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  • What Did You Do in the Cold War, Daddy?

    Personal Stories from a Troubled Time

    Edited by Ann Curthoys, Joy Damousi ...
    The Cold War was a turbulent time to grow up in: family ties were tested, friendships were torn apart, and new beliefs forged out of the ruins of old loyalties. In this book, through 12 evocative stories of childhood and early adulthood in Australia during the Cold War years, writers from vastly different backgrounds explore how global political events affected the intimate space of home, family ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Humanitarians

    Child War Refugees and Australian Humanitarianism in a Transnational World, 1919–1975

    by Joy Damousi ...
    Series series Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
    Spanning six decades from the formation of the Save the Children Fund in 1919 to humanitarian interventions during the Vietnam War, The Humanitarians maps the national and international humanitarian efforts undertaken by Australians on behalf of child refugees. In this longitudinal study, Joy Damousi explores the shifting forms of humanitarian activity related to war refugee children over the ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • When Migrants Fail to Stay

    New Histories on Departures and Migration

    Edited by Dr Ruth Balint, Joy Damousi, Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick ...
    Series series New Directions in Social and Cultural History
    The aftermath of the Second World War marked a radical new moment in the history of migration. For the millions of refugees stranded in Europe, China and Africa, it offered the possibility of mobility to the 'new world' of the West; for countries like Australia that accepted them, it marked the beginning of a radical reimagining of its identity as an immigrant nation. For the next few decades, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Modern and Post-Modern Age

    Edited by Prof. Jane W. Davidson, Joy Damousi ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    The 20th century, with revolutionary and rapid developments in travel, communications and computerised technologies, offered new and seemingly limitless horizons which accompanied and amplified distinctive experiences of emotions. The birth of psychology and psychiatry revealed the importance of emotional life and that individuals could have control over their behaviour. Traditional religion was ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Museums, History and the Intimate Experience of the Great War

    Love and Sorrow

    Edited by Joy Damousi, Deborah Tout-Smith, Bart Ziino ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in First World War History
    The Great War of 1914-1918 was fought on the battlefield, on the sea and in the air, and in the heart. Museums Victoria’s exhibition World War I: Love and Sorrow exposed not just the nature of that war, but its depth and duration in personal and familial lives. Hailed by eminent scholar Jay Winter as "one of the best which the centenary of the Great War has occasioned", the exhibition delved into ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • A history of the case study

    Sexology, psychoanalysis, literature

    by Birgit Lang, Joy Damousi, Alison Lewis ...
    This collection tells the story of the case study genre at a time when it became the genre par excellence for discussing human sexuality across the humanities and life sciences.It is a transcontinental journey from the imperial world of fin-de-siècle Central Europe to the interwar metropolises of Weimar Germany and to the United States of America in the post-war years.Foregrounding the figures of ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • A Cultural History of Sound, Memory, and the Senses

    Edited by Joy Damousi, Paula Hamilton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    The past 20 years have witnessed a turn towards the sensuous, particularly the aural, as a viable space for critical exploration in History and other Humanities disciplines. This has been informed by a heightened awareness of the role that the senses play in shaping modern identity and understanding of place; and increasingly, how the senses are central to the memory of past experiences and their ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Case Studies and the Dissemination of Knowledge

    Edited by Joy Damousi, Birgit Lang, Katie Sutton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    The case study has proved of enduring interest to all Western societies, particularly in relation to questions of subjectivity and the sexed self. This volume interrogates how case studies have been used by doctors, lawyers, psychoanalysts, and writers to communicate their findings both within the specialist circles of their academic disciplines, and beyond, to wider publics. At the same time, it ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War

    Australia's Greek Immigrants after World War II and the Greek Civil War

    by Joy Damousi ...
    Series series Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
    In an engaging and original contribution to the field of memory studies, Joy Damousi considers the enduring impact of war on family memory in the Greek diaspora. Focusing on Australia's Greek immigrants in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Greek Civil War, the book explores the concept of remembrance within the larger context of migration to show how intergenerational experience of war ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • League of Nations

    Histories, legacies and impact

    by Professor Joy Damousi, Patricia O'Brien ...
    League of Nations offers new perspectives on the history, legacies and impact of the League of Nations. The essays in this collection demonstrate how vastly diverse topics from film, education, Christian youth movements, colonial rule in the Pacific islands, national economic analyses, disarmament, humanitarianism and refugees as well as international relations, national sovereignty and domestic ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Humanitarianism, empire and transnationalism, 1760-1995

    Selective humanity in the Anglophone world

    Edited by Joy Damousi, Trevor Burnard, Alan Lester ...
    Series Book 198 - Studies in Imperialism
    This is the first book to examine the shifting relationship between humanitarianism and the expansion, consolidation and postcolonial transformation of the Anglophone world across three centuries, from the antislavery campaign of the late eighteenth century to the role of NGOs balancing humanitarianism and human rights in the late twentieth century. Contributors explore the trade-offs between ... Read more

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