A concise history of Australia
"Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and describes...
| Main Author: | Macintyre, Stuart, 1947- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
| Series: |
Cambridge concise histories.
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| Summary: |
"Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and describes how they brought technology, institutions and ideas to make it their own. It relates the advance from penal colony to a prosperous free nation and illustrates how, in a nation created by waves of newcomers, the search for binding traditions has long been frustrated by the feeling of rootlessness. The third edition of this acclaimed book recounts the key factors - social, economic and political - that have shaped modern-day Australia. It covers the rise and fall of the Howard government, the 2007 elections and the apology to the stolen generation. More than ever before, Australians draw on the past to understand their future."--Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: |
xiii, 354 p. : ill, maps : 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [326]-338) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780521516082 (hbk.) 0521516080 (hbk.) 9780521735933 (pbk.) 0521735939 (pbk.) |
| Author Notes: |
His awards include Premier of Victoria's Literary Award for Australian Studies (1986), Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1987), Redmond Barry Award (1997), The Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award (1998)for his book The Reds, Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1999), Premier of New South Wales' Australian History Prize (2004)for the History Wars (co-written with Anna Clark), Officer of the Order of Australia (2011), and the Ernest Scott Prize (2016) for his book Australia's Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s, and the Premier New South Wales' Australian History Prize (2016) for Australia's Boldest Experiment. (Bowker Author Biography) |