Inhalt: Inhaltsverzeichnis: Beginnings, c. 50,000 years before the present -- c. 1600 Newcomers -- c. 1600-1792 Coercion -- 1793-1821 Conquest -- 1822-1850 5 Progress -- 1851-1888 Reconstruction -- 1889-1913 Sacrifice -- 1914-1945 Golden age --1946-1975 Rectification -- 1976-1996 Outcomes -- 1997-2019. Klappentext: "Stuart Macintyre, one of Australia's most highly regarded historians, revisits A Concise History of Australia to provoke readers to reconsider Australia's past and its relationship to the present. Integrating new scholarship with the historical record, the fifth edition of A Concise History of Australia brings together the long narrative of Australia's First Nations' peoples; the arrival of Europeans and the era of colonies, convicts, gold and free settlers; the foundation of a nation state; and the social, cultural, political and economic developments that created a modern Australia. As we enter the third decade of the twenty-first century, Macintyre's Australia remains one of achievements and failures. So too the future possibilities are deeply rooted in the country's past endeavours. A Concise History of Australia is an invitation to examine this past"--