A history of Australia / Mark Peel, Christina Twomey
- Bib ID:
- 5756660
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Peel, Mark, 1959-
- Description:
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- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
- xv, 305 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780230001640
- 0230001645
- 9780230001633
- 0230001637
- Series:
- Palgrave essential histories.
- Summary:
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"For tens of thousands of years, humans have imagined, visited and inhabited Australia as a place in which to make a future. From the first explorers, who sailed and eventually settled into the inlets and river mouths of the northern coast some sixty or eighty thousand years ago via the transportations of the eighteenth century to the anxious border controls of the twenty-first, and through the great migrations of the centuries in between, Australia's story-and its place in the world-have been shaped by movement and mobility. Mark Peel's History of Australia is an event- and issue-based history of Australia with a clear chronological narrative which succeeds brilliantly in bringing to life the ideas, hopes and journeys -- both physical and otherwise -- of Australians past and present"--
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- List of Illustrations
- List of Maps, Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- First People
- The Great South Land: 1500-1800
- Britain's Prison: Convicts, Settlers and Indigenous People: 1788-1802
- Free and Unfree: Reforming New South Wales: 1803-1829
- New Australias: 1829-1849
- The Golden Lands: 1850-1868
- At the Forefront of the Race: 1868-1888
- A Truly New World: 1888-1901
- A Protective Nation: 1901-1914
- A Nation at War: 1914-1918
- A Nation Divided: 1919-1939
- Defending Australia: 1939-1949
- Security: 1949-1963
- Dissent and Social Change: 1964-1979
- Global Nation: 1980-2010
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Twomey, Christina
- Copyright:
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