Australia's boldest experiment : war and reconstruction in the 1940s / Stuart Macintyre
- Bib ID:
- 6574467
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Macintyre, Stuart, 1947-2021, author
- Description:
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- Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2015
- ©2015
- xi, 596 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9781742231129 (paperback)
- 1742231128 (paperback)
- Summary:
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A major new account of the 1940s in Australia. In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatised by World War I, hammered by the Depression and overstretched by World War II became a prosperous, successful and growing society by the 1950s. An extraordinary group of individuals, notably John Curtin, Ben Chifley, Nugget Coombs, John Dedman and Robert Menzies, re-made the country, planning its reconstruction against a background of wartime sacrifice and austerity. The other part of this triumphant story shows Australia on the world stage, seeking to fashion a new world order that would bring peace and prosperity. This book shows the 1940s to be a pivotal decade in Australia. At the height of his powers, Macintyre reminds us that key components of the society we take for granted u work, welfare, health, education, immigration, housing u are not the result of military endeavour but policy, planning, politics and popular resolve.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 478-580) and index.
- Subject:
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- Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Australia
- Australia -- Economic conditions -- 1939-1945
- Australia -- Economic policy -- 1939-1945
- Australia -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
- Australia -- Economic policy -- 1945-
- Australia -- Social conditions -- 1939-1945
- Australia -- Social conditions -- 1945-
- Australia -- History -- 20th century
- Australian
- 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:
- 2015
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