Sacred places
Subtitle: war memorials in the Australian landscape
By: K.S. Inglis assisted by Jan Brazier.
Contributors: Brazier, Jan.
Publisher: Miegunyah Press at Melbourne University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Carlton, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
Subjects: War memorials -- Australia.
First sentence: The Shrine of Remembrance was a new and mysterious presence in the Melbourne of my childhood. Rising from a mound in the Domain, just south of the city, the building proclaimed itself the most important object in the landscape. The king's son, the Duke of Gloucester, dedicated the Shrine on 11 November, Armistice Day, 1934, when I was five, at a ceremony timed to coincide with the city's centenary celebrations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"First published 1998; reprinted (with corrections) 1999"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Holy Ground
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: Colonial Monuments
pagenum: 12; title: Memorials ancient and modern
pagenum: 12; title: A privilege for posterity
pagenum: 14; title: Civil conflicts
pagenum: 18; title: Statues
pagenum: 26; title: No shrine
pagenum: 31; label: 2
title: Soldiers of the Queen
pagenum: 39; title: Distant graves
pagenum: 39