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Through Australian Eyes
Andrew Hassam
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Paperback. In the last 25 years of the 19th century, around 200,000 visitors from Australia landed in Britain. This work uses the diaries and letters of these pilgrims to offer insight into 19th-century Britain. It also draws conclusions about the cultural histories of Britain and Australia. Num Pages: 220 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
In the last 25 years of the nineteenth century, around two hundred thousand visitors from Australia landed in Britain. As members of the colonial elite, they sailed to the Old Country to experience their Britishness: they toured Westminster Abbey; they visited graves of parents; they threw snowballs at Christmas. As one visitor expressed it on arrival in London in 1889: Spotted St Pauls in the distance & felt at home.' Using unpublished diaries and letters, this book offers a unique and cross-disciplinary approach to Cultural History. It considers both British and Australian national identities as the products of cultural displacement. ... Read more
In the last 25 years of the nineteenth century, around two hundred thousand visitors from Australia landed in Britain. As members of the colonial elite, they sailed to the Old Country to experience their Britishness: they toured Westminster Abbey; they visited graves of parents; they threw snowballs at Christmas. As one visitor expressed it on arrival in London in 1889: Spotted St Pauls in the distance & felt at home.' Using unpublished diaries and letters, this book offers a unique and cross-disciplinary approach to Cultural History. It considers both British and Australian national identities as the products of cultural displacement. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781902210629
SKU
V9781902210629
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Ref
99-1
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