A concise history of Australia / Stuart Macintyre
- Bib ID:
- 4492163
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Macintyre, Stuart, 1947-2021
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
- Description:
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- Cambridge ; Port Melbourne, Vic. : Cambridge University Press, 2009
- xiii, 354 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780521735933
- 9780521516082
- Series:
- Cambridge concise histories.
- Summary:
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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.
- Notes:
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- Previous ed.: 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-338) and index.
- Subject:
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- Aboriginal Australians -- History
- Republicanism -- Australia
- Mining industry
- Land rights - Excisions and leases - Pastoral leases
- Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations
- Economics - Cycles
- Settlement and contacts - Penal colonies / Convicts
- Race relations - Racism - Stereotyping
- Ethics - History
- Politics and Government - Politicians
- Settlement and contacts - First Fleet, 1788
- Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Pastoral industry
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Government policy - Initial period and protectionism
- Native title - Cases
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers
- Demography - Urbanisation - Non-Indigenous
- Defence - Vietnam War
- Employment - Conditions - Industrial relations - Trade unions
- Government policy - Self determination
- Politics and Government - Political parties
- Education
- Colonisation
- Environment - Conservation
- Defence - World War I
- Politics and Government - National symbols and events - Apologies
- Settlement and contacts - Ethnic groups, immigration and multiculturalism
- Religion - Dreaming
- Religions - Christianity - Missions
- Defence - World War II
- Government policy - Assimilation
- Employment - Discrimination
- Race relations - Racism
- History - Battles
- Australia -- History
- Australia -- Politics and government
- Australia -- Environmental conditions
- Melbourne (Vic SJ55-05)
- Blue Mountains (W Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Parramatta (W Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Botany Bay (S Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Hawkesbury River area (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Sydney (NSW SI56-05)
- Pinjarra (SW WA SI50-02)
- Adelaide (SE SA SI54-09)
- Ballarat (W Vic SJ54-08)
- Australia
- Healesville / Coranderrk (E Vic Yarra Valley SJ55-06)
- Tasmania (Tas)
- Hobart (SE Tas SK55-08)
- Myall Creek (N NSW SH56-05)
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2091 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2021
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1999
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