The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 4The first volume to appear in the five-volume Oxford History of Australia, this book surveys the forty years following the establishment of the Commonwealth in 1901 -- a time when Australia yearned for autonomous nationhood and industrial self-sufficiency, but nonetheless remained bound to Britain by ties of trade, culture, and sentiment. Macintyre explores the shifting patterns of class conflict and compromise that shaped the course of events and traces the links between the social, economic, and political processes of a nation in transition. |
