Authors

Deborah Gare, University of Notre Dame AustraliaFollow
David Ritter

Title

Making Australian History: perspectives on the past since 1788

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

2008

Abstract

Making Australian History : perspectives on the past since 1788 contains landmark primary and secondary sources that cover a wide breadth of Australian history. Showcases the work of current and past leading scholars.

Contents:

Introduction. Making history and the politics of the past / Deborah Gare.

Section 1. Australia and the Enlightenment.

Section 2. Outpost of Empire.

Section 3. First contact.

Section 4. The convict stain.

Section 5. Pioneering Australia.

Section 6. The frontier.

Section 7. Gold and the coming Australian.

Section 8. Tablets of the law.

Section 9. A white Australia.

Section 10. Anzacs.

Section 11. The homefront.

Section 12. The interwar years.

Section 13. World War II.

Section 14. The ashes of Empire.

Section 15. Menzies' Australia.

Section 16. Australia in the sixties.

Section 17. After the Referendum.

Section 18. Whitlam to Keating: the Labor years.

Section 19. Howard's Australia.

ISBN: 978070132107

Comments

Due to copyright restrictions, Making Australian History : perspectives on the past since 1788 is not available for download.

Students and Staff at the University of Notre Dame Australia, may access Making Australian History : perspectives on the past since 1788 from St Benedict's Library, Sydney (994 GAR 2008) and St Teresa's Library, Fremantle (994 GAR 2008).

Making Australian History : perspectives on the past since 1788 may be accessed from the National Library of Australia here

Recommended Citation

Gare, D., & Rutter, D. (2008). Making Australian history: Perspectives on the past since 1788. South Melbourne, VIC: Thomson Learning Australia.