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Just Relations

The Story of Mary Bennett's Crusade for Aboriginal Rights

By: Alison Louise Holland

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Just Relations

The Story of Mary Bennett's Crusade for Aboriginal Rights

By: Alison Louise Holland

When Mary Bennett died in 1961, Australia lost one of its leading Aboriginal rights activists. Mary's crusade is still, sadly, a current one, and this book serves to historicize the ongoing struggle for Aboriginal rights through the lens of Mary's campaign. By tracing Mary's advocacy - from the 1920s, when the possibility of Aboriginal human rights was first mooted, to the 1960s, when an attempt was made to have the Aboriginal question raised before the United Nations - Just Relations charts a large portion of human rights history. However, the book also tracks a discourse of needs, moral codes, and sentiments, as well as the urgent goal of keeping people alive. In this sense, then, Mary Bennett's story demonstrates the close connection between the rise of humanitarianism as a political project and the rise of human rights. ***Just Relations was shortlisted for the 2016 NSW Premier's Australian History Prize. *** Librarians: ebook available on ProQuest and EBSCO [Subject: Biography, Aboriginal Studies, Human Rights, Australian Studies, History]

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484

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Apollo Books

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1742586872

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9781742586878

Britain's Royal Families

The Complete Genealogy

By: Alison Weir

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Britain's Royal Families

The Complete Genealogy

By: Alison Weir

Fascinating and authoritative of Britain's royal families from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I to Queen Victoria, by leading popular historian Alison Weir 'George III is alleged to have married secretly, on 17th April, 1759, a Quakeress called Hannah Lightfoot. If George III did make such a marriage...then his subsequent marriage to Queen Charlotte was bigamous, and every monarch of Britain since has been a usurper, the rightful heirs of George III being his children by Hannah Lightfoot...' Britain's Royal Families provides in one volume, complete genealogical details of all members of the royal houses of England, Scotland and Great Britain - from 800AD to the present. Drawing on countless authorities, both ancient and modern, Alison Weir explores the crown and royal family tree in unprecedented depth and provides a comprehensive guide to the heritage of today's royal family – with fascinating insight and often scandalous secrets. 'Staggeringly useful... combines solid information with tantalising appetisers.’ Mail on Sunday

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400

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Random House

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1446449114

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9781446449110

History of Europe During the French Revolution

By: Archibald Alison

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History of Europe During the French Revolution

By: Archibald Alison

This bestselling history, published between 1833 and 1842, interpreted the French Revolution as a warning about the dangers of democracy.

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926

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Cambridge University Press

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1108025439

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9781108025430

Inventing the English Massacre

Amboyna in History and Memory

By: Alison Games

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Inventing the English Massacre

Amboyna in History and Memory

By: Alison Games

Acknowledgments; A Note on Dates and Spelling; Cast of Characters; Introduction; Chapter 1 From Competition to Conspiracy; Chapter 2 The Amboyna Business; Chapter 3 Inventing the Amboyna Massacre; Chapter 4 The Reckoning; Chapter 5 Domesticating Amboyna; Chapter 6 Legacies: Reinvention and the Linchpin of Empire; Epilogue The First English Massacre; Appendix 1 Deposition Abbreviations; Appendix 2 True Relations; Appendix 3 A Note on Sources and Methodology; Notes; Index.

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325

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0197507735

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9780197507735

Lives of Lord Castlereagh and Sir Charles Stewart

Vol. II

By: Archibald Alison

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Lives of Lord Castlereagh and Sir Charles Stewart

Vol. II

By: Archibald Alison

Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

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662

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3375040636

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9783375040635

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

By: Alison Weir

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The Six Wives of Henry VIII

By: Alison Weir

A “brilliantly written and meticulously researched” biography of royal family life during England’s second Tudor monarch (San Francisco Chronicle). Either annulled, executed, died in childbirth, or widowed, these were the well-known fates of the six queens during the tempestuous, bloody, and splendid reign of Henry VIII of England from 1509 to 1547. But in this “exquisite treatment, sure to become a classic” (Booklist), they take on more fully realized flesh and blood than ever before. Katherine of Aragon emerges as a staunch though misguided woman of principle; Anne Boleyn, an ambitious adventuress with a penchant for vengeance; Jane Seymour, a strong-minded matriarch in the making; Anne of Cleves, a good-natured woman who jumped at the chance of independence; Katherine Howard, an empty-headed wanton; and Katherine Parr, a warm-blooded bluestocking who survived King Henry to marry a fourth time. “Combin[ing] the accessibility of a popular history with the highest standards of a scholarly thesis”, Alison Weir draws on the entire labyrinth of Tudor history, employing every known archive—early biographies, letters, memoirs, account books, and diplomatic reports—to bring vividly to life the fates of the six queens, the machinations of the monarch they married and the myriad and ceaselessly plotting courtiers in their intimate circle (The Detroit News). In this extraordinary work of sound and brilliant scholarship, “at last we have the truth about Henry VIII’s wives” (Evening Standard).

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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0802198759

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9780802198754

Artificial Knowing

Gender and the Thinking Machine

By: Alison Adam

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Artificial Knowing

Gender and the Thinking Machine

By: Alison Adam

Artificial Knowing challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the world. Alison Adam admirably fills the large gap in science and technology studies by showing us that gender bias is inscribed in AI-based computer systems. Her treatment of feminist epistemology, focusing on the ideas of the knowing subject, the nature of knowledge, rationality and language, are bound to make a significant and powerful contribution to AI studies. Drawing from theories by Donna Haraway and Sherry Turkle, and using tools of feminist epistemology, Adam provides a sustained critique of AI which interestingly re-enforces many of the traditional criticisms of the AI project. Artificial Knowing is an esential read for those interested in gender studies, science and technology studies, and philosophical debates in AI.

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220

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Routledge

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1134793553

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9781134793556

Moving Scenes

The Aesthetics of German Travel Writing on England 1783-1820

By: Alison E. Martin

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Moving Scenes

The Aesthetics of German Travel Writing on England 1783-1820

By: Alison E. Martin

Accounts of travel to England reached unprecedented levels of popularity in the German states in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Competition therefore increased for travel writers to produce travelogues which offered the most authentic, original and vibrant picture of England. The wider range of narrative strategies which travellers consequently deployed increasingly drew on the emotional responses of their audience - whether to serve a political purpose, show concern for the darker side to the Industrial Revolution or simply demonstrate the humanitarian interests of the travellers themselves. In this broad-ranging study, Alison E. Martin draws on a variety of travellers, men and women, canonical and forgotten, to chart the fascinating variety of styles and approaches which mark this highly interdisciplinary genre.

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Routledge

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135119433X

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Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs

The Life of Velma Johnston

By: David Cruise,Alison Griffiths

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Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs

The Life of Velma Johnston

By: David Cruise,Alison Griffiths

The true story of the intrepid woman whose life-long determination to protect America’s mustangs captured the heart of the country. In 1950, Velma Johnston was a thirty-eight-year-old secretary enroute to work near Reno, Nevada, when she came upon a truck of battered wild horses that had been rounded up and were to be slaughtered for pet food. Shocked and angered by this gruesome discovery, she vowed to find a way to stop the cruel round-ups, a resolution that led to a life-long battle that would pit her against ranchers and powerful politicians—but eventually win her support and admiration around the world. This is the first biography to tell her courageous true story. Like Dian Fossey, Jane Goodall, or Temple Grandin, Velma Johnston dedicated her life to public awareness and protection of animals. Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs follows Velma from her childhood, in which she was disfigured by polio, to her dangerous vigilante-style missions to free captured horses and document round-ups, through the innovative and exhaustive grassroots campaign which earned her the nickname “Wild Horse Annie” and led to Congress passing the “Wild Horse Annie Bill,” to her friendship with renowned children’s author and horse-lover Marguerite Henry. A powerful combination of adventure, history, and biography, Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs beautifully captures the romance and magic of wild horses and the character of the strong-willed woman who made their survival her legacy.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439168466

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9781439168462

History of Europe From the Commencement of the French Revolution In 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons In 1815

Vol. IV

By: Archibald Alison

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History of Europe From the Commencement of the French Revolution In 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons In 1815

Vol. IV

By: Archibald Alison

Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.

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3385131936

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Just Relations

Just Relations

Britain's Royal Families

Britain's Royal Families

History of Europe During the French Revolution

History of Europe During the French Revolution

Inventing the English Massacre

Inventing the English Massacre

Lives of Lord Castlereagh and Sir Charles Stewart

Lives of Lord Castlereagh and Sir Charles Stewart

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Artificial Knowing

Artificial Knowing

Moving Scenes

Moving Scenes

Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs

Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs

History of Europe From the Commencement of the French Revolution In 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons In 1815

History of Europe From the Commencement of the French Revolution In 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons In 1815

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