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The story of Australia’s people : the rise and fall of ancient Australia / Geoffrey Blainey.
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9780670078714 (hbk.)
0670078719 (hbk.)
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Blainey, Geoffrey, 1930-
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The story of Australia’s people : the rise and fall of ancient Australia / Geoffrey Blainey.
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[Melbourne, Vic.] Viking an imprint of Penguin Books, 2015.
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xii, 434 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
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Maps on endpages.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The vast, ancient land of Australia was settled in two main streams, far apart in time and origin. The first stream of immigrants came ashore some 50,000 years ago when the islands of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea were one. The second began to arrive from Europe at the end of the eighteenth century. Each had to come to terms with the land they found, and each had to make sense of the other. It was not - and is still not - an easy relationship, and the story of Australia's people is as complex as it is rich. The long Aboriginal occupation of Australia witnessed spectacular changes. The rising of the seas isolated the continent and preserved a nomadic way of life as agriculture revolutionised other parts of the world. Over millennia, the Aboriginal people mastered the land's climates, seasons and reserves. Traditional Aboriginal life came under threat the moment Europeans crossed the world to plant a new society in an unknown land. Australia was to be a land that rewarded, tricked, tantalised and often defeated the new arrivals. The meeting of the two cultures is one of the most difficult meetings in history.
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Australia -- History
Australia -- Colonization
Australia -- Economic conditions
Australia -- Social conditions
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