Germans
Travellers, Settlers and Their Descendants in South Australia
$45.74
- Paperback
472 pages
- Release Date
25 March 2011
Summary
From Beehive Corner and Bert Flugelman’s polished balls in Rundle Mall to the vineyards, churches and cemeteries of the Barossa Valley, tangible signs of South Australia’s Germans are everywhere to be seen. Too often, however, ‘the Germans’ are regarded as a single group in the state’s history. The truth is more complex and intriguing.Those who came during the colony’s first decades mostly spoke a common language, but were divided by differences of country, culture and class. They were farmer…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781862549111 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1862549117 |
| Author: | Peter Monteath |
| Publisher: | Wakefield Press |
| Imprint: | Wakefield Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 472 |
| Release Date: | 25 March 2011 |
| Weight: | 810g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 160mm |
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About The Author
Peter Monteath
Peter Monteath, a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, teaches History in the School of International Studies at Flinders University, Adelaide. His recent books include POW: Australian prisoners of war in Hitler’s Reich, Red Professor: The Cold War life of Fred Rose (with Valerie Munt), Interned: Torrens Island 1914-1915 (with Mandy Paul and Rebecca Martin), and the edited collection Germans: Travellers, settlers and their descendants in South Australia.
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