Table of Contents

Volume 1. Indigenous and Colonial Australia. Part I: 1. The last 50,000 years: an archaeological view Peter Veth and Susan O'Connor; 2. Newcomers, c.1600–1800 Shino Konishi and Maria Nugent; 3. Convict transportation in global context, c.1700–88 Emma Christopher and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart; 4. The early colonial presence, 1788–1822 Grace Karskens; 5. Expansion, 1820–50 Lisa Ford and David Andrew Roberts; 6. The advent of self-government, 1840s–1890 Ann Curthoys and Jessie Mitchell; 7. The gold rushes of the 1850s David Goodman; 8. Colonial states and civil society, 1860–90 Stuart Macintyre and Sean Scalmer; 9. Rethinking the 1890s Melissa Bellanta; 10. Making the Federal Commonwealth, 1890–1901 Helen Irving; Part II: 11. Population and health Janet McCalman and Rebecca Kippen; 12. Environmental transformations Andrea Gaynor; 13. The economy Lionel Frost; 14. Indigenous and settler relations Tracey Banivanua Mar and Penelope Edmonds; 15. Education Julia Horne and Geoffrey Sherington; 16. Law and regulation Mark Finnane; 17. Religion Anne O'Brien; 18. Science and technology John Gascoigne and Sara Maroske; 19. Gender and colonial society Penny Russell; 20. Art and literature: a cosmopolitan culture Robert Dixon and Jeanette Hoorn; 21. Empire: Australia and 'Greater Britain', 1788–1901 Deryck Schreuder; 22. Colonial Australia and the Asia-Pacific region Marilyn Lake; 23. Australian colonies in a maritime world Cindy McCreery and Kirsten McKenzie. Volume 2. The Commonwealth of Australia. Part I: 1. Nation building, 1901–14 John Hirst; 2. The Great War and its aftermath, 1914–22 Stephen Garton and Peter Stanley; 3. Search for a solution, 1923–39 Frank Bongiorno; 4. World War 2 and post-war reconstruction, 1939–49 Kate Darian-Smith; 5. The Menzies era, 1950–66 Judith Brett; 6. Instability, 1966–82 Paul Strangio; 7. Growth resumed, 1983–2000 James Walter; 8. The new millennium Murray Goot; Part II: 9. Religion Graeme Davison; 10. Culture and media David Carter and Bridget Griffen-Foley; 11. Science and medicine Alison Bashford and Peter Hobbins; 12. Society and welfare Shurlee Swain; 13. Gender and sexuality Katie Holmes and Sarah Pinto; 14. Indigenous Australia Anna Haebich and Steve Kinnane; 15. Class Stuart Macintyre and Sean Scalmer; 16. The economy Simon Ville; 17. Government, law and citizenship Nicholas Brown; 18. Education Alison Mackinnon and Helen Proctor; 19. The environment Gregory Barton and Brett Bennett; 20. Travel and connections Agnieszka Sobocinska and Richard White; 21. Security David Lowe; 22. Australia, Britain and the British Commonwealth Carl Bridge; 23. Australia in the Asia-Pacific region Tomoko Akami and Tony Milner; 24. The history anxiety Mark McKenna.

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