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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822575203321

Autore

Atkinson Alan

Titolo

The Europeans in Australia . Volume 3 Nation / / Alan Atkinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney, NSW : , : UNSW Press, , 2014

ISBN

1-74224-683-4

1-74224-150-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (528 p.)

Disciplina

994.004034

Soggetti

Europeans - Australia - History

Australia History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; EXPLORING; 1. The Elements; 2. Australia's Rural Code; 3. The Commonwealth of Speech; A JIGSAW FOR A CONTINENT; 4. Tyrannous Freedom; 5. The Significance of Brain; 6. Adding North to South; INDIVIDUALITY; 7. Men and Women; 8. Black and White; 9. God and Humanity; The Fourth Dimension; 10. Conscience and Total Calculation; 11. The Voice of the Country; 12. War; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is the third and final volume of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia that gives an account of settlement by Britain. It tells of the various ways in which that experience shaped imagination and belief among the settler people from the eighteenth century to the end of World War I. Volume Three, Nation, tells the story of Australian Federation and the war with a focus, as ever on ordinary habits of thought and feeling. In this period, for the first time the settler people began to grasp the vastness of the continent, and to think of it as their own. There was a mas