Australia's Empire is the first collaborative evaluation of Australia's imperial experience in more than a generation. Bringing together poltical, cultural, and aboriginal understandings of the past, it argues that the legacies of empire continue to influence the fabric of modern Australian society. INDICE: Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward: Introduction: What Became of Australia's Empire?; Part I Contact: The projection of empire; 1: Hobbles Danaiyarri: The Saga of Captain Cook; 2: Alan Atkinson: Conquest; 3: Richard Waterhouse: Settling the Land; 4: Ann Curthoys: Indigenous Subjects; 5: Anne Gray: New Visions from Old: Art and the Environment; Part II Dynamics: The instruments of empire; 6: John Hirst: Empire, State, Nation; 7: Eric Richards: Migrations: The Career of White British Australia; 8: Hilary M. Carey: Religion andSociety; 9: Geoffrey Bolton: Money: Trade, Investment and Economic Nationalism; 10: Stuart Ward: Security: Defending Australia's Empire; Part III Cultures:An imagined empire; 11: Mark McKenna: Monarchy: From Reverence to Indifference; 12: Joy Damousi: War and Commemoration: The Responsibility of Empire; 13: Angela Woollacott: Gender and Sexuality; 14: Richard White and Hsu-Ming Teo: Popular Culture; 15: Neville Meaney: In History's Page: Identity and Myth; Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward: Epilogue: After Empire
- ISBN: 978-0-19-956373-9
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 440
- Fecha Publicación: 07/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés