Memories and dreams : reflections on twentieth century Australia : Pastiche II
White, Richard, 1951-UUUU
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In this collection, thirteen accounts demonstrate what has been happening to the study of Australian history. Through these essays the reader can share the excitement of arguing about a past which shapes, and is shaped by, the lives of all of us.
Main title:
Memories and dreams : reflections on twentieth century Australia : Pastiche II / edited by Richard White and Penny Russell
Imprint:
St Leonards N.S.W. Allen andUnwin 1997
Collation:
283 pages illustrations
Contents:
Chivalry and social policy in the Antipodes / Jill Roe -- Class and respectability in a working-class suburb: Richmond, Victoria, before the Great War / Janet McCulman -- Men, women, and war memorials: Anzac Australia / Ken Inglis -- The return of a soldier / Alistair Thomson -- Aboriginal history and the politics of information control / Heather Goodall -- Decently dressed? Sexualised consumerism and the working woman's wardrobe 1918-1923 / Gail Reekie -- Female desires: The meaning of World War II / Marilyn Lake -- Censorship and the child: Explaining the comics campaign / Mark Finnane -- Menzies' forgotten people / Judith Brett -- The 1954 Royal Tour of Australia / Jane Connors -- Sexuality and the suburban dream / Ann Game and Rosemary Pringle -- Heaven and a Hills hoist: Australian critics on suburbia / Tim Rowse -- Kooramindanjie: Place and the postcolonial / Jackie Huggins, Rita Huggins and Jane M. Jacobs
ISBN:
1863735364 (paperback)
Dewey class:
994.04 MEM
Local class:
994.04
Language:
English
BRN:
75816
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