Tom Griffiths

Hunters and Collectors

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An account of the thousands of amateur enthusiasts who shaped the Australian historical imagination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 697g
• ISBN-13: 9780521483490
• ISBN-10: 0521483492
• Artikelnr.: 27065481

Autorenporträt

Tom Griffiths is the W K Hancock Professor of History at the Australian National University and the author of Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica (2007), Forests of Ash: An Environmental History (2001) and Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia (1996). His books and essays have won prizes in literature, history, science, politics and journalism, including the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History, the Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate, and the Douglas Stewart and Nettie Palmer Prizes for Non-Fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Collection: 1. Hunting culture
2. Victorian skulduggery
3. The stone age
4. The nuclear family
Part II. Possession: 5. Past silences
6. The natural history of Melbourne
7. Land rites
8. Journeys to the centre
Part III. Preservation: 9. The discipline of memory
10. Keeping places
11. Progress through preservation
12. History and natural history
Epilogue.