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A timely contribution to the debate, this book clarifies the processes involved in social interactions and relationships whilst serving as a practical and theoretical resource for teachers and other professionals.
How did a large army move hundreds of thousands of men and horses across the forbidding Sinai Desert and the rugged mountains of Palestine? Janet Spillman explores the work of engineers in providing water, demolition and construction support for ANZAC forces during an arduous campaign.
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The Road to Batemans Bay is the story of competing ventures to create ‘the Great Southern Township’ on the South Coast of New South Wales in the early 1840s. The idea of developing the furthest reaches of settlement was linked to the hopes of southern woolgrowers for a road from their properties to the coast, over the Great Dividing Range. The township proponents dreamed that having a quicker and cheaper connection to Sydney would allow them to open a port second only to Port Jackson. The scene begins with the proposed coastal township of St Vincent, in an age of optimism: settlement is expanding, exports are growing and land prices are soaring, generating Australia’s first land boom. ...
This immaculately and painstakingly researched book, through its biographies of Oxley, Evans, Fraser and Harris explains the impulses that drove these men to explore and map the colony, to collect, identify and categorise its flora. But it succeeds in doing more than that because it also elucidates the motivations that drove them to become colonial entrepreneurs, farmers and businessmen, who in the pursuit of individual wealth advanced colonial prosperity. This important book makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of Australia's European origins. - Emeritus Professor Richard Waterhouse
Christopher Columbus Maynard (fl. 1773-1796) and his family moved from North Carolina to Floyd County, Kentucky in 1785. Descendants lived in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia and elsewhere.
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