The Europeans in Australia: Volume 3: Nation by Alan Atkinson

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page.

This is the third and final volume of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia which gives an account of settlement by Britain. Volume Three, Nation, tells the story of the Australian Federation and the WWI, focusing on ordinary habits of thought and feeling.

In this period, for the first time, the settler people began to grasp the continent's vastness and think of it as their own. There was massive funding of education, and the intellectual reach of men and women was suddenly expanded, to an extent that seemed dazzling to many at the time.

Women began to shape the public imagination as they had not done before. At the same time, the worship of mere ideas had its victims, most obviously the Aboriginal people and the war itself proved what vast tragedies it could unleash.(back cover)