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Australia's Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s
Stuart Forbes Macintyre
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Description for Australia's Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s
Paperback. In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatised by World War I, hammered by the Depression and overstretched by World War II became a prosperous, successful and growing society by the 1950s. This book shows the 1940s to be a pivotal decade in Australia. Num Pages: 592 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JJPG; HBJM; JPQB; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 155 x 55. Weight in Grams: 842.
A major new account of the 1940s in Australia.
In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatised by World War I, hammered by the Depression and overstretched by World War II became a prosperous, successful and growing society by the 1950s. An extraordinary group of individuals, notably John Curtin, Ben Chifley, Nugget Coombs, John Dedman and Robert Menzies, re-made the country, planning its reconstruction against a background of wartime sacrifice and austerity. The other part of this triumphant story shows Australia on the world stage, seeking to fashion a new world order that would bring peace ... Read more
A major new account of the 1940s in Australia.
In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatised by World War I, hammered by the Depression and overstretched by World War II became a prosperous, successful and growing society by the 1950s. An extraordinary group of individuals, notably John Curtin, Ben Chifley, Nugget Coombs, John Dedman and Robert Menzies, re-made the country, planning its reconstruction against a background of wartime sacrifice and austerity. The other part of this triumphant story shows Australia on the world stage, seeking to fashion a new world order that would bring peace ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of New South Wales Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
Sydney, NSW, Australia
ISBN
9781742231129
SKU
V9781742231129
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About Stuart Forbes Macintyre
Stuart Forbes Macintyre AO is an Australian historian, academic and public intellectual and a former Ernest Scott Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has been voted one of Australia’smost influential public intellectuals. He is author of the bestselling Concise History of Australia, which has gone into a number of ... Read more
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