A History of Australia Vols 5 & 6; 1888-1935
From 1888 to 1945
$95.74
- Paperback
1032 pages
- Release Date
13 September 1999
Summary
Manning Clark’s six-volume series, A History of Australia, is one of the masterpieces of Australian writing. It is also one of the most passionately debated visions of Australian history, in which the struggle to realise an Australian nation is played out on an epic scale.
A History of Australia - 1888-1945 covers Federation, the Boer War, and World War I’s Gallipoli. It finishes with the story of an emerging Australian identity at the point of its greatest trial—the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522848991 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522848990 |
| Author: | Manning Clark |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1032 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 13 September 1999 |
| Weight: | 333g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 155mm x 236mm |
| Series: | A History of Australia |
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Manning Clark
Born in Sydney in 1915, Manning Clark won scholarships to Melbourne Grammar School and the University of Melbourne. He later attended Balliol College, Oxford, and in the early 1940s taught history at schools in England and Australia. He was senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne, and later Professor of History in the School of General Studies, Australian National University. In 1972 he became the first Professor of Australian History. He held honorary doctorates awarded by the Universities of Melbourne, Newcastle and Sydney. In June 1975 Clark was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in recognition of his monumental A History of Australia. He was named Australian of the Year for 1980. Manning Clark died in May 1991.
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