The Oxford companion to Australian history / edited by Graeme Davison, John Hirst and Stuart Macintyre with the assistance of Helen Doyle and Kim Torney
- Bib ID:
- 2004060
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Melbourne : Oxford University Press, 1998
- xx, 716 p. : maps ; 26 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0195535979 (hardback)
- Summary:
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"The Companion draws on the latest scholarship and covers the people, institutions, and events that have shaped Australian society, politics, and culture. It is edited by three of Australia's finest historians - Graeme Davison, John Hirst, and Stuart Macintyre - and includes contributions from 317 scholars and writers throughout Australia." "The Companion contains approximately 1600 entries, ranging from essays of up to 2000 words to succinct, factual entries of 100 words. There are entries on politicians, colonisers, visionaries, newspaper barons, industrialists, explorers, writers, artists, and scientists. All the most famous Australians appear in the Companion, including Don Bradman, Ned Kelly, John Curtin, Joan Sutherland, and Patrick White. There are entries on the states, key institutions, prominent families, and famous or infamous events, such as Gallipoli, the Dismissal, the Rum Rebellion, and the Waterloo Creek Massacre. There are numerous extended essays on key facets of our national life - political, social, cultural, scientific, military, and economic. Readers will find incisive entries on matters such as art, capital punishment, gambling, language, literature, military history, and republicanism."--BOOK JACKET.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Subject:
- Australia -- History -- Encyclopedias
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