Transnational ties Australian lives in the world
"Australian lives are intricately enmeshed with the world, bound by ties of allegiance and affinity, intellect and imagination. In Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World, an eclectic mix of scholars--historians, literary critics, and museologists--trace the flow of people that helped...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Acton, A.C.T. :
ANU E Press
2008.
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| Colección: | Open Research Library ebooks.
ANU Lives. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44539186*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Archival fragments. The Old Commodore: a transnational life / Cassandra Pybus
- Authority. Biography and global history: reflections on examining colonial governance through the life of Edward Eyre / Julie Evans
- 'A fine type of Hindoo' meets 'the Australian type': British Indians in Australia and diverse masculinities / Margaret Allen
- A British prince and a transnational life: Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh's visit to Australia, 1867-68 / Cindy McCreery
- Enacting the international: R.G. Watt and the League of Nations Union / Nicholas Brown
- Intimacy. Love, loss and 'going Home': the intimate lives of Victorian settlers / Maggie Mackellar
- A journey of love: Agnes Breuer's sojourn in 1930s China / Kate Bagnall
- Life stories, family relations and the 'lens of migration': postwar British emigration and the new mobility / A. James Hammerton
- 'I'm not a good mother': gender expectations and tensions in a migrant woman's life story / Alistair Thomson
- First love and Italian postwar migration stories / Francesco Ricatti
- Intellect. The Pacific as rhizome: the case of Sir Henry Alexander Wickham, planter, and his transnational plants / Ann Lane
- A transnational imagination: Alfred Deakin's reading lists / Mark Hearn
- Imagination. From cosmopolitan romance to transnational fiction: re-reading Jean Devanny's Australian novels / Nancy L. Paxton
- Paris and beyond: the transnational/national in the writing of Christina Stead and Eleanor Dark / Susan Carson
- Australian 'immersion' narratives: memoirs of contemporary language travel / Mary Besemeres
- America and the queer diaspora: the case of artist David McDiarmid / Sally Gray
- Objects of displacement. Living in a material world: object biography and transnational lives / Karen Schamberger, Martha Sear, Kirsten Wehner, Jennifer Wilson and the Australian Journeys Gallery Development Team, National Museum of Australia.
