Publication

2015 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

99,000 words, Guess

Page Count

396 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • LCCDU110
  • LCCDU112 .M13 2016

Description

"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"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Concise History of AustraliaCambridge University Press2015-01-01

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