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The Oxford companion to Australian history / edited by Graeme Davison, John Hirst, Stuart Macintyre, with the assistance of Helen Doyle, Kim Torney.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Australia--History--Encyclopedias.
- Australia.
- Genre:
- Encyclopedias.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 722 p.) : maps (some col.)
- Edition:
- Revised edition
- Other Title:
- Australian history
- Place of Publication:
- South Melbourne ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Oxford Companion to Australian History draws on the latest scholarship and covers people, institutions, and events that have shaped Australian society, politics and culture. There are entries on politicians, colonisers, visionaries, newspaper barons, industrialists, explorers, writers, artists, and scientists. There are numerous extended essays on key facets of the nation's life - political, social, cultural, scientific, military, and economic. Readers will find incisive entries on matters such as, art, capital punishment, gambling, language, literature, military history, republicanism, and reconciliation.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780191735165
- 0191735167
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