| ISBN |
9781760292430 (hardback) |
| Name |
Keneally, Thomas, 1935- author. |
| Title |
Australians : a short history / Thomas Keneally. |
| Published |
Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2016. |
| ©2016 |
| Description |
vi, 986 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
This condensed version of Australian volumes 1, 2, and 3 published in 2016. |
| Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Origins to Eureka -- Eureka to the diggers -- Flappers to Vietnam. |
| Summary |
This is the story of the original Australians and European occupation of their land through the convict era to pastoralists, bushrangers and gold seekers, working men, pioneering women, the rifts wrought by World War I, the rise of hard-nosed radicals from the Left and the Right and the social upheavals of the Great Crash and World War II. Then the Menzies era, the nation changing period of post-war migration and Australia's engagement with Asia, this is a truly masterly history of Australia and its people by an author of outstanding literary skill whose own humanity permeates every page. |
| Subjects |
Penal colonies -- Australia -- History |
| Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia |
| Aboriginal Australians -- History |
| Aboriginal Australians -- First contact with Europeans |
| World War, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Australian |
| World War, 1914-1918 -- Australia |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Australian |
| World War, 1939-1945 -- Australia |
| Australia -- Emigration and immigration -- History |
| Australia -- Social conditions |
| Australia -- History |
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