A Short History Of Australia

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penguin Books Australia
Publisher Place: Camberwell
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: Reprint

Description: 392 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: On 26 January the convict transports moved into their new home as a handful of Aborigines on the shore set up a horrid howl and indicated by angry gestures with sticks and stones that the white man was not wanted.More than a decade after his death, Manning Clark remains Australias most eminent and controversial historian. A Short History of Australia, considered by many to be his greatest work, charts the nations social, cultural and political growth from the arrival of that first shipload of English convicts at Sydney Cove to the late twentieth century - with remarkable breadth of vision. His observations are as entertaining as they are enlightening.In this new edition, a postscript by his son Sebastian Clark brings the book right up-to-date, revealing many enduring parallels between the past and present.

ISBN: 9780143005056