Book Description
Manning Clark's History of Australia.
Author : Charles Manning Hope Clark
Publisher : [Carlton, Victoria] : Melbourne University Press ; London ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1962] i.e.
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 36,11 MB
Release : 1963
Category : History
ISBN :
Manning Clark's History of Australia.
Author : Manning Clark
Publisher : Melbourne University Publish
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780522845235
In 1962, the first volume of Manning Clark's "A History of Australia" appeared. For the next two-and-a-half decades Clark unfolded his tragic celebration of white Australian history. Today, the six-volume history is one of the masterpieces of Australian literature. It is also one of the most passionately debated visions of Australian history. Clark's Australians are men and women of lively goodwill and deep sinfulness, of generous idealism and unthinking brutality. He dramatizes the motivating forces of Australian life - cowardice and vision, cruelty and defiance, greatness of spirit and the spiritual vacuity of the suburbs - all of them locked in the unceasing struggle which builds a nation. Michael Cathcart has re-orchestrated Clark's epic narrative in this single volume. Every page of this abridgement rings with Manning Clark's voice. Here, at last, the general reader can encounter the deep resonances, pessimism and passion of Manning Clark - Australian historian and prophet. Michael Cathcart is co-author of "Mission to the South Seas: the Voyage of the Duff" and author of "Defending the National Tuckshop", a study of conservative responses to the Great Depression.
Author : Stuart Macintyre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 24,89 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521625777
This entertaining book is the most up-to-date single-volume Australian history available.
Author : Charles Manning Hope Clark
Publisher :
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Australia
ISBN :
Author : Charles Manning Hope Clark
Publisher :
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 36,57 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Australia
ISBN :
Author : Lee Ash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 2019-10-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1136565434
Here is an exciting book that provides detailed descriptions of dozens of the most important and unique collections of “theatricana” in the United States and Canada. In Theatre and Performing Arts Collections, distinguished theatre specialists, librarians, and curators describe the unique possessions of the best and largest collections in theatre and performing arts. Each chapter provides detailed descriptions of the collections, as well as important notes about their history--information that is not available in any other source!
Author : Paul Struan Robertson
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 19,82 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9780852443620
Author : Mark McKenna
Publisher : The Miegunyah Press
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0522856179
Manning Clark was a complex, demanding and brilliant man. Mark McKenna's compelling biography of this giant of Australia's cultural landscape is informed by his reading of Clark's extensive private letters, journals and diaries-many that have never been read before. An Eye for Eternity paints a sweeping portrait of the man who gave Australians the signature account of their own history. It tells of his friendships with Patrick White and Sidney Nolan. It details an urgent and dynamic marriage, ripped apart at times by Clark's constant need for extramarital romantic love. A son who wrote letters to his dead parents. A historian who placed narrative ahead of facts. A doubter who flirted with Catholicism. A controversial public figure who marked slights and criticisms with deeply held grudges. To understand Clark's life is to understand twentieth century Australia. And it raises fundamental questions about the craft of biography. When are letters too personal, comments too hurtful and insights too private to publish? Clark incessantly documented his life-leaving notes to the biographers he knew would pursue his story. He had a deep need to be remembered and this book means he will now be understood in an unforgettable way. Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction 2012 Winner of the Non-Fiction Book award at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2012 Winner of the Non-Fiction Book award at the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards 2012 Winner of the Douglas Stewart Prize at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2012 Winner of the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2012 - Non-Fiction award 2012 Finalist for the 2011 Walkley Book awards Shortlisted for the 2011 Manning Clark House National Cultural Award
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Page : 756 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 1986
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Author : Geoffrey Partington
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 2013-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1483629198
Much more is known about the past that is interesting, valuable and and relevant to our problems than any one of us can ever know. Making Sense of History proposes we focus on Five Zones of Priority: Livelihoods, Protection from violence, Freedom, Relationships, and Ideas. Partington examines some perennial problems, such as Progress or Regression, Bias, Prejudice and Moral Judgment, Depth versus Breadth and the ongoing fabrication of myths, and accusations of genocide and cannibalism. Partington warns against looking to history for the certainties that physics or mathematics provide. We have free will and make decisions rather than react uniformly to external forces. Historical understanding is more like proverbial wisdom writ large than the theorems of Pythagoras or Einstein. A more serious problem is the ideological capture of much history teaching in countries like Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Partington does not advocate vainglorious national pride but defends the achievement of those countries in making a better, though imperfect, balance between freedom and security than has been made at almost every other time or place.