The Oxford History of Australia - Hardcover

Macintyre, Stuart

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9780195546125: The Oxford History of Australia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195546121 ISBN 13: 9780195546125

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1987

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The first volume to appear in the five-volume Oxford History of Australia, this book surveys the forty years following the establishment of the Commonwealth in 1901. It was a time of great change on the continent: institutions were fashioned to meet the needs of a nation; markets were extended; industries were enlarged; and Australians pursued plans for material and social progress through war and economic crisis. Yet as Australia yearned for autonomous nationhood and industrial self-sufficiency, it remained bound to Britain by ties of trade, culture, and sentiment. This narrative history explores the shifting patterns of class conflict and compromise that shaped the course of events and traces the links between the social, economic, and political processes of a nation in transition.

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About the Author:

Stuart Macintyre is a Senior Lecturer in History at University of Melbourne.

Review:

"A resounding success as general history."--American Historical Review

"A lively, scholarly, balanced analysis of the newly united Commonwealth....Macintyre's study is lucid, well written and fully documented....A fine addition to any British Empire collection."--Choice

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