How a Continent Created a Nation
by Robin, LibbyFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-02-01
Publisher(s): University of New South Wales Press
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Summary
The Australians who have arrived since 1788 have mainly come from places that bear little resemblance to their new home: places without deserts, with regular seasons, with flowing rivers and lush plains. How has this unique, ancient land helped to develop a distinctive national identity in Australia? What is the influence of the natural world on the Australian national identity forged since 1901?
Author Biography
Libby Robin works as an environmental historian in the interdisciplinary Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Prologue: Beyond the biological cringe? | p. 1 |
| Nature for citizenship | p. 11 |
| Strange nature | p. 31 |
| Unnatural economy | p. 56 |
| Collecting the nation | p. 75 |
| Desert nationalism | p. 99 |
| The empty North | p. 123 |
| Sustaining the exceptional | p. 152 |
| Home truths | p. 183 |
| Epilogue: A natural nation? | p. 213 |
| Notes | p. 219 |
| Select Bibliography | p. 233 |
| Index | p. 244 |
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