Book description
This is volume 3 number 1 of the History Australia: journal of
the Australian Historical Association. This issue reflects in a
small way the impact of the Sydney 2005 Conference of CISH, and more broadly
that sense current amongst historians in Australia that we are all swimming
in a global ocean.
The papers are as diverse in method as they are in time and space, including
a political history of British volunteers in the Russo-Finnish War, an
investigation of a case of desired transsexuality in an Italian woman in
Sydney in the 1960s, a reading of the national significance vested in
Italian athletes in the 1930s, and a study of style and rhetoric that ranges
from Classical Greece to twentieth century Czechslovakia. It is a fine
example of the world-class work currently being written by Australian
post-graduate students.
The articles include some firmly located in Australian space and time: a
history of gazing, strolling and falling in love on Sydney beaches at the
turn of the twentieth century; and an account of inter-racial co-operation
within the meeting rooms of the Country Women's Association in rural New
South Wales in the 1960s. Others read Australian events and processes
in an international context.
History Australia is also published online by Monash University
ePress.
About the author
Marian Quartly is the editor of History Australia. She is a Professor
in the School of Historical Studies, Faculty of Arts, Monash University,
Melbourne.
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