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1 online resource (354 pages) |
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| Summary |
'Growing up in the fifties was a time of isolation and innocence. We didn't know what was going on in the rest of the world. We could only compare ourselves with those around us.' So writes Max Lees in his reminiscence, 'Freedom', one of the 13 contributions to this delightful evocation of childhood edited by Susan Blackburn. An associate professor at Monash University and a specialist in Southeast Asian politics who grew up in suburban Adelaide, Blackburn asked friends and acquaintances to join her in trying to recreate the experience of childhood in that place in that time. Most of the memor. |
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Cover; Copyright; Title Page; Table of Contents; Map of Adelaide in 1959; Introduction; 1. Developing a 1950s imagination in Woodville Gardens; 2. Growing up in 1950s Mitcham; 3. From country to city; 4. Growing up in multicultural West Adelaide; 5. A terrifying, contagious virus; 6. A boy's life in transition in Adelaide, 1957-1960; 7. Our migrant neighbours; 8. Into Goodwood Orphanage; 9. Freedom; 10. Food; 11. Primary school in the fifties in a post-war new suburb; 12. Growing up in a musical Quaker family; 13. Leisure activities in the 1950s; Notes on the authors. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Adelaide (S.A.) -- Anecdotes.
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Adelaide (S.A.) -- Biography.
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Adelaide (S.A.) -- History.
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Adelaide (S.A.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Anecdotes.
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Biographies.
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History.
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Anecdotes.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780868069302 |
| ISBN |
9780868069289 (electronic book) |
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0868069280 (electronic book) |
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9780868069296 |
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0868069299 |
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9780868069302 |
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0868069302 |
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