History of AustraliaIn 1962, the first volume of Manning Clark's "A History of Australia" appeared. For the next two-and-a-half decades Clark unfolded his tragic celebration of white Australian history. Today, the six-volume history is one of the masterpieces of Australian literature. It is also one of the most passionately debated visions of Australian history. Clark's Australians are men and women of lively goodwill and deep sinfulness, of generous idealism and unthinking brutality. He dramatizes the motivating forces of Australian life - cowardice and vision, cruelty and defiance, greatness of spirit and the spiritual vacuity of the suburbs - all of them locked in the unceasing struggle which builds a nation. Michael Cathcart has re-orchestrated Clark's epic narrative in this single volume. Every page of this abridgement rings with Manning Clark's voice. Here, at last, the general reader can encounter the deep resonances, pessimism and passion of Manning Clark - Australian historian and prophet. Michael Cathcart is co-author of "Mission to the South Seas: the Voyage of the Duff" and author of "Defending the National Tuckshop", a study of conservative responses to the Great Depression. |
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Contents
BOOK | 1 |
Macquarie and Mr Commissioner Bigge | 73 |
BOOK | 83 |
The Saint of Hobart Town | 151 |
BOOK THREE | 161 |
The Moral Improvers Arrive in South Australia | 174 |
Overstraiters Overlanders and Others Descend on Port Phillip | 187 |
Englands Echo in the Antipodes | 195 |
The CalmDown Begins | 315 |
Colonial Democrats | 323 |
The Kingdom of Nothingness | 331 |
Uproar in the Bush | 345 |
The Earth Abideth For Ever | 357 |
BOOK FIVE The People Make Lam 18881915 | 385 |
The Birth of Labor | 387 |
A Time of Tumult | 395 |
Governor Gipps and the Massacre at Myall Creek | 202 |
But Colonials Do Not Make Their Own History | 206 |
SelfGovernment | 216 |
BOOK FOUR The Earth Abideth For Ever 18511888 | 223 |
The Possessed | 225 |
One Step Forward for the White Man | 236 |
Who Would Want to be a Digger? | 245 |
That Bloody Licence Tax | 252 |
A Colonial Bourgeoisie | 269 |
The Barbarians of Lambing Flat | 278 |
Glory Folly and Chance | 283 |
The Bush Barbarians | 298 |
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Manning Clark's History of Australia Charles Manning Hope Clark,Manning Clark No preview available - 1993 |
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