A Concise History of Australia

Macintyre revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Australia's past and its relationship to the present.

Stuart Macintyre (Author)

9781108728485, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 August 2020

420 pages, 48 b/w illus. 6 maps
21.5 x 13.7 x 2.2 cm, 0.5 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM], Regional & national history [HBJ], History [HB], Humanities [H]