A Concise History of Australia (Cambridge Concise Histories)

✍ Scribed by Stuart Macintyre

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 364
Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
Edition: 3
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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 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, as a nation created by waves of newcomers, the search for binding traditions was long frustrated by the feeling of rootlessness, until it came to terms with its origins. 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 election and the apology to the stolen generation. More than ever before, Australians draw on the past to understand their future.

✦ Table of Contents

A Concise History of Australia......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 5
ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 8
1. Beginnings
......Page 11
2. Newcomers, c. 1600-1792
......Page 26
3. Coercion, 1793-1821
......Page 45
4. Emancipation, 1822-1850
......Page 63
5. In thrall to progress, 1851-1888
......Page 96
6. National reconstruction, 1889-1913
......Page 132
7. Sacrifice,
1914-1945......Page 166
8.
Golden age, 1946-1974......Page 210
9.
Reinventing Australia, 1975-2008......Page 253
10.
What next ?......Page 312
Sources of Quotations
......Page 319
Guide to Further Reading
......Page 336
Index
......Page 349

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