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Australia's empire [electronic resource] / [edited by] Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford history of the British Empire.
- The Oxford history of the British Empire
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Australia--History.
- Australia.
- National characteristics, Australian.
- Nationalism--Australia--History.
- Nationalism.
- Australia--Colonial influence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 419 p.) : ill.
- Other Title:
- Australia’s Empire
- The Oxford history of the British Empire
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- 'Australia's Empire' is a collaborative evaluation of Australia's imperial experience in more than a generation. Bringing together poltical, cultural, and aboriginal understandings of the past, it argues that the legacies of empire continue to influence the fabric of modern Australian society.
- Contents:
- Introduction: What became of Australia's empire? / Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward
- The saga of Captain Cook / Hobbles Danaiyarri
- Conquest / Alan Atkinson
- Settling the land : the making of rural Australia / Richard Waterhouse
- Indigenous subjects / Ann Curthoys
- Art and the environment : new visions from old / Anne Gray
- Empire, state, nation / John Hirst
- Migrations : the career of White British Australia / Eric Richards
- Religion and identity / Hilary M. Carey
- Money : trade, investment, and Australian nationalism / Geoffrey Bolton
- Security : defending Australia's empire / Stuart Ward
- Monarchy : from reverence to indifference / Mark McKenna
- War and commemoration : 'the responsibility of empire' / Joy Damousi
- Gender and sexuality / Angela Woollacott
- Popular culture / Richard White and Hsu-Ming Teo
- 'In history's page' : identity and myth / Neville Meaney
- Epilogue: After empire / Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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