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The Europeans in Australia

The Europeans in Australia

Volume Three - Nation

by Alan Atkinson
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/09/2014

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This is the third and final volume of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia that gives an account of settlement by Britain. It tells of the various ways in which that experience shaped imagination and belief among the settler people from the eighteenth century to the end of World War I.

Volume Three, Nation, tells the story of Australian Federation and the war with a focus on ordinary habits of thought and feeling. In this period, for the first time the settler people began to grasp the vastness of the continent, and to think of it as their own. There was a massive funding of education, and the intellectual reach of men and women was suddenly expanded, to an extent that seemed dazzling to many at the time. Women began to shape public imagination as they had not done before. At the same time, the worship of mere ideas had its victims, most obviously the Aboriginal people, and the war itself proved what vast tragedies it could unleash.The culmination of an extraordinary career in the writing and teaching of Australian history, The Europeans in Australia grapples with the Australian historical experience as a whole from the point of view of the settlers from Europe. Ambitious and unique, it is the first such large, single-author account since Manning Clark's A History of Australia.

Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature 2015. Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Non-Fiction. Winner of the CHASS Australia Book Prize. Winner of the Australian History Prize in the 2015 NSW Premier's History Awards and joint winner of the Ernest Scott Prize 2015. Shortlisted for the Australian History Prize in the 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Award, the NSW Premier's Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction and the Colin Roderick Award.
ISBN:
9780868409979
9780868409979
Category:
Australasian & Pacific history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-09-2014
Publisher:
NewSouth Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
528
Dimensions (mm):
234x153x41mm
Weight:
0.68kg
Alan Atkinson

Alan Atkinson is an Australian historian who first graduated in 1970. He has written a number of books, including The Europeans in Australia, in three volumes, the third of which won the Victorian Prize for Literature. He is an honorary professor and Doctor of Letters with The University of Sydney, and an honorary senior research fellow with The University of Western Australia.

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