The Europeans in Australia. Volume three, Nation /

The Europeans in Australia. Volume three, Nation /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Atkinson, Alan, author.
Imprint:	Sydney : UNSW Press, 2014.
Description:	xxii, 505 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Europeans -- Australia -- History. Europeans Social conditions. Australia -- History -- 1788-1900. Australia -- History -- 20th century. Australia. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10127283

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Varying Form of Title:	Nation
ISBN:	9780868409979 0868409979
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	This is the third and final volume of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia that gives an account of settlement by Britain. It tells of the various ways in which that experience shaped imagination and belief among the settler people from the eighteenth century to the end of World War I. Volume Three, Nation, tells the story of Australian Federation and the war with a focus, as ever on ordinary habits of thought and feeling. In this period, for the first time the settler people began to grasp the vastness of the continent, and to think of it as their own. There was a mas.

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Exploring
1. The Elements
2. Australia's Rural Code
3. The Commonwealth of Speech
A Jigsaw for a Continent
4. Tyrannous Freedom
5. The Significance of Brain
6. Adding North to South
Individuality
7. Men and Women
8. Black and White
9. God and Humanity
The Fourth Dimension
10. Conscience and Total Calculation
11. The Voice of the Country
12. War
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index