Thinking the antipodes
Subtitle: Australian essays
By: Peter Beilharz
Publisher: Monash University Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Clayton, Victoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781922235558
Subjects: Culture; Philosophy; Civilization; Social sciences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: part one: Themes : Australian civilisation and its discontents (2001); title: Tocqueville in the antipodes? Middling through in Australia, then and now (2001); title: Australia: the unhappy country, or, a tale of two nations (2005); title: Two new Britannias: modernism and modernity across the antipodes (2006); title: Nations and natiionalism : Australia and New Zealand (2007); title: Australia and New Zealand: looking backward, looking forward and the parting of ways (2007); title: Australian settlements (2008); title: Elegies of Australian communism (1989); title: Revisioning labor? (1996); title: part two: Thinkers : John Anderson: John Anderson and the syndicalist moment (1993); title: Herbert Vere Evatt: the young Evatt- labor's new liberal (1993); title: Vere Gordon Childe : Vere Gordon Childe and social theory (1995); title: Bernard Smith: Bernard Smith; title: imagining the antipodes (1994); title: On the importance of being antipodean and the consistency of being Bernard (1996); title: Place, taste and identity: thinking through the work of Bernard Smith (1996); title: The portrait of the art historian as a young man (2002); title: Bernard Smith: taking a distance (2013); title: Robert Hughes : Robert Hughes and the provincialism problem (2006); title: Placing Robert Hughes: a promissory note (2013); title: George Seddon and Karl Marx; title: nature and second nature (2003); title: Hugh Stretton : Hugh Stretton; title: social democracy in Australia (1994); title: Jean Martin : Jean Craig and the factory girls: Jean Martin's industrial sociology, 1947-50 (2008); title: Miss Craig goes to Chicago: Jean Martin finds Australian sociology (2009); title: Peter Carey : from sociology to culture, via media; title: Some thoughts from the antipodes (2009).