Australia's Boldest Experiment. War and Reconstruction in the 1940s [Signed]

Macintyre, Stuart

ISBN 10: 1742231128 / ISBN 13: 9781742231129

Published by NewSouth Publishing, Sydney, 2015

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Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Inscribed & Signed by author to previous owner. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 596 pages. The author explains how a country traumatised by World War I, hammered by the Deprression and overstretched by World war II became a prosperous, successful and growing society by the 1950s.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Australia's Boldest Experiment. War and Reconstruction in the 1940s [Signed]
• Publisher: NewSouth Publishing, Sydney
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1742231128
• ISBN 13: 9781742231129
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Aust-History

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Synopsis

In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatised by World War I, hammered by the Depression and overstretched by World War II became a prosperous, successful and growing society by the 1950s. An extraordinary group of individuals, notably John Curtin, Ben Chifley, Nugget Coombs, John Dedman and Robert Menzies, re-made the country, planning its reconstruction against a background of wartime sacrifice and austerity. The other part of this triumphant story shows Australia on the world stage, seeking to fashion a new world order that would bring peace and prosperity. This book shows the 1940s to be a pivotal decade in Australia. At the height of his powers, Macintyre reminds us that key components of the society we take for granted - work, welfare, health, education, immigration, housing - are not the result of military endeavour but policy, planning, politics and popular resolve.

About the Author

Stuart Forbes Macintyre AO is an Australian historian, academic and public intellectual and a former Ernest Scott Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has been voted one of Australia’smost influential public intellectuals. He is author of the bestselling Concise History of Australia, which has gone into a number of editions and is co-editor, with Alison Bashford, of the two-volume Cambridge History of Australia. His book The Reds, won The Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award in 1998 and The History Wars, co-written with Anna Clark, won the 2004 Premier of New South Wales’ Australian History Prize.