Hunters and Collectors: The antiquarian imagination in Australia
Cambridge University Press, $34.95 pb, 416 pp
Trafficking in the Past
Six weeks after the First Fleet sailed for New South Wales Edward Gibbon completed The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Probably the finest example of the Western tradition of history as chronological and sequential, Gibbon’s work provided the Europe of his time with a panoramic background against which the achievements of modern civilization could be measured.
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Hunters and Collectors: The antiquarian imagination in Australia
by Tom Griffiths
Cambridge University Press, $34.95 pb, 416 pp
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