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New Zealand’s Response to Europe’s Children and Youth, 1933–49

Ann Beaglehole

Ann Beaglehole

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The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime : Migration, the Holocaust and Postwar Displacement

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Book Chapter

...New Zealanders are justly proud of their country's record of refugee settlement. From the perspective of some refugees, however, New Zealand's policies have been harsh. Discriminatory policies regarding adult refugees existed alongside...

Death on a river: Honour and violence in an Australian penal colony

Penny Russell

Penny Russell

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Honour, Violence and Emotions in History

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Book Chapter

...In the autumn of 1826, four convict workers plotted together to commit a murder. They were cedar-cutters, members of a timber gang who laboured in country north of Port Stephens, a lonely outpost of settlement in the penal colony of New...

Australia: Cosmopolitan Capitalists Down Under

Jock Collins

Jock Collins

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Immigrant Entrepreneurs : Venturing Abroad in the Age of Globalization

Bloomsbury Academic, 2003

Book Chapter

...Immigrants in Australian Society Cosmopolitan Australia Australian society has been shaped more by immigration and immigrants than most countries in the world today. After Israel and Luxembourg, Australia has the greatest proportion...

A Distant Sanctuary: Australia and Child Holocaust Survivors

Suzanne D. Rutland

Suzanne D. Rutland

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The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime : Migration, the Holocaust and Postwar Displacement

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Book Chapter

...Hitler's assumption of power in 1933 created a refugee problem of unprecedented proportions. By 1938, with the ‘Anschluss’ of Austria and ‘Kristallnacht’, parents were prepared to send their children away, even to distant Australia...

Constitution

Craig Elliott

Craig Elliott

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A Cultural History of Law in the Modern Age Volume 6

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Cultural History Chapter

...Constitutions, understood as legal documents or unwritten conventions, set out the highest principles of a state’s laws, and establish the institutional structure of government. Approaching them more conceptually, they articulate...

The Life Cycle

Catherine Kevin

Catherine Kevin

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A Cultural History of Women in the Modern Age Volume 6

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Cultural History Chapter

...The Australian nation was “born modern.”This phrase is borrowed from Susan Magarey who has used it to describe the Australian Woman Movement of the late nineteenth century, which she argues was “not only born modern but a force...

Property and Possession

Alison Young

Alison Young

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A Cultural History of Law in the Modern Age Volume 6

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Cultural History Chapter

...In the latter half of the twentieth century, an illicit activity became both a significant art movement and a prevalent cultural practice. Street art and graffiti have in recent years come to signify urban creativity, while remaining firmly...

Public and Private

Bronwyn Winter

Bronwyn Winter

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A Cultural History of Women in the Modern Age Volume 6

Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

Cultural History Chapter

...In 1997 renowned French feminist historian Michelle Perrot published Femmes publiques, the title being a deliberate play on words.Michelle Perrot, Femmes publiques, interviews with Jean Lebrun (Paris: Textuel, 1997). In French, femme...

Sexual Variations

Gert Hekma

Gert Hekma teaches in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is co-editor of The Pursuit of Sodomy; Gay Men and the Sexual History of the Political Left; and Sexual Cultures in Europe. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Modern Age Volume 6

Bloomsbury Academic, 2011

Cultural History Chapter

...By the time of the Great War, most perversions had received names and been described in the medical literature of the fin de siècle. In various editions of Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s Psychopathia sexualis (there were seventeen German...

Sex, Religion, and the Law

Daniela Danna

Daniela Danna

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A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Modern Age Volume 6

Bloomsbury Academic, 2011

Cultural History Chapter

...In the past, the concepts of crime and sin were, to a large extent, concomitant, but since 1920, the concepts have been increasingly divergent. Now crimes can be committed that are not considered sins, and sins might take place...