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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: More than my own mother to me
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Alma
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Pearl Gibbs
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'Victoria Haskins' fine book fills a much-needed gap in our understanding of Australia's history. For too long we have heard the stories of one side or the other; colonised or colonisers. One Bright Spot delicately rounds out our understanding by revealing to us the complexity of the relationships that emerged through the cross-cultural interactions of the early part of the twentieth century. The evocative prose resists sentimentality and romanticisation and delights the reader with an exquisite novel-like writing style. At the end of it one is struck by Haskins' rare combination of scholarly rigor, passion and a personal connection, which she both embraces and critiques'. Professor Lynette Russell, Monash University
About the author
Later, Victoria worked as a curator of Australian Social History at the National Museum of Australia, in Canberra, before taking up a History lectureship at Flinders University in South Australia. Victoria now lives in Adelaide with her partner, Indigenous historian John Maynard, and their three children. This is her first book.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: One Bright Spot
Authors: Victoria K. Haskins
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510593
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-4744-4Published: 28 July 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51059-3Published: 02 August 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 281
Topics: Regional and Cultural Studies, Ethnicity Studies, Clinical Psychology, Australasian History, Sociology, general, Child Well-being