Struggle Country
Edited by Graeme Davison and Marc Brodie
Monash University ePress
ISBN:
0975747525
The continuing interaction, in the twentieth century, between the dreams of the Australian countryside and the reality of its decline will be the key focus of Struggle Country: The Rural Ideal in Twentieth Century Australia. Contemporary interest in this area is often within a hopeful policy framework of the revitalisation of town and countryside. Linking history to present concerns, this edited collection of essays will look at how the dreams of progress that captured the imagination of country towns, regions, city politicians, and historians themselves, led to particular outcomes in these areas and influenced how these regions were treated.
Struggle Country will be of great interest to historians and students of Australian history, as well as to readers interested in the relationship between rural dreams and the underlying realities of rural life.
About the editors
Graeme Davison is Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor at Monash University, where he teaches history in the School of Historical Studies. He has been published extensively and in 2004 was awarded the Nettie Palmer Prize for non-fiction as part of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for his book Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities (with S. Yelland. Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, 2004).
Marc Brodie is Senior Lecturer in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University. He was Editorial and Research Associate for the Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press). Recent publications include The Politics of the Poor: The East End of London 1885?1914 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004) and '"A valuable, but minority, section": The Country Townspeople's League and responses to farmer politics in 1920s Victorian country towns' (History Australia, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2003).
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