Radical Brisbane: An Unruly History
Edited by Raymond Evans and Carole Ferrier
ISBN 0 95807945 5

Mainstream historical writing on Brisbane tends to present itself as a sleepy and sunny metropolis - a hedonistic sort of place, where nothing much of earth-shattering importance has ever happened - law-abiding, passionless and essentially boring. Yet Brisbane possesses a parallel history of largely hidden struggles, radical mobilizations and utopian dreams. Radical Brisbane: An Unruly History resurrects this story for the first time. In its pages we visit well-known spots to uncover - like enthusiasts on an archeological dig -

a lost world of street battles,
passionate campaigns, fiery visionaries
and punitive repressions.