Australian History For Dummies, 2nd Edition Alex Mcdermott

Australian History For Dummies, 2nd Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780730395454,9780730395508,0730395456,0730395502

Product details:

• ISBN 10: 0730395502
• ISBN 13: 9780730395508
• Author: Alex McDermott

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). 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 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 a fascinating listen. 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 twenty-first 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

Table of contents:

Part 1: Let’s Get This Country Started 

Chapter 1: Aussie, Aussie, Aussie

Chapter 2: First Australians: Making a Home, Receiving Visitors

Chapter 3: Second Arrivals and First Colonials

Chapter 4: Colony Going Places (With Some Teething Troubles)

Chapter 5: A Nation of Second Chances

Part 2: 1820s to 1900: Wool, Gold, Bust and then Federation 

Chapter 6: Getting Tough, Making Money and Taking Countr

Chapter 7: Economic Collapse and the Beginnings of Nationalism

Chapter 8: The Discovery of Gold and an Immigration Avalanche

Chapter 9: Explorers, Selectors, Bushrangers and Trains

Chapter 10: Work, Play and Politics during the Long Boom

Chapter 11: The Economy’s Collapsed — Anyone for Nationhood?

Part 3: The 20th Century: New Nation, New Trajectories

Chapter 12: Nation Just Born Yesterday

Chapter 13: World War I: International and Local Ruptures

Chapter 14: Australia Unlimited

Part 4: 1930 to 1949: Going So Wrong, So Soon? 

Chapter 15: A Not So Great Depression

Chapter 16: World War II Battles

Chapter 17: Making Australia New Again

Part 5: 1950 to 2000: Prosperity and Social Turmoil 

Chapter 18: Ambushed — by Prosperity!

Chapter 19: Taking Things Apart in the 1960s and 1970s

Chapter 20: When Old Australia Dies Is New Australia Ready

Part 6: 2000 and Beyond: Seeking Solutions to Global and Local Problems 

Chapter 21: Into the New Millennium

Chapter 22: Facing Off Between Two Australias

Part 7: The Part of Tens 

Chapter 23: Ten Things Australia Gave the World

Chapter 24: Ten Game-Changing Moments

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