A Concise History of Australia

Stuart Macintyre

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781108605472
• Edition: 5
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Australian & Oceanian History
• Index: History

Stuart Macintyre, one of Australia's most highly regarded historians, revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Australia's past and its relationship to the present. Integrating new scholarship with the historical record, the fifth edition of A Concise History of Australia brings together the long narrative of Australia's First Nations' peoples; the arrival of Europeans and the era of colonies, convicts, gold and free settlers; the foundation of a nation state; and the social, cultural, political and economic developments that created a modern Australia. As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, Macintyre's Australia remains one of achievements and failures. So too the future possibilities are deeply rooted in the country's past endeavours. A Concise History of Australia is an invitation to examine this past.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Series information
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Beginnings, c. 50,000 years before the present-c. 1600
• 2 Newcomers, c. 1600-1792
• 3 Coercion, 1793-1821
• 4 Conquest, 1822-1850
• 5 Progress, 1851-1888
• 6 Reconstruction, 1889-1913
• 7 Sacrifice, 1914-1945
• 8 Golden age, 1946-1975
• 9 Rectification, 1976-1996
• 10 Outcomes, 1997-2019
• Sources of quotations
• Guide to further reading
• Index