The Shortest History of Australia
eBook - ePub

The Shortest History of Australia

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Shortest History of Australia

About this book

The history of Australia has been written before – but not like this.

In The Shortest History of Australia, Mark McKenna offers a compelling new version of our national story. This is a modern Australia permeated by First Nations history; a multicultural society with an island mindset; a continent of epic beauty and extreme natural events; a country obsessed by war abroad but blind to its founding war at home; and a thriving nation-state still to realise its political independence.

McKenna's wise and humane history reveals the surprising in the familiar, and reframes the past so we can see the present more clearly.

'Remarkable... a deeply humane account of who we are and how we came to be' — Larissa Behrendt

'A deeply imaginative, beautifully written and individual book' –– Robert Manne

'Original, eloquent and moving – a revelatory journey into the past we thought we knew' –– Tom Griffiths

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. 1. The Founding Lie
  7. 2. From Ubirr
  8. 3. The Island Dilemma
  9. 4. Taking the Land
  10. 5. War and Memory
  11. 6. Fire and Water
  12. 7. Fault Lines
  13. 8. Homelands
  14. 9. Facing North
  15. 10. ‘The Big Picture’
  16. Epilogue: Modernity and Antiquity
  17. Author’s Note
  18. Image Credits
  19. Notes
  20. Index
  21. Back Cover