Awards

• Short-listed for Western Australian Premier's Book Awards: Non-fiction 2001
• Shortlisted for Western Australian Premier's Book Award: Non-fiction 2001.
• Shortlisted for Western Australian Premier's Book Awards: Non-fiction 2001.

Overview

"Books on Australia's colonial history have always been popular with book buyers. This book will be read by social historians, art historians, scholars of literature and literary culture, students of Australian studies, and students of the history of the book and of publishing in Australia. ""Paper Nation"" is an innovative work of great originality and broad interest."

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9780522849493

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Paper Nation will stand with Tim Bonyhady's The Colonial Earth as two of the most intelligent and insightful contributions made to the discussion of colonial attitudes towards the Australian continent. Informed by an acute theoretical perspective and supported by a sensitive and detailed reading of the Atlas, Paper Nation makes itself an indispensable contibutor to the understanding of this period in Australian history. -- JAS Review of Books Hughes-d'Aeth is alive both to visual images as 'text' and to the visual impact of the written text. Paper Nation . . . is a major contribution to the history of how we have shaped ourselves in our own minds. -- Australian Book Review

Paper Nation will stand with Tim Bonyhady's The Colonial Earth as two of the most intelligent and insightful contributions made to the discussion of colonial attitudes towards the Australian continent. Informed by an acute theoretical perspective and supported by a sensitive and detailed reading of the Atlas, Paper Nation makes itself an indispensable contibutor to the understanding of this period in Australian history. -- JAS Review of Books

Author Information

Tony Hughes-d'Aeth has recently taught literary and cultural studies at the University of Western Australia. His interests include cross-cultural visual research and particularly colonial photography.

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