Australia, a Cultural History
Author | : John Rickard |
Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Rickard |
Publisher | : Longman Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Rickard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : 9781921867606 |
Australia: A Cultural History, first published in 1988, is still the only short history of Australia from a cultural perspective. It has acquired a unique reputation as an introduction to the development of Australian society and was listed by the historian and public intellectual John Hirst in his 'First XI: The best Australian history books'. The book focuses on the transmission of values, beliefs and customs amongst the diverse mix of peoples who are today's Australians. The story begins with the 60,000 years of the Aboriginal presence and their continuing material and spiritual relationship with the land, and takes readers through the turbulent years of British colonisation and the emergence, through prosperity, war and depression, of the cultural accommodations which have been distinctively Australian. This 3rd Edition concludes with a critical review of the challenges facing contemporary Australia and warns that 'we may get the future we deserve'. [Some images unavailable for OA]
Author | : Paul Ashton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : 9780702234736 |
"Grew out of a colloquium around the initial findings of a national survey 'Australians and the past' ... held in June 2002 at the University of Technology, Sydney ... Papers which engaged various aspects of the survey. Several presenters used the forum, and materials from the 'Australians and the Past' database in different ways to extend their engagements."--Editorial.
Author | : Hsu-Ming Teo |
Publisher | : University of New South Wales |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780868405896 |
Showcases Australia’s leading historians writing about cultural history, both in theory and practice.
Author | : John Frow |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : 9780252063534 |
Cultural studies has emerged as a major force in the analysis of cultural systems and their relation to social power. "Rather than being interested in television or architecture or pinball machines themselves - as industrial or aesthetic structures - cultural studies tends to be interested in the way such apparatuses work as points of concentration of social meaning, as 'media' (literally)", according to John Frow and Meaghan Morris. Here, two of Australia's leading cultural critics bring together work that represents a distinctive national tradition, moving between high theory and detailed readings of localized cultural practices. Ethnographic audience research, cultural policy studies, popular consumption, "bad" aboriginal art, landscape in feature films, style, form and history in TV miniseries, and the intersections of tourism with history and memory - these are among the topics addressed in a landmark volume that cuts across myriad traditional disciplines.
Author | : Lars Jensen |
Publisher | : Atlantic Publishers & Dist |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : 9788126904068 |
This Book Is A Critical Intervention Into Debates On Australia S Cultural History. The Book Demonstrates The Interconnectedness Of Themes Commonly Seen As Separate Discursive Formations, And Shows The Fruitfulness Of Bringing A Combined Cultural Studies And Post-Colonial Approach To Bear On A Number Of Fields, Seen As Pivotal To The Formation And Particular Expression Of Australian Culture Today. The Book Argues That A Redefinition Of The Borders Between What Has Been Regarded And Patrolled As Discrete Fields Of Australian Studies Is Mandatory In Order To Alter Definitions Of Australia S Cultural History And Identity Away From The Conventional Histories Of A Settler Culture Gradually Embracing A Multicultural Society. The Introduction Argues For The Productiveness Of Combining A Cultural Studies Approach With Post-Colonial Criticism And Explains Why The Placement Of Australian Cultural History In The Unconventional Territorial Representation Of Its Asian Other Is Not Only Enabling But Necessary In Order To Divest Australian Studies Of Settlement History S Monolithic Grasp On Definitions Of Australia S Cultural History. The Subsequent Chapters Examine Australian Historiography (Focusing On Colonial Beginnings), Political History (Focusing On Relations With Indonesia And East Timor), Multiculturalism (Focusing On The Chinese In Australia), And Anthropology (Focusing On Aboriginal- Asian Contact History) From This New Angle.
Author | : Meredith Lake |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 726 |
Release | : 2018-03-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781525274077 |
The revelatory story of the Bible in Australia, from the convict era to the Mabo land rights campaign, Nick Cave, the Bra Boys, and beyond. Thought to be everything from the word of God to a resented imposition, the Bible has been debated, painted, rejected, translated, read, gossiped about, preached, and tattooed. At a time when public discussion of religion is deeply polarised, Meredith Lake reveals the Bible's dynamic influence in Australia and offers an innovative new perspective on Christianity and its changing role in our society. In the hands of writers, artists, wowsers, Bible-bashers, immigrants, suffragists, evangelists, unionists, Indigenous activists, and many more - the Bible has played a defining and contested role in Australia. A must-read for sceptics, the curious, the lapsed, the devout, the believer, and non-believer.
Author | : Samuel Louis Goldberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : F. B. Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 79 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Australia |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Louise C Johnson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2021-09-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000423395 |
The Story of Australia provides a fresh, engaging and comprehensive introduction to Australia’s history and geography. An island continent with distinct physical features, Australia is home to the most enduring Indigenous cultures on the planet. In the late eighteenth century newcomers from distant worlds brought great change. Since that time, Australia has been shaped by many peoples with competing visions of what the future might hold. This new history of Australia integrates a rich body of scholarship from many disciplines, drawing upon maps, novels, poetry, art, music, diaries and letters, government and scientific reports, newspapers, architecture and the land itself, engaging with Australia in its historical, geographical, national and global contexts. It pays particular attention to women and Indigenous Australians, as well as exploring key themes including invasion/colonisation, land use, urbanisation, war, migration, suburbia and social movements for change. Elegantly written, readers will enjoy Australia’s story from its origins to the present as the nation seeks to resolve tensions between Indigenous dispossession, British tradition and multicultural diversity while finding its place in an Asian region and dealing with global challenges like climate change. It is an ideal text for students, academics and general readers with an interest in Australian history, geography, politics and culture.