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Andrew Tink's superb book tells the story of Australia in the twentieth century, from Federation to the Sydney 2000 Olympics. A century marked by the trauma of war and the despair of the depression, balanced by extraordinary achievements in sport, science and the arts.

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The essays in Australia and the Wider World bring together a lasting contribution to the story of Australia and the history of ideas in this country.Since the 1960s Neville Meaney has been asking

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Australia and the World celebrates the pioneering role of Neville Meaney in the formation and development of foreign relations history in Australia and his profound influence on its study, teaching and application.

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The morning of 19 February 1942 saw the grim face of war on Australian shores for the first time as a Japanese task force attacked Darwin. A correspondent for the Melbourne Herald at the time of the bombings, author Douglas Lockwood witnessed the event with his own eyes.

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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. This book shows the 1940s to be a pivotal decade in Australia.

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How a nation still in grief from the Great War found the courage and resilience to face a new tragedy, the Great Depression.

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Created to coincide with the 20th International Congress of Historical Sciences, which the University of New South Wales in Sydney has hosted in 2005.

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This text is a comprehensive military history of frontier conflict in Australia. Covering the first 50 years of British occupation in Australia, the book examines in detail how both sides fought on the frontier and examines how Aborigines developed a form of warfare differing from tradition.

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In the third volume of Thomas Keneally's unique history of Australia - where he shines a light on the lives and deeds of our countrymen and women, both known and unknown - he takes up the story at the end of the Great War and explores our development as a nation during the tumultuous 20th century.

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Bestselling author Thomas Keneally brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story, in the second volume of a unique history of Australia.

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The first volume of a unique history of Australia where people are always centre stage, from bestselling author Thomas Keneally who brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story.

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What happened when people went mad in the fledgling colony of New South Wales In this important new history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, we find out through the correspondence of tireless colonial secretaries, the brazen language of lawyers and judges and firebrand politicians, and heartbreaking letters.

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'A creative fusion of Australian history and fiction.' Henry Reynolds

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Written from classified government sources and buttressed by hundreds of interviews with veterans and stakeholders, this first volume in the landmark Official History of Australian Operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and East Timor, this is an honest, challenging and compelling account of the 1999-2000 East Timor crisis and Australia's response to it.

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Bushrangers are Australian legends. They're remembered as folk heroes and celebrated for their bravery and their ridicule of inept and corrupt authorities. But not all Australian bushrangers were white men. And not all were seen in this glowing light in their own time. Meg Foster reveals the stories of bushrangers who didn't fit the mould.

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Tells the story of one of Australia's biggest business disasters, which involves government complicity, and is a political scandal that reaches into the offices of Cabinet ministers and prime ministers across six federal governments.