Bill Metcalf
Biographic Data
| ID | 693880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bill Metcalf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bill |
| FAMILY NAME | Metcalf |
| SIGNATURE | METCALF B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Melbourne and Mars: My Mysterious Life on Two Planets
Melbourne and Mars was first published in Australia in 1889. The author, Joseph Fraser, was born in England and came to Melbourne, via New Zealand, in 1885. “Marvellous Melbourne,” as it was then known, was one of the world's richest and fastest-growing cities, its wealth coming from rich gold deposits. As well as having Australia's wealthiest citizens, however, it also had Australia's worst slumsThis 2020 reprint is introduced and edited by Alex…
A River with a City Problem: A History of Brisbane Floods
Duck and Green Peas! For Ever!” Finding Utopia in Tasmania
This book's quirky title and strikingly beautiful cover will grab attention on any bookshelf. The image comes from an old watercolor tourism advertising poster, dreamily evocative of paradisiacal pristine lakes and towering mountains. The title comes from a supposed quote by an early nineteenth-century female convict who declared that what would make her life perfect would be “Duck and Green Peas! For Ever!” (2).1There is much to enjoy about this…
A Free Country: Australians' Search for Utopia
A Free Country: Australians' Search for Utopia covers the years 1861–1901 and is the second of the five-volume series about what the publishers call “Australian liberalism.” The author is a well-known and respected Australian academic and was for some years a senior federal cabinet minister with portfolios in education, environment, and employment.This weighty tome provides superb coverage of the Australian continent's political transformation fr…
The Individual and Utopia: A Multidisciplinary Study of Humanity and Perfection
Scholarly books of edited readings are usually, like the curate's egg, “excellent in parts,” and that backhanded compliment applies here. This truly international book, edited by an American and a Canadian, has eighteen chapters, with eleven of the authors from the United States, three from Canada, two from Spain and the United Kingdom, and one from Australia, Argentina, France, and Italy—a mixture of academics, doctoral students, and public inte…
Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There
Spiritual and Visionary Communities: Out to Save the World
Scholarly books of edited readings depend on the ability of the editor, the range of topics and authors, and the breadth versus depth with which the subject is approached. Too much breadth results in a platitudinous mishmash, while too much depth usually lacks context. In this work, the editor, Tim Miller of the University of Kansas, strikes a reasonable compromise. Not all chapters will be of equal interest to any reader, but all are germane to …
Searching for Utopia: The History of an Idea
Writing the history of anything is a challenge, but endeavoring to write the history of an idea, particularly one as enduring, chimeric, emotive, and misunderstood as “utopia,” is truly a task only to be undertaken by either an intellectual giant or an utter fool. Fortunately for readers, Professor Gregory Claeys, from the University of London, is the former.This relatively large-format book is richly illustrated and printed on glossy “art” paper…
Utopian Fraud
While most attempts at creating utopian societies have ended in failure, few were as fraudulent as La Nouvelle-France on the island of New Ireland (now part of Papua New Guinea). Its founder, the Marquis de Rays, was a charismatic monomaniac who dreamed of creating a South Pacific utopia. He launched this scheme in 1877 and soon investors poured in money, and would-be utopian settlers joined up. During 1880–81, several hundred people sailed on in…
Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, The Peoples Temple, and Jonestown
Book Review| July 01 2005 Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, The Peoples Temple, and Jonestown Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, The Peoples Temple, and JonestownChidester, David Bill Metcalf Bill Metcalf Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2005) 16 (2): 335–338. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718755 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Bill Metcalf; Salvation and Suicide: Jim …
The Gayndah Communes: From Aborigines and Squatters through Communes to Rural Depopulation in the Gayndah Area
Paradise Mislaid: In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay
Paradise Mislaid: In Search of the Australian Tribe of Paraguay
The Gayndah Communes: From Aborigines and Squatters through Communes to Rural Depopulation in the Gayndah Area
Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, The Peoples Temple, and Jonestown
Book Review| July 01 2005 Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, The Peoples Temple, and Jonestown Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, The Peoples Temple, and JonestownChidester, David Bill Metcalf Bill Metcalf Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2005) 16 (2): 335–338. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718755 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Bill Metcalf; Salvation and Suicide: Jim …
Utopian Fraud
While most attempts at creating utopian societies have ended in failure, few were as fraudulent as La Nouvelle-France on the island of New Ireland (now part of Papua New Guinea). Its founder, the Marquis de Rays, was a charismatic monomaniac who dreamed of creating a South Pacific utopia. He launched this scheme in 1877 and soon investors poured in money, and would-be utopian settlers joined up. During 1880–81, several hundred people sailed on in…
Searching for Utopia: The History of an Idea
Writing the history of anything is a challenge, but endeavoring to write the history of an idea, particularly one as enduring, chimeric, emotive, and misunderstood as “utopia,” is truly a task only to be undertaken by either an intellectual giant or an utter fool. Fortunately for readers, Professor Gregory Claeys, from the University of London, is the former.This relatively large-format book is richly illustrated and printed on glossy “art” paper…
Spiritual and Visionary Communities: Out to Save the World
Scholarly books of edited readings depend on the ability of the editor, the range of topics and authors, and the breadth versus depth with which the subject is approached. Too much breadth results in a platitudinous mishmash, while too much depth usually lacks context. In this work, the editor, Tim Miller of the University of Kansas, strikes a reasonable compromise. Not all chapters will be of equal interest to any reader, but all are germane to …
The Individual and Utopia: A Multidisciplinary Study of Humanity and Perfection
Scholarly books of edited readings are usually, like the curate's egg, “excellent in parts,” and that backhanded compliment applies here. This truly international book, edited by an American and a Canadian, has eighteen chapters, with eleven of the authors from the United States, three from Canada, two from Spain and the United Kingdom, and one from Australia, Argentina, France, and Italy—a mixture of academics, doctoral students, and public inte…
Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There
Duck and Green Peas! For Ever!” Finding Utopia in Tasmania
This book's quirky title and strikingly beautiful cover will grab attention on any bookshelf. The image comes from an old watercolor tourism advertising poster, dreamily evocative of paradisiacal pristine lakes and towering mountains. The title comes from a supposed quote by an early nineteenth-century female convict who declared that what would make her life perfect would be “Duck and Green Peas! For Ever!” (2).1There is much to enjoy about this…
A Free Country: Australians' Search for Utopia
A Free Country: Australians' Search for Utopia covers the years 1861–1901 and is the second of the five-volume series about what the publishers call “Australian liberalism.” The author is a well-known and respected Australian academic and was for some years a senior federal cabinet minister with portfolios in education, environment, and employment.This weighty tome provides superb coverage of the Australian continent's political transformation fr…
A River with a City Problem: A History of Brisbane Floods
Melbourne and Mars: My Mysterious Life on Two Planets
Melbourne and Mars was first published in Australia in 1889. The author, Joseph Fraser, was born in England and came to Melbourne, via New Zealand, in 1885. “Marvellous Melbourne,” as it was then known, was one of the world's richest and fastest-growing cities, its wealth coming from rich gold deposits. As well as having Australia's wealthiest citizens, however, it also had Australia's worst slumsThis 2020 reprint is introduced and edited by Alex…
Sociology (12 works) · Art history (8 works) · History (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Utopia (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)