| Edition |
3rd ed. |
| Description |
xiii, 354 pages : illustrations, maps : 23 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge concise histories. |
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Cambridge concise histories.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [326]-338) and index. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
1 Beginnings 1 -- 2 Newcomers, c. 1600-1792 16 -- 3 Coercion, 1793-1821 35 -- 4 Emancipation, 1822-1850 53 -- 5 In thrall to progress, 1851-1888 86 -- 6 National reconstruction, 1889-1913 122 -- 7 Sacrifice, 1914-1945 156 -- 8 Golden age, 1946-1974 200 -- 9 Reinventing Australia, 1975-2008 243 -- 10 What next? 302. |
| Subject |
Australia -- History.
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Aboriginal Australians -- History.
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Australia -- Politics and government.
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Australia
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| Chronological Term |
Geschichte
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Geschichte.
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| Subject |
Australia. (DE-588)4003900-6
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians. (OCoLC)fst00794496
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Political science. (OCoLC)fst01069781
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Australia. (OCoLC)fst01204543
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| ISBN |
9780521516082 hardback |
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0521516080 hardback |
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9780521735933 paperback |
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0521735939 paperback |
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