A History of Australia

by Peel, Mark; Twomey, Christina

• ISBN13: 9780230001640
• ISBN10: 0230001645
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

For tens of thousands of years, humans have imagined, visited and inhabited Australia as a place in which to make a future. From the first explorers, who sailed and eventually settled into the inlets and river mouths of the northern coast some sixty or eighty thousand years ago via the transportations of the eighteenth century to the anxious border controls of the twenty-first, and through the great migrations of the centuries in between, Australia's story-and its place in the world-have been shaped by movement and mobility. Mark Peel's History of Australiais an event- and issue-based history of Australia with a clear chronological narrative which succeeds brilliantly in bringing to life the ideas, hopes and journeys - both physical and otherwise - of Australians past and present.

Author Biography

MARK PEEL is Associate Professor in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University, where he teaches Australian, Comparative and American History. His publications include Good Times, Hard Times: The Past and the Future in Elizabeth, which was short-listed for Non-Fiction in the 1995 Age Book of the Year Award and A Little History of Australia.

CHRISTINA TWOMEY is Associate Professor of History at Monash University, Australia. She has published widely on the cultural history of war, and is the author of Australia's Forgotten Prisoners: Civilians Interned by the Japanese in World War II and Deserted and Destitute: Motherhood, Wife Desertion and Colonial Welfare.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Maps, Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
First People
The Great South Land: 1500-1800
Britain's Prison: Convicts, Settlers and Indigenous People: 1788-1802
Free and Unfree: Reforming New South Wales: 1803-1829
New Australias: 1829-1849
The Golden Lands: 1850-1868
At the Forefront of the Race: 1868-1888
A Truly New World: 1888-1901
A Protective Nation: 1901-1914
A Nation at War: 1914-1918
A Nation Divided: 1919-1939
Defending Australia: 1939-1949
Security: 1949-1963
Dissent and Social Change: 1964-1979
Global Nation: 1980-2010
Notes
Further Reading
Index