Australia: A Reissue of Volume VII, Part I of the Cambridge History of the British Empire

by Edited by Ernest Scott , Introduction by G. C. Bolton , Edited by J. Holland Rose , A. P. Newton , E. A. Benians

• ISBN13: 9780521168533
• ISBN10: 0521168538
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-09
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The publication in 1933 of the Australia volume of the Cambridge History of the British Empire was a landmark in historical interpretation of the nation and its place in the world. To coincide with the Australian Bicentenary in 1988, Cambridge University Press reissued this book in an unaltered edition. For this reissue Professor Geoffrey Bolton contributed a specially commissioned introduction assessing the importance, historical context and legacy of the volume.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Preface to the first edition

Abbreviations

The Australian environment

The exploration of the Pacific

British settlement in Australia, 1783-1806

The extension of settlement

The exploration of Australia 1813-1865

New South Wales and its daughter colonies, 1821-1850

The wool trade and the squatters S. H. Roberts

Experiments in colonisation

The gold discoveries

The establishment of responsible government

Economic and political development, 1860-1885

The western Pacific, 1788-1885

Economic and political development 1885-1900

Self-government in Australia, 1860-1900

The Federation movement and the founding of the Commonwealth

The Constitution and its workings

The Commonwealth, 1900-1914

Australia and the Empire, 1855-1921

Australia in the World War

military

Political

Economic

Australia since the War

Cultural development

Bibliography

Index

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