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Online publication date:
June 2014
Print publication year:
2009
Online ISBN:
9780511809996

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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 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 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, as a nation created by waves of newcomers, the search for binding traditions was long frustrated by the feeling of rootlessness, until it came to terms with its origins. The third edition of this acclaimed book recounts the key factors - social, economic and political - that have shaped modern-day Australia. It covers the rise and fall of the Howard government, the 2007 election and the apology to the stolen generation. More than ever before, Australians draw on the past to understand their future.

Reviews

‘At long last here is an accessible, sensible, learned and digestible history of Australia. It is a triumph of Stuart Macintyre’s notable scholarship that he has come up with a book that is concise - not brief, not abbreviated - sharp and to the point … this is a tremendously useful tool for locals and outsiders. It should sit on every Australian’s bookshelf, next to the dictionary and the atlas.’

Nick Richardson Source: Herald-Sun

‘It’s a splendid piece of work and it belongs to a noble tradition … It conveys throughout a joy in writing history, in mastering the detail of the past - a joy especially in struggling with the soul of the country.’

Alan Atkinson Source: Sydney Morning Herald

‘Macintyre’s book is the best short history of Australia since Manning Clark’s classic of 1963.’

Source: The Times Literary Supplement

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Contents

Guide to further reading
REFERENCE
Crowley, Frank and Spearritt, Peter (gen. eds), Australians: A Historical Library, 5 vols: A Historical Atlas, A Historical Dictionary, Events and Places, Historical Statistics, A Guide to Sources (Sydney: Fairfax, Syme and Weldon Associates, 1987).
Hirst, John, Davison, Graeme and Macintyre, Stuart (eds), The Oxford Companion to Australian History (rev. edn, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Horton, David (gen. ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia, 2 vols (Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 1994).
Jupp, James (gen. ed.), The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins (rev. edn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Murray-Smith, Stephen (ed.), The Dictionary of Australian Quotations (rev. edn, Melbourne: Mandarin, 1992).
Pike, Douglas, Nairn, Bede, Serle, Geoffrey, Ritchie, John and Langmore, Diane (gen. eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, 17 vols (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1966–2007).
Ramson, W. S., The Australian National Dictionary: Australian Words and Their Origins (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988).
GENERAL
Blainey, Geoffrey, A Land Half Won (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1980).
Bolton, Geoffrey (ed.), The Oxford History of Australia (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, vols. 2–5, 1986–92).
Breward, Ian, A History of the Churches in Australasia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Burgmann, Verity and Lee, Jenny (eds), A People's History of Australia since 1788, 4 vols (Melbourne: McPhee Gribble/Penguin, 1988).
Clark, C. M. H., A History of Australia, 6 vols (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1962–87).
Denoon, Donald and Mein-Smith, Philippa, with Wyndham, Marivic, A History of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific (Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2000).
Gilbert, Alan D. and Inglis, K. S. (gen. eds), Australians: A Historical Library, 5 vols: Australians to 1788, Australians 1838, Australians 1888, Australians 1938, Australians from 1939 (Sydney: Fairfax, Syme and Weldon Associates, 1987).
Grey, Jeffrey, A Military History of Australia (3rd edn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Grimshaw, Patricia, Lake, Marilyn, McGrath, Ann and Quartly, Marian, Creating a Nation (Melbourne: McPhee Gribble, 1994).
Powell, J. M., An Historical Geography of Modern Australia: The Restive Fringe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
Rickard, John, Australia: A Cultural History (2nd edn, New York: Longman, 1996).
BEGINNINGS
Allen, Jim, Golson, John and Jones, Rhys (eds), Sunda and Sahul (London: Academic Press, 1977).
Blainey, Geoffrey, The Triumph of the Nomads (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1982).
Butlin, N. G., Economics and the Dreamtime: A Hypothetical History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Denoon, Donald (ed.), The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Diamond, Jared, Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years (London: Jonathan Cape, 1997).
Flannery, Timothy Fridtjot, The Future Eaters (Sydney: Reed, 1994).
Flood, Josephine, Archaeology of the Dreamtime: The Story of Prehistoric Australia and its People (rev. edn, Markston, SA: J. B. Publishing, 2004).
Lourandos, Harry, Continent of Hunter-Gatherers: New Perspectives in Australian Prehistory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Mulvaney, D. J., Encounters in Place: Outsiders and Aboriginal Australians, 1606–1985 (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1989).
Mulvaney, D. J. and Kamminga, Johan, The Prehistory of Australia (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1999).
Mulvaney, D. J. and White, J. Peter(eds), Australians to 1788 (Sydney: Fairfax, Syme and Weldon Associates, 1987).
Pyne, Stephen J., Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992).
NEWCOMERS
Atkinson, Alan, The Europeans in Australia, vol. 1: The Beginning (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1997).
Beaglehole, J. C., The Life of Captain James Cook (London: A. and C. Black, 1974).
Borch, Merete Falck, Conciliation – Compulsion – Conversion: British Attitudes Towards Indigenous Peoples 1763–1814 (Amsterdam: Rodolpi, 2004).
Clark, C. M. H., A History of Australia, vol. I (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1962).
Clendinnen, Inga, Dancing With Strangers (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2003).
Frost, Alan, Botany Bay Mirages: Illusions of Australia's Convict Beginnings (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1994).
Gascoigne, John, The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Hardy, John and Frost, Alan (eds), Studies from Terra Australia to Australia (Canberra: Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1989).
Healy, Chris, From the Ruins of Colonialism: History as Social Memory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Jones, E. L., The European Miracle: Environments, Economies and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia (3rd edn, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Marshall, P. J. (ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. II: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Martin, Ged (ed.), The Founding of Australia: The Argument About Australia's Origins (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1978).
Pagden, Anthony, Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France, c. 1500 to c. 1800 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995).
Reynolds, Henry, Aboriginal Sovereignty: Reflections on Race, State and Nation (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1996).
Smith, Bernard, European Vision and the South Pacific (2nd edn, Sydney: Harper and Row, 1985)
Smith, Bernard, Imagining the Pacific: In the Wake of the Cook Voyages (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1992).
Spate, O. H. K., The Pacific Since Magellan, 3 vols (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1979–88).
Stanner, W. E. H., White Man Got No Dreaming: Essays, 1938–1973 (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1979).
Williams, Glyndwr and Frost, Alan (eds), Terra Australis to Australia (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988).
COERCION
Aplin, Graeme (ed.), A Difficult Infant: Sydney Before Macquarie (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1988).
Atkinson, Alan, The Europeans in Australia, vol. 1: The Beginning (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1997).
Boyce, James, Van Diemen's Land (Melbourne: Black, Inc., 2008).
Broeze, Frank, Island Nation: A History of Australians and the Sea (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1997).
Clark, C. M. H., A History of Australia, vol. I (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1962).
Damousi, Joy, Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Daniels, Kay, Convict Women (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1998).
Fletcher, Brian, Landed Enterprise and Penal Society: A History of Farming and Grazing in New South Wales Before 1821 (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1976).
Frost, Lucy and Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish, Chain Letters: Narrating Convict Lives (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2001).
Hainsworth, D. R., The Sydney Traders: Simeon Lord and his Contemporaries, 1788–1821 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981).
Hirst, J. B., Convict Society and Its Enemies: A History of Early New South Wales (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1983).
Robert, Hughes, The Fatal Shore: A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia, 1787–1868 (London: Collins Harvill, 1987).
Inglis, K. S., The Australian Colonists: An Exploration of Social History, 1788–1870 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1974).
Morgan, Sharon, Land Settlement in Early Tasmania: Creating an Antipodean England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
Neal, David, The Rule of Law in a Penal Colony: Law and Power in Early New South Wales (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
Nicholas, Stephen (ed.), Convict Workers: Reinterpreting Australia's Past (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
Pybus, Cassandra, Black Founders: The Unknown Story of Australia's First Black Settlers (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2006).
Ritchie, John, Lachlan Macquarie: A Biography (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986).
Robson, L. L., The Convict Settlers of Australia (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1965).
Robson, L. L., A History of Tasmania, vol. 1 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1983).
Shaw, A. G. L., Convicts and the Colonies: A Study of Penal Transportation from Great Britain and Ireland to Australia and Other Parts of the British Empire (London: Faber, 1966).
Willey, Keith, When the Sky Fell Down: The Destruction of the Tribes of the Sydney Region, 1788–1850s (Sydney: Collins, 1979).
EMANCIPATION
Atkinson, Alan, The Europeans in Australia, vol. 2: Democracy (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Atkinson, Alan and Aveling, Marian (eds), Australians 1838 (Sydney: Fairfax, Syme and Weldon Associates, 1987).
Boyce, James, Van Diemen's Land (Melbourne: Black, Inc., 2008).
Clark, C. M. H., A History of Australia, vol. II (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1968).
Clark, C. M. H., A History of Australia, vol. III (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1973).
Cochrane, Peter, Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2006).
Critchett, Jan, A ‘Distant Field of Murder’: Western District Frontiers, 1834–1848 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990).
Damousi, Joy, Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Daniels, Kay, Convict Women (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1998).
Denholm, David, The Colonial Australians (Melbourne: Allen Lane, 1979).
Denoon, Donald, Settler Capitalism: The Dynamics of Dependent Development in the Southern Hemisphere (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983).
Dixon, Robert, The Course of Empire: Neo-Classical Culture in New South Wales, 1788–1860 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1986).
Duffield, Ian and Bradley, James (eds), Representing Convicts: New Perspectives on Convict Forced Labour Migration (London: Leicester University Press, 1997).
Healy, Chris, From the Ruins of Colonialism: History as Social Memory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Hirst, J. B., Convict Society and its Enemies: A History of Early New South Wales (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1983).
Inglis, K. S., The Australian Colonists: An Exploration of Social History, 1788–1870 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1974).
Irving, Terry, The Southern Tree of Liberty: The Democratic Movement in New South Wales Before 1856 (Sydney: Federation Press, 2006).
Grace, Karskens, The Rocks: Life in Early Sydney (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1997).
McGrath, Ann, Contested Ground: Australian Aborigines Under the British Crown (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1995).
Milliss, Roger, Waterloo Creek: The Australia Day Massacre of 1838, George Gipps and the British Conquest of New South Wales (Melbourne: McPhee Gribble, 1992).
Nicholas, Stephen (ed.), Convict Workers: Reinterpreting Australia's Past (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
Pike, Douglas, Paradise of Dissent: South Australia, 1829–1857 (2nd edn, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1967).
Reece, R. H. W., Aborigines and Colonists: Aborigines and Colonial Society in New South Wales in the 1830s and 1840s (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1974).
Reynolds, Henry, Frontier: Aborigines, Settlers and Land (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1987).
Reynolds, Henry, The Law of the Land (Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1987).
Reynolds, Henry, Fate of a Free People (Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1995).
Reynolds, Henry, This Whispering in Our Hearts (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1998).
Robson, L. L., A History of Tasmania, vol. 1 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1983).
Roe, Michael, Quest for Authority in Eastern Australia, 1835–1851 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1965).
Ryan, Lyndall, The Aboriginal Tasmanians (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1981).
Ryan, Simon, The Cartographic Eye: How Explorers Saw Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Schaffer, Kay, In the Wake of First Contact: The Eliza Fraser Stories (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
IN THRALL TO PROGRESS
Atkinson, Alan, The Europeans in Australia, vol. 2: Democracy (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Attwood, Bain, The Making of the Aborigines (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1988).
Blainey, Geoffrey, The Rush that Never Ended (5th edn, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2003).
Bolton, Geoffrey, A Thousand Miles Away: A History of North Queensland to 1920 (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1963).
Bonyhady, Tim, The Colonial Earth (Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, 2000).
Cochrane, Peter, Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2006).
Davison, Graeme, The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1978).
Davison, Graeme, McCarty, J. W. and McLeary, Ailsa (eds), Australians 1888 (Sydney: Fairfax, Syme and Weldon Associates, 1987).
Evans, Raymond, A History of Queensland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Fitzgerald, John, Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2007).
Lionel, Frost, The New Urban Frontier: Urbanisation and City Building in Australasia and the American West (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1991).
Gammage, Bill, Narrandera Shire (Narrandera, NSW: Shire Council, 1986).
Goodman, David, Goldseeking: Victoria and California in the 1850s (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1994).
Griffiths, Tom, Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Hassam, Andrew, Sailing to Australia: Shipboard Diaries by Nineteenth-Century British Emigrants (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1994).
Haynes, Roslynn D., Seeking the Centre: The Australian Desert in Literature, Art and Film (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Hirst, John, Adelaide and the Country, 1870–1917: Their Social and Political Relationship (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1973).
Hirst, John, The Strange Birth of Colonial Democracy: New South Wales, 1848–1884 (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1988).
Jackson, H. R., Churches and People in Australia and New Zealand, 1860–1930 (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1987).
Kingston, Beverley, The Oxford History of Australia, vol. 3 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998).
Macintyre, Stuart, A Colonial Liberalism: The Lost World of Three Victorian Visionaries (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1991).
McGrath, Ann, ‘Born in the Cattle’: Aborigines in Cattle Country (North Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1987).
Mulvaney, D. J., Encounters in Place: Outsiders and Aboriginal Australians, 1606–1985 (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1989).
Powell, Alan, Far Country: A Short History of the Northern Territory (2nd edn, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988).
Reynolds, Henry, With the White People (Melbourne: Penguin Books, 1990).
Sayers, Andrew, Aboriginal Artists of the Nineteenth Century (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994).
Serle, Geoffrey, The Golden Age: A History of the Colony of Victoria, 1851–1861 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1963).
Waterson, Duncan, Squatter, Selector and Storekeeper: A History of the Darling Downs, 1859–93 (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1968).
NATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION
Allen, Judith, Rose Scott: Vision and Revision in Feminism (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994).
Anderson, Warwick, The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002).
Bolton, Geoffrey, Edmund Barton (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2000).
Burgmann, Verity, ‘In Our Time’: Socialism and the Rise of Labor, 1885–1905 (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1985).
Chesterman, John and Galligan, Brian, Citizens Without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Gollan, Robin, Radical and Working Class Politics: A Study of Eastern Australia, 1850–1910 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1960).
Haebich, Anna, Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families, 1800–2000 (Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2001).
Hirst, John, The Sentimental Nation: The Making of the Australian Commonwealth (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Irving, Helen, To Constitute a Nation: A Cultural History of Australia's Constitution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Lake, Marilyn and Reynolds, Henry, Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the Question of Racial Equality (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2008).
Magarey, Susan, Passions of the First Wave Feminists (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2001).
McGrath, Ann (ed.), Contested Ground: Australian Aborigines under the British Crown (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1995).
McGregor, Russell, Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory, 1880–1939 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1997).
McMullin, Ross, The Light on the Hill: The Australian Labor Party, 1891–1991 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1991).
Merritt, John, The Making of the AWU (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1986).
Rickard, John, Class and Politics: New South Wales, Victoria and the Early Commonwealth, 1890–1910 (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1976).
Roe, Michael, Nine Australian Progressives: Vitalism in Bourgeois Social Thought, 1890–1960 (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1984).
Souter, Gavin, Lion and Kangaroo. Australia: 1901–1919, The Rise of a Nation (Sydney: William Collins, 1976).
Svensen, Stuart, The Shearers' War: The Story of the 1891 Shearers' Strike (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1989).
Svensen, Stuart, The Sinews of War: Hard Cash and the 1890 Maritime Strike (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1995).
Thompson, Roger, Australian Imperialism in the Pacific: The Expansionist Era, 1820–1920 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1980).
Todd, Jan, Colonial Technology: Science and the Transfer of Innovation to Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Trainor, Luke, British Imperialism and Australian Nationalism: Manipulation, Conflict and Compromise in the Late Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
Walker, David, Anxious Nation: Australia and the Rise of Asia, 1850–1939 (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1999).
SACRIFICE
Andrews, E. M., The Anzac Illusion: Anglo-Australian Relations During World War I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
Attwood, Bain, Rights for Aborigines (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2003).
Bean, C. E. W., Anzac to Amiens (Canberra: Australian War Memorial, 1946).
Brawley, Sean, The White Peril: Foreign Relations and Asian Immigration to Australasia and North America, 1919–78 (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1995).
Brett, Judith, Robert Menzies' Forgotten People (Sydney: Macmillan, 1992).
Brett, Judith, The Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Cochrane, Peter, Australians at War (Sydney: ABC Books, 2002).
Damousi, Joy, The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Damousi, Joy and Lake, Marilyn (eds), Gender and War: Australians at War in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Fitzhardinge, L. F., The Little Digger, 1914–1952: William Morris Hughes, A Political Biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1979).
Gammage, Bill, The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War (Melbourne: Penguin, 1975).
Gammage, Bill and Spearritt, Peter (eds), Australians 1938 (Sydney: Fairfax, Syme and Weldon Associates, 1987).
Garton, Stephen, The Cost of War: Australians Return (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996).
Haebich, Anna, Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families, 1800–2000 (Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2001).
Horner, David, High Command: Australia and Allied Strategy, 1939–1945 (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992).
Inglis, K. S., Sacred Places: War Memorials in the Australian Landscape (3rd edn, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2008).
Johnson, Lesley, The Unseen Voice: A Cultural Study of Early Australian Radio (London: Routledge, 1988).
Johnston, Mark, Fighting the Enemy: Australian Soldiers and their Adversaries in World War II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Lake, Marilyn, The Limits of Hope: Soldier Settlement in Victoria, 1915–38 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1987).
Lake, Marilyn, Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1999).
Lyons, Martin and Taksa, Lucy, Australian Readers Remember: An Oral History of Reading (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1992).
Macintyre, Stuart, The Oxford History of Australia, vol. 4: 1901–1942: The Succeeding Age (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1986).
Macintyre, Stuart, The Reds: The Communist Party of Australia from Origins to Illegality (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1998).
Mackinolty, Judy, The Wasted Years? Australia's Great Depression (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1981).
Martin, A. W., Robert Menzies, a Life, vol. 1: 1894–1943 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993).
McCalman, Janet, Struggletown: Public and Private Life in Richmond, 1900–1965 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1984).
McCalman, Janet, Journeyings: The Biography of a Middle-Class Generation, 1920–1990 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993).
McGregor, Russell, Imagined Destinies: Aboriginal Australians and the Doomed Race Theory, 1880–1939 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1997).
Meredith, David and Dyster, Barrie, Australia in the Global Economy: Continuity and Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Moore, Andrew, The Secret Army and the Premier (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1989).
Mordike, John, An Army for a Nation: A History of Australian Military Developments, 1880–1914 (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992).
Nelson, Hank, P.O.W. Prisoners of War: Australians Under Nippon (Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1985).
Offer, Avner, The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989).
Paisley, Fiona, Loving Protection: Australian Feminism and Aboriginal Women's Rights, 1919–1939 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000).
Read, Peter, The Stolen Generations: The Removal of Aboriginal Children in New South Wales from 1883 to 1969 (Sydney: New South Wales Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs, n.d.).
Robertson, John, 1939–1945, Australia Goes to War (Sydney: Doubleday, 1984).
Robson, L. L., The First A.I.F.: A Study of its Recruitment, 1914–1918 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1970).
Michael, Roe, Australia, Britain, and Migration, 1915–1940: A Study of Desperate Hopes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Schedvin, C. B., Australia and the Great Depression (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1970).
Thomson, Alastair, Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994).
GOLDEN AGE
Attwood, Bain, Rights for Aborigines (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2003).
Bolton, Geoffrey, The Oxford History of Australia, vol. 5: 1942–1988: The Middle Way (2nd edn, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996).
Brett, Judith, Robert Menzies' Forgotten People (Sydney: Macmillan, 1992).
Brett, Judith, Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class from Alfred Deakin to John Howard (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Brown, Nicholas, Governing Prosperity: Social Change and Analysis in Australia in the 1950s (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Crisp, L. F., Ben Chifley (Melbourne: Longmans, 1961).
Curthoys, Ann, Martin, A. W. and Rowse, Tim (eds), Australians from 1939 (Sydney: Fairfax, Syme and Weldon Associates, 1987).
Davison, Graeme, Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2004).
Fitzgerald, Ross, The Pope's Battalions: Santamaria, Catholicism and the Labor Split (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2003).
Freudenberg, Graham, A Certain Grandeur: Gough Whitlam in Politics (Melbourne: Macmillan, 1977).
Haebich, Anna, Spinning the Dream: Assimilation in Australia 1950–1970 (Fremantle: Fremantle Press, 2008).
Hancock, Ian, National and Permanent? The Federal Organisation of the Liberal Party of Australia, 1944–1965 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000).
Johnson, Lesley, The Modern Girl: Girlhood and Growing Up (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993).
Lack, John and Templeton, Jacqueline, Bold Experiment: A Documentary History of Australian Immigration since 1945 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1995).
Lake, Marilyn, Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1999).
Lowe, David, Menzies and the ‘Great World Struggle’: Australia's Cold War, 1948–1954 (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1999).
Martin, Allan, Robert Menzies, a Life, vol. 2: 1944–1978 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1999).
McKnight, David, Australian Spies and Their Secrets (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1994).
Meredith, David and Dyster, Barrie, Australia in the Global Economy: Continuity and Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Murphy, John, Harvest of Fear: A History of Australia's Vietnam War (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993).
Murphy, John, Imagining the Fifties: Private Sentiment and Political Culture in Menzies' Australia (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2000).
Peel, Mark, Good Times, Hard Times: The Past and the Future in Elizabeth (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1995).
Pemberton, Greg, All the Way: Australia's Road to Vietnam (Sydney, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1987).
Prasser, Scott, Nethercote, J. R. and Warhurst, John (eds), The Menzies Era: A Reappraisal of Government, Politics and Policy (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1995).
Richards, Eric, Destination Australia: Migration to Australia Since 1901 (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2008).
Rowse, Tim, White Flour, White Power: From Rations to Citizenship in Central Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Rowse, Tim, Nugget Coombs: A Reforming Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Scalmer, Sean, Dissent Events: Protest, the Media and the Political Gimmick in Australia (Sydney: Universty of New South Wales Press, 2002).
Sexton, Michael, Illusions of Power: The Fate of a Reform Government (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1979).
Sheridan, Tom, Division of Labour: Industrial Relations in the Chifley Years, 1945–1949 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Sheridan, Tom, Australia's Own Cold War: The Waterfront Under Menzies (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2006).
Strangio, Paul, Keeper of the Faith: A Biography of Jim Cairns (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2002).
Tavan, Gwenda, The Long, Slow Death of White Australia (Melbourne: Scribe, 2005).
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REINVENTING AUSTRALIA
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