Table of Contents

1. Beginnings, c. 50,000 years before the present–c. 1600; 2. Newcomers, c. 1600–1792; 3. Coercion, 1793–1821; 4. Conquest, 1822–1850; 5. Progress, 1851–1888; 6. Reconstruction, 1889–1913; 7. Sacrifice, 1914–1945; 8. Golden age, 1946–1975; 9. Rectification, 1976–1996; 10. Outcomes, 1997–2019.

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Macintyre revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Australia's past and its relationship to the present.

About the Author

Stuart Macintyre is an Emeritus Laureate Professor of the University of Melbourne. He served as president of the Australian Historical Association and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and is currently chair of the Heritage Council of Victoria and president of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. Among the forty books he has written or edited are The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 4 (1986), The History Wars (2003) and Australia's Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s (2015). With Alison Bashford he edited the Cambridge History of Australia (2013).