The Foundations of Culture in Australia
Author: Percy Reginald Stephensen
Publisher: Unwin Hyman
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780049090293
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The Cambridge History of Australian Literature
Author: Peter Pierce
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-09-17
Total Pages: 623
ISBN-13: 052188165X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDraws on scholarship from leading figures in the field and spans Australian literary history from colonial origins, indigenous and migrant literatures, as well as representations of Asia and the Pacific and the role of literary culture in modern Australian society.
How a Continent Created a Nation
Author: Libby Robin
Publisher: UNSW Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780868408910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book Libby Robin explores the links between nature and nation. By looking at some of those who observe the natural world most closely--including scientists, field naturalists and farmers--she tells the story of how we as a nation have come to understand our land. Having left the cultural cringe behind, settler Australians are struggling with the 'strange nature' of this continent. Robin suggests new ways of living in an arid and urbanized continent in times of global change, and gives hope that Australia can move beyond the biological cringe.
Psychology and Indigenous Australians
Author: Rob Ranzijn
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Australia
Published: 2009-10-20
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1420256289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book fills an important gap in understanding the psychological impact of colonization on Indigenous Australians. Using cultural competence as a theoretical framework, it starts with an exploration of the nature of culture and worldviews which permeates and integrates the book. It provides a convincing explanation of how colonization has affected Indigenous Australians, the role of psychology in this process, and ways forward to redress Indigenous disadvantage. A key emphasis is on ‘doing our own work', the essential role of critical reflection in trans-cultural communication.
The Words That Made Australia
Author: Chris Feik
Publisher: Black Inc.
Published: 2014-02-26
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1922231533
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is not a book of documents, snippets or worthy speeches. Instead it presents the original essays and the moments of insight that told us what Australia is and could be. These are the essential statements – from historians, reporters, novelists, mavericks and visionaries – that take us from Federation to the present-day, and tell a story of national self-discovery. There is the Frenchman who saw that Australia was a ‘workingman’s paradise’, and the historian who explained why. The two reporters who realised the true significance of Gallipoli and conveyed it to the nation. Russel Ward on the Australian Legend, Robin Boyd on the Australian Ugliness, Donald Horne on the Lucky Country, W.E.H. Stanner on the Great Australian Silence and Anne Summers on Manzone Country. Real Matildas, Cultural Cringers, Future Eaters and For- gotten People – and much more. Memorably written and cohesive, this is the essential sourcebook of the words that made Australia."
The Making of the Nations and Cultures of the New World
Author: Gérard Bouchard
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2008-03-03
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 0773574522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Making of the Nations and Cultures of the New World explores the question of how a culture - a collective consciousness - is born. Gérard Bouchard compares the histories of New World collectivities, which were driven by a dream of freedom and sovereignty, and finds both major differences and striking commonalities in their formation and evolution. He also considers the myths and discursive strategies devised by elites in their efforts to unite and mobilize diversified populations.
A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900
Author: Nicholas Birns
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9781571133496
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fresh twenty-first century look at Australian literature in a broad, inclusive and multicultural sense.
The Foundations of Australian Public Law
Author: Anthony J. Connolly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-05-10
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 1107679796
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction : what is Australian public law? -- Constitution I : the history of the Australian state -- Constitution II : the structure of the Australian state -- Legitimation : justifying state power -- Legislation : making valid law -- Administration : governing lawfully -- Adjudication : determining and applying law -- Validation : reviewing state action -- Protection : human rights and Australian public law -- Direction : future trends in Australian public law.
The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel
Author: David Carter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-05-31
Total Pages: 826
ISBN-13: 1009093207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge History of the Australian Novel is an authoritative volume on the Australian novel by more than forty experts in the field of Australian literary studies, drawn from within Australia and abroad. Essays cover a wide range of types of novel writing and publishing from the earliest colonial period through to the present day. The international dimensions of publishing Australian fiction are also considered as are the changing contours of criticism of the novel in Australia. Chapters examine colonial fiction, women's writing, Indigenous novels, popular genre fiction, historical fiction, political novels, and challenging novels on identity and belonging from recent decades, not least the major rise of Indigenous novel writing. Essays focus on specific periods of major change in Australian history or range broadly across themes and issues that have influenced fiction across many years and in many parts of the country.
Inventing Australia
Author: Richard White
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-07-28
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 1000257657
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'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.
