A concise history of Australia
By: Stuart Macintyre
Edition: 3rd ed.
Series: Cambridge concise histories; Cambridge concise histories
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; Port Melbourne, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780521516082; 9780521735933
Subjects: Politics and government; Environmental conditions; History; Aboriginal Australians; Republicanism
Description: "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 how they brought technology, institutions and ideas to make it their own. It relates the advance from penal colony to a prosperous free nation and illustrates how, in a nation created by waves of newcomers, the search for binding traditions has long been frustrated by the feeling of rootlessness. The third edition of this acclaimed book recounts the key factors - social, economic and political - that have shaped modern-day Australia. It covers the rise and fall of the Howard government, the 2007 elections and the apology to the stolen generation. More than ever before, Australians draw on the past to understand their future."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Previous ed.: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-338) and index.