A Concise History Of Australia

Stuart MacIntyre

Cambridge University Press, Aug 1, 2004 - History - 342 pages

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 the most recent historical research 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.

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Contents

• Beginnings: 1
• Newcomers c 16001792: 16
• Coercion 17931821: 34
• Emancipation 18221850: 52
• In thrall to progress 18511888: 85
• National reconstruction 18891913: 121
• Sacrifice 19141945: 156
• Golden age 19461974: 199
• Reinventing Australia 19752004: 242
• What next?: 291
• Sources of quotations: 298
• Guide to further reading: 314
• Index: 327

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Concise History Of Australia; A Concise History of Australia, Stuart Macintyre; Cambridge concise histories
• Author: Stuart MacIntyre
• Edition: 2, illustrated
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004
• ISBN: 0521601010, 9780521601016
• Length: 342 pages
• Subjects: History / Australia & New Zealand