Writer, historian, podcaster, and Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University, Yves Rees developed an early fascination for Australia’s place in the world. With Travelling to Tomorrow: The modern women who sparked Australia’s romance with America, Rees looks at the nature of US global power. Rebels, trailblazers, and disruptors; Rees lays out the lives of fascinating Australian women who shed convention and ventured across the Pacific for economic opportunity – and thus shifted the very trajectory of our country. “Long before the rampant Americanisation of the 1960s, or even the ‘turn to America’ of [WWII], hundreds of Australian women had sought their fortunes in the United States, and returned abuzz with new ideas about work, life and art,” says Rees. Rather than war, politics, or cultural imperialism, Rees suggests it was women’s agency that profoundly shaped Australian-US relations.
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