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This collection contains Honours, Masters and Ph.D by coursework theses from University of Adelaide postgraduate students within the School of History and Politics. The material has been approved as making a significant contribution to knowledge.
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Item Open Access Nanyang Hua Chi'ao to Malaysian Chinese: the emergence of a new Chinese identity in Malaysia(1999) Ng, Sau Foong; School of History and Politics : PoliticsIt is argued that the success of Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia lies in their unique `Chineseness'. This unique `Chineseness', as many argued created a chain of broad networks that links Chinese with Chinese together. Although the assumption may be true in a broad context, in Malaysia this assumption does not hold. The sojourning Chinese during the period of the `Chinese Diaspora' came to Malaya in search of economic wealth. However the political situation in Malaya induced a change in identity to which `Overseas Chinese' identity accepted. In part, was this identity gave them an edge over the indigenous population. Within a short period of a few decades, the Chinese had already dominated various economic sectors and controlled the middle class. As their economic base continued to expand after independence, the Malays soon came to realize that they were left with a fragmented society. As Chinese strive further, first economic and later politics, the Malays see the need to retard their expansion. The rapid expansion of Chinese economic base led to a racial confrontation on May 13th 1969. The event became the turning point and the New Economic Policy (NEP) was enacted to redistribute wealth amongst the Malays. As a result of political change, the Chinese were forced to adapt to a different situation by adopting a new identity. In turn, this new identity as `Malaysian Chinese' became the determinant of their success in modern Malaysia.Item Open Access History of the left-wing of the South Australian labor movement, 1908-36(1958) Playford, John Drysdale; Dept. of HistoryItem Open Access Lang and Whitlam : a comparison(1989) Anthonisz, Michael; Dept. of PoliticsHigh amongst the most controversial figures in Australian Labor Party history, and Australian political history in general, are Lang and Whitlam. Lang was Premier of New South Wales from 1925 to 1927 and again from 1930 to 1932. Whitlam was Prime Minister of Australia from 1972 to 1975, winning a second term in between in 1974. During these times they dominated the Australian Labor Party and the political scene in general. Both became embroiled in controversy during their terms in office and both suffered the same political fate in the end, dismissal by officials of the British Crown by recourse to the Australian Constitution. Lang was dismissed by Governor Game in May 1932, while Whitlam was dismissed by Governor-General Kerr in November 1975. Their dismissals, some forty years apart, stand as high points of drama in Australian political history. This thesis is a comparison of Lang and Whitlam concentrating on the background, rise in the Australian Labor Party, dominance of it, the "radical" and/or more controversial actions during the periods of power, and aspects of the dismissals, of both political figures. Therefore, Chapter 1 deals with Jack Lang in regard to the above criteria, while Chapter 2 deals with Gough Whitlam in the same way. Chapter 3 is a comparison noting similarities and differences between Lang and Whitlam on the above criteria by combining the findings of Chapter 1 and Chapter 2.Item Open Access Kapunda : a study of the establishment of a community in rural South Australia(1960) Bettison, Irvine James; Dept. of HistoryItem Open Access The Riverina separation movement 1858-1867(1963) Craig, Jennifer Stewart; History Dept. ?Item Open Access Foodways unfettered: eighteenth-century food in the Sydney settlement(2007) Newling, Jacqueline Anne; Cushing, Nancy; School of History and PoliticsThe received perception of food in eighteenth-century Sydney is that colonists survived on meagre and monotonous rations. Having failed to engage with the local environment, or to learn from Aboriginal people and utilise indigenous resources, the salt rations dependent newcomers found themselves victims of hunger and starvation. This view is largely due to the predominant historical interpretation of British penal colonisation in Australia, where New South Wales was settled in an atmosphere of ignorance and governmental neglect. This received view is overly narrow and simplistic. The colony developed from penal settlement to a vibrant commercial centre by the turn of the century. Food was a vital factor in this process. Rations, which were controlled by the authorities, underpinned the colonists’ diet, however other foods, both introduced and indigenous, were used to supplement it. Primary sources reveal much about the foodways of the eighteenth-century settlers, and the factors that affected availability and distribution. Where most studies on food in early settlement focus on convicts and rations, this thesis takes a more comprehensive approach, which encompasses rationing and the broader, more liberated aspects of colonists’ dietary patterns. It explores contributing factors such as established English cultural practices, governance, socio-political forces and the natural environment, which influenced colonists’ consumption. This study provides a fresh interpretation of eighteenth-century food in Sydney, establishing that whilst having to work within a corporate victualling system, the early colonists were not passive victims of a food supply controlled entirely from above, but played an active role in food procurement and consumption, exercising individual and collective rights and preferences. The evolution of their foodways reflects the transformation from penal colony to a prospering colonial society, as the first settlers made new lives in New South Wales.Item Open Access Painting the war: the intentions and motivations of the official Australian War Art Scheme of the First World War(2008) Hutchison, Margaret Venz; School of History and Politics,Item Open Access Maurice Blackburn and the Australian Labor Party, 1934-1943 : a study of principle in politics(1968) Blackburn, Susan; Dept of PoliticsItem Open Access Women, the state and national mobilization in prewar Japan / Jane Mitchell(1987) Mitchell, Jane; History and Asian StudiesItem Open Access Daniel Fleming, Richard Scott and James Cocke : the making of a 17th century English provincial library(1984) Churches, Christine; Dept. of HistoryItem Open Access The Polynesia Company Limited of Melbourne and Fiji, 1868-1883 : a social history(1971) Moses, Ruth; Dept. of HistoryItem Open Access The political career of David Wilkinson, 1864-1910 : his influence on the development of colonial policy in Fiji(1978) Vincent, Johanne M.; Dept. of HistoryItem Open Access Item Open Access Envisioning the new woman : women and art in Weimar Germany 1918-1933(2004) Lennox, JordanaItem Open Access Irish female immigration to South Australia during the Great Famine(1964) Parkin, Cherry Wedgwood; History DeptItem Open Access Pulling the strings: the Changi Quilts and the evolution of historical significance.(2013) Robertson, Lucy; Mansfield, Lisa; School of HumanitiesItem Open Access The image and identity of the alchemist in seventeenth-century Netherlandish art.(2011) Rehn, Dana Kelly-Anne; Mansfield, Lisa; School of History and PoliticsThis dissertation explores the representation of the alchemist in Netherlandish art during the heyday of alchemy in seventeenth-century Europe amidst the Scientific Revolution. While contemporary debates regarding the position that alchemy and magic in general had on the development of modern science has held particular interest for scholars working in the discipline of the history of science, the rich iconographic tradition of the alchemist in seventeenth-century Netherlandish painting has not been explored in detail from a wider socio-cultural perspective. It is for this reason that the image and identity of the alchemist is analysed in selected seventeenth-century Netherlandish paintings in order to not only explore their position within the Scientific Revolution, but also to shed light on their meaning and function within the socio-cultural context of the Golden Age in the Netherlands. The contradictory perception of the alchemist in this period as either fools and charlatans or 'scientific' scholars is shown to reflect the fear and apprehension that accompanied the dynamic nexus between religious change and scientific experimentation in this transformative period of the early modern European Scientific Revolution, in addition to heightened class-consciousness amidst the Golden Age in the Netherlands.Item Open Access Shades of green: changes in the paradigm of environmental art since the 1960s.(2011) Wildy, Jade; North, Ian; Speck, Catherine Margaret; Mansfield, Lisa; School of History and PoliticsOver the last 100 years, since the dawning of the modernist era in the 19th century, there have been major developments in the fields of art practice and theory, altering the course of art history. Changes that occurred in the late 1960s saw the emergence of a conceptual era of art, in which the emphasis and value within art altered; an art object's value was no longer inherent within that object. Rather value was applied through cultural context and what the artworks means. This is particularly evident in the growing environmental art movement. Environmental art is an expansive movement that involves an artistic process or artwork where the artist actively engages with the environment. It is a widely diverse discipline encompassing small personal works, including earth/body art and performance, to permanent, large-scale works. Through specific themed chapters, this thesis aims to establish some of the ways the paradigm of environmental art has evolved since its beginnings in the 1960s. This will be achieved through investigations of three dominant themes and forms of interaction, within environmental art. This thesis focuses on the areas of environmental art that clearly illustrate key concepts in the movement. It explores concepts within feminist art, linking with Ecofeminism; presents investigations into large-scale environmental projects, the most prominent examples of the movement, and lastly, examines works that interact with the idea of ephemerality and the changing role of the gallery.Item Open Access Demythologising the history of coffee in Lipa, Batangas in the XIXth century(2003) Castro, Maria Rita Isabel Santos; Pollock, Nancy J.; School of History and Politics : HistoryThere is no article dealing with the history of Philippine coffee that does not mention 'the grandeur that was Lipa', a prosperous period that began with a coffee boom in the late 1800's and ended with the coffee blight of c1889. Most references adopt a monocausal approach to the rise and fall of coffee in Lipa, Batangas in the end of the nineteenth century. That is, c1886-87, an airborne fungus having attacked and destroyed all the coffee plantations in the neighbouring Southeast Asian coffee regions, supposedly left Lipa as the sole supplier of coIfee beans to the world. Upa is said to have profited greatly from this alleged coIfee monopoly until c1889 when the same fungus finally infected even the Upa plantations, bringing the hugely luaative coffee industry to an abrupt end. This view has remained unchalenged for almost a century. By casting a wider net to include primary sources such as travelogues and government reports, plus several key htstoncal studies, this research subjects the arrival, rise and decline of coffee in Upa to scrutiny and concludes that what currently passes for history is more apocrypha! than it is fadllal, dominated as it is by myths and half-truths. Viewing coffee in the broader context of the work! economy. this paper dismisses the supposed c1886 monopoly as myth and argues that the coffee boom towards the end of the Spanish colonia! era can be attributed to a complex series of events and antecedents and was ultimately a response to the pressures of global demand. It also argues that the seeds of the collapse of the industry were planted long before the coffee crisis of 1869-1892. Other factors such as diminishing virgin forest, monocullure, the lack of investments, and competition with other products, were probably more to blame. Possibly, the arrival of the coffee blight may have accelerated the inevitable. but was not the prime cause. This new approach to the rise and decline of coffee in Ups reveats a history more complex than was previously thought and is a dramatic demonstration of the transforming power of gounnandism and nineteenth century globalisation.Item Open Access Edible ethics : the role and responsibilites [sic] of Australia’s food media.(2006) Wight, Samantha Mary; Rudder, Gawen; School of History and Politics : HistoryThe role of food writers has changed - no longer are they concerned only with recipes and lifestyle issues. Today's food writers are faced with writing on a broad scope of topics that stretch from recipes and restaurant through to health, nutrition, and social and ethical eating issues. This study first outlines the professional role and responsibilities of food writers, and then examines the idea that, in a professional capacity, food writers are journalists. As such, food writers are faced with the responsibility of acting in the best interest of the public when they report information on food and food related issues. Yet, unlike their international colleagues, Australian food writers do not have their own code of ethics, although they do have an active professional association, the Food Media Club of Australia. This study identifies the ethical dilemmas faced by the Australian food media, and looks at how they are currently dealing with issues such as accepting junkets, and the idea of food being a subjective topic. It then considers the potential consequences of unethical professional practices by food writers before recommending the development of a professional code of ethics for Australia’s food media. Academic literature on the media and media ethics is considered, although there is little written specifically on the food media itself. Therefore, in order to ascertain specific insight and knowledge as well as some understanding of the current operations of Australia’s food media, interviews with industry professionals and an ethics expert were conducted. Additionally, information was gathered from members of international food media associations. The various interviews revealed a common concern over the lack of information published by the food media on social and ethical food issues such as genetic modification, and sustainable agriculture. Consequently, after examining approaches used by food writers in the United Kingdom to publish such information, recommendations also include a more strident and proactive approach by the Australian food media in order to reach the general public with information that they, the food media, deem important to the future of Australian food.