The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 5The 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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... United Nations.41 The Indonesian crisis was probably the most important example of Australia's readiness to resort to the United Nations as an international forum but it was not the only one . Evatt cherished the hope that the United ...
... United Nations.41 The Indonesian crisis was probably the most important example of Australia's readiness to resort to the United Nations as an international forum but it was not the only one . Evatt cherished the hope that the United ...
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... United States as the essential senior partner . But although the United States had recently made a commitment to a European alliance in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization , Washington saw the Western Pacific as more peripheral and ...
... United States as the essential senior partner . But although the United States had recently made a commitment to a European alliance in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization , Washington saw the Western Pacific as more peripheral and ...
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... United Kingdom was 14 per cent and for the United States nearly 20 per cent , and unemployment was lower than at any period in Australian history , standing at 1.2 per cent in 1950 and at precisely the same figure in August 1965. In the ...
... United Kingdom was 14 per cent and for the United States nearly 20 per cent , and unemployment was lower than at any period in Australian history , standing at 1.2 per cent in 1950 and at precisely the same figure in August 1965. In the ...
Contents
The Brink of SelfDiscovery 19421951 | 1 |
Pragmatism Ascendant | 59 |
Getting and Spending | 89 |
Copyright | |
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