Author

Publication

1996 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Eng, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

104,000 words, Guess

Page Count

416 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780521482813
  • ISBN-10052148281X
  • ISBN-100521483492
  • ISBN-139780521483490
  • LibraryThing20823
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  • Goodreads3795038
  • Library of Congress Control Number95024425
  • Better World Books9780521482813
  • Open LibraryOL791885M

Classifications

  • DDC994.01
  • LCCDU196 .G75 1996

Description

Summary:The urge to preserve, to search for the past in order to package and present it, is a powerful impulse. This act of making history is not only the domain of academic historians and professional myth-makers. Thousands of amateur enthusiasts, driven by curiosity and local knowledge have explored documentary, oral and environmental sources to shape their own histories and perceptions of the land and its people, black and white. This book explores the historical imagination of these antiquarians, naturalists, ethnologists, archaeologists and collectors. In doing so, it searches for the roots of historical consciousness and environmental sensibilities in European Australia

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Studies in Australian history

Links

Other Editions

  • Hunters and collectors: the antiquarian imagination in AustraliaCambridge University Press1996-01-01

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