A concise history of Australia / Stuart Macintyre.
"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...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
| Series: | Cambridge concise histories.
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Beginnings 1
- 2 Newcomers, c. 1600-1792 16
- 3 Coercion, 1793-1821 35
- 4 Emancipation, 1822-1850 53
- 5 In thrall to progress, 1851-1888 86
- 6 National reconstruction, 1889-1913 122
- 7 Sacrifice, 1914-1945 156
- 8 Golden age, 1946-1974 200
- 9 Reinventing Australia, 1975-2008 243
- 10 What next? 302.