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Robert Philp and the Politics of Development
Sir Robert Philp (1851-1922) co-founded Burns, Philp & Co., a South Pacifi c commercial empire with its origins in North Queensland. Philp was also Premier of Queensland at the turn of the twentieth century and made major contributions to public life over several decades. This fi ne biography tells the story of a politician who was involved in many of the signifi cant issues aff ecting Queenslanders and Australians from the 1880s to the 1920s, including Federation, the First World War and the development of the tropics.
Octopus Crowd
A detailed study of the origins and demise of schooner-based pearling in Australia For most of its history, Australian pearling was a shore-based activity. But from the mid-1880s until the World War I era, the industry was dominated by highly mobile, heavily capitalized, schooner-based fleets of pearling luggers, known as floating stations, that exploited Australia’s northern continental shelf and the nearby waters of the Netherlands Indies. Octopus Crowd: Maritime History and the Business of Australian Pearling in Its Schooner Age is the first book-length study of schooner-based pearling and explores the floating station system and the men who developed and employed it. Steve Mullins focu...
The Jury Lists of South Carolina, 1778-1779
This volume is the next best thing to a census of South Carolina near the outset of the American Revolution. It names about 9,000 adult males according to the administrative district in which each one lived.
Brass Buttons - Blue Coats
Brass Buttons, Blue Coats “Remembering All Who Served 1871 to 1971” By: George E. Rutledge As a young police sergeant in 1976, George E. Rutledge met a veteran who told him, “I served 35 years in our police department and the day I retired was the very last time I ever heard from anyone in the police department. And the same thing will happen to you.” Rutledge has dedicated his life to making sure all who served in the Yonkers Police Department are remembered and honored. Brass Buttons – Blue Coats is a thorough documentation of all individuals who have served from the beginning of the Yonkers Police Department to 1971. Personal profiles and photographs create a lasting memorial of...
