| Description |
ix, 244 pages ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Introduction: Contemplating the role of mistakes in Australia's past / Martin Crotty and David Andrew Roberts -- Indigenous peoples. 'They would speedily abandon the country to the new comers' : the denial of aboriginal rights / David Andrew Roberts -- Shelley's mistake : the Parramatta Native Institute and the stolen generations / Peter Read -- The Australian environment. The Burke and Wills phenomenon : trial and error in the conquest of Australia / Alan Atkinson -- Agrarian ideals and pastoral realities : the use and misuse of land in rural Australia / Richard Waterhouse -- A curse upon the land : foxes and cane toads / Manda Page and Greg Baxter -- 'An architectural monstrosity'? : the Cahill Expressway and town planning / Paul Ashton -- War. Naive militarism : Australia's World War I generation / Martin Crotty -- A great and impotent friend : the Singapore strategy / David Day -- The enemy within : wartime internment of enemy aliens / Ilma O'Brien -- Politics and trade. 'Another Singapore'? : Australia turns away from Asia / Marion Diamond -- States of mind : federation and the problematic constitution / Clive Moore -- Guarding the flood gates : the removal of non-Europeans, 1945-49 / Klaus Neumann -- (Mis)adventures in brinkmanship : Whitlam and the Governor-General / Wayne Reynolds |
| Summary |
This highly original approach to Australian history, includes the complete span of history, from white settlement, to the very recent past. It presents a provocative account of where we might have got it wrong |
| Analysis |
20th Century history (c 1914+) |
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Modern history (c 1788-1914) (Australia) |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| SUBJECT |
Burke and Wills Expedition (1860-1861) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2006027032
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| Subject |
Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy -- Australia.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations.
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City planning -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.)
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Errors -- History -- Anecdotes.
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Germans -- Australia -- Evacuation and relocation, 1940-1945
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Germans -- Australia -- Evacuation and relocation, 1939-1945
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Introduced animals -- Australia.
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Germans -- Australia -- Evacuation and relocation, 1940-1946
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Italians -- Australia -- Evacuation and relocation, 1940-1945
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Germans -- Australia.
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City planning -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Sydney
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Italians -- Australia -- Evacuation and relocation, 1939-1945
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Italians -- Australia -- Evacuation and relocation, 1940-1946.
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Japanese -- Australia -- Evacuation and relocation, 1939-1945
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Japanese -- Australia -- Evacuation and relocation, 1940-1945
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Italians -- Australia.
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Japanese -- Australia -- Evacuation and relocation, 1940-1946
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Land use -- Australia.
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Japanese -- Australia.
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Nonindigenous pests -- Australia.
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Australia -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
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Australia -- History -- Anecdotes.
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Australia -- History.
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Australia -- Politics and government.
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| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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Biographies.
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| Author |
Crotty, Martin, 1969-
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Roberts, David Andrew, 1969-
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| LC no. |
2007276138 |
| ISBN |
0868409952 (paperback) |
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9780868409955 |
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