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The history of Australia /

Australian history has been written for over two centuries beginning with European explorers and colonists attempting to convey something of the complexity of the strange upside-down world they encountered in the southern hemisphere. Of course, aboriginal peoples had lived in Australia for millennia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clarke, F. G. (Francis Gordon), 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
Colección:Greenwood histories of the modern nations.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Series Foreword / Frank W. Thackeray, John E. Findling
  • Timeline of Historical Events
  • The Nuts and Bolts of Modern Australia
  • Aboriginal Australia (c. 65,000 B.C.E.-C.E. Eighteenth Century)
  • European Arrivals and Colonization (Seventeenth Century-1830)
  • Riding on the Sheep's Back (1831-1855)
  • Gold and the Long Boom (1856-1890)
  • The Bubble Bursts and the Road to Federation (1891-1900)
  • Advance Australia Fair (1901-1919)
  • A Land Fit for Heroes and the Great Bust (1920-1939)
  • War, Reconstruction, and the Cold War (1940-1966)
  • Vietnam, People Power, and the Conservative Resurgence (1967-1983)
  • Deconstruction and Multiculturalism (1984-1996)
  • Mutual Obligation and the Conservative Revival (1997-2001)
  • Advance Australia Where? (2001 and Beyond)
  • Notable People in the History of Australia.