A Shorter History Of Australia

Author : Geoffrey Blainey
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 085798439X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Shorter History of Australia written by Geoffrey Blainey and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad, concise and inclusive vision of Australia and Australians by one our most renowned historians. After a lifetime of research and debate on Australian and international history, Geoffrey Blainey is well-placed to introduce us to the people who have played a part and to guide us through the events that have created the Australian identity: the mania for spectator sport; the suspicion of the tall poppy; the rivalries of Catholic and Protestant, Sydney and Melbourne, new and old homelands and new and old allies; the conflicts of war abroad and race at home; the importance of technology; defining the outback; the rise and rise of the mining industry; the recognition of our Aboriginal past and Native Title; the successes and failures of the nation. For this enlarged edition Blainey has rewritten or expanded on various episodes and themes and updated relevant matter. He has described significant events and trends of the early-20th century. A ready-reference timeline of major events in Australian history is also included. The Shorter history of Australia is a must for every home and library.

Author : Charles Manning Hope Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Australia written by Charles Manning Hope Clark and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Convicts - Macquarie - Immigrants and squatters - Gold rushes - World War I (1) - White Australia Policy - Chinese.

Author : GEOFFREY. BLAINEY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781525220746
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SHORTER HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA. written by GEOFFREY. BLAINEY and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ernest Scott
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Australia written by Ernest Scott and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Short History of Australia" is an accurate and informative treatise on Australian history written by an Australian historian and professor of history at the University of Melbourne, Ernest Scott. It is most valuable to the research of the post-settlement years of Sydney, New South Wales, and the other Australian colonies before the establishment of the Federation.

Author : Brian Dickey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000246647
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Charity There written by Brian Dickey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Charity There, now in a revised edition, provides the first general history of social welfare in Australia. It traces the development of official and community attitudes to demands and expectations. Using material not previously readily available, Brian Dickey analyses how Australian society has sought to solve the problems raised by a wide variety of vulnerable groups since 1788: the aged, orphans, single mothers, the insane, alcoholics and the unemployed. No Charity There is a carefully researched and intelligent study of a subject of ever-increasing importance.

Author : Geoffrey Blainey
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
ISBN 13 : 1461709865
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of the World written by Geoffrey Blainey and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 2003-03-08 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb history of the world's people during the last four million years, beginning before the human race moved out of Africa to explore and settle the other continents. Mr. Blainey explores the development of technology and skills, the rise of major religions, and the role of geography, considering both the larger patterns and the individual nature of history. A delightful read, gracefully written, and full of odd and interesting pieces of information as well as thoughtful comparisons that span both time and space. —William L. O'Neill

Author : Andrew Leigh
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1922231045
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battlers and Billionaires written by Andrew Leigh and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Australia fair enough? And why does inequality matter anyway? In Battlers and Billionaires, Andrew Leigh weaves together vivid anecdotes, interesting history and powerful statistics to tell the story of inequality in this country. This is economics writing at its best. From egalitarian beginnings, Australian inequality rose through the nineteenth century. Then we became more equal again, with inequality falling markedly from the 1920s to the 1970s. Now, inequality is returning to the heights of the 1920s. Leigh shows that while inequality can fuel growth, it also poses dangers to society. Too much inequality risks cleaving us into two Australias, occupying fundamentally separate worlds, with little contact between the haves and the have-nots. And the further apart the rungs on the ladder of opportunity, the harder it is for a kid born into poverty to enter the middle class. Battlers and Billionaires sheds fresh light on what makes Australia distinctive, and what it means to have – and keep – a fair go.

Author : Peter Pierce
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052188165X
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Australian Literature written by Peter Pierce and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on scholarship from leading figures in the field and spans Australian literary history from colonial origins, indigenous and migrant literatures, as well as representations of Asia and the Pacific and the role of literary culture in modern Australian society.

Author : Ernest Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Australia written by Ernest Scott and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Zubrzycki
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1743822359
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shortest History of India written by John Zubrzycki and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of fake news and half-truths, the radical potential of democracy is more important than ever, as this nimble, illuminating history by a celebrated political theorist reveals. From its beginnings in Syria-Mesopotamia – and not Athens – to its role in fomenting revolutionary fervour in France and America, democracy has subverted fixed ways of deciding who should enjoy power and privilege, and why. For democracy encourages people to do something radical: to come together as equals, to determine their own lives and futures. In this vigorous, illuminating history, acclaimed political thinker John Keane traces its byzantine history, from the age of assembly democracy in Athens, to European-inspired electoral democracy and the birth of representative government, to our age of monitory democracy. He gives new reasons why democracy is a precious global ideal. As the world has come to be shaped by democracy, it has grown more worldly – American-style liberal democracy is giving way to regional varieties with a local character in places such as Taiwan, India, Senegal and South Africa. In an age of crisis, we need the radical potential of democracy more than ever. Does it have a future, or will the demagogues and despots win? We are about to find out. John Keane is professor of politics at the University of Sydney and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin and founded London’s Centre for the Study of Democracy and the Sydney Democracy Network. Among his many books, The Life and Death of Democracy was shortlisted for the 2010 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction and translated into many languages. He was recently nominated for the Balzan and Holberg prizes, for outstanding global contributions to the human sciences.