A History Of Australia V: The People Make Laws 1888-1915
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
At the dawn of a new nation, a people grappled with the monumental task of forging laws, institutions, and an identity from the raw material of a continent — and C. M. H. Clark's A History of Australia V: The People Make Laws 1888–1915 chronicles this turbulent and formative era with unrivalled scholarly passion. This fifth volume in Clark's magisterial multi-volume series tracks Australia through the critical decades surrounding Federation in 1901, capturing the fierce debates, visionary leaders, and ordinary citizens who shaped the young Commonwealth's political and social landscape. It presents the grand contest of ideas — between labour and capital, tradition and progress, nationalism and imperial loyalty — that defined what it meant to be Australian in an age of profound transformation. Clark, widely regarded as Australia's greatest narrative historian, writes with a literary intensity that elevates historical scholarship into something approaching epic prose, uniting meticulous archival research with a deeply humanistic vision. His sweeping yet intimate style illuminates not just the mechanics of law-making, but the moral and cultural forces driving a society determined to reinvent itself. A History of Australia remains one of the most ambitious historical undertakings in the nation's literary canon, and this volume stands as a cornerstone of that achievement — leaving the reader to wonder what kind of nation those early laws truly built, and at what cost.
Author: C. M. H. Clark
Format: Hardback
Published: 1981, Melbourne University Press
Genre: Australian history
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
At the dawn of a new nation, a people grappled with the monumental task of forging laws, institutions, and an identity from the raw material of a continent — and C. M. H. Clark's A History of Australia V: The People Make Laws 1888–1915 chronicles this turbulent and formative era with unrivalled scholarly passion. This fifth volume in Clark's magisterial multi-volume series tracks Australia through the critical decades surrounding Federation in 1901, capturing the fierce debates, visionary leaders, and ordinary citizens who shaped the young Commonwealth's political and social landscape. It presents the grand contest of ideas — between labour and capital, tradition and progress, nationalism and imperial loyalty — that defined what it meant to be Australian in an age of profound transformation. Clark, widely regarded as Australia's greatest narrative historian, writes with a literary intensity that elevates historical scholarship into something approaching epic prose, uniting meticulous archival research with a deeply humanistic vision. His sweeping yet intimate style illuminates not just the mechanics of law-making, but the moral and cultural forces driving a society determined to reinvent itself. A History of Australia remains one of the most ambitious historical undertakings in the nation's literary canon, and this volume stands as a cornerstone of that achievement — leaving the reader to wonder what kind of nation those early laws truly built, and at what cost.