Turning Points In Australian History

Author : Martin Crotty
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 1921410566
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turning Points in Australian History written by Martin Crotty and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting and stimulating book looks back at turning points and crucial moments in Australian history. Rather than arguing that there have been forks on a pre-determined road, the book challenges us to think about other paths or better paths that might have led to different outcomes.

Author : Martin Crotty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781742240480
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Author : Robert Foster and Paul Sendziuk (eds)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781743051191
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turning Points written by Robert Foster and Paul Sendziuk (eds) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Australia has often been represented as different: convict free, more enlightened in its attitudes toward Aboriginal people, established on rational economic principles, progressive in its social/political development. Some of this is true, some not, but mostly the story is more complex. In this book, eminent historians explore these themes.

Author : Robert Foster
Publisher : Wakefield Press
ISBN 13 : 1743051751
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turning Points written by Robert Foster and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Australia has often been represented as different: convict free, more enlightened in its attitudes toward Aboriginal people, established on rational economic principles, progressive in its social/political development. Some of this is true, some not, but mostly the story is more complex. In this book, eminent historians explore these themes.

Author : Wendy Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781742573977
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Events That Shaped Australia written by Wendy Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features full-colour and historical black and white photographs, maps, documents, and illustrations, all brought to life by well-researched and accessible narratives. The events featured in this book changed Australia and have the nation what it is today. Events that Shaped Australia sets out the detail, the people, the images and the after effects of the most important turning points in our nation's history. Starting with the formation of Gondwanaland and the arrival of indigenous Australians, this book features events in such eras as European colonisation, the Gold Rush, Federation, two World Wars and the later part of the 20th Century. Moving into the new millennium, the Bali Bombings, the Tampa controversy and the Rudd-Gillard-Abbott government crises are all featured. Events that Shaped Australia features rare colour and black and white photographs, as well as maps, documents and illustrations brought to life by well-researched and accessible narratives.

Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316409154
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Upheaval written by Jared Diamond and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "riveting and illuminating" Bill Gates Summer Reading pick about how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't (Yuval Noah Harari), by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the landmark bestseller Guns, Germs, and Steel. In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, in his third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crises while adopting selective changes -- a coping mechanism more commonly associated with individuals recovering from personal crises. Diamond compares how six countries have survived recent upheavals -- ranging from the forced opening of Japan by U.S. Commodore Perry's fleet, to the Soviet Union's attack on Finland, to a murderous coup or countercoup in Chile and Indonesia, to the transformations of Germany and Austria after World War Two. Because Diamond has lived and spoken the language in five of these six countries, he can present gut-wrenching histories experienced firsthand. These nations coped, to varying degrees, through mechanisms such as acknowledgment of responsibility, painfully honest self-appraisal, and learning from models of other nations. Looking to the future, Diamond examines whether the United States, Japan, and the whole world are successfully coping with the grave crises they currently face. Can we learn from lessons of the past? Adding a psychological dimension to the in-depth history, geography, biology, and anthropology that mark all of Diamond's books, Upheaval reveals factors influencing how both whole nations and individual people can respond to big challenges. The result is a book epic in scope, but also his most personal yet.

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ISBN 13 : 9780727013392
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turning Points in the Making of Australia written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tom Brooking
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milestones written by Tom Brooking and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Craig Campbell
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1742371825
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Australian Schooling written by Craig Campbell and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social history of school education in Australia, from dame schools and one teacher classrooms in the bush, to the growth of private schools under public funding in recent years.

Author : Ian W. McLean
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691171335
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Australia Prospered written by Ian W. McLean and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Why Australia Prospered is a fascinating historical examination of how Australia cultivated and sustained economic growth and success. Beginning with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth century, Ian McLean argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity across nearly two centuries was reached and maintained by several shifting factors. These included imperial policies, favorable demographic characteristics, natural resource abundance, institutional adaptability and innovation, and growth-enhancing policy responses to major economic shocks, such as war, depression, and resource discoveries. Natural resource abundance in Australia played a prominent role in some periods and faded during others, but overall, and contrary to the conventional view of economists, it was a blessing rather than a curse. McLean shows that Australia's location was not a hindrance when the international economy was centered in the North Atlantic, and became a positive influence following Asia's modernization. Participation in the world trading system, when it flourished, brought significant benefits, and during the interwar period when it did not, Australia's protection of domestic manufacturing did not significantly stall growth. McLean also considers how the country's notorious origins as a convict settlement positively influenced early productivity levels, and how British imperial policies enhanced prosperity during the colonial period. He looks at Australia's recent resource-based prosperity in historical perspective, and reveals striking elements of continuity that have underpinned the evolution of the country's economy since the nineteenth century.