| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910825264203321 |
|
|
Titolo |
The words that made Australia : how a nation came to know itself / / edited by Robert Manne & Chris Feik |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Collingwood, Victoria : , : Black Inc. Agenda, , 2012 |
|
©2014 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (440 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Australia Social life and customs |
Australia History 20th century |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Front Cover; Copyright; THE WORDS THAT MADE AUSTRALIA; Contents; Introduction; Overture: Miles Franklin; The Workers' Paradise: Albert Metin; The Anzac Landing: Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett; The Gallipoli Letter: Keith Murdoch; Women in Australia: Maybanke Anderson; Kangaroo: D.H. Lawrence; The Australian Democracy: W.K. Hancock; The Foundations of Culture in Australia: P.R. Stephensen; What is Significant in us Will Survive: Vance Palmer; The Forgotten People: Robert Menzies; The Cultural Cringe: A.A. Phillips; Re-Writing Australian History: Manning Clark; The Australian Legend: Russel Ward |
A Nice Night's Entertainment: Barry HumphriesThe Australian Ugliness: Robin Boyd; The Lucky Country: Donald Horne; After the Dreaming: W.E.H. Stanner; Racists: Humphrey McQueen; Australia as a Suburb: Hugh Stretton; Manzone Country: Anne Summers; The Real Matilda: Miriam Dixson; The Spectre of Truganini: Bernard Smith; The End of Certainty: Paul Kelly; From Three Cheers to the Black Armband: Geoffrey Blainey; The Future Eaters: Tim Flannery; A Spirit of Play: David Malouf; Home-Grown Traditions: Inga Clendinnen; Our Right to take Responsibility: Noel Pearson; The New Liberalism: Judith Brett |
The Fig, the Olive and the Pomegranate Tree: Ghassan HageSources |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Selected for the Grattan Institute's 2012 Prime Minister's Reading ListThis 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 signif |
|
|
|
|
|
| |