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Author : Peter Monteath
Publisher : National Library of Australia
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780642279248

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Captured Lives by Peter Monteath Pdf

Captured Lives peers behind the barbed wire drawn around people deemed threats to Australia's security during the two world wars. Civilians from enemy nations, even if born in Australia, were subjects of suspicion and locked away in internment camps. Prisoners-of-war were shipped from the other side of the world and shut away in camps in country Australia. No matter how unjust their internment or how severe the privations, most internees and POWs worked out ways to relieve their discomfort, physical and mental, and their boredom. Internees devoted their time to creative pursuits like theatre, musical ensembles, art and photography, while others involved themselves in sporting activities, gardening or studying. Captured Lives mentions over 30 of the main camps that were spread across Australia during the two world wars. Included are sketches, watercolours and photographs made by internees serve as references of the conditions and life in the camps from an insider's perspective.

Author : Jill Roe
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674036093

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Her Brilliant Career by Jill Roe Pdf

Stella Miles Franklin became an international publishing sensation in 1901, with "My Brilliant Career," a portrayal of an ambitious and independent woman defying social expectations that still captivates readers. In a magisterial biography, Roe details Miles' extraordinary life.

Author : Melinda J. Cooper
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781743328668

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Middlebrow Modernism by Melinda J. Cooper Pdf

Eleanor Dark (1901–85) is one of Australia’s most innovative 20th-century writers. Her extensive oeuvre includes ten novels published from the early 1930s to the late 1950s, and represents a significant engagement with global modernity from a unique position within settler culture. Yet Dark’s contribution to 20th-century literature has been undervalued in the fields of both Australian literary studies and world literature. Although two biographies have been written about her life, there has been no book-length critical study of her writing published since 1976. Middlebrow Modernism counters this neglect by providing the first full-length critical survey of Eleanor Dark’s writing to be published in over four decades. Focusing on the fiction that Dark produced during the interwar years and reading this in the context of her larger body of work, this book positions Dark’s writing as important to the study of Australian literature and global modernism. Melinda Cooper argues that Dark’s fiction exhibits a distinctive aesthetic of middlebrow modernism, which blends attributes of literary modernism with popular fiction. It seeks to mediate and reconcile apparent binaries: modernism and mass culture; liberal humanism and experimental aesthetics; settler society and international modernity. The term middlebrow modernism also captures the way Dark negotiated cosmopolitan commitments with more place-based attachments to nation and local community within the mid-20th century. Middlebrow Modernism posits that Dark’s fiction and the broader phenomenon of Australian modernism offer essential case studies for larger debates operating within global modernist and world literature studies, providing perspectives these fields might otherwise miss.

Author : Terry Irving,Rowan J. Cahill
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742230931

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Radical Sydney by Terry Irving,Rowan J. Cahill Pdf

Sydney: a beautiful international city with impressive buildings, harbour-side walkways, public gardens, cafes, restaurants, theatres and hotels. This is the way Sydney is represented to its citizens and to the rest of the world. But there has always been another Sydney not viewed so fondly by the city's rulers, a radical part of Sydney. The working-class suburbs to the south and west of the city were large and explosive places of marginalised ideas, bohemian neighbourhoods, dissident politics and contentious action. Through a series of snapshots, Radical Sydney traces its development from The Rocks in the 1830s to the inner suburbs of the 1980s. It includes a range of incidents, people and places, from freeing protestors in the anti-conscription movement, resident action movements in Kings Cross, anarchists in Glebe, to Gay Rights marches on Oxford Street and Black Power in Redfern.

Author : Sir Paul Hasluck
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780642106520

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Light that Time Has Made by Sir Paul Hasluck Pdf

Collection of essays and reviews written by Paul Hasluck in the years before his death in 1993. Contrasts social attitudes in Australia early in the century with attitudes 60 or more years later. Also presents anecdotes about several of his contemporaries, including Curtin, Evatt, Menzies, Gorton, McMahon and Whitlam. Paul Hasluck was born in the country, son of Salvation Army parents. During his life he was variously: journalist, poet, drama critic, war historian, author, publisher, anthropologist, public servant, diplomat, federal minister and Governor-General. Includes an introduction and postscript by his son, Nicholas Hasluck.

Author : Brigid Magner
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781785271090

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Locating Australian Literary Memory by Brigid Magner Pdf

‘Locating Australian Literary Memory’ explores the cultural meanings suffusing local literary commemorations. It is orientated around eleven authors – Adam Lindsay Gordon, Joseph Furphy, Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Lawson, A. B. ‘Banjo’ Paterson, Nan Chauncy, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Eleanor Dark, P. L. Travers, Kylie Tennant and David Unaipon – who have all been celebrated through a range of forms including statues, huts, trees, writers’ houses and assorted objects. Brigid Magner illuminates the social memory residing in these monuments and artefacts, which were largely created as bulwarks against forgetting. Acknowledging the value of literary memorials and the voluntary labour that enables them, she traverses the many contradictions, ironies and eccentricities of authorial commemoration in Australia, arguing for an expanded repertoire of practices to recognise those who have been hitherto excluded.

Author : Sulari Gentill
Publisher : Pantera Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781921997587

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Give the Devil His Due by Sulari Gentill Pdf

When Rowland Sinclair is invited to take his yellow Mercedes onto the Maroubra Speedway, popularly known as the Killer Track, he agrees without caution or reserve. But then people start to die... The body of a journalist covering the race is found in a House of Horrors, an English blueblood with Blackshirt affiliations is killed on the race track... and it seems that someone has Rowland in their sights. A strange young reporter preoccupied with black magic, a mysterious vagabond, an up-and-coming actor by the name of Flynn, and ruthless bookmakers all add mayhem to the mix. With danger presenting at every turn, and the brakes long since disengaged, Rowland Sinclair hurtles towards disaster with an artist, a poet and brazen sculptress along for the ride.

Author : Ross Davies
Publisher : Boolarong Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781925046823

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Three Brilliant Careers by Ross Davies Pdf

Three Brilliant Careers reveals the previously untold story of celebrated author Miles Franklin and two lifelong Australian friends, Nell Malone and Kath Ussher, who met in Chicago in 1914 and reunited a year later in war-torn London. Despite facing enormous risks, the women subsequently travelled to the Balkans with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals and served in frontline medical units attached to the French and Serbian Armies. After the war, Miles settled in London, Kath in Hollywood and Nell in Paris, but maintained their friendship through regular correspondence. All three achieved distinction in their chosen fields, although not without encountering significant obstacles in their path. Bridging four decades across several continents, Three Brilliant Careers follows the remarkable lives of the friends, and explores their crossed destinies to tell an inspirational story of Australia’s early feminists.

Author : Jacqui Murray
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0739107828

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Watching the Sun Rise by Jacqui Murray Pdf

Journalist and researcher Murray reviews the reporting on Japanese imperial aggression by the Australian mass circulation media in the years between Japanese attack on the Manchurian capital of Mukden in 1931 and the defeat of British and Australian forces by the Japanese in Singapore in 1942, which "was the final event that shocked a.

Author : Thomas Keneally
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504040457

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Australians by Thomas Keneally Pdf

The third volume of Thomas Keneally’s history of the Australian people, Australians: Flappers to Vietnam chronicles the lives and deeds of Australians, both known and unknown, during the 20th century. Entering an age of consumerism, media, and communism, Australia underwent radical change in the hands of two less remembered prime ministers: the stoic Stanley Melbourne Bruce of the Melbourne Establishment and the humbler Irishman Jim Scullin of the Labor Party. Keneally examines the Great Crash, the rise of fascism, the reasons why Australia entered the Second World War through the massive unemployment that arrived later in the century. With a compassionate lens and rich storytelling, Flappers to Vietnam presents history in a fresh and vivid way.

Author : Robert Dixon
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 070223270X

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Prosthetic Gods by Robert Dixon Pdf

Author : Craig Munro
Publisher : University of Queensland Press(Australia)
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X002151128

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Inky Stephensen by Craig Munro Pdf

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Author : Robert Manne
Publisher : Black Inc.
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781921825002

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Quarterly Essay 1 In Denial by Robert Manne Pdf

In this national bestseller Robert Mane attacks the right-wing campaign against the Bringing them home report that revealed how thousands of Aborigines had been taken from their parents. What was the role of Paddy McGuinness as editor of Quadrant? How reliable was the evidence that led newspaper columnists from Piers Akerman in the Sydney Daily Telegraph to Andrew Bolt in the Melbourne Herald Sun to deny the gravity of the injustice done? In a powerful indictment of past government policies towards the Aborigines, Robert Manne has written a brilliant polemical essay which doubles as a succinct history of how Aborigines were mistreated and an exposure of the ignorance of those who want to deny that history. "In Denial is not a book of history. It is a political intervention. By holding an influential section of the Right to account-Manne was exercising the kind of responsibility often demanded of public intellectuals." —Raimond Gaita "In complex intellectual conflicts, there will always be argument about whether the antagonists are committed to finding the truth or to winning the battle. This essay tells us that Robert Manne is intent on finding the truth." —Morag Fraser "In Denial is a work of both the head and the heart. It is carefully researched and powerfully expressed. It needs to be widely read." —The Hon. P.J Keating 6 April 2001 "Robert Manne has made an important contribution to the continuing debate and in doing so has helped launch a new and important venture." —Henry Reynolds

Author : Ross Fitzgerald
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0702229598

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The People's Champion, Fred Paterson by Ross Fitzgerald Pdf

The first biography of F W Paterson, radical barrister and Communist Party MLA for Bowen from 1944 to 1950, when his electorate was gerrymandered out of existence by the ruling Labor Party. Detailed index.

Author : Serge Liberman
Publisher : Hybrid Publishers
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781742981291

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The Bibliography of Australasian Judaica 1788-2008 by Serge Liberman Pdf

This bibliography includes all traceable self-contained books, monographs, pamphlets and chapters from books which in some way pertain to Jews in Australia and New Zealand between 1788 and 2008 Born in Russia in 1942, Serge Liberman came to Australia in 1951, where he now works as a medical practitioner. As author of several short-story collections including On Firmer Shores, A Universe of Clowns, The Life That I Have Led, and The Battered and the Redeemed, he has three times received the Alan Marshall Award and has also been a recipient of the NSW Premier's Literary Award. In addition, he is compiler of two previous editions of A Bibliography of Australian Judaica. Several of his titles have been set as study texts in Australian and British high schools and universities. His literary work has been widely published; he has been Editor and Literary Editor of several respected journals and has contributed to many other publications.