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Sto caricando le informazioni... Australia: A New History of the Great Southern Landdi Frank Welsh
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Frank Welsh's new history of Australia is the first to be written by a non-Australian, and the first to be based on archival research not only in Australia, but in Britain, the USA, Canada and South Africa. Australian history is clearly placed in a world context, and many previous misconceptions exposed, to form a compelling and enjoyable narrative. Welsh traces the history of the continent from before the arrival of the First Fleet, through the hesitant and haphazard unifying of the continent, and the conflict between the original colonies, through the steady emergence of Australian nationalism at the end of the nineteenth century, the establishment of the White Australia' policy which persisted for so long and which was a key element in, for example, the support which Australia gave to the USA during the Vietnam War, right up to John Howard's controversial premiership. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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i) a book written by a Brit, not an Australian. This is very good, insofar as he doesn't feel obliged to take sides in Australia's extraordinarily vitriolic historiographical polemics. It's bad in that he doesn't necessarily give you an understanding of what it's like to actually grow up in Australia, i.e., he hates Ned Kelly. Bloody poms. This makes the book particularly useless for those looking to understand the country's culture and society.
ii) in other words, it's a political history. That's good, since you get an understanding of the political history; it's bad, because Australia's political history is pretty dull, particularly if you're not taking part in the vitriolic *political* polemics, which are great entertainment.
But I suspect this makes it a good place to start, for Australians or others. If you feel the urge to skim over pre-Menzies political stuff, you won't be losing anything. But beware Welsh's free and loose ways with footnotes and references--he sometimes refers to nonexistent books. Tut tut. (