Includes bibliographical references and index

archaeology and anthropology, folsom and Talgai: cowboy archaeology, the frontier and anthropology: reflections on the Australian and American experience, mutant message down under: a new age for an old people, literature and fine arts: the past: burden or asset? the repeated rediscovery of America, travelling, despairing, singing: two poetries, the curve of the Pacific gets in the way, double vision: antipodean or not? history: not as the song of other lands, Australian women in America, from miles Franklin to Jill Ker Conway, driving to Austerica: the Americanization of the postwar Australian city, the creation of Australian space, government, Australian democracy and the American century, civilizing capitalism? game over, insert coins, the Australian-American curriculum for the past and the next twenty years