Observing Australia

1959-1999

By: Ken Inglis

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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 conversation about Australian life has always been expressed through the mainstream press as well as in scholarly journals and his books. Of those books, The Stuart Case related how the life of an Aboriginal man, wrongly condemned to death, was saved, while Australian Colonists set a new path for Australian social history. Later came Inglis's penetrating history of the ABC, and his role as a creator of the massive bicentennial history Australians: A Historical Library, and his recent multi-award-winning Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape. This collection reflects the breadth of Inglis's interests: the making and remaking of Australian nationality, war, memory and ritual; the lives of colleagues such as Manning Clark and Stephen Murray-Smith; religion, multiculturalism, and finding the right word.

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History Australasian & Pacific History Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Post War 20th Century History after 1945 Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History Biographies & True Stories Biographies Historical, Political and Military Biographies

A vernacular intellectual	p. 1
Acknowledgements	p. 18
Abbreviations	p. 20
Billy Graham in Australia	p. 22
The Stuart case	p. 48
Anzac, the substitute religion	p. 61
Diggers in antiquity	p. 71
Australia Day	p. 81
Monuments and ceremonies as evidence for historians	p. 115
The ABC as history	p. 134
Visions of Australian history	p. 151
Planning a bicentennial history	p. 174
Multiculturalism and national identity	p. 186
Remembering Manning Clark	p. 219
Right words	p. 231
A bibliography of K. S. Inglis's writings	p. 251
Index	p. 259
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