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| Title: Australians In Britain |
| Sub-title: The Twentieth-Century Experience |
| Edited by: Carl Bridge, Robert Crawford, David Dunstan |
| ISBN10-13: 0980464862 : 9780980464863 |
| Much is known about British migration to Australia and something is known of British communities in Australia, but knowledge, particularly quantitative, of Australian migration to Britain is very sketchy. The phenomenon has been acknowledged but little explored. There are a number of important studies of significant Australians in the UK, and there has been recent research on the current Australian diaspora, but there is no study of the overall Australian presence, its constituents or its characteristics, in Britain. Developments in this field of research offer an important window on how Australians have related to the â British worldâ historically and on the dynamic nature of the contemporary relationship. Australians in Britain is an edited collection of papers of international research on the character and experience of overseas Australians and Australian communities in Britain since c.1901. It offers a comprehensive overview of current scholarship in this exciting, new and developing field of inquiry. This book has a contemporary focus, drawing on both recent and historical experiences with a view to understanding continuing trends â such as the consistent preponderance of women and the recent surge in young professionals travelling to Britain â and issues such as expatriation, imperialism, globalisation, national identity and overseas citizenship. This book will appeal to scholars of Australian Studies, History, Demography, Literary and Cultural Studies, and Tourism. With an emphasis on London, Australians in Britain explores a range of subject matter including: artists, literary intellectuals, students, women, tourists and travellers, servicemen, nurses, teachers and journalists; global professionals; the changing community; demographic trends; migration; links between Australia and Britain; Australian newspapers in London; and Australia in the â British worldâ . |
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Pages: 256
Size: 245x165mm
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| Published: Monash University ePress - August 2009 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Migration, immigration & emigration |
| List Price: 30.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
| Title: 1 of: 9 |
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| Title: Complicated Currents |
| Sub-title: Media Flows, Soft Power and East Asia |
| Edited by: Daniel Black, Stephen Epstein, Alison Tokita |
| ISBN10-13: 0980464889 : 9780980464887 |
| East Asia is a powerhouse of economic and social development, with cultural industries that have burgeoned as countries in the region have generated consumer economies and a middle class. Despite ongoing security tensions, growing evidence suggests that a vigorous cultural trade in such commodities as comics, cinema and TV drama is creating a shared regional popular culture. The widespread diffusion of the Internet, and the concomitant rise of non-professional online publishing and social networking, is creating new communities among the consumers of these cultural commodities. Rivalry for leadership in the sphere of the culture industries provides a fertile field for the study of soft market power versus hard political power. The competing national discourses of the â Korean Waveâ (hallyu) and Japanâ s â Gross National Coolâ indicate a struggle for new forms of influence in the East Asian region, a struggle that is becoming more intense as China, too, starts to exert soft power influence on a global scale in the form of cultural industries and foreign aid. This volume addresses transnational production and consumption of media products such as cinema, television dramas, popular music, comics and animation in Japan, South Korea and China. Its multidisciplinary approaches include Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Media Studies, and a content analysis of the popular discourse of otherness in the East Asian context. While suggesting the emergence of a shared East Asian popular consumer culture, it critically examines the proposition that such a shared popular culture can resolve tensions between nation-states, and highlights the appropriation of popular culture by nation-states in an attempt to exercise soft power. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students in Asian Studies, Cultural Studies and Media Studies, and will be particularly useful to researchers in the emerging area of intra-Asian Cultural Studies. |
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Pages: 244
Size: 245x165mm
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| Published: Monash University ePress - May 2010 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Media studies |
| List Price: 30.00 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 2 of: 9 |
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| Title: Drawing the Line |
| Sub-title: Using Cartoons as Historical Evidence |
| Edited by: Marian Quartly, Richard Scully |
| ISBN10-13: 0980464846 : 9780980464849 |
| Drawing the Line: Using Cartoons as Historical Evidence brings together essays from international scholars working with cartoons in their research and teaching. It is a showcase for some of the best recent scholarship in this field, with articles exploring racial and ethnic stereotypes, as well as representations of youth, gender and class across a number of key historical epochs. Cartoons are among the most vivid and familiar images of past politics and opinion, but tend to be used merely as â illustrationsâ for historical works. Drawing the Line, however, provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of cartoons as sources in their own right. The British Regency Crisis, post-Civil War US politics, Anglo-Iraqi interaction in the Second World War, and Yugoslav Communist propaganda are just some of the themes through which the effective use of cartoons in historical writing is explored. Readers will also find guidance and suggestions for further research on cartoons in the extensive introductory and concluding sections. The book includes more than one hundred examples of the most brilliant cartoon art of the past, from eighteenth-century satirical prints, to the formalised satire of Punch, to the new and ever-evolving medium of webcomics. It will be an essential resource for students and teachers wanting to explore visual representations of the past, and will appeal to all readers interested in innovative ways of writing history. |
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Pages: 272
Size: 245x165mm
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| Published: Monash University ePress - June 2009 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: History of art / art & design styles |
| List Price: 33.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 3 of: 9 |
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| Title: Learning Discourses and the Discourses of Learning |
| Edited by: Helen Marriott, Tim Moore, Robyn Spence-Brown |
| ISBN10-13: 0980361648 : 9780980361643 |
| Learning Discourses and the Discourses of Learning is an edited collection of papers exploring issues of teaching and learning in academic settings. The key theme of the volume is â discoursesâ â especially as these relate to institutional policies, disciplinary practices and studentsâ processes of learning in the academy. Particular attention is paid to the experiences of second-language students studying at Australian universities as well as those learning foreign languages in Australia. Employing a variety of methodologies and theoretical perspectives, the papers in Learning Discourses are unified by a focus on rich and socially situated empirical data. The book addresses issues highly pertinent to the dynamic character of contemporary higher education in Australia, one dominated by trends towards the internationalisation and professionalisation of university programs, and the growing intercultural nature of social and academic interactions. |
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Pages: 288
Size: 165x245mm
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| Published: Monash University ePress - November 2007 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Higher & further education, tertiary education |
| List Price: 33.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 4 of: 9 |
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| Title: No Way To Go |
| Sub-title: Transport and Social Disadvantage in Australian Communities |
| Edited by: Graham Currie, Janet Stanley, John Stanley |
| ISBN10-13: 0980361621 : 9780980361629 |
| Urban sprawl and sparse living are pervasive in Australia. Despite high levels of car ownership, many Australians do not have access to a private car for their travel needs. These people, often from marginalised groups in society such as young people, those on low incomes, older people, indigenous Australians and those with disabilities, face difficulties accessing services, facilities and activities. What are the personal and social costs of lack of access to transport on individual and community well-being? How, and to what extent, do poor transport options contribute to disadvantage? |
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Pages: 232
Size: 245x165mm
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| Published: Monash University ePress - September 2007 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Transport: general interest |
| List Price: 26.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 5 of: 9 |
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| Title: Orb and Sceptre |
| Sub-title: Studies in British Imperialism and Its Legacies, in Honour of Norman Etherington |
| Edited by: Peter Limb |
| ISBN10-13: 0980361664 : 9780980361667 |
| Orb and Sceptre brings together recent cutting-edge work on British imperialism by Australian researchers closely associated with Norman Etherington, one of Australiaâ s most eminent scholars in this field. Orb and Sceptre reflects the trajectory of British Empire history in the academy over the last forty years. Demands for new nationalist histories for decolonised territories have combined with renewed attention to the role of the periphery in the making and unmaking of empires. This has formed an explosive mix that has blown apart traditional conceptions of Empire and Commonwealth history. The colonial construction of knowledge is a principal theme in Orb and Sceptre. Former colonies and dependencies looked to a fresh generation of historians to write their histories, generally conceived as grand narratives of escape from imperial shackles. At the same time, a new wave of scholars influenced by feminism, neo-Marxism, dependency theory and postcolonialism laid the groundwork for a renaissance in Empire and Commonwealth history. These historians have been rediscovering the links that continue to connect former colonies to their imperial pasts. |
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| Introduction; Educating Govind Singh: "Princely character" & the failure of indirect rule in colonial India; Shepstone in love: The other Victorian in an African colonial administrator; The irregular progress of empire: Lord Chelmsford & the Zulu War; Tethered antipodes: Imperial impress in central Perth, Western Australia; King Shaka, the diviners & colonialism; George McCall Theal & South African history textbooks: Enduring influence of settler historiography in descriptions of the fifth ''Frontier War'' 1818-19; The subaltern's orb & sceptre: Early ANC leaders & the British World; Disturbing & most poisonous agitations'': Henry Parkes, Populism & the Usurpation of Law in New South Wales, 1888; The business of empire: The Fujian tea industry & trade through the eyes of Jardine, Matheson & Co., 1928-39; Little worlds: Australian zoological gardens; "My empire, not merely yours": Australian conservatives & their imperial worlds; Till death do us part? Commercial TV, changing family values & Queen Elizabeth II's Commonwealth; Norman Etherington: A bibliography of publications & printed public addresses; Index. |
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Pages: 296
Size: 245x165mm
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| Published: Monash University ePress - July 2008 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: History |
| List Price: 33.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 6 of: 9 |
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| Title: Seize The Day: Exhibitions |
| Sub-title: Exhibitions, Australia and the World |
| Edited by: Kate Darian-Smith, Richard Gillespie, Caroline Jordan, Elizabeth Willis |
| ISBN10-13: 0980464803 : 9780980464801 |
| Australians have always loved a good show, as this new collection of essays demonstrates. The significance of exhibitions goes beyond mere entertainment. From the 1850s to the present, exhibitions have been a marketing tool for Australiaâ s advancements in global trade, migration and tourism. They have also been powerful vehicles for conspicuous consumption, civic progress, social status, and identity â be it local, national or international. This multi-disciplinary collection presents new research on a fascinating variety of exhibitions from nineteenth-century World Fairs to late twentieth-century Expos. Contributors are leading museum professionals and academics from a range of disciplines including art history, the history of design, literary studies, indigenous history, cultural and social history and the history of science. Seize the Day examines the complex role of exhibitions within Australiaâ s cultural, commercial and artistic histories. Exhibitions are dynamic sites for the construction of national identities and international collaborations, the showcasing of collecting and exhibiting practices, and the expression and contestation of race and gender. Detailed case studies explore the many facets of exhibitions â from ethnographic display to artistic competition to intercolonial rivalry â to reveal their politics, personalities and astonishingly rich material culture. As the first book to address the exhibition movement in Australia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Seize the Day will become the standard collection on this topic for years to come. |
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Pages: 372
Size: 245x165mm
Illustrations: b/w illus
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| Published: Monash University ePress - September 2008 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Exhibition catalogues & specific collections |
| List Price: 36.99 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 7 of: 9 |
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| Title: The Spirit Of Secular Art |
| Sub-title: A History of the Sacramental Roots of Contemporary Artistic Values |
| By (author): Robert Nelson |
| ISBN10-13: 0980361605 : 9780980361605 |
| The Spirit of Secular Art: A History of the Sacramental Roots of Contemporary Artistic Values explains the spiritual prestige of art. Various theorists have discussed how art has an aura or indefinable magic. This book explains how, when and why it gained its spiritual properties. The idea that all art is somehow spiritual (even though not religious) is often assumed; this book, while narrating the historical trajectory of art in the most accessible language, reveals how the mysteries of religious practice are abstracted and saved through all stages of secularisation in European culture. The Spirit of Secular Art presents a coherent theory defining the sacred basis of Western aesthetics. It evocatively describes the afterlife of the holy from Ancient Greece to the present, and outlines how the mysterious institution of art can be explained in material terms. Unlike other books in the genre, The Spirit of Secular Art radically deconstructs traditional art history in terms of â prestigeâ and the value of the non-material. The book functions as: an alternative critical history of art, integrated with the histories of literature and belief a philosophical essay on the fundamental values of art and religion a critique of the spiritual conceits of contemporary aesthetics and art appreciation |
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Pages: 204
Size: 234x153mm
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| Published: Monash University ePress - September 2007 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Spirituality & religious experience |
| List Price: 25.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: In Stock
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| Title: 8 of: 9 |
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| Title: Writing Histories |
| Sub-title: Imagination and Narration |
| Edited by: Ann Curthoys, Ann McGrath |
| ISBN10-13: 098046482X : 9780980464825 |
| In a new and updated edition, Writing Histories: Imagination and Narration is a book for anyone wanting to write histories that capture the imagination and challenge the intellect. It aims to show that historical narrative and imagination can work together to produce works of history that are a pleasure to read. Nine historians reflect on their work as writers, exploring some of the most difficult and interesting questions any history-writer faces: how to get started, how to find a â voiceâ , how to enliven a description or a narration, and how to find a worthwhile structure. Contributors also suggest how historians can convey multiple perspectives, â showâ rather than tell, foreground the research process, find inspiration from music, painting and landscape, and use literary techniques such as metaphor. The book will be a useful text for teachers and students in history-writing classes and informal groups. There are suggestions for group exercises, and advice on how to conduct writing workshops. Many historians, however, both students and established writers, will continue to write in relative isolation. This book is also intended for them. This updated edition of Writing Histories has a new introduction written by Ann Curthoys, and an updated bibliography. |
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Pages: 132
Size: 208x145mm
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| Published: Monash University ePress - July 2009 |
| Format: Paperback |
| Subjects: Writing & editing guides : History: theory & methods |
| List Price: 17.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 9 of: 9 |
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