Australia & the Pacific : a history
Hoskins, Ian2021
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Australia & the Pacific is a revealing new way of looking at Australian history. Ian Hoskins, award-winning author of Sydney Harbour and Coast, expands his gaze to examine Australia's story in a Pacific context; from our relationship with neighbours Papua New Guinea, Tahiti and New Zealand to our complex ties with China, Japan and the United States. Beginning with the shifting of the continents, this sweeping narrative goes on to describe the coming of the first Australians and, thousands of years later, the arrival of the Europeans who dispossessed them. Hoskins explores the colonists' attempts to exploit the riches of the region while keeping 'white Australia' separate from the Asians, Melanesians and Polynesians who surrounded them, and how the advent of modern human rights and the creation of the UN after World War II changed Australia. And, more recently, the offshore detention of asylum seekers, the current debates over climate change and Australia's responsibilities towards its threatened neighbours.
Main title:
Australia & the Pacific : a history / Ian Hoskins.
Author:
Hoskins, Ian, author
Imprint:
Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2021.©2021
Collation:
489 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
97817422356919781742235691
Dewey class:
994
Language:
English
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BRN:
472453
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - History | 994 HOS | Available |