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Title: |
Australian Lives |
| Sub-title: |
An Intimate History |
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| By (author): |
Anisa Puri, Alistair Thomson |
| ISBN10-13: |
1922235784 : 9781922235787 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
234x153mm |
| Pages: |
448 |
| Weight: |
.000 Kg. |
| Published: |
Monash University Publishing - March 2017 |
| List Price: |
26.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
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| Subjects: |
Memoirs |
| â Life is long. When youâ re forty-eight, thereâ s been a lot of stuff thatâ s happened (laughs). Itâ s got elements of comedy and there are elements of heartache and drama and thriller and itâ s got so many things in it.â Rhonda King, born 1965 â I really like the idea that in maybe a hundred years someone could listen and hear about my life to learn about what living in 2012 or 2013 was like. Think thatâ s really cool.â Adam Farrow-Palmer, born 1988 Australian Lives: An Intimate History illuminates Australian life across the 20th and into the 21st century: how Australian people have been shaped by the forces and expectations of contemporary history and how, in turn, they have made their lives and created Australian society. From oral history interviews with Australians born between 1920 and 1989, fifty narrators reflect on their diverse experiences as children and teenagers, in midlife and in old age, about faith, migration, work and play, aspiration and activism, memory and identity, pain and happiness. In Australian Lives you can read and in the e-version of the book listen to the comedy, heartache and drama of ordinary Australiansâ extraordinary lives. As our interviewee Kim Bear (born 1959) explains, â Stories are a great way to inform people about what it is to be human. Even if you say one thing that resonatesâ ¦ thereâ s that connection made.â |
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“The book’s value for scholars and public historians is unquestionable and will help feed an enormous global appetite for social history and the details of everyday lives being sought by ordinary people thinking historically
Engaging, emotional but also academically rigorous in its production, Australian Lives deserves to reach a wide general audience, in Australia and far beyond. Let’s hope it encourages similar projects in different national contexts so that scholars and others might compare and use this enormously rich data over time.” - Tanya Evans, Macquarie University, The Public Historian, Vol. 40, November 2018, No.4
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