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Description

1. xiii, 320 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.

Summary

1. "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."--Jacket.

Series statement

1. Cambridge concise histories

Uniform title

1. Cambridge concise histories

Subject

1. Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850
2. Settlement and contacts - Explorers - European
3. Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1851-
4. History
5. Kolonisatie
6. Aborigines
7. Natievorming
8. Aborigènes d'Australie > Histoire
9. Républicanisme > Australie
10. Australia > History
11. Australia
12. Australien
13. Australie > Politique et gouvernement > Histoire
14. Australie > Histoire

Genre/Form

1. History

Contents

1. 1. Beginnings -- 2. Newcomers, c. 1600-1792 -- 3. Coercion, 1793-1821 -- 4. Emancipation, 1822-1850 -- 5. In thrall to progress, 1851-1888 -- 6. National reconstruction, 1889-1913 -- 7. Sacrifice, 1914-1945 -- 8. Golden age, 1946-1974 -- 9. Reinventing Australia, 1975-1999 -- 10. What next?

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-305) and index.