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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.
Books about gold prospecting in Australia (1 P) Pages in category "Books about Australian history" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
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The history of Australia from 1788 to 1850 covers the early British colonial period of Australia's history. This started with the arrival in 1788 of the First Fleet of British ships at Port Jackson on the lands of the Eora , and the establishment of the penal colony of New South Wales as part of the British Empire .
The history of Australia from 1901 to 1945 begins with the federation of the six colonies to create the Commonwealth of Australia. The young nation joined Britain in the First World War, suffered through the Great Depression in Australia as part of the global Great Depression and again joined Britain in the Second World War against Nazi Germany in 1939.
English: Genre: History: Published: 2005 ... The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Story of the Founding of Australia is a popular history book written by Thomas Keneally ...
Military history received government support after the First World War, most prominently with Charles Bean's 12 volume History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 (1921–42). Bean's earlier work as Australia's official war correspondent had helped establish the Anzac legend which, according to McKenna: "immediately supplanted all other ...