A New Australia: Citizenship, Radicalism and the First Republic

by Bruce Scates

Overview

The 1890s in Australia were a time of social and industrial upheaval. They also nurtured a flourishing radical culture: anarchists, socialists, single taxers, feminists and republicans. This book, informed by feminist and cultural studies, recreates that political and social vision and shows the radicals' influence, and their resonances in the 1990s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521575966
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/28/1997
Series:	Studies in Australian History
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.59(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. 'A world apart': Class, culture and the language of radicalism; 2. The politics of reading: belief, ideology and the transmission of knowledge; 3. 'Within cooee distance of the millennium': the rise and fall of radical politics; 4. 'The new Arcadia': communal settlements on the land; 5. Poverty and protest: the culture and politics of mass unemployment; 6. 'A citizen first': women, socialism and the politics of gender.

Editorial Reviews

"Scartes provides much interesting and little-known information about socialist village settlements like those in Kardella and Murtho." Alastair Davidson, American Historical Review

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