Australia: A Cultural History

by John M. Rickard

This second edition surveys the dramatic social and cultural shifts occuring amongst Australians as they approach the centenary of federation in 2001. The book explores the way in which a distinctive... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582276055
• ISBN13: 9780582276055
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

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I like this book very much, I am reading it for the second time. It has a well constructed, thematic approach that takes you from pre-European Aboriginal society to late 20th century attempts to be an 'all encompassing' society. It explains how the physical environment shaped the Australian character together with the cultural and historical pull towards Britain and Europe competing with the pull towards America and Asia as it still tries to define itself in the world. One is left feeling that Australia is a rather unique combination of hedonism, tolerance, stability, blandness and infinite possibility.