The Europeans in Australia Volume Two Democracy 1st Edition by Alan Atkinson 9781742242439 174224243X

The Europeans in Australia Volume Two Democracy 1st Edition Alan Atkinson – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781742242439, 174224243X

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• ISBN 10: 174224243X
• ISBN 13: 9781742242439
• Author: Alan Atkinson

‘It is the duty of historians to be, wherever they can, accurate, precise, humane, imaginative – using moral imagination above all – and even-handed.’ – Alan Atkinson The second of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia gives an account of early settlement by Britain. It tells of the political and intellectual origins of this extraordinary undertaking that began during the 1780s, a decade of extraordinary creativity and the climax of the European Enlightenment. Volume Two, Democracy, takes the story from around 1815 to the early 1870s. By exploring the nineteenth-century ‘communications revolution’ Atkinson casts new light on the way Australia first found its place in a ‘global’ world. This volume is more than a story of geography and politics. It describes the way people thought and felt. Throughout the trilogy Atkinson traces subtle and sudden shifts of ‘common imagination’ by analysing the lives of both powerful and ordinary Australians. He sets out the ideas and the imagery that moved and marked the people. This book, like all his work, is grounded in thorough and rigorous scholarship yet imbued with compassion and insight. Written ‘from the inside’, it is – as he says – history ‘caught up with the flesh and memory it describes’. The culmination of an extraordinary career in the writing and teaching of Australian history, The Europeans in Australia grapples with the Australian historical experience as a whole from the point of view of the settlers from Europe. Ambitious and unique, it is the first such large, single-author account since Manning Clark’s A History of Australia.

Table contents:

1. Bound by Birth
2. The Well Read
3. Making a Name
4. Convict Opinion
5. ‘A Most Extensive Scale’
6. Conscience
Their Method of Utterance
7. Men and Women
8. Black and White
9. God and Humanity
The Masses Unpacked
10. Feeding on Stories
11. Digging Deep
12. Ink and Affection
13. Railway Dreaming
14. To Feel as One
15. Our Outer Edge

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