A History Of Australia (Three-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Author: Manning Clark
Binding: Paperback
Published: Melbourne University Press, 1999
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Light wear on covers.
This monumental three-volume set in the genre of national history presents Manning Clark’s complete six-volume chronicle of Australia’s political, cultural, and moral evolution from pre-colonial times to 1935. Clark argues that Australia’s identity was shaped not only by its institutions and events—such as Federation, the gold rush, and Gallipoli—but by a deeper moral struggle between Enlightenment ideals and authoritarian impulses. He illustrates the rise of a distinct Australian consciousness through vivid portraits of settlers, politicians, convicts, and Indigenous Australians, weaving their stories into a sweeping narrative of ambition, conflict, and transformation. The work details the destruction of Aboriginal societies, the construction of colonial power, and the emergence of a bourgeois nation grappling with its place in the world. Published by Melbourne University Press in 1999, this edition condenses Clark’s epic into three volumes, offering scholars and collectors a definitive account of Australia’s formative century.
Author: Manning Clark
Binding: Paperback
Published: Melbourne University Press, 1999
Condition:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Light wear on covers.
This monumental three-volume set in the genre of national history presents Manning Clark’s complete six-volume chronicle of Australia’s political, cultural, and moral evolution from pre-colonial times to 1935. Clark argues that Australia’s identity was shaped not only by its institutions and events—such as Federation, the gold rush, and Gallipoli—but by a deeper moral struggle between Enlightenment ideals and authoritarian impulses. He illustrates the rise of a distinct Australian consciousness through vivid portraits of settlers, politicians, convicts, and Indigenous Australians, weaving their stories into a sweeping narrative of ambition, conflict, and transformation. The work details the destruction of Aboriginal societies, the construction of colonial power, and the emergence of a bourgeois nation grappling with its place in the world. Published by Melbourne University Press in 1999, this edition condenses Clark’s epic into three volumes, offering scholars and collectors a definitive account of Australia’s formative century.