Radical Sydney, 9781742230931
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Discover Sydney’s hidden history: rebellion, dissent, and radical action unleashed.

Radical Sydney

Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes

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  • Paperback

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    1 June 2010

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Summary

Sydney: a beautiful international city with impressive buildings, harbour-side walkways, public gardens, cafes, restaurants, theatres and hotels. This is the way Sydney is represented to its citizens and to the rest of the world. But there has always been another Sydney not viewed so fondly by the city’s rulers, a radical part of Sydney. The working-class suburbs to the south and west of the city were large and explosive places of marginalised ideas, bohemian neighbourhoods, dissident politic…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781742230931
ISBN-10:1742230938
Author:Rowan Cahill, Terry Irving
Publisher:NewSouth Publishing
Imprint:NewSouth Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:1 June 2010
Weight:635g
Dimensions:234mm x 153mm
About The Author

Rowan Cahill

Rowan Cahill is a tutor at the University of Wollongong in Australia. He is the coauthor of History of the Seamen’s Union of Australia, 1872-1972 and Twentieth Century Australia: Conflict and Consensus and the coeditor of A Turbulent Decade: Social Protest Movements and the Labour Movement, 1965-1975.

Terry Irving is a visiting professorial fellow at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of The Southern Tree of Liberty and the coauthor of Childe and Australia: Archaeology, Politics and Ideas and Places, Protests, and Memorabilia: The Labour Heritage Register of New South Wales.

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