
Australian History for Dummies
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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
Part I. Let’s Get This Country Started.
Chapter 1. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie.
Chapter 2. First Australians: Making a Home, Receiving Visitors.
Chapter 3. Second Arrivals and First Colonials.
Chapter 4. Colony Going Places (With Some Teething Troubles).
Chapter 5. A Nation of Second Chances.
Part II. 1820s to 1900: Wool, Gold, Bust and then Federation.
Chapter 6. Getting Tough, Making Money and Taking Country.
Chapter 7. Economic Collapse and the Beginnings of Nationalism.
Chapter 8. The Discovery of Gold and an Immigration Avalanche.
Chapter 9. Explorers, Selectors, Bushrangers … and Trains.
Chapter 10. Work, Play and Politics During the Long Boom.
Chapter 11. The Economy’s Collapsed – Anyone for Nationhood?
Part III. The 20th Century: New Nation, New Trajectories.
Chapter 12. Nation Just Born Yesterday.
Chapter 13. World War I: International and Local Ruptures.
Chapter 14. Australia Unlimited.
Part IV. 1930 to 1949: Going So Wrong, So Soon?
Chapter 15. A Not So Great Depression.
Chapter 16. World War II Battles.
Chapter 17. Making Australia New Again.
Part V. 1950 to 2010: Prospering and Social Turmoil.
Chapter 18. Ambushed – by Prosperity!
Chapter 19. Taking Things Apart in the 1960s and 1970s.
Chapter 20. When Old Australia Dies … Is New Australia Ready?
Chapter 21. Into the New Millennium.
Part VI. The Part of Tens.
Chapter 22. Ten Things Australia Gave the World.
Chapter 23. Ten Game-Changing Moments.
Index.
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