Media: paperback - 216 pages 
Author: E. Kwan
Year: 1987

From the Foreword
I his book fulfils a need long felt by South Australians, not only teachers and students but also general readers. It invites them to develop opinions based on a wide range of fascinating evidence, often presented from the 'ordinary' person's point of view: letters, diaries, photographs, cartoons, sketches, paintings and newspaper reports as well as graphs, diagrams and maps. Suggested by the History Teachers Association and the History Curriculum Committee for South Australia's sesquicentenary, it is one of several State and national projects informing and enthusing Australians about their past ...

From the Introduction
We hope you enjoy finding out and understanding how people in South Australia lived and what they thought. There are many different kinds of evidence for you to consider, including photographs and cartoons, graphs and tables, and extracts from diaries, letters and newspapers. Sometimes the evidence will be an historian's opinion ... This book is arranged thematically as well as chronologically. The central chapters, 'Lifestyles and Livelihoods', allow people of the past to tell their own stories through diaries, letters or interviews. The other chapters, 'People and the Landscape' and 'Town and Country', will help you to see those people against the background of their times and to imagine what life would have been like if you had been in their place. The last section, 'Overview and Review', provides general information which places South Australia in the wider context of Australia and the world.

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Notes on the Source Material
List of Abbreviations

PART 1 1914-1945
Chapter 1 Lifestyles and Livelihoods: War and Depression—People Without Choice?
Des Kelly
Mabel Alleyne
Alexandra Seager
Walter Waye
Joan Airy
Gladys Elphick
Mary Warren
Don McLaren

Chapter 2 People and the Landscape: People and Machines
Filling in the Caps
Making Further Settlement Possible
Urbanising the State

Chapter 3 Town and Country: Diversity and Adversity
Industrialisation
Supporting Facilities
Reaching Out

PART II AFTER 1945
Chapter 4 Lifestyles and Livelihoods: Opportunity and Mobility
Grant
Rhonda
Areti

Chapter 5 People and the Landscape: Development and Conservation
Bigger and Better?
More People, Different People
Conservation Concerns

Chapter 6 Town and Country: Vision and Revision
An Industrial Rather Than Agricultural State
Faster Transport and Communication
Government's Extending Commitments

OVERVIEW AND REVIEW

Select Chronologies
Aboriginal History (South Australia) after 1914
South Australian History after 1914
Australian History after 1914
World Inventions and Firsts after 1914
South Australian Firsts after 1914

Statistics
Population
Living Standards
Production
Transport

Biographies
Sir Donald George Bradman
Fanny Kate Boadicea Cocks
Clarence Michael James Dennis
Donald Allan Dunstan
Lord Howard Walter Florey
Sir Robert Murray Helpmann
Sir Wilhelm Ernst Hans Franz Heysen
Essington Lewis
Lydia Longmore
Doctor Helen Mary Mayo
Dame Roma Flinders Mitchell
Lois O'Donoghue
Sir Mark (Marcus) Laurence Elwin Oliphant
Sir Arvi Hillar Parbo
Sir Thomas Playford
Margaret Rose Preston
Colin Milton Thiele
David Unaipon

CHAPTER NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY 191A Note on Newspaper Titles

INDEX