History: Recent submissions
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'Fighting My Way Through': Northern Rural Women in the American Civil War
Published 2012-11-01Rural women are almost entirely absent in the voluminous scholarship on the American Civil War. Yet women were more than volunteers and nurses during this conflict; they also worked the land, helping the North to achieve ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Japan be Number One Internationalism and History of Japanese Diplomacy, 1853-2006
Published 2012-11-01This thesis engages with two bodies of scholarship: Japanese diplomacy and internationalism. Japan’s interaction with the international community and how it started and developed in the course of history is analysed. It ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Terre Vraiment Étrange: French Travel Writing in Australia between the Gold Rush and Federation
Published 2012-11-01Despite the rich heritage of the French in Australia, its corresponding field of scholarship is limited. This thesis will explore the travel writings of ten French men and women who visited Australia between the Gold Rush ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
‘We want to do what they did’: History at St Clair
Published 2012-11-01In 1999 the Wonnarua Nation Aboriginal Corporation acquired the site of the former St Clair Mission where their forebears lived. They will recreate to turn it into a cultural centre that will sustain and strengthen their ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
REHABILITATING “A FEW DISAFFECTED CHARACTERS”: IRELAND’S MEN OF ’98 FROM A TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Published 2012-11-01The Irish Rebellion of 1798 has generated a fraught legacy. Its history has been variously skewed by elitist and partisan accounts which overshadow more balanced scholarship. These works have proved crucial in the proliferation ...Open AccessThesis, Honours