Hunters and Collectors is about historical consciousness and environmental sensibilities in European Australia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is in part a collective biography of the amateur scientists and humanists who have shaped the Australian historical imagination. Griffiths illuminates the way these avid collectors and discussants of the Australian land and its indigenous inhabitants have contributed a sense of national identity. He also shows how their activities feed into the political and environmental debates of the 1990s.
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In the two hundred years following the European invasion of Australia, the known age of the Earth increased from about 6,000 years to 4.6 billion. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stone tool collectors, mountain cattlemen, rural cultural landscapes, pastoral pioneers, bush hut, classical soil, old colonists, antiquarian imagination, human antiquity, aboriginal past, fauna reserve, native weapons, shire council, stone artefacts, urban progressives, wilderness movement, collecting grounds, urban conservation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New South Wales, Charles Barrett, Donald Macdonald, National Museum of Victoria, Baldwin Spencer, University of Melbourne, Historical Society of Victoria, Stan Mitchell, Bob Croll, John Mulvaney, Kow Swamp, Brough Smyth, National Trust, South Australia, Charles Long, Old Cemetery, Port Phillip, Alfred Howitt, Alfred Kenyon, Bernard Smith, Club of Victoria, Devon Downs, Graeme Davison, Sir James Barrett, Australian Historical Society New!
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In the two hundred years following the European invasion of Australia, the known age of the Earth increased from about 6,000 years to 4.6 billion. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
stone tool collectors, mountain cattlemen, rural cultural landscapes, pastoral pioneers, bush hut, classical soil, old colonists, antiquarian imagination, human antiquity, aboriginal past, fauna reserve, native weapons, shire council, stone artefacts, urban progressives, wilderness movement, collecting grounds, urban conservation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New South Wales, Charles Barrett, Donald Macdonald, National Museum of Victoria, Baldwin Spencer, University of Melbourne, Historical Society of Victoria, Stan Mitchell, Bob Croll, John Mulvaney, Kow Swamp, Brough Smyth, National Trust, South Australia, Charles Long, Old Cemetery, Port Phillip, Alfred Howitt, Alfred Kenyon, Bernard Smith, Club of Victoria, Devon Downs, Graeme Davison, Sir James Barrett, Australian Historical Society New!
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- Natural History of Selbourne (Wordsworth Classic) by Gilbert White on 7 pages
- Who Owns the Past?: Papers from the Annual Symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities by Isabel McBryde on 7 pages
- The Amateur and the Professional: Antiquarians, Historians and Archaeologists in Victorian England 1838-1886 by P. J. A. Levine on 6 pages
- The Past is a Foreign Country by David Lowenthal on 6 pages
- The Great Australian Loneliness (Imprint travel) by Ernestine Hill on 5 pages
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- Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies by Tom Griffiths on 6 pages
- The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare) by Joy Damousi in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- History of the Australian Environment Movement by Drew Hutton in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Landprints: Reflections on Place and Landscape by George Seddon on page 243, and page 245
- The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes: Explorations in Slumland (New Directions in Archaeology) by Alan Mayne on page 84, and Back Matter
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