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Inventing Australia by Richard White

'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 an especially Australian reality, grow out of assumptions about nature, race, class, democracy, sex and empire, and are 'invented' to serve the interests of particular groups.

There have been many books about Australia's national identity; this is the first to place the discussion within an historical context to explain how Australians' views of themselves change and why these views change in the way they do.

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Richard White is a young historian with a particular interest in the development of a distinctive Australian culture. He has written on the 'Australian way of life' and on 'Americanisation' and popular culture.
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ISBN 13 9780868610351
ISBN 10 0868610356
Title Inventing Australia
Author Richard White
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Year published 1981-10-01
Number of pages 216
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.