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- catalog abstract ""The Oxford Companion to Australian History draws on the latest scholarship and covers the people, institutions, and events that have shaped Australian society, politics, and culture. It is edited by three of Australia's finest historians - Graeme Davison, John Hirst, and Stuart Macintyre - and includes contributions from 317 scholars and writers throughout Australia." "The Companion contains approximately 1600 entries, ranging from essays of up to 2000 words to succinct, factual entries of 100 words. There are entries on politicians, colonisers, visionaries, newspaper barons, industrialists, explorers, writers, artists, and scientists. There are numerous extended essays on key facets of our national life - political, social, cultural, scientific, military, and economic. Readers will find incisive entries on such matters as art, capital punishment, gambling, language, literature, military history, republicanism, and reconciliation. This edition contains new and revised entries to take account of events since the book was first published in 1998"--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Australian history".
- catalog contributor b12236488.
- catalog contributor b12236489.
- catalog contributor b12236490.
- catalog coverage "Australia History Encyclopedias.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""The Oxford Companion to Australian History draws on the latest scholarship and covers the people, institutions, and events that have shaped Australian society, politics, and culture. It is edited by three of Australia's finest historians - Graeme Davison, John Hirst, and Stuart Macintyre - and includes contributions from 317 scholars and writers throughout Australia." "The Companion contains approximately 1600 entries, ranging from essays of up to 2000 words to succinct, factual entries of 100 words. There are entries on politicians, colonisers, visionaries, newspaper barons, industrialists, explorers, writers, artists, and scientists. There are numerous extended essays on key facets of our national life - political, social, cultural, scientific, military, and economic. Readers will find incisive entries on such matters as art, capital punishment, gambling, language, literature, military history, republicanism, and reconciliation. This edition contains new and revised entries to take account of events since the book was first published in 1998"--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xx, 722 p. :".
- catalog identifier "019551503X".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "South Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Australia History Encyclopedias.".
- catalog subject "DU110 .O93 2001".
- catalog title "Australian history".
- catalog title "The Oxford companion to Australian history / edited by Graeme Davison, John Hirst, Stuart Macintyre, with the assistance of Helen Doyle, Kim Torney.".
- catalog type "Encyclopedias. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Wörterbuch. swd".
- catalog type "text".