Intruders in the bush: The Australian quest for identity

by John Carroll

Intruders In The Bush challenges the bushman legend and presents evidence that it was discontented urban intellectuals in the 1890s who romanticised the bushman and his notions of mateship and eglatiarianism. John Carroll and several other contributors argue that a guilt-stricken, culturally bashful upper middle class promoted the mateship myth and failed to install its own values. The book goes on to look at ways in which Australia has been re-examined in recent books and art. The second edition has been revised and reshaped, and includes major new pieces by Chris Wallace-Crabbe, John Hirst, Robert Manne and John Carroll.

256 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1989

About the author

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John Carroll is a professor of sociology at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and a fellow of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University.