To Constitute a Nation: A Cultural History of Australia's ConstitutionCambridge University Press, 13. jun. 1999 - 257 strani This imaginative and resonant 1997 book looks at the constitution as a cultural artefact. It attempts to understand the period during which it emerged, culminating in Federation in 1901. Irving looks beyond the well-known events, places and figures to locate federation and the constitution in the context of broader social, political and cultural changes. She argues that Australians displayed an ability to reconcile the demands of pragmatism with the urge of romanticism. Despite its paradoxical construction, there is something uniquely Australian about the constitution, and it marked a utopian moment as the old century gave way to the new. Irving analyses the background and outcomes of the Constitutional Convention and considers its significance for Australia's possible future as a republic. |
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... century , and about ' char- acteristic ' Australian ways of doing things . These very terms , even before the claims they make are addressed , are bound to raise eyebrows . For many reasons , often entirely valid , historians and ...
... century , and about ' char- acteristic ' Australian ways of doing things . These very terms , even before the claims they make are addressed , are bound to raise eyebrows . For many reasons , often entirely valid , historians and ...
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... century , I have avoided lengthy discussion of existing sec- ondary works , or detailed engagement with alternative interpretive models , and have worked as far as possible directly with primary sources . This is also a book that treats ...
... century , I have avoided lengthy discussion of existing sec- ondary works , or detailed engagement with alternative interpretive models , and have worked as far as possible directly with primary sources . This is also a book that treats ...
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... century out of which the Commonwealth could be imagined as a reality and then shaped . The cultural side of the story has scarcely been told . There are accounts of the Constitution's writing , of the Federation movement , of individual ...
... century out of which the Commonwealth could be imagined as a reality and then shaped . The cultural side of the story has scarcely been told . There are accounts of the Constitution's writing , of the Federation movement , of individual ...
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... century , the federal ' idea was already in the air ' . * Earl Grey , Britain's Colonial Secretary , took the first formal initiative in this direction , sketching among other things , in 1847 , the idea of a General Assembly to act as ...
... century , the federal ' idea was already in the air ' . * Earl Grey , Britain's Colonial Secretary , took the first formal initiative in this direction , sketching among other things , in 1847 , the idea of a General Assembly to act as ...
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... century . If the history of Federation seems thus to have progressed in a smooth , lineal direction , one process unfolding after another , it is be- cause the processes are now finished and the story can be told that way . But it has ...
... century . If the history of Federation seems thus to have progressed in a smooth , lineal direction , one process unfolding after another , it is be- cause the processes are now finished and the story can be told that way . But it has ...
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Colonial Nuptials | 6 |
The Imaginary Nation | 25 |
Imagined Constitutions | 46 |
Models For a Nation | 62 |
Things Properly Federal | 79 |
White Australians | 100 |
Australian Natives | 119 |
The People | 134 |
Half the Nation | 171 |
The Federal Compact | 196 |
Conclusion | 212 |
Epilogue | 216 |
Key Sections of the Constitution | 220 |
Notes | 224 |
Select Bibliography | 244 |
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To Constitute a Nation: A Cultural History of Australia's Constitution Helen Irving Predogled ni na voljo - 1997 |
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