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Australian Books

Bold history

17 May 2014

9:00 AM

17 May 2014

9:00 AM

The Cambridge History of Australia Ed. by Alison Bashford & Stuart Macintyre

Cambridge University Press, pp.636/644, $325, ISBN: 9781107011557

This is a bold attempt to write the history of Australia in 1,200 pages of narrative. A huge team of almost 70 authors come forward, mostly armed with fresh research and insights, but sometimes with much indignation. The work, beginning with a short survey of indigenous history before 1788, discusses the arrival of the first Aborigines from Timor or the Indonesian archipelago, though where they landed remains a topic of perpetual debate.

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Professor Geoffrey Blainey has written more than 30 books including a history of indigenous Australia in 1975 and a history of Australia in 1994

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