Helen Irving

To Constitute a Nation

A Cultural History of Australia's Constitution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1997 book is an imaginative and resonant exploration of the broader context of the Australian constitution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780521668972
• ISBN-10: 0521668972
• Artikelnr.: 29337892

Autorenporträt

Helen penned this children's book 26 years ago as a song for her youngest child. A mother of five and now grandmother of seven, Helen has sung this song to all her grandchildren. Prompted by her late sister to send it to a publisher, her dream to become a published author has been realized.

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology
Introduction
1. Colonial nuptials
2. The imaginary nation
3. Imagined Constitutions
4. Models for a nation
5. Things properly federal
6. White Australians
7. Australian natives
8. The people
9. Citizens
10. Half the nation
11. The federal compact
Postscript.