Inventing Australia

by Richard White

Book Overview

'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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0868610356
• ISBN13: 9780868610351
• Release Date: October 1981
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"