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

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Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Stamp on author bio page. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

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 World War I, 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)