S Petrow
Biographic Data
| ID | 5368810 |
|---|---|
| NAME | S Petrow |
| GIVEN NAMES | S |
| FAMILY NAME | Petrow |
| SIGNATURE | PETROW S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3922-1997 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lay Defender of Catholicism
Tensions between Protestants and Catholics persisted throughout nineteenth‐century Australia. Historians have tended to examine the part played by the clergy, pressure groups or newspapers in sectarian disputes in the main colonies of New South Wales and Victoria. This article contributes to an understanding of anti‐Catholicism in the Australian colonies by focusing on the actions and writings of one Catholic layman, Dr Edward Swarbreck Hall, in …
Developing the Highest Moral Instincts’
Settled as Australia’s second colony in 1803, Tasmania began life as the island penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land and gained a reputation for brutality in the treatment of convicts and the Indigenous population. But brutality did not stop with humans. Settlers to the island had been accustomed to be cruel to animals in Britain and this practice continued in Tasmania. Decisive steps to stop this cruelty only emerged in the 1870s when branches of t…
Godfather of Tasmania
Diemens Land. His name has become embedded in Tasmanian history and, with verylittle opposition, has been widely commemorated with anniversary celebrations,monuments, and, above all, the naming of Tasmania. Although some historians havesuggested that Tasmans exploits were modest, before 1945 he received more attentionthan other Australian explorers because he was free of any connections with convictsor Aborigines, because of the Tasmanian love of…
Exhibition Reviews
The Last Man
Regarding the story of King Billy's Head, there are so many versions of it that it might be as well if you sent the correct details}
Municipalisation in Australia
This article expands upon the crucial role of the state in the provision of infrastructure in late‐nineteenth century Australia by examining the hitherto overlooked role of local government, and in particular, the provision of municipal services in Launceston, Tasmania's second largest city. From the 1890s, socialist groups across Europe actively sought to control councils, believing “good” local government the key to social reform. Municipalisat…
Discontent and habits of evasion'∗
Relations between governors and settlers were often fraught with difficulty in the Australian colonies before 1856. Contentious issues included the demand for representative government, ownership of land, and the levying of taxes. In Van Diemen's. Land a struggle emerged over the imposition of quit rents, a symbol of imperial control of land. Pressed by the Colonial Office to generate more revenue, the lieutenant‐governors threatened, cajoled, an…
Books
Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800–2000. By Anna Haebich. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000. Pp. 726. $35.00 paper. My Dark Brother. The Story of the Wins, a Russian‐Aboriginal Family. By Elena Govor. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2000. Pp. xxiii + 385. $34.95 cloth. Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership. By Peter Read. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. vii + 248. $29.95 …
Policing in a Penal Colony
In eighteenth-century England the rule of law was “the central legitimizing ideology, displacing the religious authority and sanctions of previous centuries.” Arising out of struggles between the monarchy, Parliament, and the courts, the rule of law sought to protect individual liberty and private property by placing constraints on arbitrary authority. The ruling class used the rule of law ideology to enhance their power, but it also acted as a c…
Creating an Orderly Society
The late 19th century witnessed a remarkable decline in urban crime and disorder in Australia, England, and America. Historians have suggested various reasons for this decline including the spread of education, the introduction of social reforms, and greater economic prosperity. Another key factor was the development of more numerous and efficient police forces. As the importance of these factors differed from city to city, local studies of parti…
Books
War and Peace in Western Australia: The Social and Political Impact of the Great War 1914–1926. By Bobbie Oliver. University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1995. Pp. 314. $24.95 paper. Unfit for Heroes: Reconstruction and Soldier Settlement in the Empire between the Wars. By Kent Fedorowich. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995. Pp. xii + 243. £40.00 cloth. Disturbing the Wan Melbourne Catholics and Vietnam. By Val Noone. Spectrum, M…
Against the Spirit of Local Government
Town planning as part of a wider program of postwar reconstruction gained support in Tasmania in the 1940s. This support resulted in the passage of the Town and Country Planning Act 1944, the first major major piece of town planning legislation in Tasmania. This article examines the background to this statute, focusing on the deliberations of a joint committee of parliament appointed to hear the views of interested parties on town planning. Parti…
Policing Morals
This book studies the Metropolitan Police in the period 1870–1914, the time when it was transformed into a recognizable modern professional police force. The book examines how the Metropolitan Police, under the direction of the Home Office, grew and changed over these years. It explores the ways in which policing methods developed, traces the growth of the police bureaucracy, and assesses the role played by public attitudes, relations with courts…
The Business of Vice
This chapter discusses the different forms of businesses that were condoning and encouraging the crimes and immorality and vices during the Victorian era. In this chapter the business of brothels, lodging, and motels are discussed as well as the business of white slavery within the parameters set by morality and puritanical views and within the boundaries set by laws and legislative acts.
Policing in a Penal Colony
In eighteenth-century England the rule of law was “the central legitimizing ideology, displacing the religious authority and sanctions of previous centuries.” Arising out of struggles between the monarchy, Parliament, and the courts, the rule of law sought to protect individual liberty and private property by placing constraints on arbitrary authority. The ruling class used the rule of law ideology to enhance their power, but it also acted as a c…
Policing Morals
This book studies the Metropolitan Police in the period 1870–1914, the time when it was transformed into a recognizable modern professional police force. The book examines how the Metropolitan Police, under the direction of the Home Office, grew and changed over these years. It explores the ways in which policing methods developed, traces the growth of the police bureaucracy, and assesses the role played by public attitudes, relations with courts…
The Business of Vice
This chapter discusses the different forms of businesses that were condoning and encouraging the crimes and immorality and vices during the Victorian era. In this chapter the business of brothels, lodging, and motels are discussed as well as the business of white slavery within the parameters set by morality and puritanical views and within the boundaries set by laws and legislative acts.
Against the Spirit of Local Government
Town planning as part of a wider program of postwar reconstruction gained support in Tasmania in the 1940s. This support resulted in the passage of the Town and Country Planning Act 1944, the first major major piece of town planning legislation in Tasmania. This article examines the background to this statute, focusing on the deliberations of a joint committee of parliament appointed to hear the views of interested parties on town planning. Parti…
Books
War and Peace in Western Australia: The Social and Political Impact of the Great War 1914–1926. By Bobbie Oliver. University of Western Australia Press, Perth, 1995. Pp. 314. $24.95 paper. Unfit for Heroes: Reconstruction and Soldier Settlement in the Empire between the Wars. By Kent Fedorowich. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995. Pp. xii + 243. £40.00 cloth. Disturbing the Wan Melbourne Catholics and Vietnam. By Val Noone. Spectrum, M…
Creating an Orderly Society
The late 19th century witnessed a remarkable decline in urban crime and disorder in Australia, England, and America. Historians have suggested various reasons for this decline including the spread of education, the introduction of social reforms, and greater economic prosperity. Another key factor was the development of more numerous and efficient police forces. As the importance of these factors differed from city to city, local studies of parti…
Policing in a Penal Colony
In eighteenth-century England the rule of law was “the central legitimizing ideology, displacing the religious authority and sanctions of previous centuries.” Arising out of struggles between the monarchy, Parliament, and the courts, the rule of law sought to protect individual liberty and private property by placing constraints on arbitrary authority. The ruling class used the rule of law ideology to enhance their power, but it also acted as a c…
Discontent and habits of evasion'∗
Relations between governors and settlers were often fraught with difficulty in the Australian colonies before 1856. Contentious issues included the demand for representative government, ownership of land, and the levying of taxes. In Van Diemen's. Land a struggle emerged over the imposition of quit rents, a symbol of imperial control of land. Pressed by the Colonial Office to generate more revenue, the lieutenant‐governors threatened, cajoled, an…
Books
Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800–2000. By Anna Haebich. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000. Pp. 726. $35.00 paper. My Dark Brother. The Story of the Wins, a Russian‐Aboriginal Family. By Elena Govor. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2000. Pp. xxiii + 385. $34.95 cloth. Belonging: Australians, Place and Aboriginal Ownership. By Peter Read. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. vii + 248. $29.95 …
Municipalisation in Australia
This article expands upon the crucial role of the state in the provision of infrastructure in late‐nineteenth century Australia by examining the hitherto overlooked role of local government, and in particular, the provision of municipal services in Launceston, Tasmania's second largest city. From the 1890s, socialist groups across Europe actively sought to control councils, believing “good” local government the key to social reform. Municipalisat…
The Last Man
Regarding the story of King Billy's Head, there are so many versions of it that it might be as well if you sent the correct details}
Exhibition Reviews
Godfather of Tasmania
Diemens Land. His name has become embedded in Tasmanian history and, with verylittle opposition, has been widely commemorated with anniversary celebrations,monuments, and, above all, the naming of Tasmania. Although some historians havesuggested that Tasmans exploits were modest, before 1945 he received more attentionthan other Australian explorers because he was free of any connections with convictsor Aborigines, because of the Tasmanian love of…
Developing the Highest Moral Instincts’
Settled as Australia’s second colony in 1803, Tasmania began life as the island penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land and gained a reputation for brutality in the treatment of convicts and the Indigenous population. But brutality did not stop with humans. Settlers to the island had been accustomed to be cruel to animals in Britain and this practice continued in Tasmania. Decisive steps to stop this cruelty only emerged in the 1870s when branches of t…
Lay Defender of Catholicism
Tensions between Protestants and Catholics persisted throughout nineteenth‐century Australia. Historians have tended to examine the part played by the clergy, pressure groups or newspapers in sectarian disputes in the main colonies of New South Wales and Victoria. This article contributes to an understanding of anti‐Catholicism in the Australian colonies by focusing on the actions and writings of one Catholic layman, Dr Edward Swarbreck Hall, in …
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