The Germans in Australia

This 2007 book looks at the impact of German immigration on the social and cultural aspects of Australian life.

Jurgen Tampke (Author)

9780521612432, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 7 February 2007

202 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.1 cm, 0.24 kg

Germans have played a significant part in Australian history since 1788. For the first hundred years of European settlement they were the largest ethnic group on the continent, contributing to the development of the hinterlands of Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria. Today there are an estimated 700,000 people in Australia of German descent. In the first hundred years of European settlement in Australia they were welcomed as industrious settlers and daring pioneers, skilful scientists and respected members of the medical and legal professions. Although two world wars soured the relationship between Australia and Germany and undermined the positive image Germans held, the second half of the twentieth century saw this situation improve markedly. The Germans in Australia, published in 2007, offers a detailed insight into the impact of large scale German immigration on Australia, highlighting the social and cultural impact they have had on Australian life.

Introduction
1. Why do people migrate?
2. The first fifty years
3. Scientists and explorers
4. German missionaries
5. The golden age of German immigration
6. The shadow years
7. Wilkommen again
8. Epilogue: Germans in the age of Australian multiculturalism
Endnotes
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Migration, immigration & emigration [JFFN], Social & cultural history [HBTB], Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM], General & world history [HBG]