A Secretive Century
Monte Punshon’s Australia
$30.59
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
18 June 2024
Summary
Australia’s modern transformation as revealed through the life of an extraordinary woman
Monte grew up in a secretive century. She lived in a society where appearances mattered, and keeping them up often involved creating silence around ancestral origins, painful memories and personal desires.
Monte Punshon refused to be labelled. She was, at various times, Ethel May Punshon, Miss Montague, Monte, Mickey and Erica Morley Punshon, moving effortlessly from the Methodist respecta…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522879940 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522879942 |
| Author: | Tessa Morris-Suzuki |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 18 June 2024 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Professor Emerita of History at the Australian National University, where she held the positions of Distinguished Professor and Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow. In 2013 she was awarded the Fukuoka Prize (Academic) for contributions to Asian studies. Morris-Suzuki is the author of 25 non-fiction books, including The Past Within Us- Media, Memory, History; Exodus to North Korea- Shadows from Japan’s Cold War; Japan’s Living Politics- Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy; and On the Frontiers of History- Rethinking East Asian Borders. She has also published two historical novels, The Searcher and The Lantern Boats.
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