Beschreibung:
Provides a fresh, engaging and comprehensive introduction to Australia's history and geography. In the late eighteenth century newcomers from distant worlds brought great change. Since that time Australia has been shaped by many peoples with competing visions of what the future might hold.
List of Illustrations, maps and tables, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapter 1 Origin Stories, Chapter 2 Manifest Destiny?, Chapter 3 Dispossessing and Settling, Chapter 4 An Immigrating World, Chapter 5 City Lights and Suburban Dreaming, Chapter 6 A Continent for a Nation, Chapter 7 Sacrifice, Chapter 8 Reforging a Nation, Chapter 9 Land of Tomorrow, Chapter 10 Shifting Temperaments, Chapter 11 Reimagining the Land, Chapter 12 Global Visions, Index