Intruders in the Bush: The Australian Quest for Identity

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John Carroll
Oxford University Press, 1992 - History - 256 pages
Intruders In The Bush challenges the bushman legend and presents evidence that it was discontented urban intellectuals in the 1890s who romanticised the bushman and his notions of mateship and eglatiarianism. John Carroll and several other contributors argue that a guilt-stricken, culturally bashful upper middle class promoted the mateship myth and failed to install its own values. The book goes on to look at ways in which Australia has been re-examined in recent books and art. The second edition has been revised and reshaped, and includes major new pieces by Chris Wallace-Crabbe, John Hirst, Robert Manne and John Carroll.

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Contents

The Problems with the Classical Legends
67
An Urban Context
109
The Failure
143
Copyright

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About the author (1992)

John Carroll is a Head of Department of Sociology at La Trobe University.

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