After thirty years confined within museum walls, a restless history curator steps out for air. In this book of essays, Anne-Marie Condé grants herself freedom to ask fresh questions about the significance of objects and places within the lives of ordinary people. Cemeteries, junk shops, war memorials. Stones and scraps and scrawls. These are where this author goes for inspiration.
Whether it's a wet greasy pavement in Hobart or a message in chalk in Sydney: Condé can coax a historical narrative out of the most meagre sources. Along the way she asks why anyone would offer a potato as a gift to a prime minister? How could this humble vegetable help us think about Australia's past?
Throughout, Condé casts a patient and gently curious gaze over her subjects. Many writers are fascinated by unrecorded lives, but where there are records, Condé is sure to find them.
After thirty years confined within museum walls, a restless history curator steps out for air. In this book of essays, Anne-Marie Condé grants herself freedom to ask fresh questions about the significance of objects and places within the lives of ordinary people. Cemeteries, junk shops, war memorials. Stones and scraps and scrawls. These are where this author goes for inspiration.
Whether it's a wet greasy pavement in Hobart or a message in chalk in Sydney: Condé can coax a historical narrative out of the most meagre sources. Along the way she asks why anyone would offer a potato as a gift to a prime minister? How could this humble vegetable help us think about Australia's past?
Throughout, Condé casts a patient and gently curious gaze over her subjects. Many writers are fascinated by unrecorded lives, but where there are records, Condé is sure to find them.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of...
A kinky Prime Minister, a vanilla intern, and a scandal that shouldn't feel so right or cost so much.Gavin:Ellie Montague is smart, sensitive, and so gorgeous it hurts to look at her. She’s also an...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of...
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