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Inventing Australia - Images and Identity 1688-1980 (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Inventing Australia - Images and Identity 1688-1980 (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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'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.
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