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Hunting the Collectors
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

Hunting the Collectors

  • Categories: Art

This volume investigates Pacific collections held in Australian museums, art galleries and archives, and the diverse group of 19th and 20th century collectors responsible for their acquisition. The nineteen essays reveal varied personal and institutional motivations that eventually led to the conservation, preservation and exhibition in Australia of a remarkable archive of Pacific Island material objects, art and crafts, photographs and documents. Hunting the Collectors benchmarks the importance of Pacific Collections in Australia and is a timely contribution to the worldwide renaissance of interest in Oceanic arts and cultures. The essays suggest that the custodial role is not fixed and imm...

As Told By Herself
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 323

As Told By Herself

As Told by Herself offers the first systematic study of women's autobiographical writing about childhood. More than 175 works—primarily from English-speaking countries and France, as well as other European countries—are presented here in historical sequence, allowing Lorna Martens to discern and reveal patterns as they emerge and change over time. What do the authors divulge, conceal, and emphasize? How do they understand the experience of growing up as girls? How do they understand themselves as parts of family or social groups, and what role do other individuals play in their recollections? To what extent do they concern themselves with issues of memory, truth, and fictionalization? Stopping just before second-wave feminism brought an explosion in women's childhood autobiographical writing, As Told by Herself explores the genre's roots and development from the mid-nineteenth century, and recovers many works that have been neglected or forgotten. The result illustrates how previous generations of women—in a variety of places and circumstances—understood themselves and their upbringing, and how they thought to present themselves to contemporary and future readers.

Curious Minds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Curious Minds

Curious Minds: The Discoveries of Australian Naturalists looks at the long line of naturalists who have traversed Australia in search of new plants and animals. Identifying and classifying the unfamiliar plants and animals was their biggest challenge - the early ones were frequently wrong but later naturalists were able to build on and learn from previous mistakes. In time, a new breed of homegrown naturalists emerged. This succession of curious minds would help to foster pride in a developing nation, as well an interest in the preservation of natural history. Curious Minds brings to life the stories of the naturalists and settlers who made the unfamiliar familiar and who contributed to developments in natural science. Among the names are Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin, Amalie Dietrich, Ludwig Leichhardt, Ferdinand von Mueller, Ellis Rowan, John Lewin and John and Elizabeth Gould. Beautifully illustrated with images from the collection of the National Library of Australia, the publication is a loving tribute to the courageous and inquisitive men and women who led by example.

Ladies in the Laboratory III
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Ladies in the Laboratory III

Published in 1998, Ladies in the Laboratory provided a systematic survey and comparison of the work of 19th-century American and British women in scientific research. A companion volume, published in 2004, focused on women scientists from Western Europe. In this third volume, author Mary R.S. Creese expands her scope to include the contributions of 19th- and early 20th-century women of South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The women whose lives and work are discussed here range from natural history collectors and scientific illustrators of the early and mid years of the 19th century to the first generation of graduates of the new colonial colleges and universities. Rarely acknowl...

The Botanical Endeavour
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 302

The Botanical Endeavour

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A source book on the nineteenth century not only on the development of independent botany in Australia but also on the lives of principal players and the fate of their collections. Illustrated with portraits and maps, and covering botanical work executed in several colonies from botanically-minded William Dampier to Joseph Maiden.

Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives

These pioneering studies of women in science pay special attention to the mutual impact of family life and scientific career. The contributors address five key themes: historical changes in such concepts as scientific career, profession, patronage, and family; differences in "gender image" associated with various branches of science; consequences of national differences and emigration; opportunities for scientific work opened or closed by marriage; and levels of women's awareness about the role of gender in science. An international group of historians of science discuss a wide range of European and American women scientists--from early nineteenth-century English botanists to Marie Curie to the twentieth-century theoretical biologist, Dorothy Wrinch.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2934
Amalie Dietrich
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 470

Amalie Dietrich

Unveränderter Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1913.

Bilder aus meinem Leben
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 322

Bilder aus meinem Leben

Charitas Bischoff: Bilder aus meinem Leben Erstdruck: Berlin (G. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung) 1912. Vollständige Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2014. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Bischoff, Charitas: Bilder aus meinem Leben. Berlin: G. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1912 (Grote'sche Sammlung von Werken zeitgenössischer Schriftsteller, 111. Band). Die Paginierung obiger Ausgabe wird in dieser Neuausgabe als Marginalie zeilengenau mitgeführt. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage. Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 11 pt.

Augenblicksbilder aus einem Jugendleben
  • Language: de
  • Pages: 126

Augenblicksbilder aus einem Jugendleben

Charitas Bischoff: Augenblicksbilder aus einem Jugendleben Erstdruck: Leipzig (H. G. Wallmann) 1905. Vollständige Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2014. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Bischoff, Charitas: Augenblicksbilder aus einem Jugendleben. Leipzig: H. G. Wallmann, 1905. Die Paginierung obiger Ausgabe wird in dieser Neuausgabe als Marginalie zeilengenau mitgeführt. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage. Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 11 pt.