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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 ...
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.
Pages in category "Books about Australian history" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. ... Official History of Australia in the War of 1914 ...
Books about Australian history (2 C, 20 P) Pages in category "History books about Australia" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
The Oxford Companion to Australian History (ISBN 9780195515039) is a book in the series of Oxford Companions published by Oxford University Press, its first edition dated 1998. It contains an alphabetically arranged set of articles on Australian subjects: notable persons, historic events and topics of general interest, ranging in length from ...
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).
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]
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 ...