destruction of Aboriginal Society, this original and highly illustrated book uses photography to tell the bigger story of the struggle for Aboriginal rights in Australia. While many of the images are confronting, it shares the positive story of the way in which photography ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Remembering the Myall Creek Massacre

    by Jane Lydon ...
    The 1838 Myall Creek Massacre is remembered for the brutality of the crime committed by white settlers against innocent Aboriginal men, women and children, but also because eleven of the twelve assassins were arrested and brought to trial. Amid tremendous controversy, seven were hanged. Marking its 180th anniversary, this book explores the significance of one of the most horrifying events of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Calling the Shots

    Aboriginal Photographies

    by Jane Lydon ...
    Historically, photographs of Indigenous Australians were produced in unequal and exploitative circumstances. Today, however, such images represent a rich cultural heritage for descendants, who see them in distinctive and positive ways. Calling the shots brings together researchers who are using this rich archive to explore Aboriginal history, to identify relatives, and to reclaim culture. It ... Read more

    $26.19 USD

  • Legacies of British slavery in Australia and New Zealand

    Edited by Zoë Laidlaw, Jane Lydon ...
    Series Book 222 - Studies in Imperialism
    This book investigates the legacies of British slavery beyond Britain, focusing upon the colonisation of Australia and New Zealand, and explores why this history has been overlooked. After August 1833, when the British Parliament abolished slavery in the British Caribbean, Mauritius and the Cape, the former slave-owners were paid compensation for the loss of their ‘property’. New research has ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Anti-Slavery and Australia

    No Slavery in a Free Land?

    by Jane Lydon ...
    Series series Empire and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-2000
    Bringing the histories of British anti-slavery and Australian colonization together changes our view of both. This book explores the anti-slavery movement in imperial scope, arguing that colonization in Australasia facilitated emancipation in the Caribbean, even as abolition powerfully shaped the Settler Revolution. The anti-slavery campaign was deeply entwined with the administration of the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Imperial Emotions

    The Politics of Empathy across the British Empire

    by Jane Lydon ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Empire
    Emotions are not universal, but are experienced and expressed in diverse ways within different cultures and times. This overview of the history of emotions within nineteenth-century British imperialism focuses on the role of the compassionate emotions, or what today we refer to as empathy, and how they created relations across empire. Jane Lydon examines how empathy was produced, qualified and ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire

    by Jane Lydon ...
    Series series Photography, History: History, Photography
    With their power to create a sense of proximity and empathy, photographs have long been a crucial means of exchanging ideas between people across the globe; this book explores the role of photography in shaping ideas about race and difference from the 1840s to the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights. Focusing on Australian experience in a global context, a rich selection of case studies – drawing on ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Fantastic Dreaming

    The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Mission

    by Jane Lydon ...
    Series series Worlds of Archaeology
    Fantastic Dreaming explores how whites have measured Australian Aboriginal people through their material culture and domestic practices, aspects of culture intimately linked to Enlightenment notions of progress and social institutions such as marriage and property. Archaeological investigation reveals that the Moravian missionaries' attempts to "civilize" the Wergaia-speaking people of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Cosmopolitan Archaeologies

    by Jane Lydon, Ian A. Lilley, Denis Byrne ...
    Series series Material Worlds
    An important collection, Cosmopolitan Archaeologies delves into the politics of contemporary archaeology in an increasingly complex international environment. The contributors explore the implications of applying the cosmopolitan ideals of obligation to others and respect for cultural difference to archaeological practice, showing that those ethics increasingly demand the rethinking of research ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Eye Contact

    Photographing Indigenous Australians

    by Jane Lydon, Nicholas Thomas ...
    Series series Objects/Histories
    An indigenous reservation in the colony of Victoria, Australia, the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station was a major site of cross-cultural contact the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth. Coranderrk was located just outside Melbourne, and from its opening in the 1860s the colonial government commissioned many photographs of its Aboriginal residents. The photographs taken at Coranderrk Station ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Social Work of Narrative

    Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary

    by Gareth Griffiths, Philip Mead, Joseph R. Slaughter, Chantal Zabus, Mike Hill, Kieran Dolin, David Trigger, Richard Martin0, Nicholas Jose1, Asha Varadharajan2, Gillian Whitlock3, Russell West-Pavlov4, Ned Curthoys5, Golnar Nabizadeh6, Helen Gilbert7, Ethan Blue8, Jane Lydon9, Sukhmani Khorana0, Michael R. Griffiths1 ...
    Series Book 4 - Studies in World Literature
    This book addresses the ways in which a range of representational forms have influenced and helped implement the project of human rights across the world, and seeks to show how public discourses on law and politics grow out of and are influenced by the imaginative representations of human rights. It draws on a multi-disciplinary approach, using historical, literary, anthropological, visual arts, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD