The Oxford History of Australia: 1942-1988, the middle wayThe postwar period has seen radical changes in Australia. Increased dependence on the United States, an influx of European and Asian immigrants, and a series of economic booms and recessions have confronted Australians with the challenge of surviving as an offshoot of European civilization in a largely Asian region and securing a prosperous future with declining support from European markets and investment. This final volume in the Oxford History of Australia details this volatile period, showing that while some Australians have resisted the pressures for change, most have adapted resourcefully and intelligently to the task of creating a new nation able to survive into the 21st century. |
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Page 29
Almost 15 per cent of the voters, largely previous supporters of the non-Labor
parties, favoured independents or mushroom minor parties. Communist
candidates received 2 per cent of the vote; they would never do as well again.
Fifty per cent ...
Almost 15 per cent of the voters, largely previous supporters of the non-Labor
parties, favoured independents or mushroom minor parties. Communist
candidates received 2 per cent of the vote; they would never do as well again.
Fifty per cent ...
Page 49
While both favoured the redistribution of land from Japanese absentee owners to
the peasantry, the Australians went considerably further than the Americans in
wishing to safeguard tenant rights and restrict the size of holdings. In practice ...
While both favoured the redistribution of land from Japanese absentee owners to
the peasantry, the Australians went considerably further than the Americans in
wishing to safeguard tenant rights and restrict the size of holdings. In practice ...
Page 123
When they built new farmhouses they often spurned the wide-verandahed idiom
of an earlier generation in favour of incongruous replicas of the brick-and-tiled
smartness of modern suburbia. Rural Australia was yielding to suburban
Australia.
When they built new farmhouses they often spurned the wide-verandahed idiom
of an earlier generation in favour of incongruous replicas of the brick-and-tiled
smartness of modern suburbia. Rural Australia was yielding to suburban
Australia.
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Contents
The Brink of SelfDiscovery 1942 1951 | 1 |
The High Summer of Robert Menzies 19511965 | 87 |
The Search for New Directions 19661975 | 163 |
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| Title | The Oxford History of Australia: 1942-1988, the middle way Volume 5 of The Oxford History of Australia, Geoffrey Bolton |
| Author | Geoffrey Bolton |
| Editor | Geoffrey Bolton |
| Contributor | Geoffrey Bolton |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 17 Apr 2008 |
| ISBN | 019554613X, 9780195546132 |
| Length | 352 pages |
| Subjects | › › Australia Australia History History / Australia & New Zealand History / General Science / Life Sciences / Botany |
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