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A Concise History of Australia

A Concise History of Australia

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Stuart Macintyre
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 356
  • Publication date: 2004
  • Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Weight: 0.44 kg Note that the actual book cover may differ from the picture

Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands of 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 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. This revised edition incorporates historical research until 2004 and contemporary historical debates on frontier violence between European settlers and Aborigines and the Stolen Generations. It covers the Sydney Olympics, the refugee crisis and the 'Pacific solution'. More than ever before, Australians draw on the past to understand their future.