Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework: Recent submissions
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Phrenology and 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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Seductively Australian : the Australian Tourist Commission's 'imagineering' of a nation, 1967-2000
Published 2000-01-01Open AccessThesis