Description:What if key episodes in Australia's past had turned out differently?If France had colonised part of Australia in the eighteenth century?If the ANZACS had played only a minor role in the Gallipoli landing in World War I?If Gough Whitlam's Labor government had been re-elected after its dismissal in 1975?If Aborigines had been granted citizenship much earlier?What new paths might our national history have followed? In this fascinating volume, leading Australian historians search for answers. Together, they reimagine Australia's environment, race relations, art, political life and national identity, providing a play on actual and possible, action and result, result and consequence that is as rigorous as it is creative.What If? asks how our history has been written, what our nation has become, and what it might yet be.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with What If?: Australian History as It Might Have Been. To get started finding What If?: Australian History as It Might Have Been, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
293
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Melbourne University Press
Release
2006
ISBN
0522851746
What If?: Australian History as It Might Have Been
Description: What if key episodes in Australia's past had turned out differently?If France had colonised part of Australia in the eighteenth century?If the ANZACS had played only a minor role in the Gallipoli landing in World War I?If Gough Whitlam's Labor government had been re-elected after its dismissal in 1975?If Aborigines had been granted citizenship much earlier?What new paths might our national history have followed? In this fascinating volume, leading Australian historians search for answers. Together, they reimagine Australia's environment, race relations, art, political life and national identity, providing a play on actual and possible, action and result, result and consequence that is as rigorous as it is creative.What If? asks how our history has been written, what our nation has become, and what it might yet be.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with What If?: Australian History as It Might Have Been. To get started finding What If?: Australian History as It Might Have Been, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.