Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values

by Adele Wessell, Erika Kerruish, Baden Offord, et al.

Book Overview

Given Australia's status as an (unfinished) colonial project of the British Empire, the basic institutions that were installed in its so-called 'empty' landscape derive from a value-laden framework borne out of industrialization, colonialism, the consolidation of the national statist system and democracy - all entities imbued with British Enlightenment principles and thinking. Modernity in Australia has thus been constituted by the importation,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783084316
• ISBN13: 9781783084319
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"