51st State? (Scribe Short Books)
Publisher: Scribe Publications Pty Ltd.
Published: October 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781920769987
Subjects: Political Science; Sociology; Politics/International Relations; Australia & New Zealand - General; General; Government - International; Political Science / Government / International; 1945-; American influences; Australia; Civilization; Political culture; Politics and government
Description: "Australian prime ministers since Harold Holt have all fostered close relationships with the United States, but John Howard has initiated economic and military policies that have bound the two countries even tighter. As a result, many Australians now believe that not only our sovereignty but also our very identity as a nation is under threat, and that we are fast becoming America's 51st state." "In this meditation on Australian identity, Dennis Altman suggests that the tendency to attribute malign American influence to everything we dislike about the contemporary world is the flipside of seeing the US as the only model worthy of emulation, and serves to conceal the deeper questions we face - namely, how does Australia imagine its future?"--BOOK JACKET.