"Our fingers were never idle" : women and domestic craft in the Geelong region, 1900-1960

This thesis is an exploration of women's domestic crafts in the Geelong region, between 1900 and I960, Through analysing oral testimony and the women's handicraft artefacts, the nature of the domestic production of handicrafts and the meanings the makers have constructed around their creations and their lives is illuminated. The thesis is organised around the themes of work, space, the construction of femininity, memory, time and meaning. The thesis argues that until recently, the discipline of history has privileged the experiences of men over those of women. It challenges the trivialising of women’s handicrafts. It also argues that within the restrictive social structures around them and within the confined nature of their situations, the women of my study asserted themselves to transform their environments and to improve their situations through labour in the home. In ‘making do’, recycling materials and creating functional and decorative needlework items for their homes and families, the women were often finding solutions to pressing practical and economic problems. Doing handicrafts was rarely just a passive way of filling in time. Rather, making and creating was for these women a multi-layered activity that similtaneously fulfilled a complex range of needs for themselves and their families. A multiplicity of deeply personal, aesthetic, familial, social, practical and economic needs were met in the making of domestic craft artefacts, whose symbolism reflected the values and meanings of the women's cultures, homes and families.

Debating literacy in Australia : a documentary history, 1945 - 1994

A documentary history of 'literacy' as an issue, topic and problem in the Australia print media, 1945-1994. The accompanying critical analysis makes the case that 'literacy crises' in Australia have arisen during periods of major socioeconomic, cultural and geopolitical upheaval and change, with schools and teachers, youth and families the object of 'blame' for such changes.

Crisis in Clio's family : a study of the discipline of Australian economic history 1918-1965

This thesis presents an intellectual history of the historiography of Australian Economic History between 1918 and 1965. More specifically, it is a contribution to a relatively novel area of research into 'disciplinary history’. It takes as its basic analytical material the four books widely used for significant lengths of time for undergraduate teaching during the period of the study. The thesis consists of five main chapters, plus an appendix which surveys the institutional development of Australian Economic History and provides the empirical basis for the selection of the works named above. After a brief introduction and overview, the next four chapters consist of a detailed study of one of these works, the historical context in which each was written, and an intellectual biography. The fifth chapter is largely theoretical and conceptual. It analyses the epistemological bases of History and Economics and explores the implications of different models of knowledge for the relationship between Economic History and its two antecedent disciplines, History and Economics. Current perceptions of the state of the discipline in Australia and overseas are also examined. There are three main propositions advanced and their implications explored in the fifth chapter. First, that changes which occurred in Australian Economic History during the period 1918-1965 shifted the discipline from the broad area of History to the broad area of Economics. Second, that the inherent tension and fundamental differences between the two disciplinary areas of History and Economics have profound and complex implications for Australian Economic History at a number of levels and in a number of areas. The third proposition posits that the paradigm shift of the 1950s/1960s in Australian Economic History, and the paradigm shift of the 1960s/1970s in Economic History respectively have resulted in crisis. The final part of the chapter summarises the contents of the preceding chapters, and draws some conclusions based on those detailed studies.

Un retrato de posguerra : La segunda etapa de la recepción crítica de Kafka en Hispanoamérica (1945-1965)

La recepción crítica de la obra de Franz Kafka en Hispanoamérica puede ser organizada en una serie de etapas fuertemente ligadas al devenir político y cultural de la región. La primera (1927-1945), reúne un conjunto de lecturas anteriores al ingreso de Kafka al canon literario y se divide a su vez en dos momentos: el español, inaugurado con una reseña de Ramón María Tenreiro en la Revista de Occidente, y un segundo momento americano, en el que la recepción, debido al inicio de la Guerra Civil Española, se traslada a Latinoamérica. La segunda etapa, a la que dedicamos el presente trabajo, acompaña la publicación de la obra completa en la editorial argentina Emecé y, con ella, la definitiva consagración del escritor en el ámbito hispanoamericano. El período se abre con el retrato que Ramón Gómez de la Serna incluyó en su libro Nuevos Retratos Contemporáneos (Buenos Aires, 1945) y se cierra con un ensayo que María Zambrano publicó en México en 1965. El objetivo de estas páginas es analizar el modo en que las lecturas del período dialogan con el contexto ideológico de la segunda posguerra, factor fundamental en la rápida canonización del escritor.

Un retrato de posguerra : La segunda etapa de la recepción crítica de Kafka en Hispanoamérica (1945-1965)

La recepción crítica de la obra de Franz Kafka en Hispanoamérica puede ser organizada en una serie de etapas fuertemente ligadas al devenir político y cultural de la región. La primera (1927-1945), reúne un conjunto de lecturas anteriores al ingreso de Kafka al canon literario y se divide a su vez en dos momentos: el español, inaugurado con una reseña de Ramón María Tenreiro en la Revista de Occidente, y un segundo momento americano, en el que la recepción, debido al inicio de la Guerra Civil Española, se traslada a Latinoamérica. La segunda etapa, a la que dedicamos el presente trabajo, acompaña la publicación de la obra completa en la editorial argentina Emecé y, con ella, la definitiva consagración del escritor en el ámbito hispanoamericano. El período se abre con el retrato que Ramón Gómez de la Serna incluyó en su libro Nuevos Retratos Contemporáneos (Buenos Aires, 1945) y se cierra con un ensayo que María Zambrano publicó en México en 1965. El objetivo de estas páginas es analizar el modo en que las lecturas del período dialogan con el contexto ideológico de la segunda posguerra, factor fundamental en la rápida canonización del escritor.

Un retrato de posguerra : La segunda etapa de la recepción crítica de Kafka en Hispanoamérica (1945-1965)

La recepción crítica de la obra de Franz Kafka en Hispanoamérica puede ser organizada en una serie de etapas fuertemente ligadas al devenir político y cultural de la región. La primera (1927-1945), reúne un conjunto de lecturas anteriores al ingreso de Kafka al canon literario y se divide a su vez en dos momentos: el español, inaugurado con una reseña de Ramón María Tenreiro en la Revista de Occidente, y un segundo momento americano, en el que la recepción, debido al inicio de la Guerra Civil Española, se traslada a Latinoamérica. La segunda etapa, a la que dedicamos el presente trabajo, acompaña la publicación de la obra completa en la editorial argentina Emecé y, con ella, la definitiva consagración del escritor en el ámbito hispanoamericano. El período se abre con el retrato que Ramón Gómez de la Serna incluyó en su libro Nuevos Retratos Contemporáneos (Buenos Aires, 1945) y se cierra con un ensayo que María Zambrano publicó en México en 1965. El objetivo de estas páginas es analizar el modo en que las lecturas del período dialogan con el contexto ideológico de la segunda posguerra, factor fundamental en la rápida canonización del escritor.

Economic reforms and modernization in Nigeria, 1945-1965

Book review

The Corio Oval tribe: Geelong Football Club in colonial times

Geelong, Victoria’s second city, has an AFL football club whose culture and identity is closely tied to the city itself. An analysis of its playing group for the colonial period demonstrates that this local tribalism began early. As football became professionalised towards the end of the nineteenth century, country Victoria lost power in relative terms to metropolitan Melbourne: for example, Ballarat’s three main clubs lost their senior status. But Geelong, with its one remaining senior club, prospered and was admitted to the VFL ranks in 1897. The Geelong players were the sons and nephews of the Western District squattocracy and so had access to networks of power and influence. Many attended the prestigious Geelong Grammar School and the worthy Geelong College (in surprisingly equal numbers). They pursued careers both on the land and in professional roles, and maintained the social connections they had built through the club and other local institutions. Despite their elite standing, however, they continued to be regarded by the supporter base as an embodiment of the city and a defence against the city’s Melbourne critics that Geelong was a mere ‘sleepy hollow’.

Unionism on the waterfront in the Port of Geelong 1886-1890

The thesis looks at three areas: the formation of the Port of Geelong, the rise of waterfront unionism within the port of Geelong and the impact of the great maritime strike of 1890 on waterfront unionism within Geelong.

Poland and Russia, 1919-1945

"This study is one of a number planned, by the Division of Economics and History of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to deal with the postwar settlement and the political problems of Europe."--Foreword.

Ministers, mandarins and diplomats : Australian foreign policy making, 1941-1969

This volume explores key aspects of the development of the Australian Department of External Affairs in the three decades from 1941 to 1969 as it evolved from a small amateur department to a highly professional global operation.

Threats, fear, politics and the shaping of insecurity 1946-1955

Governments use fear to promote political objectives. Through the exaggeration of external threats, fear as conceptualised in the writings of Hobbes, Barry Buzan, David Campbell and others, became a major factor in shaping Australia's post-war foreign and defence policies which were also intended to serve the government's domestic political agenda.