Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by publication year
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Seductively Australian : the Australian Tourist Commission's 'imagineering' of a nation, 1967-2000
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Popular history and the desire for knowledge : an examination of James A. Michener’s The Source as a popular history of Israel
Published 2007-03-01This thesis explores the issues that arise when we consider James A. Michener’s number 1 best-seller The Source (1965) as a popular history of Israel. It examines the educational desires of middlebrow audiences that led ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Mythos and Eros in Fin de Siecle Russia : Zinaida Gippius’ Sexual Revolution
Published 2007-03-01At the turn of the twentieth century, Russian writer Zinaida Gippius postulated a radical repudiation of the notions of biologically determined gender and sexuality. An active participant in the Russian religious renaissance ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Discourses of democracy and exclusion in the streets of Belgrade , 1968 - 1997
Published 2007-10-02In June 1968 students at the University of Belgrade occupied their Faculties for a week in protest at social inequalities. They denounced the Yugoslav bureaucracy and proclaimed their solidarity with the working class. ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
A Question of Principle ? : John F. Kennedy’s Relations with France and Britain Re-examined
Published 2007-10-02The policies of John F. Kennedy have been assessed by historians chiefly as evidence of his “idealism” or “pragmatism”, ignoring the fundamental role of American nationalism in Kennedy’s ideas. A firm believer in the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Anti–Semitism and American Immigration Policy during the Holocaust : A reassessment
Published 2007-10-05Since the publication of David Wyman's seminal monograph on the American immigration policy during the Second World War— Paper Walls: America and the refugee crisis—the historiography has been framed by a fundamental ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Strange Bodies and Familiar Spaces: W. J. R. Simpson and the threat of disease in Calcutta and the tropical city, 1880 - 1910
Published 2007-10-17This thesis discusses the role of urban sanitation in tropical cities, especially Calcutta. Focusing particularly on the provision of milk, the author argues that hygienic practice, and the culture of nineteenth-century ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Neither French Nor Savage : A Sonic History of the Eastern Woodlands of North America
Published 2007-10-17Recent histories of the colonial American soundscape have offered readers the popular story of a sonic frontier between Europeans and indigenous inhabitants, in which the latter is silenced by the former’s “sensory ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
“ Bold in the Senate House and Brave at War ” : Naval Officers in the House of Commons 1715 - 1815
Published 2007-10-17Between 1715 and 1815, 182 British naval officers sat in the House of Commons, a group hitherto unstudied in a systematic way. This thesis draws upon the work of the History of Parliament Trust to examine naval MPs’ ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Cultures of Rebelliousness and Repression in a Mining City: Guanajuato, 1766-1767
Published 2008-01-01n/aOpen AccessThesis, Honours -
Internationalist Vision for a Postwar World: H. V. Evatt, Politics and the Law
Published 2008-01-01Herbert Vere Evatt, Minister for External Affairs in the postwar period (1941 – 1949), has been labelled by his contemporaries, biographers and historians as an internationalist. He is most often associated with playing a ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Contesting Corporal Punishment: Abolitionism, Transportation and the British Imperial Project
Published 2008-01-01Between the 1820s and the 1840s, anti-slavery ideas shaped debate about the treatment of convicts in the Australian penal colonies. This thesis investigates the impact of abolitionism on one key aspect of convict life: the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Women, Work and 'Civilised' White Australia: Assessing Responses to Women in Factory and Sweated Labour
Published 2008-01-01The thesis deals with a moment in 1911 when there was an intense interest in women undertaking allegedly ‘problematic; factory and sweated labour. The thesis analyses these responses and illustrates that they were informed ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Phrenologyand the Insanity Defence: Medical Jurisprudence in the McNaughtan Trial
Published 2008-01-01This thesis argues that phrenology shaped the defence argument in the McNaughtan trial. The role of this now-discredited science exemplifies the negotiation of scientific, legal and lay knowledge in the early nineteenth ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Unwanted Husbands and Adultery : Medieval Marriage in the Twelfth-Century Tristan and Isolde Legend
Published 2008-01-22This thesis discusses the evidence provided by late twelfth-century and early thirteenth-century romances on medieval marriage. During the twelfth century marriage was a much debated topic in the medieval Church, which was ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Prior to Bolingbroke : How a ‘minor’ poet and diplomat shaped the greatest events of his day
Published 2008-01-22My thesis is an attempt to adjust the historical record in reference to one who has been for a long time considered a minor figure, and to indicate the supreme political and commercial influence of Matthew Prior (1664-1721) ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
A Change in Cirumstance : Individual Responses to Colonial Life
Published 2008-01-22In order to understand how integral the European conception of property was to the first settlers of Australia, this thesis explores the everyday experience of five unique individuals from the colonial setting and their ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Feminism in Flux : Indigenous Rights Activism and the Evolution of Feminism in New South Wales, 1930-1960
Published 2008-01-22From the 1930s in Australia, white female voices of protest regarding Indigenous affairs were prominent. While undoubtedly emerging from philanthropic concerns, this thesis argues that more can be elicited from white women’s ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Formation of Right-Wing Anti-Elitist Discourse Amongst Australian Intellectuals: 1972 - 1988
Published 2008-01-22This thesis analyses the historical development of anti-elitist discourse amongst Australian right-wing intellectuals. Examining Quadrant magazine and neo-liberal think tanks between 1972 and 1988, this thesis argues that ...Open AccessThesis, Honours