Inventing Australia - Images and Identity 1688-1980

List of contents

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Richard White, Richard (Visiting Senior Research Fellow At White
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367718534
• ISBN: 978-0-367-71853-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, Australia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Arts & Humanities