History: Recent submissions
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Let the Lunatics Run their Own Asylum Participatory Democracy at the University of Sydney, 1960–1979
Published 2011-01-01Participatory democracy lay at the heart of the student movements that erupted around the world in the 1960s. ‘Let the Lunatics Run their Own Asylum’ seeks to understand this defining aspect of student movements through ...Open AccessThesis -
The Anarcho-Syndicalist Platform for Indigenous Rights: A Trans-National study of Settler-colonialism, White Labourism and the International Worker‟s of the World in Australia and South Africa
Published 2011-01-01This thesis considers the legal stasis triggered by the 2007 "Northern Territory National Emergency Response‟ and suggests clarification can be found in the historical precedent of settler-colonialism. Through a trans-national ...Open AccessThesis -
‘A KIND OF LOVE’: Supergirls, Scapegoats and Sexual Liberation The response to Junie Morosi, Jim Cairns, and the scandal that rocked the Australian Government, 1975.
Published 2011-01-01The ‘Morosi affair’ captured the fascination of the public in 1975 during the turbulent political atmosphere of the Whitlam government. The Treasurer of the government, Dr Jim Cairns, hired the beautiful and controversial ...Open AccessThesis -
The 'S' Word: The Spectre of Syphilis within Middle-Class Marriage in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain
Published 2009-01-01The years between 1870 and 1914 witnessed profound shifts in the medical understanding of, social responses to, and cultural representations of syphilis and its sufferers. Prostitutes had traditionally been recognised as ...Open AccessThesis -
Defining the 'Strano': Madness in Renaissance Italy
Published 2009-01-01This thesis explores the different ways madness was defined and treated in Italian texts from the early fifteenth century through to the late sixteenth century. Although this thesis investigates how and why people were ...Open AccessThesis