The Europeans in Australia

Volume Three - Nation

Alan Atkinson

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New South Wales Univ Pres
01 September 2014

History; Australasian & Pacific history; Ethnic studies

WINNER of the 2015 Victorian Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-fiction.

WINNER of the 2015 NSW Premier’s History Awards - Australian History Prize.

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 massive funding of education, and the intellectual reach of men and women was suddenly expanded, to an extent that seemed dazzling to many at the time. Women began to shape public imagination as they had not done before.

At the same time, the worship of mere ideas had its victims, most obviously the Aboriginal people, and the war itself proved what vast tragedies it could unleash.The culmination of an extraordinary career in the writing and teaching of Australian history, this book grapples with the Australian historical experience as a whole from the point of view of the settlers from Europe.

Ambitious and unique, it is the first such large, single-author account since Manning Clark's A History of Australia.

By: Alan Atkinson
Imprint: New South Wales Univ Pres
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 41mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780868409979
ISBN 10: 0868409979
Pages: 528
Publication Date: 01 September 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three - Nation

I can still feel the impact, at once sensory and intellectual, of the early volumes of The Europeans in Australia upon me as I made my way through their pages, and their tapestry of ideas and impressions swept through my thoughts. It is not the records alone that Atkinson mines for his material, but what lies within the records, what the mind and heart must provide by way of supplement. --Nicolas Rothwell, Northern Australia correspondent for the Australian Excellent scholarship. Highly recommended. --CHOICE Excellent scholarship. Highly recommended. --CHOICE Excellent scholarship. Highly recommended. --CHOICE Excellent scholarship. Highly recommended. --CHOICE