Honours theses: Recent submissions
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Convict Geographies of Early Colonial Sydney
Published 2013-01-01The convict’s environmental, spatial and administrative knowledge of early colonial Sydney was far richer than is generally acknowledged. Not only were the convicts thinking and feeling individuals transported to a foreign ...Open AccessThesis -
A New Faith? Rights Agitation, National Aspirations and Self-Determination in the Soviet Periphery, 1965-1985
Published 2013-01-01This thesis investigates the intersection of human rights-talk, national aspirations and their respective origins on the peripheries of the Soviet Empire, 1965-1985. In particular, it challenges the so-called ‘Helsinki ...Open AccessThesis -
Maintaining the 'Australian Way of Life': President Johnson's 1966 visit and its implications for national culture.
Published 2013-01-01President Lyndon Johnson’s visit to Australia in October 1966 was the apogee of the Australian-American political alliance and coincided with the peak of Australian public support for the American war in Vietnam. It was ...Open AccessThesis -
Selfish, Timid, Tories: Boston in the American Revolutionary War, 1776- 1777.
Published 2013-01-01Historians of the American Revolution have celebrated Boston’s role in early resistance to Britain, while neglecting its post-1776 history. After the British evacuation, pre-existing social and economic problems re-emerged ...Open AccessThesis -
Corruption in Evidence: Policing Starting- Price Betting in 1930s NSW
Published 2013-01-01This thesis analyses two Royal Commissions into the policing of SP bookmaking that the NSW government issued in 1936 and 1937. These Commissions provide a window into the social history of betting and policing, as well ...Open AccessThesis