Australia's Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s - Brossura

Macintyre, Stuart Forbes

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1742231128 ISBN 13: 9781742231129

Casa editrice: Univ of New South Wales, 2015

Riassunto

In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatized 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, remade the country, planning its reconstruction against a background of wartime sacrifice and austerity. This book shows the 1940s to be a pivotal decade in Australia.

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L'autore:

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. He is author of the bestsellingConcise History of Australia, which has gone into a number of editions and is co-editor, with Alison Bashford, of the two-volume Cambridge History of Australia. His bookThe Reds won The Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award in 1998 and The History Wars, co-written with Anna Clark, won the 2004 Premier of New South Wales' Australian History Prize.

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• Editore: Univ of New South Wales
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1742231128
• ISBN 13: 9781742231129
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 596