In this Very Short Introduction, Kenneth Morgan provides a wide-ranging and thematic introduction to modern Australia; examining the main features of its histor

This 2005 book tells the story of the first British settlers of Australia and the people they found living there.

The publication of this book in 1981 profoundly changed the way in which we understand the history of relations between indigenous Australians and European sett

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Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but it also sustains a people and a culture tens of thousands of years old. For much of the past 200