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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Staff appointments were made with an eye to protecting young minds from
contentious views. In 1955 there was a major row over Sydney Sparkes Orr, who
was dismissed from the chair of philosophy at the University of Tasmania
following ...
Staff appointments were made with an eye to protecting young minds from
contentious views. In 1955 there was a major row over Sydney Sparkes Orr, who
was dismissed from the chair of philosophy at the University of Tasmania
following ...
Page 119
The more competent young men won admiration as members of the trained and
disciplined surf life-saving teams. With the increase in motor vehicles the young
no longer had to confine themselves to the popular patrolled beaches accessible
...
The more competent young men won admiration as members of the trained and
disciplined surf life-saving teams. With the increase in motor vehicles the young
no longer had to confine themselves to the popular patrolled beaches accessible
...
Page 120
For young women it was sometimes a consolation for their lack of career that they
could spend two tax-free years based in the United Kingdom before settling down
to domesticity. They frequented the Down Under Club which in those years ...
For young women it was sometimes a consolation for their lack of career that they
could spend two tax-free years based in the United Kingdom before settling down
to domesticity. They frequented the Down Under Club which in those years ...
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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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