Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia (Studies in Australian History)

Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia (Studies in Australian History) image
ISBN-10:

0521483492

ISBN-13:

9780521483490

Author(s): Griffiths, Tom
Released: Apr 28, 1997
Format: Paperback, 432 pages
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Description:

Hunters and Collectors is about historical consciousness and environmental sensibilities in European Australia from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It is in part a collective biography of the amateur scientists and humanists who have shaped the Australian historical imagination. Griffiths illuminates the way these avid collectors and discussants of the Australian land and its indigenous inhabitants have contributed a sense of national identity. He also shows how their activities feed into the political and environmental debates of the 1990s.












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