To be 'Australian': what can that mean? This influential Australian history sets out to find the answers by tracing the images we have used to describe our land and our people.

Richard White is a young historian with a particular interest in the development of a distinctive Australian culture. He has written on the 'Australian way of life' and on 'Americanisation' and popular culture.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Terra Australis Incognita
2. Hell upon earth
3. A workingman's paradise?
4. Another America
5. The national type
6. Bohemians and the bush
7. Young, white, happy and wholesome
8. Diggers and heroes
9. Growing up
10. Everyman and his Holden
Further reading
Endnotes
Index