The Europeans in Australia: Volume 2: Democracy by Alan Atkinson

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly right front cover tail corner, now protected with book tape. Pages have started to sun.

The second of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement by Britain. It tells of the political and intellectual origins of this extraordinary undertaking that began during the 1780s, a decade of extraordinary creativity and the climax of the European Enlightenment.

Volume Two: Democracy takes the story from around 1815 to the early 1870s. By exploring the nineteenth-century communications revolution, Atkinson' shed light on how Australia first found its place globally.

This volume is more than a story of geography and politics. It describes the way people thought and felt. Like all his work, this book is grounded in thorough and rigorous scholarship yet imbued with compassion and insight. Written from the inside, it is as he says "history caught up with the flesh and memory it describes". (back cover)