Radical Sydney

Name: Radical Sydney
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SKU: 9781742230931
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Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes

By Terry Irving and Rowan Cahill

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Radical Sydney explores the lesser-known history of Sydney, revealing its vibrant radical spirit hidden from the polished city image. The authors trace this alternative Sydney from the 1830s Rocks area through to the 1980s inner suburbs, highlighting working-class neighbourhoods as cradles of dissent, bohemian culture, and political activism. The book covers key movements and moments including anti-conscription protests, resident activism, anarchism, Gay Rights marches on Oxford Street, and Black Power in Redfern.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in Australian history, social movements, urban studies, and those curious about Sydney's complex and radical past beyond the mainstream narrative.

The working-class suburbs to the south and west of Sydney were large and explosive places of marginalised ideas, bohemian neighbourhoods, dissident politics and contentious action. Radical Sydney traces its development from The Rocks in the 1830s to the inner suburbs of the 1980s.

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Sydney: a beautiful international city with impressive buildings, harbour-side walkways, public gardens, cafes, restaurants, theatres and hotels. This is the way Sydney is represented to its citizens and to the rest of the world.

But there has always been another Sydney not viewed so fondly by the city's rulers, a radical part of Sydney. The working-class suburbs to the south and west of the city were large and explosive places of marginalised ideas, bohemian neighbourhoods, dissident politics and contentious action.

Through a series of snapshots, Radical Sydney traces its development from The Rocks in the 1830s to the inner suburbs of the 1980s. It includes a range of incidents, people and places, from freeing protestors in the anti-conscription movement, resident action movements in Kings Cross, anarchists in Glebe, to Gay Rights marches on Oxford Street and Black Power in Redfern.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781742230931

Publisher: NewSouth Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 2010

Country: Australia

Imprint: NewSouth Publishing

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 153.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 384

Collections

Education & Reference History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction Rowan Cahill Terry Irving

About the Author

Rowan Cahill is a tutor at the University of Wollongong in Australia. He is the coauthor of History of the Seamen's Union of Australia, 1872-1972 and Twentieth Century Australia: Conflict and Consensus and the coeditor of A Turbulent Decade: Social Protest Movements and the Labour Movement, 1965-1975. Terry Irving is a visiting professorial fellow at the University of Wollongong. He is the author of The Southern Tree of Liberty and the coauthor of Childe and Australia: Archaeology, Politics and Ideas and Places, Protests, and Memorabilia: The Labour Heritage Register of New South Wales.