Ross Fitzgerald
Autor de The Greatest Game
Obras de Ross Fitzgerald
Fred Paterson: The People's Champion: Australia's Only Communist Party Member of Parliament (UQP Biography) (1997) 13 copias
What it means to be human : essays in philosophical anthropology, political philosophy, and social psychology (1978) 4 copias
Seven days to remember : the first Labor government in the world : Queensland, 1-7 December 1899 (1999) 3 copias
Australia's game : stories, essays, verse & drama inspired by the Australian game of football (2013) 2 copias
"Red Ted" 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Fitzgerald, Ross
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1944-12-25
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Australia
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Lugares de residencia
- Redfern, New South Wales, Australia
- Educación
- University of New South Wales (PhD|Political Theory)
Case Western Reserve University (MA|Political Science)
Monash University (BA|History) - Ocupaciones
- professor emeritus (History and Politics)
journalist - Relaciones
- Spillman, Ken (student)
Cryle, Denis (student) - Organizaciones
- New South Wales State Parole Authority
New South Wales Heritage Council
Administrative Decisions Tribunal
NSW Government Expert Advisory Group on Drugs and Alcohol
Griffith University
Miembros
Reseñas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 41
- Miembros
- 196
- Popularidad
- #111,885
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 64
- Idiomas
- 1
Settlers, haunted by the fear of missing out, dashed about the new land chasing wealth. Wool, cattle, sugar-cane, gold, wheat, land consolidation, all contributed to a feverish scavenging of land. A lucky few got the wealth.
The others, Aboriginal, Chinese gold-diggers, Kanaka indentured labourers, miners were met with the most terrible violence and harsh legislation whenever they in any way threatened "development" and the social cohesion of the strong petty-bourgeois mentality of the newcomer.
The book is a good starter for an overview of the period up to 1915. It's nearly forty years since publication. However, it does set the scene for Queensland in the Twentieth Century where the dominant ethos in the state remained "development" as the prime motivator.… (más)