Irving Helen

To constitute a nation : a cultural history of Australia's constitution / Helen Irving. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997. - xiii, 253 p. ; 24 cm. - Studies in Australian history .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-248) and index.

1. Colonial Nuptials -- 2. The Imaginary Nation -- 3. Imagined Constitutions -- 4. Models For a Nation -- 5. Things Properly Federal -- 6. White Australians -- 7. Australian Natives -- 8. The People -- 9. Citizens -- 10. Half the Nation -- 11. The Federal Compact -- App. Key Sections of the Constitution.

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Political culture--History--Australia
Constitutional history--Australia
National characteristics Australian


Australia--Politics and government

JQ4081

306.2/0994