Inventing Australia: Images and Identity 1688-1980

ISBN-13: 9780367718534 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 216 str.

Richard White

Opis

To be 'Australian': what can that mean? This influential Australian history sets out to find the answers by tracing the images we have used to describe our land and our people.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Terra Australis Incognita

2. Hell upon earth

3. A workingman's paradise?

4. Another America

5. The national type

6. Bohemians and the bush

7. Young, white, happy and wholesome

8. Diggers and heroes

9. Growing up

10. Everyman and his Holden

Further reading

Endnotes

Index

O autorze

Richard White is a young historian with a particular interest in the development of a distinctive Australian culture. He has written on the 'Australian way of life' and on 'Americanisation' and popular culture.