The Whig View Of Australian History And Other Essays

Author : Allan William Martin
Publisher : Academic Monographs
ISBN 13 : 0522853889
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 'Whig' View of Australian History and Other Essays written by Allan William Martin and published by Academic Monographs. This book was released on 2007 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes essays on topics such as federation and nationalism, the middle class in the 1950s, the first Vietnamese refugees, as well as all the essays on Robert Menzies that Martin wrote while writing Menzies' biography.

Author : M. Taylor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137392592
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Asa written by M. Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asa Briggs has been a prominent figure in post-war cultural life - as a pioneering historian, a far-sighted educational reformer, and a sensitive chronicler of the way in which broadcasting and communication more generally have shaped modern society. He has also been a devoted servant of the public good, involved in many inquiries, boards and trusts. Yet few accounts of public life in Britain since the Second World War include a discussion or appreciation of his influential role. This collection of essays provides the first critical assessment of Asa Briggs' career, using fresh research and new perspectives to analyse his contribution and impact on scholarship, the expansion of higher education at home and overseas, and his support and leadership for the arts and media more generally. The online bibliography of Asa Briggs' publications which accompanies the book is available on the The Institute of Historical Research website here.

Author : William Coleman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191067563
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Only in Australia written by William Coleman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume is about the Australian difference and how Australia's economic and social policy has diverged from the approach of other countries. Australia seems to be following a 'special path' of its own that it laid down more than a century ago. Australia's distinctive bent is manifested in a tightly regulated labour market; a heavy reliance on means testing and income taxation; a geographical centralization of political power combined with its dispersal amongst autonomous authorities, and electoral singularities such as compulsory and preferential voting. In seeking to explain this Australian Exceptionalism, the book covers a diverse range of issues: the strength and weakness of religion, democratic and undemocratic tendencies, the poverty of public debate, the role of elites, the exploitation of Australian sports stars, the politics of railways, the backwardness of agriculture, deviation from the Westminster system, the original encounter between European and Aboriginal cultures, and the heavy taxation of tobacco. Bringing together contributions from economists, economic historians, and political scientists, the volume seeks to understand why Australia is different. It offers a range of explanations from the 'historical legacy', to material factors, historical chance, and personalities.

Author : R. Rhodes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023029684X
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Australian Study of Politics written by R. Rhodes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-11 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Australian Study of Politics provides the first comprehensive reference book on the history of the study of politics in Australia, whether described as political studies or political science. It focuses on Australia and on developments since WWII, also exploring the historical roots of each major subfield.

Author : Stephen Wilks
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 176046368X
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ‘Now is the Psychological Moment’ written by Stephen Wilks and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earle Christmas Grafton Page (1880–1961) – surgeon, Country Party leader, treasurer and prime minister – was perhaps the most extraordinary visionary to hold high public office in twentieth-century Australia. Over decades, he made determined efforts to seize ‘the psychological moment’, and thereby realise his vision of a decentralised, regionalised and rationally ordered nation. Page’s unique dreaming of a very different Australia encompassed new states, hydroelectricity, economic planning, cooperative federalism and rural universities. His story casts light on the wider place in history of visions of national development. He was Australia’s most important advocate of developmentalism, the important yet little-studied stream of thought that assumes that governments can lead the nation to realise its economic potential. His audacious synthesis of ideas delineated and stretched the Australian political imagination. Page’s rich career confirms that Australia has long inspired popular ideals of national development, but also suggests that their practical implementation was increasingly challenged during the twentieth century. Effervescent, intelligent and somewhat eccentric, Page was one of Australia’s great optimists. Few Australian leaders who stood for so much have since been so neglected.

Author : Elleke Boehmer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319513346
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Global Histories of Books written by Elleke Boehmer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an edited volume of essays that showcases how books played a crucial role in making and materialising histories of travel, scientific exchanges, translation, and global markets from the late-eighteenth century to the present. While existing book historical practice is overly dependent on models of the local and the national, we suggest that approaching the book as a cross-region, travelling – and therefore global- object offers new approaches and methodologies for a study in global perspective. By thus studying the book in its transnational and inter-imperial, textual, inter-textual and material dimensions, this collection will highlight its key role in making possible a global imagination, shaped by networks of print material, readers, publishers and translators.

Author : Jennifer Joan Baldwin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303005795X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Languages other than English in Australian Higher Education written by Jennifer Joan Baldwin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book researches the study of languages other than English, and their place in the Australian tertiary sector. Languages are discussed in the context of the histories of Australian universities, and the series of reports and surveys about languages across the second half of the twentieth century. It demonstrates how changes in the ethnic mix of society are reflected in language offerings, and how policies on languages have changed as a result of societal influences. Also discussed is the extent to which influencing factors changed over time depending on social, cultural, political and economic contexts, and the extent to which governments prioritised the promotion and funding of languages because of their perceived contribution to the national interest. The book will give readers an understanding as to whether languages have mattered to Australia in a national and international sense and how Australia’s attention to languages has been reflected in its identity and its sense of place in the world.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of Australian Colonial History written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Hirst
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459602617
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking for Australia written by John Hirst and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the qualities at the heart of Australian culture? How did they arise? What distinguishes us from other nations beyond a fondness for calling each other 'mate'? And what do such national quirks reveal about our society' our past and our attitudes towards it? Looking for Australia is a fascinating collection of essays by historian John Hirst. Together they form a multi - faceted portrait of Australia as a distinctive nation' with its own political culture' character and style' and particular ways of seeing itself. Among other subjects' Hirst considers the effects of convict origins on national character' what drove the bushrangers to their daring deeds' and why Australia has compulsory voting. He examines whether Aborigines played a part in the origins of Australian Rules football' and asks whether Curtin was indeed our greatest prime minister. He discusses how best to tell Australia's history' and' after reflecting on our past as a British dependency' makes a stirring case for a future' fully independent republic.

Author : Mark McKenna
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1743820372
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quarterly Essay 69 Moment of Truth written by Mark McKenna and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia is on the brink of momentous change, but only if its citizens and politicians can come to new terms with the past. In this inspiring essay, Mark McKenna considers the role of history in making and unmaking the nation. From Captain Cook to the frontier wars, from Australia Day to the Uluru Statement, we are seeing fresh debates and recognitions. McKenna argues that it is time to move beyond the history wars, and that truth-telling about the past will be liberating and healing. This is an urgent essay about a nation’s moment of truth. ‘The time for pitting white against black, shame against pride, and one people’s history against another’s, has had its day. After nearly fifty years of deeply divisive debates over the country’s foundation and its legacy for Indigenous Australians, Australia stands at a crossroads – we either make the commonwealth stronger and more complete through an honest reckoning with the past, or we unmake the nation by clinging to triumphant narratives in which the violence inherent in the nation’s foundation is trivialised.’ —Mark McKenna, Moment of Truth