Böcker av Susan Lawrence

Poetries – Politics: A Celebration of Language, Art, and Learning  is a catalogue that celebrates the best of innovative humanities pedagogy and creative graphic design and that provides a platform for the incredible generative power of student-led work.

This overview of Australian post-contact history uses material objects such as artefacts, buildings, and landscapes. The book offers broad geographic and temporal coverage, and social themes such as gender, status, ethnicity and identity inform every chapter.

The stories of the archaeological research on Dolly's Creek and of the mining community that was uncovered as a result. The author explores the kind of settlements that arose from miners' desire for gold - short-lived bush camps where people made precarious homes in an alien, harsh environment.