Screen LibraryA history of Australia
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave essential histories |
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| Carrier Form: | xv, 305 p.: ill., maps ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780230001640 (pbk.) 0230001645 (pbk.) 9780230001633 0230001637 |
| Index Number: | K611 |
| CLC: | K611 |
| Call Number: | K611/P374-1 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-291) and index. 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: 1803-29 -- New Australias: 1829-49 -- The Golden Lands: 1850-68 -- At the Forefront of the Race: 1868-88 -- A Truly New World: 1888-1901 -- A Protective Nation: 1901-14 -- A Nation at War: 1914-18 -- A Nation Divided: 1919-39 -- Defending Australia: 1939-49 -- Security: 1949-63 -- Dissent and Social Change: 1964-79 -- Global Nation: 1980-2010. 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. This book is an event- and issue-based history of Australia with a chronological narrative which brings to life the ideas, hopes and journeys, both physical and otherwise, of Australians past and present. |