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Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 15: 19401980 KemPie
John Ritchie
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Description for Australian Dictionary of Biography Volume 15: 19401980 KemPie
Hardcover. Volume 15 is the third of four to deal with the 1940-1980 period, recording the lives of Australians whom many of us remember from the recent past. It reflects what changed and what remained constant in Australian society during World War II and its aftermath. Num Pages: 644 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; GBCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 256 x 168 x 52. Weight in Grams: 1311.
Maintaining the ""Australian Dictionary of Biography""'s tradition of scholarship, volume 15 reflects what changed and what remained constant in Australian society during the years of World War II and its aftermath. Like the pieces of a mosaic, a host of lives gives a picture of our society and provides insights into the experiences of our people. While biography necessarily focuses on the individual, a range of biographies illuminates large themes in Australia's recent history, themes such as immigration, accelerating industrialism, urbanization and suburbanization, war (World War II, Korea, Malaya and Vietnam), material progress, increasing cultural maturity, conservative and radical politics, ... Read more
Maintaining the ""Australian Dictionary of Biography""'s tradition of scholarship, volume 15 reflects what changed and what remained constant in Australian society during the years of World War II and its aftermath. Like the pieces of a mosaic, a host of lives gives a picture of our society and provides insights into the experiences of our people. While biography necessarily focuses on the individual, a range of biographies illuminates large themes in Australia's recent history, themes such as immigration, accelerating industrialism, urbanization and suburbanization, war (World War II, Korea, Malaya and Vietnam), material progress, increasing cultural maturity, conservative and radical politics, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Melbourne University Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1
Place of Publication
Carlton, Australia
ISBN
9780522848434
SKU
V9780522848434
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Ref
99-3
About John Ritchie
Professor John Ritchie is general editor (since 1988) of the Australian Dictionary of Biography at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. He taught Australian History at Monash University in 1964-65, and British and Australian History at the Faculty of Arts, ANU, from 1969 to 1987. He has published widely.
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