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A Concise History of Australia by Stuart Macintyre
Category: Fiction | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands of years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and brought technolog ...Show more
A Concise History of Australia by Stuart Macintyre
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories Ser.
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 ...Show more
A Concise History of Australia by Stuart Macintyre
Category: Australian History | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands years old. For much of the past 225 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and describes how they b ...Show more
A Concise History of Australia 3rd ed. (PB) by Stuart Macintyre
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and brought technology, ...Show more
A Historian for All Seasons: Essays for Geoffrey Bolton by Stuart Macintyre
Category: Australian History | Series: Australian History
Geoffrey Bolton was the most versatile and widely travelled of his generation of Australian historians. As a scholar, teacher and commentator he enriched understanding of the countrys regional mosaic, some of its notable figures and others who were just as revealing, the natural environment, social patt ...Show more
Against the Grain - Brian Fitzpatrick and Manning Clark in Australian History and Politics by Stuart Macintyre; Sheila Fitzpatrick
Category: Politics Australian
"While Brian Fitzpatrick has today fallen into relative obscurity, efforts persist in discrediting Manning Clark's name. Against the Grain examines the dual careers of Fitzpatrick and Clark as activists and historians during the Cold War, and shows the political and personal difficulties that beset bo ...Show more
Australia's Boldest Experiment : War and Reconstruction in the 1940s by Stuart Macintyre
Category: Australian History
A major new account of the 1940s in Australia. In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatised by World War I, hammered by the Depression and overstretched by World War II became a prosperous, successful and growing society by the 1950s. An extraordinary group of individuals, ...Show more
HISTORIAN'S CONSCIENCE by MACINTYRE STUART (EDITOR)
Category: Fiction
In The Historian’s Conscience, Stuart Macintyre and thirteen other Australian historians put history and the history profession under the microscope. Eminent contributors include Alan Atkinson, Graeme Davison, Greg Dening, John Hirst, Beverley Kingston, Marilyn Lake, and Iain McCalman. They not only a ...Show more
OXFORD HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA VOL 4 THE SUCCEEDING AGE 1901-1942 by STUART MACINTYRE
Category: History | Series: Oxford History of Australia Ser.
In 1901 the separate Australian colonies came together in a Commonwealth. Institutions were fashioned to meet the needs and aspirations of a nation, markets extended, industries enlarged. Over the next forty years Australians pursued schemes of material and social progress through war andeconomic crisis ...Show more
Poor Relation - A History of Social by Stuart Macintyre
Category: Culture
The Poor Relation examines the place of the social sciences - from economics and psychology to history, law and philosophy - in the teaching and research conducted by Australian universities. Across 60 years The Poor Relation charts the changing circumstances of the social sciences, and measures their c ...Show more
The Cambridge History of Australia 2 Volume Set by Stuart Macintyre & Alison Bashford
Category: Australian History
The Cambridge History of Australia offers a comprehensive view of Australian history from its pre-European origins to the present day. Over two volumes, this major work of reference tells the nation's social, political and cultural story. Volume 1 examines Australia's indigenous and colonial history thr ...Show more
The History Wars by Stuart MacIntyre, Anna Clark
Category: History
The nation's history has probably never been more politicised than it is today. Politicians, journalists, columnists, academics and Australians from all walks of life argue passionately-and often, ideologically-about the significance of the national story- the cherished ideal of the 'fair go', the much ...Show more