
$38.40
- Hardcover
304 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2025
Summary
The history of Australia has been written before - but not like this.
In The Shortest History of Australia, Mark McKenna offers a compelling new version of our national story. This is a modern Australia permeated by First Nations history; a multicultural society with an island mindset; a continent of epic beauty and extreme natural events; a country obsessed by war abroad but blind to its founding war at home; and a thriving nation-state still to realise its political indepen…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760643591 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760643599 |
| Author: | Mark McKenna |
| Publisher: | Black Inc. |
| Imprint: | Black Inc. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 556g |
| Dimensions: | 217mm x 147mm x 26mm |
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About The Author
Mark McKenna
Mark McKenna is one of Australia’s leading historians, based at the University of Sydney. He is the author of several prize-winning books, including From the Edge- Australia’s Lost Histories, Looking for Blackfellas’ Point, Return to Uluru and An Eye for Eternity- The Life of Manning Clark, which won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for nonfiction and the Victorian, New South Wales, Queensland and South Australian premiers’ awards.
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