{"product_id":"2026100012199-secondhand-a-history-of-australia-iii-the-beginning-of-an-australian-civilization-1824-1851","title":"A History Of Australia Iii: The Beginning Of An Australian Civilization 1824-1851","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the third volume of his monumental A History of Australia, Manning Clark turns his penetrating gaze to the turbulent decades between 1824 and 1851, a period that witnessed the raw, contested emergence of a distinctly Australian civilisation from the crucible of colonial struggle. This volume chronicles the clash of convict culture, free settler ambition, and imperial authority, painting a vivid portrait of a society straining against its chains and reaching, however imperfectly, toward a new identity on the far edge of the world.\n\nClark's prose carries the weight and sweep of a national epic, fusing rigorous scholarship with a literary sensibility that elevates historical narrative to an art form. His magisterial six-volume series remains the most ambitious and celebrated work of Australian historiography ever undertaken, and this instalment is its dramatic turning point — the moment when a penal outpost begins, irrevocably, to imagine itself as a nation. For anyone seeking to understand the deep moral and social forces that shaped modern Australia, Clark's work presents an indispensable — and endlessly provocative — reckoning with the past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51070626529499,"sku":"2026100012199-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/ada695b8-8f2a-4aa0-95ee-037c595204c1.png?v=1794188292","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012199-secondhand-a-history-of-australia-iii-the-beginning-of-an-australian-civilization-1824-1851","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}