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Australians : a short history / Thomas Keneally.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keneally, Thomas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Penal colonies--Australia--History.
- Penal colonies.
- Aboriginal Australians--History.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Australia.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (993 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2016.
- Summary:
- A masterly history of Australia and its people by an author of outstanding literary skill whose own humanity permeates every page.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Part Title
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- PART I: ORIGINS TO EUREKA
- 1 THE FIRST COMERS
- 2 OTHER VISITORS
- 3 TRANSPORTATION
- 4 THE FIRST FLEET MEETS EORA
- 5 ARTHUR PHILLIP AND THE RADICAL PLAN
- 6 THE FIRST YEARS
- 7 AN INVADING CULTURE
- 8 ASTOUNDING JOURNEYS
- 9 NO MORAL PERSUASION
- 10 SYDNEY REBELS
- 11 EARNING RESPECTABILITY
- 12 DISCOVERING THE AUSTRALIANS
- 13 PASTORAL AMBITIONS
- 14 BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS
- 15 THE BOUNTY IMMIGRANTS
- 16 LIBERTY AND THE PRESS
- 17 OTHER PARTS
- 18 DISPOSSESSED AND CONTESTED
- 19 THE END OF TRANSPORTATION
- 20 CATEGORIES OF WOMEN
- 21 SETTLERS AND SQUATTERS
- 22 A LIMITLESS FUTURE
- 23 THE NEW POLITICS
- 24 A LAND OF ENGLISH RACES
- 25 PANNING FOR THE FUTURE
- 26 ON THE DIGGINGS
- 27 'SON OF THE SOIL'
- 28 THE MINERS' CAUSE
- 29 MARTIAL LAW
- 30 EUREKA
- PART II: EUREKA TO THE DIGGERS
- 31 OLD AND NEW FACES IN A COLONIAL SOCIETY
- 32 TAKING FURTHER SHAPE
- 33 ONE HUNDRED YEARS COMPLETE
- 34 THE LAST COLONIAL DECADE
- 35 SEEKING FEDERATION, AND HAVING IT
- 36 THE GREAT WAR
- 37 WAR AND PEACE
- PART III: FLAPPERS TO VIETNAM
- 38 WAR'S AFTER-SHADOWS
- 39 THE GREAT CRASH AND FASCISM'S RISE
- 40 APPEASEMENT AND WAR
- 41 SUCCESS AND TRAGEDY IN THE SHADOW OF THE ANCIENT
- 42 JAPAN ASCENDANT
- 43 THE PROPHET AND THE HEROES, THE POLITICIANS AND PRISONERS
- 44 IN THE BALANCE
- 45 PEACE AND ITS DISCONTENTS
- 46 WELCOME TO THE 1950s
- 47 THE ATOMIC YEARS
- 48 A MILLION IMMIGRANTS AND THE ADVANCE TOWARDS VIETNAM
- NOTES
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-952535-38-7
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