Extract: Nation, Memory, Myth by Steve Vizard
Posted on 11 Jun 2025
How does myth generate meaning for a nation and its citizens? How does a national myth transform into symbolic performances of cultural memory and kinship?
Philip Payton
Philip Payton is Professor of History at Flinders University in Adelaide and Emeritus Professor of Cornish & Australian Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. He is an Hon. Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, has doctorates from the Universities of Adelaide and Plymouth, and has held visiting positions at the Australian National University and at Monash University, the University of Tasmania, and Warwick University. He is the author/editor of more than fifty books. Recent titles on Australian themes include Regional Australia and the Great War: 'The Boys from Old Kio' (2012), Australia in the Great War (2015), One and All: Labor and the Radical Tradition in South Australia (2016), Emigrants and Historians: Essays in Honour of Eric Richards (ed., 2016), 'Repat': A Concise History of Repatriation in Australia (2018), and Australia, Migration and Empire: Immigrants in a Globalised World (ed. with Andrekos Varnava, 2019).
Books
Related News
Extract: The Southern Frontier by Rohan Howitt
Posted on 11 Jun 2025
Why has Antarctica long loomed large in Australian psyche? How did Australia come to see Antarctica as a natural extension of our territory and why…
Extract: Beyond Green by Lesley Head
Posted on 11 Jun 2025
Culture, society and human behaviour have forever been linked to nature. In her thought-provoking book, Lesley Head, geographer and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus at…
Letter From the Publisher
Posted on
We started the year by moving tens of thousands of physical books across state lines, swam through oceans of metadata and updated our back-end systems…
Related Events
Dymocks Luncheon with Chris Hammer (NSW)
Fri 27 June at 12:00PM
Four Seasons Hotel, 199 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000
Join Chris Hammer in conversation with ABC's Fran Kelly to discuss the updated edition of The River.
In Conversation: Steve Vizard on Nation, Memory, Myth (VIC)
Thu 26 June at 6:00PM
Readings Carlton, 309 Lygon St, Carlton VIC 3053
Join us to hear Steve Vizard in conversation about Nation, Memory, Myth.
In Conversation: Chris Hammer on The River (VIC)
Tue 08 July at 6:00PM
Readings Hawthorn, 687 Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn VIC 3122
Join us to hear Chris Hammer in conversation about his bestselling classic book, The River.
Author Talk: Chris Hammer on The River (SA)
Thu 10 July at 6:30PM
Burnside Library, 401 Greenhill Road Tusmore, SA 5065
Learn more about author Chris Hammer's prize-winning non-fiction book about the Murray Darling Basin.
