
A Concise History of Australia
Stuart Macintyre(Author)
Cambridge University Press
5th Edition
Published on 3. August 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
412 pages
978-1-108-72848-5 (ISBN)
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.
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Series
Edition
5th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 6 Maps; 48 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
516 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-72848-5 (9781108728485)
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Stuart Macintyre
A Concise History of Australia
E-Book
08/2020
5th Edition
Cambridge University Press
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Stuart Macintyre
Concise History of Australia
E-Book
08/2020
Cambridge University Press
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Previous edition

Stuart Macintyre
A Concise History of Australia
Book
10/2015
4th Edition
Cambridge University Press
€48.20
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Person
Stuart Macintyre is an Emeritus Laureate Professor of the University of Melbourne. He served as president of the Australian Historical Association and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and is currently chair of the Heritage Council of Victoria and president of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. Among the forty books he has written or edited are The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 4 (1986), The History Wars (2003) and Australia's Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s (2015). With Alison Bashford he edited the Cambridge History of Australia (2013).
Content
1. Beginnings, c. 50,000 years before the present-c. 1600; 2. Newcomers, c. 1600-1792; 3. Coercion, 1793-1821; 4. Conquest, 1822-1850; 5. Progress, 1851-1888; 6. Reconstruction, 1889-1913; 7. Sacrifice, 1914-1945; 8. Golden age, 1946-1975; 9. Rectification, 1976-1996; 10. Outcomes, 1997-2019.