Radical Sydney : places, portraits and unruly episodes /
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| Author / Creator: | Irving, T. H. (Terence H.) |
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| Imprint: | Sydney, NSW : University of New South Wales Press, 2010. |
| Description: | xiii, 368 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8265961 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Alphabetical table of sites for maps
- Suburbs of Sydney map
- City of Sydney map
- 1. Introduction: A different Sydney
- 2. Dawes Point: Moral dilemmas
- 3. Observatory Hill: Remembering Vinegar Hill
- 4. Touring hell: Hyde Park Barracks
- 5. Johann Lhotsky, Revolutionary
- 6. Tumult in paradise: The watch houses of Sydney
- 7. The Mutual Protection Association - The Customs House
- 8. Cabbage tree and tricolour
- 9. The 8-hour day and the Holy Spirit - Garrison and Mariners' churches, The Rocks
- 10. Lucien Henry, Communard - Victoria Street, Kings Cross
- 11. John Norton and the democratic riots of 1887
- 12. The Henry Lawson statue: Iconic Henry and 'faded' Louisa
- 13. A 'democratic rendezvous': The bookshops of radical Sydney Bruce Scates
- 14. A convict legend of the 1890s - Bulletin Place
- 15. 'Gone bung': The terror of 1893 - The Savings Bank in Barrack Street
- 16. Defending free speech: On the stump in 1915 - Speakers' corners
- 17. The Battle of Central
- 18. Vere Gordon Childe and the pacifists - The Friends' Meeting House, Devonshire Street
- 19. Merv Flanagan, Labour martyr - The Mortuary Station, Regent Street Lucy Taksa
- 20. A nerve centre of revolution - Rawson Place
- 21. The Trades Hall Reds versus the Domain Fascists
- 22. Australia for Australians: Fred Maynard makes progress - St David's Hall, Surry Hills
- 23. Joy and rough music on the picket line
- 24. The death of The World
- 25. The Venerable Boote - The Worker Building, Castlereagh Street Peter Kirkpatrick
- 26. Defending Darlinghurst from the Reds - Angel Place
- 27. The anti-eviction war - Union Street, Erskineville
- 28. The defence of Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda
- 29. The New Theatre Michelle Arrow
- 30. The day of mourning - The Australian Hall, 150-52 Elizabeth Street
- 31. Welcoming the Nazi tourist - Sydney Town Hall, 1938
- 32. Ken Cook and the Japanese collaborators - The Grace Building, 77-79 York Street
- 33. The Battle of Bligh Street
- 34. Fred Wong and the Chinese Seamen's Union - 175 Hay Street
- 35. 'Barging' at the GPO: Imperialism at bay
- 36. Margaret Street riot, 1947
- 37. Dorothy Hewett and the Redfern Reds - Lawson Square
- 38. The Waterside Workers' Cultural Committee Lisa Milner
- 39. Youth Carnival defies Menzies: The city of the left in the 1950s
- 40. P&O wall fountain - Hunter Street
- 41. Nestor's cellar: Lefties in the sky with diamonds - 72 Oxford Street, Paddington
- 42. Political bolt-cutting - Sydney University's front lawn
- 43. The siege of Victoria Street - Kings Cross
- 44. The conspiracy against Ananda Marga
- 45. Combating the 'greatest social menace' - Darlinghurst Police Station
- 46. Survival Day, 26 January 1988, Koori Redfern - The Empress Hotel, Regent Street
- 47. The 'invisible' maritime worker - Memorial at the National Maritime Museum
- Recommended reading
- Index
