Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Outside Country : Histories of Inland Australia
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'While most Australians now live in the major cities on the coast, much of the country's wealth is still derived from the interior, a vast area of scattered and often remote communities, mining towns and pastoral homesteads all linked by what historian J.W. McCarty called the Inland Corridor.'

'Culturally too the interior looms large: in Australians' imaginings, in tourism campaigns, and in the arts and media. But despite this, to most it remains an enigma, an emptiness whose distant rural communities and their populations are the subjects of stubborn misperceptions.'

'Outside Country makes an invaluable contribution to the rethinking of inland Australia. Through essays that mix the broad sweep of history with personal perspectives drawn from diaries, letters, oral histories and literature, it examines the rich and varied social, cultural and environmental histories of regions that continue to play a crucial role in the ongoing development of the Australian nation.' (Source: publishers website)

Notes

  • This work is divided into 3 parts:

    Part 1 - Ecologies

    Part 2 - Footprints

    Part 3 - On the Margins of a Good Life

Contents

* Contents derived from the Kent Town, Norwood, Payneham & St Peters area, Adelaide - North / North East, Adelaide, South Australia,:Wakefield Press , 2011 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Outside Country, Alan James Christian Mayne , single work criticism (p. 1-11)
The ‘Father of Australian Waters’ : The Kangaroo Islanders , Paving the Way , Magic of Dawn and All the Rivers Run : (South) Australian Historical Novels of Pioneering and Development Along the Murray-Darling River System, Rick Hosking , single work non-fiction (p. 11-17)
Poison Plots and Prickly Pear : Dr Jean White and the Prickly Pear Experimental Station, Dulacca, 1912–1916, Jodi Frawley , single work non-fiction (p. 18-43)
‘The Wattles are in Bloom ... Crops are Looking Wonderfully Well’ : Settler Women in the Victorian Mallee, 1920s–30s, Ruth Ford , single work non-fiction (p. 44-63)
Reclaiming Cultural Flows : Aboriginal People, Settlers & the Darling River, Heather Goodall , single work non-fiction (p. 64-95)
Flows and Frictions, Alan James Christian Mayne , single work non-fiction (p. 127-134)
Richard Pope : A Miner's Life in the Inland Corridor, Charles Fahey , single work biography (p. 135-158)
The Railway Corridors, Lionel Frost , single work non-fiction (p. 159-176)
Mobile Lives, Jenny Gregory , single work non-fiction (p. 177-198)
Traversing the Margins, Connecting Worlds, Raelene Frances , single work non-fiction (p. 199-224)
Making a Life, Alan James Christian Mayne , single work non-fiction (p. 225-230)
‘A Splendid Place for a Home’ : A Long History of the Australian Family Farm 1830–2000, Charles Fahey , single work non-fiction (p. 231-266)
Culturally Mapping the Cradle Valley : Tasmanian Outback Landscapes and Sustainable Communities in the Present Day, Keir Reeves , Christopher MacDonald , single work non-fiction (p. 267-286)
Living on the Margins at Cummeragunja Aboriginal Reserve, Fiona Davis , Patricia Grimshaw , single work non-fiction (p. 287-310)
The Margin as a Centre : Memory and Identity in Broken Hill and Mount Isa, Erik Eklund , single work non-fiction (p. 311-330)
Afterword, Stephen Atkinson , single work non-fiction (p. 331-344)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Kent Town, Norwood, Payneham & St Peters area, Adelaide - North / North East, Adelaide, South Australia,: Wakefield Press , 2011 .
      Extent: 349p.
      Description: illus., map
      Note/s:
      • Includes index
      ISBN: 9781862549609 pbk

Works about this Work

[Review] : Outside Country : Histories of Inland Australia Rani Kerin , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , January vol. 36 no. 2012; (p. 215-216)

— Review of Outside Country : Histories of Inland Australia 2011 anthology non-fiction
[Review] : Outside Country : Histories of Inland Australia Rani Kerin , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Aboriginal History , January vol. 36 no. 2012; (p. 215-216)

— Review of Outside Country : Histories of Inland Australia 2011 anthology non-fiction
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