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Category : Australian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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The Late Alfred Cecil Rowlandson
Author: Quatre-vingtième anniversaire de M. Gustave Schlumberger...
Author: Max FarrandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers and publishing
Languages : en
Pages : 10
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Australian Travellers in the South Seas
Author: Nicholas HalterPublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760464155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This book offers a wide-ranging survey of Australian engagement with the Pacific Islands in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through over 100 hitherto largely unexplored accounts of travel, the author explores how representations of the Pacific Islands in letters, diaries, reminiscences, books, newspapers and magazines contributed to popular ideas of the Pacific Islands in Australia. It offers a range of valuable insights into continuities and changes in Australian regional perspectives, showing that ordinary Australians were more closely connected to the Pacific Islands than has previously been acknowledged. Addressing the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, this cultural history probes issues of nation and empire, race and science, commerce and tourism by focusing on significant episodes and encounters in history. This is a foundational text for future studies of Australia’s relations with the Pacific, and histories of travel generally.
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Author: The Lone Hand
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ISBN:
Category : Australian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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British Books
Author: Inventing Australia
Author: Richard WhitePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000257657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
'White sets himself a most ambitious task, and he goes remarkably far to achieving his goals. Very few books tell so much about Australia, with elegance and concision, as does his' - Professor Michael Roe 'Stimulating and informative. an antidote to the cultural cringe' - Canberra Times 'To be Australian': what can that mean? Inventing Australia sets out to find the answers by tracing the images we have used to describe our land and our people - the convict hell, the workingman's paradise, the Bush legend, the 'typical' Australian from the shearer to the Bondi lifesaver, the land of opportunity, the small rich industrial country, the multicultural society. The book argues that these images, rather than describing an especially Australian reality, grow out of assumptions about nature, race, class, democracy, sex and empire, and are 'invented' to serve the interests of particular groups. There have been many books about Australia's national identity; this is the first to place the discussion within an historical context to explain how Australians' views of themselves change and why these views change in the way they do.
Bulletin
Author: Australian Literature from Its Beginnings to 1935
Author: Edmund Morris MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Continent of Mystery
Author: Stephen KnightPublisher: Melbourne University
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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