The making of Australia
By: Hill, David
Material type: BookPublisher: North Sydney, NSW : William Heinenann book by Random House Australia, c2014Description: 465 p. , [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781742757667; 1742757669Other title: Making of Australia : from a tiny struggling convict settlement to the remarkable nation it is today.Subject(s): Australia -- History | Australia -- Colonization | Australia -- Social life and customs | Australia -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 994Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 994 HI MA (Browse shelf) | Available | T0015599 |
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994 DE BA Debating the issues / | 994 DU AU Australia and the empire : from 1788 to the present / | 994 EN AU Australian society : introductory essays. | 994 HI MA The making of Australia | 994 IM AG Images of Australia : an introductory reader in Australian studies / | 994 MO PE The Penguin history of Australia / | 994 PE CU Australia / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In this riveting, wide-ranging history, David Hill traces how this happened through the key figures who built this country into the thriving nation it is today: from its prescient and fair-minded first governor, Arthur Phillip, to the unpopular William Bligh, the victim of the country's first and only military coup; from the visionary builder and law-maker Lachlan Macquarie to William Wentworth, the son of a convict who secured Australia's first elected parliament; from Henry Parkes, the grand old man of politics who started the fraught process of Federation, to the first prime minister, Edmund Barton.
This is the story of how a struggling convict settlement grew into six dynamic colonies and then the remarkable nation of Australia. Told through the key figures who helped build it into the thriving nation it is today, David Hill once again offers up Australian history at its most entertaining and accessible. In his latest book, David Hill traces the story of our nation from its European beginnings to Federation. When James Cook landed on the east coast of Australia, the rest of the world had some idea of how empty, vast and wild this continent was, but so little was known of it that in 1788 most people thought it was two lands. In the subsequent years, its coastline was charted, its interior opened up, and its cities, laws and economy developed. In this riveting, wide-ranging history, David Hill traces how this happened through the key figures who built this country into the thriving nation it is today: from its prescient and fair-minded first governor, Arthur Phillip, to the unpopular William Bligh, the victim of the country's first and only military coup; from the visionary builder and law-maker Lachlan Macquarie to William Wentworth, the son of a convict who secured Australia's first elected parliament; from Henry Parkes, the grand old man of politics who started the fraught process of Federation, to the first prime minister, Edmund Barton. It was Barton who formed the first Australian government just in time for the inaugural celebrations on 1 January 1901, when the nation of Australia was born! David Hill is one of our most popular writers of Australian history. His previous books, The Forgotten Children, 1788, The Gold Rush and The Great Race have all been bestsellers.