Ann Curthoys, Shino Konishi, Alexandra Ludewig

The Lives and Legacies of a Carceral Island (eBook, PDF)

A Biographical History of Wadjemup/Rottnest Island

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a biographical history of Rottnest Island, a small carceral island offshore from Western Australia. Rottnest is also known as Wadjemup, or 'the place across the water where the spirits are', by Noongar, the Indigenous people of south-western Australia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000686289
• Artikelnr.: 65002837

Autorenporträt

Ann Curthoys is an honorary professor at the University of Western Australia and the University of Sydney and is Professor Emerita at the Australian National University where she was the Manning Clark Chair of Australian History from 1995 to 2008. She has written on many aspects of Australian history and specialises in women's history and Aboriginal history including key works on Aboriginal labour history and genocide studies. Her books include Freedom Ride: A Freedomrider Remembers (2002), winner of the AIATSIS Stanner Prize in 2003, and, with Jessie Mitchell, Taking Liberty: Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830 - 1890 (2018).

Shino Konishi is an Aboriginal historian and descends from the Yawuru people of Broome, Western Australia. She is an associate professor in the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Australian Catholic University and is author of The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World (2012). Konishi is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Indigenous Fellowship, funded by the Australian Government, and is leading a collaborative research project on Indigenous biography.

Alexandra Ludewig is Professor of German Studies and the Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Western Australia. She is the author of a German-language book about the Internment Camp on Rottnest Island during World War One: Zwischen Korallenriff und Stacheldraht. Interniert auf Rottnest 1914-1915 (2015) and Wartime on Wadjemup: A Social History of the Rottnest Island Internment Camp (2019). Moreover, as a Rottnest Volunteer Guide, she has a long association with the island both as a visitor and guide.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Willem de Vlamingh: Explorer
1696-1697 2. Henry Vincent and Louisa Vincent: Prison Superintendent and Prison Matron
1839-1845 3. Jane Elizabeth Green: Female Prisoner
1840-1842 4. Henry Vincent and Louisa Vincent: The Later Years
1846-1866 5. Lady Mary Anne Barker: The Governor's Wife
1883-1884 6. Benjamin
Bob Thomas
Brandy
Yadthee
Harry
Jumbo
and Weeti Weeti: The Commission of Inquiry Attestants
1881-1887 7. Karl Lehmann and Martin Trojan: Civilian Internees
1914-1915 8. Herman August Kuring: Commandant
1940-1941 9. Fay Sullivan: Nurse and Host to Holidaymakers
1960-1984 Epilogue