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