Edited by Graeme Davison, John Hirst and Stuart Macintyre. With the assistance of Helen Doyle and Kim Torney.
1,600 entries
The Oxford Companion to Australian History draws on the latest scholarship and covers people, institutions, and events that have shaped Australian society, politics and culture. There are entries on politicians, colonisers, visionaries, newspaper barons, industrialists, explorers, writers, artists, and scientists. There are numerous extended essays on key facets of the nation's life — political, social, cultural, scientific, military, and economic. Readers will find incisive entries on matters such as art, capital punishment, gambling, language, literature, military history, republicanism, and reconciliation.
"... this splendid new alphabetically ordered reference book on Australian history is remarkably free from the biases of political correctness or economic innocence ... it is fair, competent and comprehensive; useful as a reference and often good to read in itself."
Graeme Davison is Professor of History at Monash University. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne (1978), The Unforgiving Minute: How Australia Learned to Tell the Time (1993), and The Use and Abuse of Australian History (2000). In 1988–89 he was Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University.
John Hirst is a Reader in History at La Trobe University. His publications include Convict Society and Its Enemies (1983), A Republican Manifesto (1994), and The Sentimental Nation: The Making of the Australian Commonwealth (2000).
Stuart Macintyre is the Ernest Scott Professor of History and Dean of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He wrote volume 4 of The Oxford History of Australia, and his most recent books are The Reds (1998) and A Concise History of Australia (1999).
ISBN: 019551503X
Print edition publication date: 2001
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