On The World Of The Sixty-Nine Tram
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
On The World Of The Sixty-Nine Tram
By (Author) Janet McCalman
Melbourne University Press
Melbourne University Press
30th December 2005
Australia
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
994.042
Physical Properties
Paperback
143
Width 115mm, Height 185mm, Spine 9mm
116g
Description
The MUP Masterworks series celebrates distinguished Australian writers and ideas. Other writers in the series include Manning Clark, A.A. Phillips, Donald Horne, Ray Parkin and Brenda Niall. Janet McCalman writes about people and the environments, events and forces that shape them. This extract from her award-winning book Journeyings- The Biography of a Middle-Class Generation 1920-1990 is a vivid account of the school years of Australians who were young in the 1930s, and are grandparents and great-grandparents now.
Author Bio
Janet McCalman is known for her award-winning books Struggletown, Journeyings and Sex and Suffering, all published by MUP. She co-edited with Emma Dawson What Happens Next- Reconstructing Australia after Covid-19' in 2020. For over twenty years she taught and researched interdisciplinary history at the University of Melbourne. In 2018 she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia.
