A Concise History of Australia
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- Sources of quotations
- Guide to further reading
- Index
