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A concise history of Australia
- Title
- A concise history of Australia / Stuart Macintyre.
- Author
- Macintyre, Stuart, 1947-2021
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2020]
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- Description
- xi, 398 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white); 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Stuart Macintyre, one of Australia's most highly regarded historians, revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Australia's past and its relationship to the present. Integrating new scholarship with the historical record, the fifth edition of A Concise History of Australia brings together the long narrative of Australia's First Nations' peoples; the arrival of Europeans and the era of colonies, convicts, gold and free settlers; the foundation of a nation state; and the social, cultural, political and economic developments that created a modern Australia. As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, Macintyre's Australia remains one of achievements and failures. So too the future possibilities are deeply rooted in the country's past endeavours. A Concise History of Australia is an invitation to examine this past"--
- Series Statement
- Cambridge Concise Histories
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge concise histories.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Beginnings, c. 50,000 years before the present -- c. 1600 Newcomers -- c. 1600-1792 Coercion -- 1793-1821 Conquest -- 1822-1850 5 Progress -- 1851-1888 Reconstruction -- 1889-1913 Sacrifice -- 1914-1945 Golden age -- 1946-1975 Rectification -- 1976-1996 Outcomes -- 1997-2019.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-2327
- ISBN
- 9781108728485
- 1108728480
- LCCN
- 2020023250
- OCLC
- 1135979453
- Author
- Macintyre, Stuart, 1947-2021, author.
- Title
- A concise history of Australia / Stuart Macintyre.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2020]
- Edition
- Fifth edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge Concise HistoriesCambridge concise histories.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Macintyre, Stuart, A concise history of Australia New York : Cambridge University Press, 2020. 9781108628914 (DLC) 2020023251
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-2327