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Thinking the antipodes : Australian essays /
In 1956, Bernard Smith wrote that the people of Australia were migratory birds. This was to become a leading motif of his own thinking, and a significant inspiration for author Peter Beilharz. Beilharz came to argue that the idea of the antipodes made sense less in its geographical form than in its...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Clayton, Victoria :
Monash University Publishing,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Philosophy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Front Cover; Title page; Imprint and copyright information; Contents; A Christmas Letter; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: Being Antipodean; PART ONE: THEMES; Chapter 1 Australian Civilisation and Its Discontents (2001); Chapter 2 Tocqueville in the Antipodes? Middling through in Australia, Then and Now (2001); Chapter 3 Australia: The Unhappy Country, or, a Tale of Two Nations (2005); Chapter 4 Two New Britannias: Modernism and Modernity across the Antipodes (2006); Chapter 5 Nations and Nationalism: Australia and New Zealand (2007).
- Chapter 6 Australia and New Zealand: Looking Backward, Looking Forward and the Parting of Ways (2007)Chapter 7 Australian Settlements (2008); Chapter 8 Elegies of Australian Communism (1989); Chapter 9 Revisioning Labor? (1996); PART TWO: THINKERS; John Anderson; Chapter 10 John Anderson and the Syndicalist Moment (1993); Herbert Vere Evatt; Chapter 11 The Young Evatt
- Labor's New Liberal (1993); Vere Gordon Childe; Chapter 12 Vere Gordon Childe and Social Theory (1995); Bernard Smith; Chapter 13 Bernard Smith
- Imagining the Antipodes (1994).
- Chapter 14 On the Importance of Being Antipodean and the Consistency of Being Bernard (1996)Chapter 15 Place, Taste and Identity: Thinking Through the Work of Bernard Smith (1996); Chapter 16 The Portrait of the Art Historian as a Young Man (2002); Chapter 17 Bernard Smith: Taking a Distance (2013); Robert Hughes; Chapter 18 Robert Hughes and the Provincialism Problem (2006); Chapter 19 Placing Robert Hughes: A Promissory Note(2013); George Seddon ; Chapter 20 George Seddon and Karl Marx
- Nature and Second Nature (2003); Hugh Stretton.
- Chapter 21 Hugh Stretton
- Social Democracy in Australia (1994)Jean Martin; Chapter 22 Jean Craig and the Factory Girls: Jean Martin's Industrial Sociology, 1947-50 (2008); Chapter 23 Miss Craig Goes to Chicago (Jean Martin Finds Australian Sociology) (2009); Peter Carey; Chapter 24 From Sociology to Culture, Via Media
- Some Thoughts from the Antipodes (2009); Back cover.