This vivid, multi-dimensional history considers the key cultural, social, political and economic events of Australia’s history. Deftly weaving these issues into the wider global context, Mark Peel and Christina Twomey provide an engaging overview of the country’s past, from its first Indigenous people, to the great migrations of recent centuries, and to those living within the more anxiously controlled borders of the present day.

This engaging textbook is an ideal resource for undergraduate students and postgraduate students taking modules or courses on the History of Australia. It will also appeal to general readers who are interested in obtaining a thorough overview of the entire history of Australia, from the earliest times to the present, in one concise volume.

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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.

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Praise for the 1st edition: 'An energetic and multifaceted history of Australia that illuminates a rich national story interlinked within an international context...the book achieves its aim of rendering Australia's past, and the challenges the country has faced and met, with aplomb.' - Patricia O'Brien, Visiting Associate Professor, Georgetown University, USA 'History as it should be - informed and judicious, but conveyed with zest, purpose and enviable clarity. Peel and Twomey weave the myriad strands of Australia's story into a thoroughly absorbing read' - Professor Stuart Ward, University of Copenhagen.
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Concise and authoritative
Dynamic and absorbing accounts of key countries. Each book in this successful series gives a sense of the country’s entire history with emphasis on the last 100 years.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781137605498
Publisert
2017-11-06
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Vekt
540 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
328

Biografisk notat

Mark Peel is Provost at the University of Leicester, UK.

Christina Twomey is a Professor in the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies at Monash University, Australia