PLAYFORD’S SOUTH AUSTRALIA: ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA 1933–1968.
Published by Association of Professional Historians Inc., Adelaide, 1996 (1st edition).
SIGNED and inscribed by contributor Peter Strawhan, author of the opening essay, “Growing up in Playford’s South Australia: a personal reminiscence.”
Hardcover, small quarto, xvi, 391 pages, illustrated throughout.
A collection of seventeen essays examining South Australia during Sir Thomas Playford’s long premiership, covering politics, industrialisation, population growth, the “Playmander”, metropolitan development, social change, wartime industry, religion, health and cultural life.