Joy Damousi (Melbourne Australian Catholic University)

Gebundenes Buch

The Humanitarians

Beschreibung

Spanning six decades from the formation of the Save the Children Fund in 1919 to the International Year of the Child in 1979, The Humanitarians maps the national and international humanitarian efforts undertaken by Australians on behalf of child refugees.

Autor

Joy Damousi is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. She has had a long-standing interest in Australian political history, beginning with her first book published twenty years ago on women in left-wing movements, Women Come Rally: Socialism, communism and gender in Australia 1890-1955 (1994). Since then she has written on various aspects of the politics and impact of war, migration and internationalism throughout the Cold War period. Her books include Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-war Australia (2001), Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia (2005) and Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia 1840-1940 (2010). She is co-editor of Diversity in Leadership: Australian Women, Past and Present (2014).

Produktdetails

• Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 668g
• ISBN-13: 9781108833905
• ISBN-10: 110883390X
• Artikelnr.: 63239487