AUSTRALIA'S EMPIRE by Deryck Schreuder, Stuart Ward ( 9780199563739 )

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AUSTRALIA'S EMPIRE

By:

Deryck Schreuder, Stuart Ward

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019956373X

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Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

7 January, 2010

Series:

Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series

Pages:

440

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Australia's Empire is the first collaborative evaluation of Australia's imperial experience in more than a generation. Bringing together poltical, cultural, and aboriginal understandings of the past, it argues that the legacies of empire continue to influence the fabric of modern Australian society.

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This is the first major collaborative reappraisal of Australia's experience of empire since the end of the British Empire itself. The volume examines the meaning and importance of empire in Australia across a broad spectrum of historical issues-ranging from the disinheritance of the Aborigines to the foundations of a new democratic state. The overriding theme is the distinctive Australian perspective on empire. The country's adherence to imperial ideals and aspirations involved not merely the building of a 'new Britannia' but also the forging of a distinctive new culture and society. It was Australian interests and aspirations which ultimately shaped 'Australia's Empire'. While modern Australians have often played down the significance of their British imperial past, the contributors to this book argue that the legacies of empire continue to influence the temper and texture of Australian society today.

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