Ikarians in South Australia, 1900-1945 Emma Coonan

Ikarians in South Australia, 1900-1945 Emma CoonanThis book looks at a little researched diaspora, originating on the Greek Aegean Island of Ikaria. Ikaria, being a small, isolated island, close to the Turkish coast, had a long and independent history, with periods of autonomy, including the short lived Free State of Ikaria in 1912, which was the outcome of the Ikarian Revolution against the Ottoman Empire. Ikarians remained quite insular until the nineteenth century, when they began emigrating to

Taking as its starting point four contemporary visual artists whose work utilizes the conventions of museum display and collecting practices

the essays deal with Shakespeare

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1815-43 examines the debates preceding and surrounding the 1838 act on the nature of Irish poverty and the responsibilities of society towards it

To understand the Labour Party today one needs to appreciate how people in the party have reacted to the New Labour legacy

Gertrude Stein

evaluates the political significance of moral concerns

Focusing on an eclectic group of texts

On the occasion of its upcoming 20th anniversary

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Of particular interest to scholars and academics in the areas of Film Studies

and engaged responses by a variety of influential critics