Memory, Monuments and Museums: The Past in the Present edited by Marilyn Lake

Book Description

Secondhand. Near fine condition.

This collection by Australia's leading writers, scholars and activists discusses how we record, preserve, and sometimes re-create our histories and how the power of memory and the past shapes the present and our identity.

The sixteen contributors include luminaries Nicholas Shakespeare, Henry Reynolds, Dawn Casey, Iain McCalman, Katie Holmes and Graeme Davison.

It is published in association with the Australian Academy of the Humanities. The essays are taken from the Australian Academy of the Humanities 2004 symposium, which marked the official year of Tasmania's Bicentenary. (publisher blurb)