Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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Inspiring Womanhood: A re-interpretation of The Dawn
Published 2011-01-01This thesis explores the diversity of content and ideas found in Louisa Lawson’s The Dawn, Australia’s first successful magazine ‘by women and for women’, showing that every element of the journal promoted a womanhood ideal ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Profits Over Patriotism: Black Market Crime in World War II Sydney
Published 2011-01-01This thesis examines the multi-faceted phenomenon of black market crime in World War II Sydney. Using previously classified archives, coupled with oral sources and newspaper articles I provide a complete survey of this ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Fighting for Empire: the contribution and experience of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles first contingent in the South African War.
Published 2011-01-01The South African War was Australia’s first war. Historians have insufficiently acknowledged the contribution of the New South Wales Mounted Rifles first contingent in this conflict. Unlike most Australian soldiers, the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
A SMALL AND ODIOUS PARTY OLD SCHOOL PRESBYTERIAN OPPOSITION TO ABOLITIONISM IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA
Published 2011-01-01The Old School Presbyterian Church was the only major evangelical denomination not to divide over slavery prior to the American Civil War. ‘A Small and Odious Party’ looks at the nature and the role of the Church’s opposition ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Poetry and the Rise of the Renaissance Artist: An investigation into the interdisciplinary nature of the Renaissance
Published 2011-01-01This thesis investigates the role poetry played in the rise of the Renaissance artist. It argues that the poetic technique ekphrasis influenced the theoretical writings of Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) and became the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours