Ross Fitzgerald
Auteur de The Greatest Game
Œuvres de Ross Fitzgerald
Fred Paterson: The People's Champion: Australia's Only Communist Party Member of Parliament (UQP Biography) (1997) 13 exemplaires
What it means to be human : essays in philosophical anthropology, political philosophy, and social psychology (1978) 4 exemplaires
Seven days to remember : the first Labor government in the world : Queensland, 1-7 December 1899 (1999) 3 exemplaires
Australia's game : stories, essays, verse & drama inspired by the Australian game of football (2013) 2 exemplaires
Dizzying Heights (Grafton Everest Book 7) 2 exemplaires
'Revisionist look at a fleeting history' in The Australian, 19-20 Feb 2011 [review of Alan Frost's 'Botany Bay: the… 1 exemplaire
‘All Duck and No Dinner’, in Ross Fitzgerald and Ken Spillman (eds), Fathers in Writing 1 exemplaire
"Red Ted" 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Fitzgerald, Ross
- Date de naissance
- 1944-12-25
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Lieu de naissance
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Lieux de résidence
- Redfern, New South Wales, Australia
- Études
- University of New South Wales (PhD|Political Theory)
Case Western Reserve University (MA|Political Science)
Monash University (BA|History) - Professions
- professor emeritus (History and Politics)
journalist - Relations
- Spillman, Ken (student)
Cryle, Denis (student) - Organisations
- New South Wales State Parole Authority
New South Wales Heritage Council
Administrative Decisions Tribunal
NSW Government Expert Advisory Group on Drugs and Alcohol
Griffith University
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 41
- Membres
- 197
- Popularité
- #111,410
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 64
Settlers, haunted by the fear of missing out, dashed about the new land chasing wealth. Wool, cattle, sugar-cane, gold, wheat, land consolidation, all contributed to a feverish scavenging of land. A lucky few got the wealth.
The others, Aboriginal, Chinese gold-diggers, Kanaka indentured labourers, miners were met with the most terrible violence and harsh legislation whenever they in any way threatened "development" and the social cohesion of the strong petty-bourgeois mentality of the newcomer.
The book is a good starter for an overview of the period up to 1915. It's nearly forty years since publication. However, it does set the scene for Queensland in the Twentieth Century where the dominant ethos in the state remained "development" as the prime motivator.… (plus d'informations)