The Bookmen's Dominion Cultural Life in New Zealand 1920-1950 |
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| Author:
| Hilliard, Christopher
Hilliard, Christopher Ross |
| ISBN: | 978-1-86940-362-1 |
| Publication Date: | May 2006 |
| Publisher: | Auckland University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $38.95 |
Book Description:
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As early as the 1920s, people with backgrounds in journalism, librarianship or the professions such as the law were debating the details and the wider significance of the Treaty and the NZ Wars, and arguing about modernism and nationhood in New Zealand poetry. From the 1930s, these bookmen, as they sometimes called themselves, found themselves under attack. Chris Hilliard examines the ways changes in ideas and tastes were related to changes in the countrys cultural power bases.
As early as the 1920s, people with backgrounds in journalism, librarianship or the professions such as the law were debating the details and the wider significance of the Treaty and the NZ Wars, and arguing about modernism and nationhood in New Zealand poetry. From the 1930s, these bookmen, as they sometimes called themselves, found themselves under attack. Chris Hilliard examines the ways changes in ideas and tastes were related to changes in the countrys cultural power bases.