- 322 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
John Rickard's Australia: A Cultural History, first published in 1988, is still the only short history of Australia from a cultural perspective. It has also acquired a unique reputation as an introduction to the development of Australian society and was listed by the historian and public intellectual John Hirst in his 'First XI: The best Australian history books'. Although arranged chronologically, this book is not a chronicle, still less a laborious detailing of governors and governments: rather, it focuses on the transmission of values, beliefs and customs amongst the diverse mix of peoples who are today's Australians. The story begins with the sixty thousand years of the Aboriginal presence and their continuing material and spiritual relationship with the land, and takes the reader through the turbulent years of British colonisation and the emergence, through prosperity, war and depression, of the cultural accommodations which have been distinctively Australian. This Third Edition concludes with a critical review of the challenges facing contemporary Australia and warns that 'we may get the future we deserve'.
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Australian & Oceanian HistoryIndex
HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Front matter
- Part 1: Sources
- Part 2: Interactions: 1788–1901
- Part 3: The culture: 1901–1939
- Part 4: The culture questioned: 1939–2016
- End matter
- Back cover
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