Outside Country
Histories of Inland Australia
$40.40
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
14 August 2011
Summary
While most Australians now live in the major cities on the coast, much of the country’s wealth is still derived from the interior, a vast area of scattered and often remote communities, mining towns and pastoral homesteads all linked by what historian J.W. McCarty called the Inland Corridor.Culturally too the interior looms large: in Australians’ imaginings, in tourism campaigns, and in the arts and media. But despite this, to most it remains an enigma, an emptiness whose distant rural commun…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781862549609 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1862549605 |
| Author: | Alan Mayne, Stephen Atkinson |
| Publisher: | Wakefield Press |
| Imprint: | Wakefield Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 14 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 420g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 160mm |
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About The Author
Alan Mayne
Alan Mayne holds a ResearchSA Chair at the University of South Australia, where he is Professor of Social History in the David Unaipon College of Indigenous Education and Research, and the Hawke Research Institute. He holds a PhD (1980) from the Australian National University and worked until 2005 at the University of Melbourne. He has also been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Washington DC, a Senior Fulbright scholar at Boston and Berkeley, and a visiting Professorial Fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. His core interests relate to social equity and sustainability.
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