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Blainey writes about how the tyranny had been mostly surmounted and may have even worked in Australia's favour in some ways. In one of the book's early chapters, Blainey challenges the notion that Australia was colonised by the British in the 18th century solely to serve as a place of exile for convicts. Blainey's assertion that broader ...
The Historical Records of Australia (HRA) were collected and published by the Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament, to create a series of accurate publications on the history of Australia. The records begin shortly before 1788, the year that the first British settlement was established in Australia (at Port Jackson).
No. XXXVIII.—The Australian Journal of William Strutt, A.R.A., 1850-1862. (In two parts.) 30 December 1958. Limited to one hundred and thirty-five copies for sale and fifteen for presentation. No. XXXIX.—The History of the Island of Van Diemen’s Land, from the year 1824 to 1835 inclusive. By Henry Melville. Hobart Town. 15 November 1959.
The human history of Australia, however, commences with the arrival of the first ancestors of Aboriginal Australians by sea from Maritime Southeast Asia between 50,000 and 65,000 years ago, and continues to the present day multicultural democracy. Aboriginal Australians settled throughout continental Australia and many nearby islands.
The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 2: 1770–1860 Possessions (1995) Lowe, David. Menzies and the 'Great World Struggle': Australia's Cold War 1948–54 (1999) online edition; Macintyre, Stuart. The Oxford History of Australia: Volume 4: 1901–42, the Succeeding Age (1993) Macintyre, Stuart. A Concise History of Australia (2004) excerpt ...
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In the first two volumes of his History of Australia (1962, 1968) Manning Clark developed an idiosyncratic interpretation of Australian history telling the story of "epic tragedy" in which "the explorers, Governors, improvers, and perturbators vainly endeavoured to impose their received schemes of redemption on an alien, intractable setting". [5]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... History books about Australia (2 C, 13 P) P. Historic preservation in Australia (6 C, 12 P) S.