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Please God Send Me a Wreck

Responses to Shipwreck in a 19th Century Australian Community

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Authors:
  1. Brad Duncan

    1. University of New England, Armidale, Australia

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  2. Martin Gibbs

    1. University of New England, Armidale, Australia

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  • Draws on extensive oral histories and documentary research
  • Discusses the connection between wrecks and nearby coastal communities, an overlooked field of archaeology
  • Examines over 90 shipwrecks and their effect on the coastal town of Queenscliff
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: When the Land Meets the Sea (ACUA, volume 3)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Brad Duncan, Martin Gibbs
    Pages 1-5

  3. Shipping Mishaps and the Maritime Cultural Landscape

    • Brad Duncan, Martin Gibbs
    Pages 7-33

  4. Preparing for Shipping Mishaps

    • Brad Duncan, Martin Gibbs
    Pages 35-58

  5. Crisis Phase Responses

    • Brad Duncan, Martin Gibbs
    Pages 59-84

  6. Mid- and Long-Term Responses

    • Brad Duncan, Martin Gibbs
    Pages 85-104

  7. Landscapes of Risk Prevention and Mitigation

    • Brad Duncan, Martin Gibbs
    Pages 105-140

  8. Landscapes of Crisis and Long-Term Response

    • Brad Duncan, Martin Gibbs
    Pages 141-170

  9. The Social Landscapes of Shipping Mishaps

    • Brad Duncan, Martin Gibbs
    Pages 171-198

  10. Conclusion

    • Brad Duncan, Martin Gibbs
    Pages 199-213

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 215-243
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About this book

This book explores the historical and archaeological evidence of the relationships between a coastal community and the shipwrecks that have occurred along the southern Australian shoreline over the last 160 years. It moves beyond a focus on shipwrecks as events and shows the short and long term economic, social and symbolic significance of wrecks and strandings to the people on the shoreline. This volume draws on extensive oral histories, documentary and archaeological research to examine the tensions within the community, negotiating its way between its roles as shipwreck saviours and salvors.

Reviews

“Useful for anyone who identifies with the younger generation of maritime archaeologists, this volume simply refutes the atheoretical stance that largely permeated the discipline in the past. … This book remains useful for thinking about how shipping mishaps affected people and what these events meant in short- and long-term perspectives. This text ultimately demonstrates that the concept of shipping mishaps deserves continued archaeological attention.” (Madeline Fowler, Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 73 (3), 2017)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of New England, Armidale, Australia

    Brad Duncan, Martin Gibbs

About the authors

Dr. Brad Duncan is the State Maritime Archaeologist responsible for the Maritime Heritage Program at NSW Heritage Branch, Parramatta Australia. He specialises in maritime cultural landscapes, historic maritime infrastructure studies, and fishing and defence landscapes. His current research projects include regional interpretation of the maritime cultural landscapes of coastal and inland waterways, the archaeology of shipbreaking and adaptive reuse of hulks, deep water wrecks, WWII sites in the Solomon Islands, and remote sensing of convict sites on Norfolk Island.

Dr. Martin Gibbs is Professor of Australian Archaeology at the University of New England, Australia. His maritime interests include the archaeology of maritime industries, cultural aspects of shipwreck site formation, shipwreck survivors, and the processes of maritime colonisation. Current research projects include the archaeology of the 16th century Spanish explorations and failed colonies of the Solomon Islands and studies of the convict system in Australia. He is also the author of ‘The Shore whalers of Western Australia: Historical Archaeology of a Maritime Frontier’ (University of Sydney Press, 2010).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Please God Send Me a Wreck

  • Book Subtitle: Responses to Shipwreck in a 19th Century Australian Community

  • Authors: Brad Duncan, Martin Gibbs

  • Series Title: When the Land Meets the Sea

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2642-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-2641-1Published: 25 May 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-6627-1Published: 03 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-2642-8Published: 25 May 2015

  • Series ISSN: 1869-6783

  • Series E-ISSN: 1869-6791

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 243

  • Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations, 63 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Archaeology, Cultural Heritage

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