Restless Men

Karen Downing is a Visitor in the School of History at The Australian National University, Australia. She has a PhD from the Australian National University where she has taught gender and historiography and theory courses. Currently she is the assistant editor of History Australia.

Introduction: Restless men 1. Confined by the Gout – Perceptions of Men's Physical Health 2. The Ecstasies and Transports of the Soul – Emotional Journeys of Self-discovery 3. My Head Filled Early With Rambling Thoughts – Raising Boys and Making Men 4. Satisfied with Nothing but Going to Sea – Seafaring Lives and Island Hopes 5. To Think That This Was All My Own – Land, Independence and Emigration 6. The Middle Station of Life – the Anxieties of Social Mobility 7. A Surprising Change of Circumstances – Men's Ambivalent Relationship with Authority 8. The Centre of All My Enterprises – the Paradox of Families Conclusion: 'Robinson Crusoe untravelled…'