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AUSTRALIANA

Revised Edition. From the coming of the first fleets to the drought and depression which ushered in the new Commonwealth in 1901, Blainey traces the swift physical taming of Australia and the slow emotional discovery of Australia as homeland to northern Europeans.

“Covers the second phase of Australia’s history from the coming of the first fleets to the long drought and depression which ushered in the new Commonwealth in 1901. It offers new explanations of many events in Australian History.”

v, 388 p., [12] p. of plates : maps ; 22 cm.  #051122

Australia. Social conditions, to 1900.  |  Settlement and contacts – Explorers.  |  Race relations – Violent – Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. – To 1900.  |  Settlement and contacts.  |  Race relations – Racism – Stereotyping.  |  Colonisation.  |  Australia — Social conditions — 1788-1900.

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