Australian Studies: Australian History

This single-volume reference source covers all aspects of Australia, including contemporary culture, the Aboriginal heritage, the natural world, and the continent's colourful past. Eight sections examine all the key aspects of the continent, past and present: the physical continent, the Aboriginal heritage, history since European contact, government, economy, society, science and technology, and culture and the arts.

Two-volume encyclopaedia providing extensive information about Aboriginal Australia, before and after European settlement. Entries discuss its people, culture, lifestyles, history and geography and cover major themes and subjects, sub-topics, and individual people and places. Also includes appendices, a bibliography and an index. Also available on CD-ROM.

This book is an introduction to the archaeology of Australia from prehistoric times to the eighteenth century AD.

A general history of Australia from European settlement to the present day, focusing on race, possession, dispossession and proprietorship.

Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands of years old. For much of the past 200 years the newcomers have sought to replace the old with the new. This book tells how they imposed themselves on the land, and describes how they brought technology, institutions and ideas to make it their own. It relates the advance from penal colony to a prosperous free nation and illustrates how, in a nation created by waves of newcomers, the search for binding traditions has long been frustrated by the feeling of rootlessness. Now, with the realisation that colonisation began with invasion, present-day Australians are - more than ever before - coming to terms with their past and recognising the need to redefine and reposition Australia in a changing world. This is the most up-to-date single-volume Australian history available.

Five volumes