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. |
Contents
BOOK ONE From the First Fleet to the Age of Macquarie 17881823 | 1 |
The Foundation | 3 |
Hunger | 12 |
The Battles Begin | 21 |
Rebellion | 30 |
Prosperity | 35 |
Mutiny | 42 |
The Convict System in New South Wales in 1810 | 48 |
A Colonial Bourgeoisie | 269 |
The Barbarians of Lambing Flat | 278 |
Glory Folly and Chance | 283 |
The Bush Barbarians | 298 |
The CalmDown Begins | 315 |
Colonial Democrats | 323 |
The Kingdom of Nothingness | 331 |
Uproar in the Bush | 345 |
Macquarie | 52 |
A Question of Virtues | 61 |
Macquarie and Mr Commissioner Bigge | 73 |
BOOK TWO New South Wales and Van Diemens Land 18221838 | 83 |
Darkness | 85 |
The Setting in New South Wales | 91 |
The Return of the Native Son | 100 |
The Native Son Offends Grossly | 109 |
Towards a Colonial Gentry | 115 |
A HighMinded Governor in Van Diemens Land | 122 |
The World of Betsey Bandicoot and Bold Jack Donahoe | 129 |
A Whig Governor amidst High Tory Counsellors | 137 |
Botany Bay Whigs and Botany Bay Tories | 143 |
The Saint of Hobart Town | 151 |
BOOK THREE The Beginning of an Australian Civilization 18241851 | 161 |
Another Province for Britains Gentry | 163 |
The Moral Improvers Arrive in South Australia | 174 |
Overstraiters Overlanders and Others Descend on Port Phillip | 187 |
Englands Echo in the Antipodes | 195 |
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 |
The Earth Abideth For Ever | 357 |
BOOK FIVE The People Make Laws 18881915 | 385 |
The Birth of Labor | 387 |
A Time of Tumult | 395 |
Federation or Revolution? | 404 |
The Tablets of the Law | 414 |
Embourgeoisement | 424 |
The Cooking of Mr Deakin | 429 |
The Era of the Common Man | 438 |
On the Rim of a Maelstrom | 447 |
Ideals Cast to the Winds | 456 |
BOOK SIX The Old Dead Tree and the Young Tree Green 19161935 | 471 |
Two Australias | 473 |
Patriots | 483 |
What Shall We Believe? | 488 |
A Divided Australia | 496 |
Cant We Do Anything Ourselves? | 503 |
The Great Imperial Firm of Wealth Progress and Opportunities Unlimited | 512 |
The Imperial Firm Goes Bung | 519 |
An Australian in the Palace of the KingEmperor | 522 |
An Irish Catholic to the Rescue | 532 |
Tune in with Britain | 539 |
The Old Dead Tree or The Young Tree Green?? | 552 |
Epilogue | 562 |
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