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Informationen zum Autor Stuart Macintyre is an Emeritus Laureate Professor of the University of Melbourne. From 1999 to 2006 he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and he has served as president of the Australian Historical Association and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. His books include The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 4 (1986), The History Wars (2003) and, most recently, Australia's Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s (2015). With Alison Bashford he edited the Cambridge History of Australia (2013). Klappentext This fourth edition investigates the key factors - social, economic and political - that continue to shape modern-day Australia. Zusammenfassung This edition investigates the social! economic and political factors that continue to shape Australia. It explores the effects of an export and investment boom in the early years of the twenty-first century! the continuing search for solutions to climate change! the unauthorised arrival of refugees! Indigenous disadvantage and generational change. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Beginnings; 2. Newcomers, c.1600-1792; 3. Coercion, 1793-1821; 4. Conquest, 1822-1850; 5. Progress, 1851-1888; 6. Reconstruction, 1889-1913; 7. Sacrifice, 1914-1945; 8. Golden age, 1946-1974; 9. Rectification, 1975-1996; 10. Outcomes, 1997-2015.
