The Blainey View by Geoffrey Blainey

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page. Dust jacket has creasing at edges and at spine. Interior and binding are still very good.

A history of Australia and its people based on the ABC television series of the same name.

In the book Professor Geoffrey Blainey looks at our Australia's isolation, the revolution of work and leisure habits, the influence of British heritage, the Chinese in Australia, the depression and its lessons, war with Japan and the mining industry where the gold-digger has given way to the multinationals, the special place of the cocky farmer and the Australia of the Aboriginals before white settlement and today.

Contains many black-and-white photographs and illustrations.