The story of Australia's people : the rise and rise of a new Australia
Blainey, Geoffrey2016
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In this book, Geoffrey Blainey continues his account of the history of this country from the early Gold Rush to the present day, completing the story of our nation and its people. When Europeans crossed the world to plant a new society in an unknown land, traditional life for Australia's first inhabitants changed forever. For the new arrivals, Australia was a land that rewarded, tricked, tantalised and often defeated. From the Gold Rush to Land Rights and the Digital Age, Blainey brings to life the key events of more recent times that have shaped us into the nation and people we are today. Compelling, groundbreaking and brilliantly readable, The Story of Australia's People Volume II is the second instalment of an ambitious two-part work, and the culmination of the lifework of Australia's most prolific and wide-ranging historian.
Main title:
The story of Australia's people : the rise and rise of a new Australia / Geoffrey Blainey.
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Imprint:
Melbourne, Victoria : Penguin Random House, 2016.[Melbourne, Victoria] Penguin Random House, 2016.©2016
Collation:
x, 486 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : chiefly colour illustrations, maps, photographs ; 24 cm.
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Notes:
Library's N copy signed by Geoffrey Blainey, 8 February 2017.Includes bibliographical references (page [435] - 464) and index.
ISBN:
9780670078028
Dewey class:
994
Language:
English
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Subject:
Australia -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryAustralia -- History -- 1851-1901Australia -- Economic conditions -- 20th centuryAustralia -- Social life and customs -- 20th centuryAustralia -- Social life and customs -- 21st centuryAustralia -- History -- 19th centuryAustralia -- History -- 20th centuryAustralia -- History -- 2001-
BRN:
18118
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