Australian Cultural History

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Summary

Australian Cultural History is a 1988 text which opens up new ways of looking at Australian society, culture and history.

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Preface
The cultural ambivalence of Australian Religion
Anglicanism
The roots of Australian anti-suburbanism
'Countrymindedness': the spread of an idea
Egalitarianism
State education and culture
Intellectuals for export: Australia in the 1920s
Men of wealth
Modern nerves, nervous moderns
Royal progress: the Queen and her Australian subjects
Festivals of nationhood: the international exhibitions
Cultural history: the 'high' and the 'popular'
Populism and privilege in Australian painting
Body politics
Self-levelling tall poppies: the authorial self in (male) Australian literature
Louise Hanson-Dyer: the emergence of a patron
Index
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