Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 [Review] Migrant Nation: Australian Culture, Society and Identity
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'In his introduction to this edited book, Paul Longley Arthur notes that the public image of Australian egalitarianism is at odds with the nation's internal experience and policies, historically, and in the present. It would be unproductive, he writes, to attempt to present a case for ‘what we are’ or for the past ‘as it really was’ (2). Instead, stories of previously obscured or hidden lives shine a new light on the complexities of Australian (and other) identities, cultural experiences, society and history, working the ‘gap between image and experience’ (2). In a country obsessed with national navel-gazing, this is the type of national self-examination worth engaging in, he argues.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Historical Studies vol. 50 no. 2 2019 16839290 2019 periodical issue

    'We are thrilled to present our second issue of Australian Historical Studies for 2019. Here we bring together a series of methodologically innovative and interdisciplinary pieces that explore seeing and hearing in history. The first article, by Andrew Hurley, explores the nexus between hearing and emotion in the history of Australian exploration. Where scholars have hitherto posited silence and emptiness as key parts of explorer narratives (parts that did clear colonial work), Hurley tells a more complicated story about one very keen listener’s multivalent engagement with the Australian outback. Ludwig Leichhardt’s detailed diaries suggest an only partly recorded, but very rich engagement with soundscapes in Australia.' (Lisa Ford and David A. Roberts, History in Sight and Sound, editorial introduction)

    2019
    pg. 275-276
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