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A sense of Australian uncertainty runs through the period 1916-1935: were Australians a people with their own country, their own responsibilities, their own history to make? Or were they essentially Britons, relocated merely by some chance in a far corner of the globe? Was it their destiny to look forward bravely to an unknown future, or to look backwards on a fading imperial past? Clark takes up and follows as a reprise the themes of earlier volumes, and leaves a nation poised on its greatest trial of destiny - the outbreak of World War II. So concludes this great achievement of scholarship and vision - the story of a nation's soul.
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About the Author
Manning Clark was senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne, and later, Professor of History in the School of General Studies, Australian National University. In 1972 he became the first Professor of Australian History. In June 1975 Clark was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, in recognition of his writing of the monumental A History of Australia. He was named Australian of the Year for 1980. Professor Clark died in May 1991.
Review
'. . . He flooded whole areas with light in ways that nobody had ever done before. He was an oracle, not a conventional historian.' -- Geoffrey Serle
'. . . He looked for great human issues and presented them as moral dramas.' -- Donald Horne
'. . . a novelist, a painter, a theologian and prophet, and from these callings he brings some of the qualities of imagination, the sense of wonder, and the will to create order from chaos, which is as vital to the historian as those other more common and essential skills.' (Geoffrey Blainey)" -- (Geoffrey Blainey)
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- PublisherMelbourne Univ Pr
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0522843522
- ISBN 13 9780522843521
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
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