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"Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery."
- C. C. Colton
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 Format: Paperback, 334 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521625777
Release Date: Jan 1, 2000
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Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands of years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and describes how they brought technology, institutions and ideas to make it their own. It relates the advance from penal colony to a prosperous free nation and illustrates how, in a nation created by waves of newcomers, the search for binding traditions has long been frustrated by the feeling of rootlessness. Now, with the realisation that colonisation began with invasion, present-day Australians are - more than ever before - coming to terms with their past and recognising the need to redefine and reposition Australia in a changing world. This is the most up-to-date single-volume Australian history available.
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| | | |  | | | | List of illustrations | | | Acknowledgements | | | 1 | Beginnings | 1 | | 2 | Newcomers, c. 1600-1792 | 17 | | 3 | Coercion, 1793-1821 | 36 | | 4 | Emancipation, 1822-1850 | 54 | | 5 | In thrall to progress, 1851-1888 | 86 | | 6 | National reconstruction, 1889-1913 | 122 | | 7 | Sacrifice, 1914-1945 | 155 | | 8 | Golden age, 1946-1974 | 196 | | 9 | Reinventing Australia, 1975-1999 | 236 | | 10 | What next? | 274 | | Sources of quotations | 281 | | Guide to further reading | 293 | | Index | 306 |
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