Peter Read
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692721 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Read |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Read |
| SIGNATURE | READ P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent, Caterbury |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Rape of the Soul so Profound
A Rape of the Soul So Profound began when a young researcher accidentally came upon restricted files in an archives collection. What he read overturned all his assumptions about an important part of Aboriginal experience and Australia's past. The book ends in the present, 20 years later, in the aftermath of the Royal Commission on the Stolen Generations. Along the way Peter Read investigates how good intentions masked policies with inhuman result…
Terrible Hard Biscuits
Narrow But Endlessly Deep
On 11 September 1973, the Chilean Chief of the Armed Forces Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende and installed a military dictatorship. Yet this is a book not of parties or ideologies but public history. It focuses on the memorials and memorialisers at seven sites of torture, extermination, and disappearance in Santiago, engaging with
Narrow But Endlessly Deep
On 11 September 1973, the Chilean Chief of the Armed Forces Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende and installed a military dictatorship. Yet this is a book not of parties or ideologies but public history. It focuses on the memorials and memorialisers at seven sites of torture, extermination, and disappearance in Santiago, engaging with worldwide debates about why and how deeds of violence inflicted by the sta…
A rape of the soul so profound’
In the late 1920s and early 1930s the whites of southern Australia were alarmed by a series of sensational events in the Northern Territory. After the Coniston Massacre of 1928, perhaps the most notorious of these was the murder of a Constable McColl in August 1933, allegedly by an Aborigine named Tuckiar. The southerners were horrified that some Territorians, including the police, were ready to mount a punitive expedition rather than search for …
Indigenous Biography and Autobiography
In this absorbing collection of papers Aboriginal, Maori, Dalit and western scholars discuss and analyse the difficulties they have faced in writing Indigenous biographies and autobiographies. The issues range from balancing the demands of western and non-western scholarship, through writing about a family that refuses to acknowledge its identity, to considering a community
Indigenous Biography and Autobiography
1.1.Diagram representing both graphically and numerically the number of male and female Indigenous autobiographies published per year.The lower two rows of the figure display the numerical data and form a ratio.1.2.Pie chart displaying the relative proportions of the 177 published Indigenous autobiographies each publisher produced
Pierre Louÿs, Rodin and Aphrodite
This article uses unpublished correspondence and archive material to explore artistic interaction between Aguste Rodin and Pierre Louÿs, referring particularly to Louÿs's fin-de-siècle novel "Aphrodite" and to a 1914 stage production of the novel, for which Rodin provided a sculpture as a prop
The Bay of Pigs
The Museum of Playa Giron (the Bay of Pigs) in the region of Cienega De Zapata, Cuba, celebrates the repulse of Brigade 2506 as the first reverse of US imperialism on the American continents. The equivalent Brigade 2506 Museum in Miami, dedicated to and maintained by the members of Brigade 2506, celebrates defeat at the Bay of Pigs as moral victory for the Cuban exiles. The forces were indeed implacable foes. Yet between the museums can be detect…
How Many Separated Aboriginal Children
Acknowledging the difficulty in arriving at an accurate estimate of the number of Aboriginal children removed from their families during the twentieth century, I argue that the greatest accuracy will flow from working with specialist scholars of small areas. Their studies, many of which already exist, draw on archival, documentary, oral and community sources. Such locally specialised knowledge is necessary to unravel official population figures a…
Belonging
Responding to Global Warming
Journal Article Responding to Global Warming: The Technology, Economics and Politics of Sustainable Energy. Get access Responding to Global Warming: The Technology, Economics and Politics of Sustainable Energy. By (Peter) Read. (London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1994. Pp. xiv + 304. £36.95 hardback, US$59.95 hardback, £14.95 paperback, US $25.00 paperback. ISBN 1 85649 161 7, 1 85649 162 5.) Wilfred Beckerman Wilfred Beckerman Oxford Search for o…
Being is a transitive verb
This discussion explores some of the ways in which people feel a sense of belonging to a place. Interviews were conducted with four people, from different backgrounds and with different motivations, to explore the ways in which they thought about and related to a tract of bush and pasture in New South Wales, Australia. For all of them it formed a life site and, whilst they differed in their views about what should be done with the site, they shar…
Responding to Global Warming
Cheeky, Insolent and Anti‐white
Black Death, White Hands
Aboriginal Australians
Indigenous Biography and Autobiography
1.1.Diagram representing both graphically and numerically the number of male and female Indigenous autobiographies published per year.The lower two rows of the figure display the numerical data and form a ratio.1.2.Pie chart displaying the relative proportions of the 177 published Indigenous autobiographies each publisher produced
A rape of the soul so profound’
In the late 1920s and early 1930s the whites of southern Australia were alarmed by a series of sensational events in the Northern Territory. After the Coniston Massacre of 1928, perhaps the most notorious of these was the murder of a Constable McColl in August 1933, allegedly by an Aborigine named Tuckiar. The southerners were horrified that some Territorians, including the police, were ready to mount a punitive expedition rather than search for …
Aboriginal Australians
Black Death, White Hands
Cheeky, Insolent and Anti‐white
Being is a transitive verb
This discussion explores some of the ways in which people feel a sense of belonging to a place. Interviews were conducted with four people, from different backgrounds and with different motivations, to explore the ways in which they thought about and related to a tract of bush and pasture in New South Wales, Australia. For all of them it formed a life site and, whilst they differed in their views about what should be done with the site, they shar…
Responding to Global Warming
Responding to Global Warming
Journal Article Responding to Global Warming: The Technology, Economics and Politics of Sustainable Energy. Get access Responding to Global Warming: The Technology, Economics and Politics of Sustainable Energy. By (Peter) Read. (London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1994. Pp. xiv + 304. £36.95 hardback, US$59.95 hardback, £14.95 paperback, US $25.00 paperback. ISBN 1 85649 161 7, 1 85649 162 5.) Wilfred Beckerman Wilfred Beckerman Oxford Search for o…
Belonging
How Many Separated Aboriginal Children
Acknowledging the difficulty in arriving at an accurate estimate of the number of Aboriginal children removed from their families during the twentieth century, I argue that the greatest accuracy will flow from working with specialist scholars of small areas. Their studies, many of which already exist, draw on archival, documentary, oral and community sources. Such locally specialised knowledge is necessary to unravel official population figures a…
Pierre Louÿs, Rodin and Aphrodite
This article uses unpublished correspondence and archive material to explore artistic interaction between Aguste Rodin and Pierre Louÿs, referring particularly to Louÿs's fin-de-siècle novel "Aphrodite" and to a 1914 stage production of the novel, for which Rodin provided a sculpture as a prop
The Bay of Pigs
The Museum of Playa Giron (the Bay of Pigs) in the region of Cienega De Zapata, Cuba, celebrates the repulse of Brigade 2506 as the first reverse of US imperialism on the American continents. The equivalent Brigade 2506 Museum in Miami, dedicated to and maintained by the members of Brigade 2506, celebrates defeat at the Bay of Pigs as moral victory for the Cuban exiles. The forces were indeed implacable foes. Yet between the museums can be detect…
Indigenous Biography and Autobiography
In this absorbing collection of papers Aboriginal, Maori, Dalit and western scholars discuss and analyse the difficulties they have faced in writing Indigenous biographies and autobiographies. The issues range from balancing the demands of western and non-western scholarship, through writing about a family that refuses to acknowledge its identity, to considering a community
Indigenous Biography and Autobiography
1.1.Diagram representing both graphically and numerically the number of male and female Indigenous autobiographies published per year.The lower two rows of the figure display the numerical data and form a ratio.1.2.Pie chart displaying the relative proportions of the 177 published Indigenous autobiographies each publisher produced
A rape of the soul so profound’
In the late 1920s and early 1930s the whites of southern Australia were alarmed by a series of sensational events in the Northern Territory. After the Coniston Massacre of 1928, perhaps the most notorious of these was the murder of a Constable McColl in August 1933, allegedly by an Aborigine named Tuckiar. The southerners were horrified that some Territorians, including the police, were ready to mount a punitive expedition rather than search for …
Narrow But Endlessly Deep
On 11 September 1973, the Chilean Chief of the Armed Forces Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende and installed a military dictatorship. Yet this is a book not of parties or ideologies but public history. It focuses on the memorials and memorialisers at seven sites of torture, extermination, and disappearance in Santiago, engaging with
Narrow But Endlessly Deep
On 11 September 1973, the Chilean Chief of the Armed Forces Augusto Pinochet overthrew the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende and installed a military dictatorship. Yet this is a book not of parties or ideologies but public history. It focuses on the memorials and memorialisers at seven sites of torture, extermination, and disappearance in Santiago, engaging with worldwide debates about why and how deeds of violence inflicted by the sta…
A Rape of the Soul so Profound
A Rape of the Soul So Profound began when a young researcher accidentally came upon restricted files in an archives collection. What he read overturned all his assumptions about an important part of Aboriginal experience and Australia's past. The book ends in the present, 20 years later, in the aftermath of the Royal Commission on the Stolen Generations. Along the way Peter Read investigates how good intentions masked policies with inhuman result…
Terrible Hard Biscuits
Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · History (8 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (7 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)