The Italians in Australia

This 2003 book brings to life the important story of the Italo-Australian community.

Gianfranco Cresciani (Author)

9780521537780, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 27 August 2003

210 pages, 88 b/w illus. 1 map 1 table
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.32 kg

'… the linkage between Italian history and its repercussions in Australia and elsewhere [is] fascinating.' Professor Desmond Cahill, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

The Italians comprised the first truly large wave of immigrants to have arrived from Southern Europe after World War II. Today, people of Italian background in Australia number around one million. The Italians have made an enormous contribution to the development of Australian society through the twentieth century and to the present, and Gianfranco Cresciani - the country's foremost expert on Italian life in Australia - provides the definitive account. In this 2003 edition Cresciani brings to life the important story of the Italo-Australian community into the twenty-first century.

1. A country of emigrants
2. Italians discover Australia, 1788–1900
3. The Italian presence, 1900–40
4. Fascism and anti-Fascism 1922–40
5. Italians and Australians at war 1940–7
6. Mass migration, 1947–71
7. Full circle.

Subject Areas: Sociology & anthropology [JH], Australasian & Pacific history [HBJM], Regional studies [GTB]