Australian lives : an intimate history / Anisa Puri and Alistair Thomson.
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TextSeries: Australian historyPublisher: Clayton, Vic. : Monash University Publishing, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 425 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781922235787Subject(s): Australians -- Interviews | Australians -- Social life and customs -- 20th century | Australia -- Social conditions -- 20th century | Australia -- Social conditions -- 21st century | Australia -- History -- 20th century | Australia -- History -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 994 Summary: AUSTRALASIAN & PACIFIC HISTORY. AUSTRALIAN. I really like the idea that in maybe a hundred years someone could listen and hear about my life to learn about what living in 2012 or 2013 was like. Think that's really cool. Adam-Farrow-Palmer, born 1988. What is life like, in Australia? How has it been experienced by those who have lived it? The Australians. Australian Lives: An Intimate History illuminates Australian life across the 20th and into the 21st century: how have we been shaped by the forces and expectations of contemporary history and how, in turn, have we made our lives and created Australian society? From oral history interviews with Australians born between 1920 and 1989, fifty narrators reflect on their diverse experience as children and teenagers, in midlife and in old age, about faith, migration and activism. Published as both paperback and e-book, in Australian Lives you can read and listen to the comedy, heartache and drama of ordinary Australians extraordinary lives.
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Includes index.
AUSTRALASIAN & PACIFIC HISTORY. AUSTRALIAN. I really like the idea that in maybe a hundred years someone could listen and hear about my life to learn about what living in 2012 or 2013 was like. Think that's really cool. Adam-Farrow-Palmer, born 1988. What is life like, in Australia? How has it been experienced by those who have lived it? The Australians. Australian Lives: An Intimate History illuminates Australian life across the 20th and into the 21st century: how have we been shaped by the forces and expectations of contemporary history and how, in turn, have we made our lives and created Australian society? From oral history interviews with Australians born between 1920 and 1989, fifty narrators reflect on their diverse experience as children and teenagers, in midlife and in old age, about faith, migration and activism. Published as both paperback and e-book, in Australian Lives you can read and listen to the comedy, heartache and drama of ordinary Australians extraordinary lives.
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