Observing Australia by Ken Inglis - ISBN: 9780522848663
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A collection of pieces by Australian historian Ken Inglis, covering the years 1959-1999. It reflects the breadth of Inglis’s interests: the making and remaking of national identity, war, memory and ritual; the lives of colleagues such as Manning Clark; and religion and multiculturalism.

Observing Australia

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  • Paperback

    280 pages

  • Release Date

    14 November 1995

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Summary

Ken Inglis is one of Australia’s most admired and warmly regarded historians. Written with style and wit, Observing Australia is a collection of his short pieces.Ken Inglis is one of Australia’s most admired and warmly regarded historians. For forty years he has looked with a sharp but sympathetic eye at how we came to be who we are.Written with style and wit, Observing Australia is a collection of his short pieces. They come from many sources, for Inglis’s engagement in our continuing conver…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780522848663
ISBN-10:0522848664
Author:Ken Inglis
Publisher:Melbourne University Press
Imprint:Melbourne University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:280
Edition:1st
Release Date:14 November 1995
Weight:422g
Dimensions:215mm x 140mm x 15mm
About The Author

Ken Inglis

Ken Inglis is a visiting fellow at the Australian National University. He has been a Professor of History at the ANU and at the University of Papua New Guinea. Craig Wilcox, a former student of Inglis’s, was a Fellow at the Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at the University of London when he edited this book, wrote its introduction, and compiled its comprehensive bibliography of Inglis’s writing.About the editor- Craig Wilcox is a historian who is currently writing a history of Australia’s part in the Boer war. He studied history at the University of New South Wales and at the Australian National University, where he wrote a doctoral thesis partly under the supervision of Ken Inglis. His first book, For hearths and homes- citizen soldiering in Australia 1854-1945 was published in 1998.

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