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Destination Australia : migration to Australia since 1901 /

"This book charts the history of migration to Australia from the twentieth century to the present. Written by one of Australia's leading historians of immigration, the book explores three main themes: the maintenance of British White Australia through to 1947; the Europeanisation of immigr...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Richards, Eric, 1940-2018
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sydney : Manchester, U.K. ; New York : New York : University of New South Wales Press ; Manchester University Press ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents; Preface; 1 The new century: 1900 and 2000; 2 The slow awakening: 1900-14; 3 Migrants and the Great War: 1914-18; 4 White British Australia resuscitated: the 1920s; 5 Malaise, recrimination and demographic pessimism: the 1930s; 6 Race, refugees, war and the future: 1939-45; 7 Arthur Calwell and the new Australia: 1945-51; 8 The great diversification: the 1950s and 1960s; 9 White Australia dismantled: the 1970s; 10 The end of the heroic days: the 1980s; 11 Whither immigrant Australia?; 12 The new century; 13 Retrospect; Statistics; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.