Ann Curthoys: 3 books
Freedom Ride
A freedom rider remembers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
One warm midnight in 1965, 29 students from Sydney University set out on a road trip through north western New South Wales. Ann Curthoys, the author of this book, was one of the passengers.
This was no ordinary trip and it became known as the 'Freedom Ride'. Its purpose was to challenge the...
After the Imperial Turn
Thinking with and through the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2003
From a variety of historically grounded perspectives, After the Imperial Turn assesses the fate of the nation as a subject of disciplinary inquiry. In light of the turn toward scholarship focused on imperialism and postcolonialism, this provocative collection investigates whether the nation remains...
Taking Liberty
Indigenous Rights and Settler Self-Government in Colonial Australia, 1830–1890
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy. The legacy of seizing a continent and alternately destroying and governing its original people shaped how white Australians came to see themselves as independent citizens....