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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 The Story of Australia’s People : The Rise and Rise of a New Australia, Vol. II
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'In Volume II of The Story of Australia's People, Geoffrey Blainey continues his account of the history of this country from the early Gold Rush to the present day, completing the story of our nation and its people.

'When Europeans crossed the world to plant a new society in an unknown land, traditional life for Australia's first inhabitants changed forever. For the new arrivals, Australia was a land that rewarded, tricked, tantalised and often defeated. From the Gold Rush to Land Rights and the Digital Age, Blainey brings to life the key events of more recent times that have shaped us into the nation and people we are today. Compelling, groundbreaking and brilliantly readable, The Story of Australia's People Volume II is the second installment of an ambitious two-part work, and the culmination of the lifework of Australia's most prolific and wide-ranging historian.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication : 'For Australia and its civilisation, the time is still 'early morning'...'

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2016 .
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      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 486p.p.
      Reprinted: 20 Oct 2020 Paperback ed.
      Note/s:
      • Published October 31, 2016

      ISBN: 9780670078028 (hbk), 9781761041945 (pbk)

Works about this Work

The Story of Australia’s People: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia, Vol. I./The Story of Australia’s People : The Rise and Rise of a New Australia, Vol. II. Geoffrey Robertson , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 48 no. 4 2017;

'Geoffrey Blainey is Australia’s happy historian. ‘Blame’ is not in his vocabulary and his hindsight points no fingers at the past. Thus our nation’s story is told congenially, in large typeface, without footnotes to trouble the ‘general reader’ to whom it is directed – the author’s trademark generalisations come with the authority of his age and his achievements. They are nicely, sometimes lyrically, expressed, as he tells two stories – triumphal (how the progeny of British convicts built a prosperous nation) and tragic (the despoliation and degradation of our indigenous people) without bothering too much about how they may have been causally related.' (Introduction)

The Story of Australia’s People: The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia, Vol. I./The Story of Australia’s People : The Rise and Rise of a New Australia, Vol. II. Geoffrey Robertson , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , vol. 48 no. 4 2017;

'Geoffrey Blainey is Australia’s happy historian. ‘Blame’ is not in his vocabulary and his hindsight points no fingers at the past. Thus our nation’s story is told congenially, in large typeface, without footnotes to trouble the ‘general reader’ to whom it is directed – the author’s trademark generalisations come with the authority of his age and his achievements. They are nicely, sometimes lyrically, expressed, as he tells two stories – triumphal (how the progeny of British convicts built a prosperous nation) and tragic (the despoliation and degradation of our indigenous people) without bothering too much about how they may have been causally related.' (Introduction)

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