A Concise History of Australia Revised Edition Contributor(s): MacIntyre, Stuart (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521516080 ISBN-13: 9780521516082 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: June 2009 * Out of Print * Annotation: The third edition of this book recounts the key factors - social, economic and political - that have shaped modern-day Australia. Click for more in this series: Cambridge Concise Histories |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Australia & New Zealand - General |
Dewey: 994 |
Series: Cambridge Concise Histories |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.6" W x 8.6" L (1.25 lbs) 354 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Australian |
Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): MacIntyre, Stuart: - Stuart Macintyre is the Ernest Scott Professor of History at the University of Melbourne.Macintyre, Stuart: - Stuart Macintyre is the Ernest Scott Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. |
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