A Short History of Australia
by Manning Clark
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On 26 January the convict transports moved into their new home as a handful of Aborigines on the shore set up a horrid howl and indicated by angry gestures with sticks and stones that the white man was not wanted.More than a decade after his death, Manning Clark remains Australia's most eminent and controversial historian. A Short History of Australia, considered by many to be his greatest work, charts the nation's social, cultural and political growth from the arrival of that first shipload show more of English convicts at Sydney Cove to the late twentieth century - with remarkable breadth of vision. His observations are as entertaining as they are enlightening.In this new edition, a postscript by his son Sebastian Clark brings the book right up-to-date, revealing many enduring parallels between the past and present. show lessTags
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He has been described as "Australia's most famous historian," but his work has been the target of much criticism, particularly from conservative and classical liberal academics and philosophers.
This is not really a novel, more like crib notes for high school ~ useful but not much depth.
This is not really a novel, more like crib notes for high school ~ useful but not much depth.
Brief overview, good intro but not a lot of depth.
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- Original publication date
- 1963 (First Edition) (First Edition); 1995 (fourth revised edition with addendum by Sebastian Clark) (fourth revised edition with addendum by Sebastian Clark)
- People/Characters
- George Arthur; Thomas Brisbane; Joseph Benedict Chifley; John Joseph Curtin; Alfred Deakin; George Grey (show all 14); Billy Hughes; Samuel Marsden; Robert Menzies; Henry Parkes; Arthur Phillip; John Robertson; William Charles Wentworth; Gough Whitlam
- Important places
- Australia
- Epigraph
- Praise life while you walk and wake;
It is only lent.
-- David Campbell,
'The Return of Jason'
Out of the past and the books we must have
learned something
-- Judith Wri... (show all)ght, 'Winter' - Dedication
- For Sebastian and Elizabeth
and in memory of Katy Clark - First words
- ONE
The Coming of the Aborigine and the White Man
So far there have been two cultures in Australia -- one Aboriginal and the other European. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Now is the time for the life affirmers and the enlargers to show whether they have anything to say, whether they have any food for the great hungers of humanity.
- Original language
- English
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- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.31)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 15
- ASINs
- 12
