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A History of Australia
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By Peel, Mark
By Twomey, Christina
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For tens of thousands of years, humans have imagined, visited and inhabited Australia as a place in which to make a future. From the first explorers, who sailed and eventually settled into the inlets and river mouths of the northern coast some sixty or eighty thousand years ago v...ia the transportations of the eighteenth century to the anxious border controls of the twenty-first, and through the great migrations of the centuries in between, Australia's story-and its place in the world-have been shaped by movement and mobility. Mark Peel's History of Australia is an event- and issue-based history of Australia with a clear chronological narrative which succeeds brilliantly in bringing to life the ideas, hopes and journeys - both physical and otherwise - of Australians past and present.
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| ISBN |
9780230001640 |
| Released NZ |
29 Dec 2011 |
| Publisher |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Format |
Trade Paperback/Paperback |
| Alternate Format(s) |
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| Series |
Palgrave Essential Histories Series |
| Availability |
Available at publisher; allow 3-6 weeks delivery due to Covid 19 freight delays
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Full details for this title
| Interest Age |
General Audience |
| Reading Age |
General Audience |
| Library of Congress |
History, Islands of the Pacific-History |
| NBS Text |
Regional History |
| ONIX Text |
General/trade |
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Awards, Reviews & Star Ratings
| NZ Review |
'A successful collaboration between two historians who have pooled their talents to produce a 'people's history' of Australia, offering a fresh perspective on the nation's history, written in a clear, engaging and consistent style.' - Zora Simic, Lecturer in Australian Studies, University of New South Wales, Australia 'An energetic and multifaceted history of Australia that illuminates a rich national story interlinked within an international context...the book achieves its aim of rendering Australia's past, and the challenges the country has faced and met, with aplomb.' - Patricia O'Brien, Visiting Associate Professor, Georgetown University, USA |
| UK Review |
Bertrams Star Rating: 2 stars (out of 5) |
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Author's Bio
MARK PEEL is Professor of Modern Cultural and Social History and Head of History at the University of Liverpool, UK, having previously been a Professor and Head of School at Monash University, Australia. He is the author of Good Times, Hard Times: The Past and the Future in Elizabeth, The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty and Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse: Dramatising Poverty in American, Australian and British Social Work. CHRISTINA TWOMEY is Associate Professor of History at Monash University, Australia. She has published widely on the cultural history of war, and is the author of Australia's Forgotten Prisoners: Civilians Interned by the Japanese in World War II and Deserted and Destitute: Motherhood, Wife Desertion and Colonial Welfare.
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