28,10 €*
Versandkostenfrei per Post / DHL
Lieferzeit 1-2 Wochen
Australian History For Dummies is your rough-and-ready tour guide through Australia's whirlwind past. We'll introduce you to the people and events that have shaped this 'Land Down Under' (and why it's called that, anyway). You'll see how Indigenous Australians lived in Australia for over 65,000 years. You'll be there as British colonists explore Australia's harsh terrain. You'll appreciate the impact of the world wars. And you'll delve into the recent past, giving you insight into modern-day Australia and what's next.
Australia is a place unlike any other place, and its wild history, with more ups and downs than you'll care to count, makes for fascinating reading. Bushrangers, the gold rush, the first female prime minister--it's all inside. This new edition fills in the last ten years of history and covers issues faced in the 21st century.
* Explore the history of Indigenous Australia from the ancient past to the modern day
* Watch Australia put itself on the map--learn about the intrepid explorers and the discovery of gold
* Understand how and why the states were united and meet the major players who made it happen
* Examine the social, economic and political changes that made Australia what it is today
Students, teachers and anyone else who wants to learn more about Australia's background will love this lively, authoritative book. Relax and be entertained as Australian History For Dummies tells you the stories of the past.
Australian History For Dummies is your rough-and-ready tour guide through Australia's whirlwind past. We'll introduce you to the people and events that have shaped this 'Land Down Under' (and why it's called that, anyway). You'll see how Indigenous Australians lived in Australia for over 65,000 years. You'll be there as British colonists explore Australia's harsh terrain. You'll appreciate the impact of the world wars. And you'll delve into the recent past, giving you insight into modern-day Australia and what's next.
Australia is a place unlike any other place, and its wild history, with more ups and downs than you'll care to count, makes for fascinating reading. Bushrangers, the gold rush, the first female prime minister--it's all inside. This new edition fills in the last ten years of history and covers issues faced in the 21st century.
* Explore the history of Indigenous Australia from the ancient past to the modern day
* Watch Australia put itself on the map--learn about the intrepid explorers and the discovery of gold
* Understand how and why the states were united and meet the major players who made it happen
* Examine the social, economic and political changes that made Australia what it is today
Students, teachers and anyone else who wants to learn more about Australia's background will love this lively, authoritative book. Relax and be entertained as Australian History For Dummies tells you the stories of the past.
Alex McDermott is an author, historian, and creative producer. His passion is writing histories which tell the pivotal stories that help us understand how we came to be who we are today. He has contributed his expertise to Screen Australia, State Library Victoria, La Trobe University, SBS, ABC and many other organisations.
Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Foolish Assumptions 2
Icons Used in This Book 3
Where to Go from Here 4
Part 1: Let's Get This Country Started 5
Chapter 1: Aussie, Aussie, Aussie 7
When Oldest Meets Newest 8
Getting ahead in the convict world 8
Leaping into the big time with wool 10
Gold, Gold, Gold for Australia 10
Welcoming in male suffrage 11
Striving for the 'workingman's paradise' 12
Solving the Problems of the World (By Keeping Out the World) 14
Now for War, Division, Depression and More War 15
Joining the Empire in the war 15
Dreaming of 'Australia Unlimited' 16
Getting hit by the Great Depression 17
And another war 17
The Postwar Boom Broom 18
Breaking Down the Fortress Australia Mentality 19
Opening up the economy 19
Opening up the borders (mostly) 20
Entering the New Millennium 20
Chapter 2: First Australians: Making a Home, Receiving Visitors 23
Indigenous Australians 24
Settling in early 24
Life in Aboriginal Australia 26
History without books 28
Trading with the neighbours 29
Visitors from Overseas 30
Macassan fishermen 30
Portuguese and Spanish navigators 31
Lost Dutch traders and wandering explorers 31
Chapter 3: Second Arrivals and First Colonials 33
'Discovering' the Great Southern Land 34
Finding the right men for the job 34
Setting (British) eyes on New South Wales 36
The Brits are Coming! 37
Quick! New settlement required 37
Pushing for a settlement in NSW 40
Picking a winner: NSW it is! 41
Sailing for Botany Bay 44
Getting there with the First Fleet 44
The human material: Who were these people? 45
Holding Out at Sydney 46
Using convicts as guards 46
Issuing ultimatums (and being ignored) 47
Soldiering on regardless 47
New Colony Blues 48
Second Fleet horrors 48
Courting disaster with the interlopers 49
Bennelong and Phillip 50
Then the rest of the world goes bung 51
Chapter 4: Colony Going Places (With Some Teething Troubles) 53
Rising to the Task: The NSW Corps Steps Up 54
Setting up trading monopolies 56
The ascendancy of the 'Rum Corps' 56
Upsetting the reverends 57
Ruling with Goodhearted Incompetence: Governor Hunter 58
Ending the trading monopoly game 59
A government store with empty shelves 60
Handing out land higgledy-piggledy 60
Hunter's wheels fall off 62
King Came, King Saw, King Conquered - Kind Of 62
Diversifying trade and production 63
Ending the rum trade (well points for trying) 64
Pardoning convicts 65
Fixing up the mess 65
Choosing Bligh for the job 66
Bligh gets down to business 66
Bligh's end 68
Chapter 5: A Nation of Second Chances 71
Macquarie's Brave New World 72
Converting Macquarie 73
Living under the Macquarie regime 74
Macquarie's Main Points of Attack 75
Pushing expansion 76
Conciliating (and pursuing) Indigenous Australians 78
Re-ordering a town, re-ordering convict behaviour 79
Becoming a Governor Ahead of His Time 81
Stirring up trouble with the free folk 81
Creating outrage back home 82
Big World Changes for Little NSW 83
Coping with the deluge following Waterloo 83
Britain starts paying attention again (unfortunately!) 83
Bringing back terror 84
Big Country? Big Ambitions? Bigge the Inspector? Big Problem! 85
Recognising Macquarie's Legacy 86
Part 2: 1820s to 1900: Wool, Gold, Bust and then Federation 89
Chapter 6: Getting Tough, Making Money and Taking Country 91
Revamping the Convict System 92
Putting the terror back into the system and the system back into the terror 93
Bringing in the settlers 93
Bringing in the enforcers 94
Getting Tough Love from Darling 95
Running into staffing issues 95
Going head-to-head with the press 96
Coming up against calls for representation 96
Putting it all down to a personality clash 98
Enduring Tough Times from Arthur 99
Concentrating on punishment and reform 99
Recording punishments in the system 100
Fighting bushrangers and Tasmanian Aboriginals 101
Hitting the Big Time with Wool and Grabbing Land 104
Opening up Australia's fertile land 106
Adding sheep, making money 107
Clashing with the locals: white pioneers, black pioneers 109
Fighting the land grab 110
Chapter 7: Economic Collapse and the Beginnings of Nationalism 115
Bubble Times: From Speculative Mania to a Big Collapse 116
Working the market into a frenzy 116
Investing in land with easy credit 117
Ducking for cover as the economy collapses 119
Picking up the pieces after the implosion 120
Moving On from Convictism 121
British calls to end convict 'slavery' 121
Ending transportation to NSW 122
Feeling the effects of ending transportation 123
Van Diemen's Land hits saturation point 123
Feeling the First Stirrings of Nationalism 124
Britain tries turning the convict tap back on 124
Britain offers exiles instead 125
Protecting Indigenous Australians - British Colonial Style 128
Attempting to protect Aboriginal peoples 128
New possibility on Merri Creek 131
Same old tragedy on Myall Creek 132
Chapter 8: The Discovery of Gold and an Immigration Avalanche 133
You want gold? We got gold! 134
Discovering gold (and going a little crazy) 134
Introducing order and hoping for calm 136
Adding a gambling mentality to the mix 137
Working Towards the Workingman's Paradise 138
That Eureka Moment 140
Rumblings of discontent 141
Tensions boil over 141
The Arrival of Self-Government 144
Votes for a few men 144
Votes for many men 144
Suffrage goes rogue 147
Unlocking the Arable Lands 149
Moving the squatters 149
Making new laws for new farmers 151
Dealing with squatter problems 151
Facing up to non-squatter problems 152
Chapter 9: Explorers, Selectors, Bushrangers and Trains 155
Explorer Superstars 156
Seeking thrills in the 'great unknown' 156
Then making the unknown known 157
Sturt and Leichhardt Go Looking 158
Sturt - have boat, will walk 159
Leichhardt also walks right off the map 160
The Great Race - Stuart versus Burke and Wills 161
Seeing the back of Burke, losing Wills 161
Super Stuart - just a pity he's drunk 163
Selectors and Bushrangers 165
Moving on from the selectors' dust heap 166
Bushranging nation 167
Ned Kelly: Oppressed Selector's Son? Larrikin Wild Child? Stone-cold killer? 171
Kelly's key events 172
The man in the iron mask 174
Growing Towards Nationhood Maybe 175
A telegraph to the world 175
It's raining trains 176
Chapter 10: Work, Play and Politics during the Long Boom 179
The 'Workingman's Paradise' Continues 180
Growth brings jobs 180
Workingwomen's paradise too 181
Workers' Playtime 182
Beating the English at cricket 183
New codes of football 183
The Big Myth of the Bush: Not So Rural Australia 185
Rearranging the Political Furniture 186
Charting new colonial directions 187
Intervening in the economy 192
Chapter 11: The Economy's Collapsed - Anyone for Nationhood? 197
From Boom to Bust 198
The bubble before the pop 198
And now for a big collapse 199
Three strikes and we're out - industrial turmoil 203
Birthing the Australian Labor Party 205
From little things 206
Two Australian halves of a Labor story 206
Labor politicos and Labor unionists - the struggle begins! 207
New Nation? Maybe Maybe Not 209
Why Federation happened 209
How Federation happened 212
Three men who made Federation happen 217
Part 3: The 20th Century: New Nation, New Trajectories 221
Chapter 12: Nation Just Born Yesterday 223
Advancing Australia: A Social Laboratory 224
Defining the Commonwealth 225
What the judges said 226
What the politicians did 226
What everyday people thought 227
Passing Innovative Legislation 228
Franchising Australian women 229
Establishing bold new protection 231
Deciding on a fair and reasonable wage 232
Voting in Labor 233
That Whole White Australia Thing 234
Passing the Immigration Restriction Act 235
Promising 'protection' - and delivering the absolute opposite 236
Excluding Chinese Australians 238
Dealing with the 'piebald north' 239
Deporting the 'Kanakas' 240
Pushing 'purity' 241
Chapter 13: World War I: International and Local Ruptures 243
Gearing Up for Global War 244
Building up Australian forces 245
Choosing the best party to lead the wartime government 245
Why get involved? 246
Australia at War 246
Proving ourselves to the world, part I: Gallipoli 247
Proving ourselves to the world, part II: The Western Front 249
General John Monash engineers some victory 251
Home Front Hassles 253
Getting on the war footing 254
Irish...
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | 448 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9780730395454 |
| ISBN-10: | 0730395456 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Mcdermott, Alex |
| Hersteller: | John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, amartine@wiley-vch.de |
| Maße: | 237 x 191 x 35 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Alex Mcdermott |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 02.05.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 0,921 kg |
Alex McDermott is an author, historian, and creative producer. His passion is writing histories which tell the pivotal stories that help us understand how we came to be who we are today. He has contributed his expertise to Screen Australia, State Library Victoria, La Trobe University, SBS, ABC and many other organisations.
Introduction 1
About This Book 1
Foolish Assumptions 2
Icons Used in This Book 3
Where to Go from Here 4
Part 1: Let's Get This Country Started 5
Chapter 1: Aussie, Aussie, Aussie 7
When Oldest Meets Newest 8
Getting ahead in the convict world 8
Leaping into the big time with wool 10
Gold, Gold, Gold for Australia 10
Welcoming in male suffrage 11
Striving for the 'workingman's paradise' 12
Solving the Problems of the World (By Keeping Out the World) 14
Now for War, Division, Depression and More War 15
Joining the Empire in the war 15
Dreaming of 'Australia Unlimited' 16
Getting hit by the Great Depression 17
And another war 17
The Postwar Boom Broom 18
Breaking Down the Fortress Australia Mentality 19
Opening up the economy 19
Opening up the borders (mostly) 20
Entering the New Millennium 20
Chapter 2: First Australians: Making a Home, Receiving Visitors 23
Indigenous Australians 24
Settling in early 24
Life in Aboriginal Australia 26
History without books 28
Trading with the neighbours 29
Visitors from Overseas 30
Macassan fishermen 30
Portuguese and Spanish navigators 31
Lost Dutch traders and wandering explorers 31
Chapter 3: Second Arrivals and First Colonials 33
'Discovering' the Great Southern Land 34
Finding the right men for the job 34
Setting (British) eyes on New South Wales 36
The Brits are Coming! 37
Quick! New settlement required 37
Pushing for a settlement in NSW 40
Picking a winner: NSW it is! 41
Sailing for Botany Bay 44
Getting there with the First Fleet 44
The human material: Who were these people? 45
Holding Out at Sydney 46
Using convicts as guards 46
Issuing ultimatums (and being ignored) 47
Soldiering on regardless 47
New Colony Blues 48
Second Fleet horrors 48
Courting disaster with the interlopers 49
Bennelong and Phillip 50
Then the rest of the world goes bung 51
Chapter 4: Colony Going Places (With Some Teething Troubles) 53
Rising to the Task: The NSW Corps Steps Up 54
Setting up trading monopolies 56
The ascendancy of the 'Rum Corps' 56
Upsetting the reverends 57
Ruling with Goodhearted Incompetence: Governor Hunter 58
Ending the trading monopoly game 59
A government store with empty shelves 60
Handing out land higgledy-piggledy 60
Hunter's wheels fall off 62
King Came, King Saw, King Conquered - Kind Of 62
Diversifying trade and production 63
Ending the rum trade (well points for trying) 64
Pardoning convicts 65
Fixing up the mess 65
Choosing Bligh for the job 66
Bligh gets down to business 66
Bligh's end 68
Chapter 5: A Nation of Second Chances 71
Macquarie's Brave New World 72
Converting Macquarie 73
Living under the Macquarie regime 74
Macquarie's Main Points of Attack 75
Pushing expansion 76
Conciliating (and pursuing) Indigenous Australians 78
Re-ordering a town, re-ordering convict behaviour 79
Becoming a Governor Ahead of His Time 81
Stirring up trouble with the free folk 81
Creating outrage back home 82
Big World Changes for Little NSW 83
Coping with the deluge following Waterloo 83
Britain starts paying attention again (unfortunately!) 83
Bringing back terror 84
Big Country? Big Ambitions? Bigge the Inspector? Big Problem! 85
Recognising Macquarie's Legacy 86
Part 2: 1820s to 1900: Wool, Gold, Bust and then Federation 89
Chapter 6: Getting Tough, Making Money and Taking Country 91
Revamping the Convict System 92
Putting the terror back into the system and the system back into the terror 93
Bringing in the settlers 93
Bringing in the enforcers 94
Getting Tough Love from Darling 95
Running into staffing issues 95
Going head-to-head with the press 96
Coming up against calls for representation 96
Putting it all down to a personality clash 98
Enduring Tough Times from Arthur 99
Concentrating on punishment and reform 99
Recording punishments in the system 100
Fighting bushrangers and Tasmanian Aboriginals 101
Hitting the Big Time with Wool and Grabbing Land 104
Opening up Australia's fertile land 106
Adding sheep, making money 107
Clashing with the locals: white pioneers, black pioneers 109
Fighting the land grab 110
Chapter 7: Economic Collapse and the Beginnings of Nationalism 115
Bubble Times: From Speculative Mania to a Big Collapse 116
Working the market into a frenzy 116
Investing in land with easy credit 117
Ducking for cover as the economy collapses 119
Picking up the pieces after the implosion 120
Moving On from Convictism 121
British calls to end convict 'slavery' 121
Ending transportation to NSW 122
Feeling the effects of ending transportation 123
Van Diemen's Land hits saturation point 123
Feeling the First Stirrings of Nationalism 124
Britain tries turning the convict tap back on 124
Britain offers exiles instead 125
Protecting Indigenous Australians - British Colonial Style 128
Attempting to protect Aboriginal peoples 128
New possibility on Merri Creek 131
Same old tragedy on Myall Creek 132
Chapter 8: The Discovery of Gold and an Immigration Avalanche 133
You want gold? We got gold! 134
Discovering gold (and going a little crazy) 134
Introducing order and hoping for calm 136
Adding a gambling mentality to the mix 137
Working Towards the Workingman's Paradise 138
That Eureka Moment 140
Rumblings of discontent 141
Tensions boil over 141
The Arrival of Self-Government 144
Votes for a few men 144
Votes for many men 144
Suffrage goes rogue 147
Unlocking the Arable Lands 149
Moving the squatters 149
Making new laws for new farmers 151
Dealing with squatter problems 151
Facing up to non-squatter problems 152
Chapter 9: Explorers, Selectors, Bushrangers and Trains 155
Explorer Superstars 156
Seeking thrills in the 'great unknown' 156
Then making the unknown known 157
Sturt and Leichhardt Go Looking 158
Sturt - have boat, will walk 159
Leichhardt also walks right off the map 160
The Great Race - Stuart versus Burke and Wills 161
Seeing the back of Burke, losing Wills 161
Super Stuart - just a pity he's drunk 163
Selectors and Bushrangers 165
Moving on from the selectors' dust heap 166
Bushranging nation 167
Ned Kelly: Oppressed Selector's Son? Larrikin Wild Child? Stone-cold killer? 171
Kelly's key events 172
The man in the iron mask 174
Growing Towards Nationhood Maybe 175
A telegraph to the world 175
It's raining trains 176
Chapter 10: Work, Play and Politics during the Long Boom 179
The 'Workingman's Paradise' Continues 180
Growth brings jobs 180
Workingwomen's paradise too 181
Workers' Playtime 182
Beating the English at cricket 183
New codes of football 183
The Big Myth of the Bush: Not So Rural Australia 185
Rearranging the Political Furniture 186
Charting new colonial directions 187
Intervening in the economy 192
Chapter 11: The Economy's Collapsed - Anyone for Nationhood? 197
From Boom to Bust 198
The bubble before the pop 198
And now for a big collapse 199
Three strikes and we're out - industrial turmoil 203
Birthing the Australian Labor Party 205
From little things 206
Two Australian halves of a Labor story 206
Labor politicos and Labor unionists - the struggle begins! 207
New Nation? Maybe Maybe Not 209
Why Federation happened 209
How Federation happened 212
Three men who made Federation happen 217
Part 3: The 20th Century: New Nation, New Trajectories 221
Chapter 12: Nation Just Born Yesterday 223
Advancing Australia: A Social Laboratory 224
Defining the Commonwealth 225
What the judges said 226
What the politicians did 226
What everyday people thought 227
Passing Innovative Legislation 228
Franchising Australian women 229
Establishing bold new protection 231
Deciding on a fair and reasonable wage 232
Voting in Labor 233
That Whole White Australia Thing 234
Passing the Immigration Restriction Act 235
Promising 'protection' - and delivering the absolute opposite 236
Excluding Chinese Australians 238
Dealing with the 'piebald north' 239
Deporting the 'Kanakas' 240
Pushing 'purity' 241
Chapter 13: World War I: International and Local Ruptures 243
Gearing Up for Global War 244
Building up Australian forces 245
Choosing the best party to lead the wartime government 245
Why get involved? 246
Australia at War 246
Proving ourselves to the world, part I: Gallipoli 247
Proving ourselves to the world, part II: The Western Front 249
General John Monash engineers some victory 251
Home Front Hassles 253
Getting on the war footing 254
Irish...
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | 448 S. |
| ISBN-13: | 9780730395454 |
| ISBN-10: | 0730395456 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Mcdermott, Alex |
| Hersteller: | John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, amartine@wiley-vch.de |
| Maße: | 237 x 191 x 35 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Alex Mcdermott |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 02.05.2022 |
| Gewicht: | 0,921 kg |
Ähnliche Produkte
Lieferzeit 1-2 Wochen
Lieferzeit 2-4 Werktage
Lieferzeit 2-3 Wochen
Lieferzeit 2-4 Werktage
Aktuell nicht verfügbar
Lieferzeit 2-4 Werktage
Lieferzeit 2-4 Werktage
Lieferzeit 2-4 Werktage
Lieferzeit 2-4 Werktage
Lieferzeit 2-4 Werktage