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Author : Graham Seal
Release : 2004
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 477/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Inventing Anzac by : Graham Seal
Download or read book Inventing Anzac written by Graham Seal. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb
Author : Nathan Wise
Release : 2014-09-03
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 983/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Anzac Labour by : Nathan Wise
Download or read book Anzac Labour written by Nathan Wise. This book was released on 2014-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anzac Labour explores the horror, frustration and exhaustion surrounding working life in the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War. Based on letters and diaries of Australian soldiers, it traces the history of work and workplace cultures through Australia, the shores of Gallipoli, the fields of France and Belgium, and the Near East.
Author : Kevin Blackburn
Release : 2016-04-29
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 607/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition by : Kevin Blackburn
Download or read book War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition written by Kevin Blackburn. This book was released on 2016-04-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commemoration of war is done through sport on Anzac Day to remember Australia's war dead. War, Sport and the Anzac Tradition traces the creation of this sporting tradition at Gallipoli in 1915, and how it has evolved from late Victorian and Edwardian ideas of masculinity extolling prowess on the sports field as fostering prowess on the battlefield.
Author : Tony Ward
Release : 2013-09-13
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 667/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sport in Australian National Identity by : Tony Ward
Download or read book Sport in Australian National Identity written by Tony Ward. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many Australians, there are two great passions: sport and ‘taking the piss’. This book is about national identity – and especially about Australia’s image as a sporting country. Whether reverent or not, any successful national image has to reflect something about the reality of the country. But it is also influenced by the reasons that people have for encouraging particular images – and by the conflicts between differing views of national identity, and of sport. Buffeted by these elements, both the extent of Australian sports madness and the level of stirring have varied considerably over time. While many refer to long-lasting factors, such as the amount of sunshine, this book argues that the ebb and flow of sporting images are strongly linked to current views of national identity. Starting from Archer’s win in the first Melbourne Cup in 1861, it traces the importance of trade unions in the formation of Australian Rules, the success of a small rural town in holding one of the world’s foremost running races, and the win-from-behind of a fat arsed wombat knocking off the official mascots of Sydney 2000. This book was based on a special issue of Soccer and Society.
Author : Alistair Thomson
Release : 2013-11-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 582/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Anzac Memories by : Alistair Thomson
Download or read book Anzac Memories written by Alistair Thomson. This book was released on 2013-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anzac Memories was first published to acclaim in 1994, and has achieved international renown for its pioneering contribution to the study of war memory and mythology. Michael McKernan wrote that the book gave ‘as good a picture of the impact of the Great War on individuals and Australia as we are likely to get in this generation’, and Michael Roper concluded that ‘an immense achievement of this book is that it so clearly illuminates the historical processes that left men like my grandfather forever struggling to fashion myths which they could live by’. In this new edition Alistair Thomson explores how the Anzac legend has transformed over the past quarter century, how a ‘post-memory’ of the Great War creates new challenges and opportunities for making sense of the national past, and how veterans’ war memories can still challenge and complicate national mythologies. He returns to a family war history that he could not write about twenty years ago because of the stigma of war and mental illness, and he uses newly released Repatriation files to question his own earlier account of veterans’ post-war lives and memories and to think afresh about war and memory.
