The Murdoch ethos : essays in Australian history in honour of Foundation Professor Geoffrey Bolton / edited by Rae Frances and Bruce Scates essays in Australian history in honour of foundation professor Geoffrey Bolton

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AuthorFrances, Rae; Scates, Bruce Bolton, G. C. (Geoffrey Curgenven), 1931-Corporate AuthorMurdoch UniversityDescriptionSelected essays by staff and students of Murdoch University to honour foundation Professor Geoffrey Bolton Contents include: - Insanity or social control? Asians in fremantle Asylum 1890-1900 / Norman Megahey - Protection or persecution? Aboriginal people and institutionalisation / Pam Mitson - Hiding history : The Round House / Peter Scott - Footnotes to history : The Afghans in WA / Albert Koutsoukis - 'Burnt fingers' : Mills and Ware Biscuits 1898-1952 / Shirley Booth - Looking for a better deal : The 1979 Co-operative Bulk Handling dispute / Geoff Harcourt - One of God's police? Policewoman Ruth Dunlop / Leonie Biggins - The other side of the Island : an oral history of Rottnest / Jan Gothard et al - Unmasking the monument : the other side of the pioneer myth / Public Action Project [accounts of the public action protest against the Explorer's Memorial (Maitland Brown Memorial) in Esplanade Park - Biographical note written by Geoffrey BoltonImprintMurdoch, W.A. : Murdoch University, 1989 Murdoch University 1989Collationii, 274 p. ill., facsims. 30 cm.LanguageEnglishDate Published1989Content NotePart 1: Race. Insanity or social control? : Asians in Fremantle Asylum 1890-1900 / Norman Megahey -- Protection or persecution? : Aboriginal people and institutionalisation / Pam Mitson -- Hiding history : the Round House -- Peter Scott -- 'Troublesome natives' : Aboriginal resistance in the Esperance Bay Area / Leonie Biggins -- Footnotes to history : the Afghans in Western Australia / Albert Koutsoukis -- Part 2: Class. 'Burnt fingers' : Mills and Ware Biscuits 1898-1952 / Shirley Booth -- Looking for a better deal : the 1979 Co-operative Bulk Handling Dispute / Geoff Harcourt -- Miners, managers and entrepreneurs in early Collie / Brian Pope -- 'Toughing it' : life and work in a Main Roads Department Camp, 1928-1934 / Tresna Shorter -- Life on the line in Western Australia in the 1950s / David Walker -- Part 3: Gender. One of God's police? Policewoman Ruth Dunlop / Leonie Biggins -- Rape in Western Australia in the nineteenth century / Janet Greenwood -- Making of a policy: the State Children's Act 1907 / Christine Dimovich -- Bereaved mothers in a male world / Lorraine Williams -- Part 4: Putting the past into practice. Other side of the island: an oral history of Rottnest / Jan Gothard, et al. -- Unmasking the monument : the other side of the pioneer myth / Public Action Project -- Coming home : Vietnam veterans' experience of war / Grant Walton, et al -- Women and war : a feminist critique / Steve Hall, et al -- Conclusion. History of the historian ; Questioning the past - and the future / Geoffrey BoltonDewey Class994.1 MURPublication FormatBook

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Barcode30118000198279LocationReference Collection

SubjectMills and Ware LtdRound HouseFremantle Lunatic AsylumCooperative Bulk HandlingPrisoners - AboriginalMemorialsCollectionPublications CollectionIndigenous Collection

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