Authors: Stuart Macintyre
ISBN-13: 9780521735933, ISBN-10: 0521735939
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: June 2009
Edition: 3rd Edition
Stuart Macintyre has been the Ernest Scott Professor of History at the University of Melbourne since 1990 and is a former president of the Australian Historical Association. His books include The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 4 (1986), A Colonial Liberalism (1991) and A History for a Nation (1994), and more recently, The History Wars (2003). Since 1999 he has been Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne.
This insightful and eloquent book is the most up-to-date single-volume Australian history available.
1 | Beginnings | 1 |
2 | Newcomers, c. 1600-1792 | 16 |
3 | Coercion, 1793-1821 | 34 |
4 | Emancipation, 1822-1850 | 52 |
5 | In thrall to progress, 1851-1888 | 85 |
6 | National reconstruction, 1889-1913 | 121 |
7 | Sacrifice, 1914-1945 | 156 |
8 | Golden age, 1946-1974 | 199 |
9 | Reinventing Australia, 1975-2004 | 242 |
10 | What next? | 291 |