Australian Studies

This book critically examines the history and current issues on the migration of Indian students to Australia.

‘How to Get into Medical School in Australia’ is the definitive guide on how to succeed in your application to medical school – and how to excel once there.

This volume details the history of Australia’s oldest and most nationally iconic publishing firm, Angus & Robertson, and its long-term investment in establishing and maintaining a viable commercial arm in London from 1930 to 1970.

‘Reading by Numbers: Recalibrating the Literary Field’ explores the critical potential of digital and quantitative methods for producing new knowledge about literary and cultural history.

This study of modern Australian life writing by sons who focus on fathers is the first of its kind within Australian literature. It offers compelling readings of Raimond Gaita’s ‘Romulus, My Father’, Peter Rose’s ‘Rose Boys’ and many others. 

‘Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values’ offers a critical intervention into the effects of colonialism in Australia, which continue to inform and dominate its public culture and institutions. Through an analysis of three significant moments in Australian history, the authors investigate how the public sphere continues to derive its values from the British Enlightenment.

Taking the absence of Aboriginal people in South Australian settler descendants’ historical consciousness as a starting point, ‘Memory, Place and Settler‒Aboriginal History’ combines the methodologies and theories of historical enquiry, anthropology and memory studies to investigate the multitudinous and intertwined ways the colonial past is known, represented and understood by current generations.

‘Migrant Nation: Australian Culture, Society and Identity’ casts new light on Australian identity through historical accounts of the many and varied experiences of migration.

Containing contributions by leading scholars, ‘Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging’ addresses key topical themes and concerns in contemporary Australia.

An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion' is based on years of studying and teaching Australian politics and an active interest and involvement in immigration and settlement policies since the 1950s. This was a period of mass immigration from Britain and Europe, organised and mainly subsidised by the British and Australian governments.

‘Australian Theatre, Modernism and Patrick White’ details the rejection of two Patrick White plays – ‘The Ham Funeral’ and ‘Night on Bald Mountain’ – by the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Australia in the early 1960s.

‘Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity’ investigates the interaction between suburbs and suburbia in a century-long series of Australian novels. It puts the often trenchantly anti-suburban rhetoric of Australian fiction in dialogue with its evocative and imaginative rendering of suburban place and time.