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Australia : a cultural history / John Rickard.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rickard, John, author.
- Series:
- Australian History
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Australia--Civilization.
- Australia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Clayton, Victoria, Australia Monash University Publishing 2017
- Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, 2017.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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]
- Contents:
- Part 1. Sources
- Aboriginal Australians
- Immigrants
- Part 2. Interactions : 1788-1901
- The environment
- Society
- Part 3. The culture: 1901-1939
- Loyalties
- Political institutions
- Relationships and pursuits
- Part 4. The culture questioned: 1939-2016
- Dependence 1939-1988
- Diversity 1939-1988
- Vision
- The view from the twenty-first century.
- Notes:
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed January 26, 2018).
- ISBN:
- 9781921867613
- 1921867612
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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