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Title Memory and history in twentieth-century Australia / edited by Kate Darian-Smith and Paula Hamilton
Published Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1994
©1994

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Description viii, 255 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Contents The knife edge: debates about memory and history / Paula Hamilton -- Histories and collecting: museums, objects and memories / Chris Healy -- Colonialism and catastrophe: contested memories of nuclear testing and measles epidemics at Ernabella / Heather Goodall -- The masked disease: oral history, memory and the influenza pandemic 1918-19 / Lucy Taksa -- Skeletons of empire: Australians and the Burma-Thailand Railway / Annette Hamilton -- 'Vietnam': public memory of an anti-war movement / Ann Curthoys -- War stories: remembering the Australian home front during the Second World War / Kate Darian-Smith -- Embattled manhood: gender, memory and the Anzac legend / Alistair Thomson -- Suburban houses revisited / Jean Duruz -- Bonegilla and migrant dreaming / Glenda Sluga -- City of the future, city with a past: memories of Elizabeth / Mark Peel -- Women's travel narratives of the 1950s / Jeannie Douglass
Summary Examines the relationship between memory, history and the competing narratives of identity, place and gender in Australian society. The study is a window on the Australian past, demonstrating the centrality of memory to the writing of history
Analysis Australia
Historiography
Australia
Historiography
Notes CIP confirmed
Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 243-247
Subject Australia. Department of Immigration. Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre
Historiography -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
Historiography -- Australia -- 20th century.
Historiography -- Australia.
History -- Philosophy.
Immigrants -- Australia -- Victoria -- Bonegilla -- History
Oral history -- Australia.
Oral history.
Refugee camps -- Australia -- Victoria -- Bonegilla
SUBJECT Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Historiography http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046
Australia -- History -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009594 -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006046
Australia -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009594
Australia -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
Author Darian-Smith, Kate.
Hamilton, Paula, 1951-
LC no. 94217340
ISBN 0195535693 ($24.95)
Other Titles Memory & history in twentieth-century Australia
Memory & history in twentieth-century Australia