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2008
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Tasmanian Historical Studies
est. 1993
Tasmanian Historical Studies
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* Contents derived from the 2008 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Tasmania! Tasmania! The Birth of a Book, single work autobiography (p. 3-13)
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Curiosity, Collections, and William Legrand : Aspects of a Tasmanian Career, 1855 to 1902,
single work
biography
'William Legrand is remembered as the 'musty old book-dealer' who occupied, one after the other, two dim and cluttered secondhand shops in central Hobart during the last half of the nineteenth century. Yet appearances can be deceiving; and tracing Legrand's obscure colonial career as secondhand bookseller, antiquarian, and amateur conchologist provides insights into the pervasive influence of imperial vision within intellectual endeavour and cultural activities in late nineteenth-century colonial life. Imperialism, as it is understood here, extended beyond economic, political, and military parameters: it was, as John Mackenzie has described, 'a habit of mind, a dominant idea in the era of European world supremacy which had widespread intellectual, cultural and technical expressions'. It produced, among other things, a preoccupation with acquisition, collecting, and the central display of artefacts, possessions and other goods. The shells, books, and other items Legrand collected had strong, but different connections with both imperial inquisitiveness and imperial acquisitiveness; and during his Hobart years, he played a small, but important role in what I suggest are significant, yet rarely considered, culture industries of imperialism.'
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[Untitled],
single work
review
— Review of Reminiscences of Early Hobart Town 1804-1810 2007 single work biography ; (p. 161-162) -
[Untitled],
single work
review
— Review of Echoes on the Mountain: Remarkable Migrant Stories from the Hydro Villages of the Tasmanian Central Highlands 2007 single work biography ; (p. 163-164)
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