Enrichment: Resources for HIST 381

 

This page is under (perhaps continual) reconstruction, but it includes quite a few handy resources for students in HIST 381. Suggestions for additional links and resources welcome!

 

Links – Many & Various

Pages by Prof. Isern

Map Page - those referred to in lectures, plus others

The Vegemite Challenge – a classroom activity, plus more info on this yeasty subject

Aborigine-Maori Comparisons – based on K.R. Howe, Race Relations

The New Zealand Wars – points from Belich, Cowan, and Sinclair

Main Points from The Future Eaters – summary of Flannery’s book

"Botany Bay" – a ballad of convict transport (courtesy Hughes, Fatal Shore)

Ideal Society? – Miles Fairburn’s revisionist history of New Zealand

Invasion! Biological Consequences of Settlement – based on A.H. Clark, Invasion of New Zealand

Dependency, Development, and Denoon – summary of Donald Denoon’s Settler Capitalism

Economic Determinism in the History of New Zealand – based on Condliffe’s New Zealand in the Making

Eras of Agricultural History in New Zealand – a periodization

William McNeill, "Mythistory" – the title essay of Mythistory, context for understanding History as nation-making (password required)

Russel Ward and the Australian National Mystique – notes on The Australian Legend

Base Map of Australia – outline, with major cities

Base Map of New Zealand – just an outline of the islands

Regions of Australia – showing the three main physiographic regions

Landmarks of Australia – sites mentioned in Lecture 2

Landmarks of New Zealand – sites mentioned in Lecture 2

The Felden in New Zealand – map illustrating Rollo Arnold’s concept

Pavlova – the dessert New Zealand and Australia fight over

Manning Clark Addresses the 21st National Folk Festival

Alan Powell’s Far Country – an academic making history in the Top End

We of the Never-Never – images of the land, gender, and race in the Northern Territory

The Real Matilda – summary of Dixson’s book on women in Australian national identity

Flying Fox and Drifting Sand – introduction and commentary on an environmental classic

Major Reference

National Library of Australia – includes web-accessible catalog

National Library of New Zealand – includes web-accessible catalog

NZHistory.net.nz – a portal site by the Heritage Group in the NZ Department of Internal Affairs

National Archives of Australia

Documenting a Democracy – compilation of primary documents in Australian history

Pop Culture

John Williamson – singer and songwriter, ardent Australian nationalist

Crocodile Hunter – Steve Irwin, popular TV naturalist and adventurer

Pictorial History of Surfing in South Australia – way cool photos documenting the Australian obsession with the beach

Pods for Primates – a history of surfboards in Australia

Movies

Once Were Warriors – 1995 film based on the novel by Alan Duff

The Piano – the Jane Campion film

Picnic at Hanging Rock – a truly haunting film by Roger Weir, 1975

Gallipoli – the film that twists the ANZAC legend into a new direction for Australian nationalism

Heavenly Creatures – a story of family values, you might say

Breaker Morant

Radio

Radio Australia – you can listen to a live webcasts and stream from the archives

Radio New Zealand – you can listen to a live webcasts and stream from the archives

Newspapers

New Zealand Herald – In New ZealandThe Press (Christchurch)

Sydney Morning Herald – In AustraliaThe Age (Melbourne)

Literature & Folklore

Waltzing Matilda – great site, by a bloke from ANU, devoted to this unofficial Ozzie anthem

Ozlit – an extensive and authoritative site on Australian literature

Bushranger Site – a teaching site on Australian bushranger lore

Australian Folk Songs – a wonderful compilation, with sound files

Matters Maori

Maori Organizations in New Zealand – not just a directory, also lots of cultural and historical information

 

Te Komokanga – a web directory for matters Maori

Matters Aboriginal

 

Military

Australian Flying Corps – an impressive history

Food & Drink

Wine Australia – site of the Australian wine industry

Cartographic

Maps of Australia and the Pacific – Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas

Geoscience Australia Map of Australia

Scholarly Journals

Australian Historical Studies – Published by University of MelbourneHome PageOnline Access to Contents

 

Much of the content of the course is comparative, with both similarities and contrasts between Australia and New Zealand pointed up.

 

Handy Table of National Comparisons

Comparison

Australia

New Zealand

Population

16.3 million

3.2 million

Area (square miles)

7,692,300

268,812

Form of Government

parliamentary democracy

parliamentary democracy

Capital City

Canberra

Wellington

Native People

Aborigine

Maori

Myth of Origin

convict colony

planned settlement

National Rugby Team

Wallabies

All Blacks

Most Famous Super-Model

Elle McPherson

Rachel Hunter

Favorite Yeast Spread

Vegemite

Marmite

Great Nationalist Historian

Manning Clark

Keith Sinclair

Veterans' Holiday

Anzac Day (25 April)

Anzac Day (25 April)

Ideas welcome for additional comparisons!

 

Frankly, I need to acquire a lot more Australian popular music. Here are a few items.

 

Recordings – Prof. Isern’s Collection – Can Be Borrowed

CD

The Very Best of Slim Dusty (1998)

If you’re a country music fan, try listening to the greatest star of Australian country (including his most famous cut, “The Pub with No Beer”).

Mallee Boy (1987)

[Notes to be added]

Bushfire: Traditional Aboriginal Music (1991)

Field recordings made in Mowanjum, in the Kimberleys, featuring both Wongga (men’s dance music, with didjeridoo, clap sticks, and male voice) and Djunba (male and female voices, clap sticks) styles by Aboriginal musicians.

Cassette

Bushfire: Traditional Aboriginal Music (1991)

See notes on CD above.

Slim Dusty, No. 50: The Golden Anniversary Album (1981)

A compilation of country hits, including Dusty’s musical setting of Banjo Paterson’s epic ballad, “The Man from Snowy River.”

 

Since 1983 I have co-authored (with Jim Hoy of Emporia, Kansas) a syndicated newspaper column called Plains FolkTM, dealing with life (mainly history and folklore) on the Great Plains of North America. For complete information about this enterprise you can go to the Plains Folk Home Page. A number of Plains FolkTM columns derive from my Fulbright fellowship in New Zealand in 1991 and my follow-up grant work there in 1996. They have to do mainly with comparisons between New Zealand's tussock grasslands and the North American plains. There have been other columns generated from subsequent travels in New Zealand and Australia, which will be added here in due time. (All columns are copyright Plains FolkTM, Hoy & Isern.)

 

Column #

Title & Link

Date

430

Calgary to Christchurch

6/24/91

458

The Grasslands of New Zealand

1/6/92

462

Earnslaw Station

2/3/92

464

The Thomsons

2/17/92

466

The Branches

3/2/92

468

Avenel Station

3/16/92

470

Mackenzie Country

3/30/92

472

Earnscleugh

4/13/92

474

Tapui Farm

4/27/92

476

Range of the Buffalo

5/11/92

490

Oz and Erewhon

8/17/92

502

Memorial

11/9/92

512

Far from Home on the Range

1/18/93

534

Hedges

6/21/93

536

Hedge Trimming

7/5/93

538

The Oldest Pilot

7/19/93

540

Towns Like Alice

8/2/93

578

Burning Tussock

4/25/94

618

Keas

1/30/95

684

Cold Turkey

5/6/96

688

Easter Bunnies

6/3/96

690

The Rabbit Nuisance

6/17/96

692

Hawke's Bay

7/1/96

694

Packing for Perth

7/15/96

696

Te Oma

7/29/96

698

Forest Range

8/12/96

 

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