Australian History For Dummies

ISBN-13: 9780730395454 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 496 str.

Alex (Historian and research scholar at La Trobe University

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Introduction 1Part 1: Let's Get This Country Started 5Chapter 1: Aussie, Aussie, Aussie 7Chapter 2: First Australians: Making a Home, Receiving Visitors 23Chapter 3: Second Arrivals and First Colonials 33Chapter 4: Colony Going Places (With Some Teething Troubles) 53Chapter 5: A Nation of Second Chances 71Part 2: 1820s to 1900: Wool, Gold, Bust and then Federation 89Chapter 6: Getting Tough, Making Money and Taking Country 91Chapter 7: Economic Collapse and the Beginnings of Nationalism 115Chapter 8: The Discovery of Gold and an Immigration Avalanche 133Chapter 9: Explorers, Selectors, Bushrangers and Trains 155Chapter 10: Work, Play and Politics during the Long Boom 179Chapter 11: The Economy's Collapsed -- Anyone for Nationhood? 197Part 3: The 20th Century: New Nation, New Trajectories 221Chapter 12: Nation Just Born Yesterday 223Chapter 13: World War I: International and Local Ruptures 243Chapter 14: Australia Unlimited 263Part 4: 1930 to 1949: Going So Wrong, So Soon? 287Chapter 15: A Not So Great Depression 289Chapter 16: World War II Battles 311Chapter 17: Making Australia New Again 335Part 5: 1950 to 2000: Prosperity and Social Turmoil 351Chapter 18: Ambushed -- by Prosperity! 353Chapter 19: Taking Things Apart in the 1960s and 1970s 371Chapter 20: When Old Australia Dies Is New Australia Ready? 389Part 6: 2000 and Beyond: Seeking Solutions to Global and Local Problems 411Chapter 21: Into the New Millennium 413Chapter 22: Facing Off Between Two Australias 425Part 7: The Part of Tens 451Chapter 23: Ten Things Australia Gave the World 453Chapter 24: Ten Game-Changing Moments 457Index 463

O autorze

Alex McDermott is an author, historian, and creative producer. His passion is writing histories which tell the pivotal stories that help us understand how we came to be who we are today. He has contributed his expertise to Screen Australia, State Library Victoria, La Trobe University, SBS, ABC and many other organisations.