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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Melanie Oppenheimer; Margaret Anderson; Mandy Paul |
ISBN: | 9781743054741 1743054742 |
OCLC Number: | 987707623 |
Description: | viii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
Contents: | 1. Progressive conservatism and boundless optimism : South Australia on the eve of war / Melanie Oppenheimer and Margrette Kleinig -- 2. Adjustment to statehood : South Australia from the Boer War to the Great War / John Bannon -- 3. New women and the modern family : continuity and change in pre-war domestic life / Margaret Anderson and Alison Mackinnon -- 4. 'Better protection and control' : Aboriginal people and the state in South Australia, 1901-1914 / Mandy Paul -- 5. 'Of course you have to take the rough with the smooth' : South Australia's British farm apprenticeship scheme / Elspeth Grant -- 6. Eyre Peninsula on the eve of the Great War : a rural dimension / Jill Roe -- 7. Town planning in the 'Garden city of the south' : the state of play to 1914 / Christine Garnaut -- 8. 'No more loyal subjects' : Indians contesting White Australia / Margaret Allen -- 9. German South Australia on the eve of war / Peter Monteath -- 10. Irish South Australians in 1914 : unconditional imperial loyalty? / Stephanie James. |
Responsibility: | edited by Melanie Oppenheimer, Margaret Anderson and Mandy Paul. |
Abstract:
"South Australia on the Eve of War considers unique aspects of the state in this pre-war period, including the political reverberations of Federation, the town planning of what was then Australia's third-largest capital, Adelaide, and the shifting social positions of women, Indigenous Australians and minority groups."--Back cover.
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- Government policy - Commonwealth.
- Government policy - State and territory.
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- Community development - Infrastructure and municipal services.
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- Politics and government.
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