This is the first volume of a major new history of Australia. Offering a reading of Australian settlement radically different from that of Robert Hughes and others. Atkinson explores the imagery and technique of European power as it made its first impact on Australia.

The Europeans in Australia: A History Volume One: The Beginning

History

Atkinson, Alan

Australia & Oceania

Oxford University Press

The Europeans in Australia: A History Volume Two: Democracy

Camden: Farm and Village Life in Early New South Wales

Three weeks in Bali: a personal account of the Bali bombing

ABC Books

This, the third and final volume of a landmark, award-winning series, gives an account of Australia's settlement by Britain. It tells of the various ways in which that experience shaped imagination and belief among the settler people from the 18th century to the end of World War I. It also tells the story of Australian Federation and the war with a focus, as ever, on ordinary habits of thought and feeling. In this period, for the first time the settler people began to grasp the vastness of the continent, and to think of it as their own. There was a massive funding of education, and the intellectual reach of men and women was suddenly expanded to an extent that seemed dazzling to many at the time. Women began to shape public imagination as they had not before. At the same time, the worship of mere ideas had its victims, most obviously the Aboriginal people, and the war itself proved what vast tragedies it could unleash. The culmination of an extraordinary career in the writing and teaching of Australian history, Alan Atkinson’s ambitious and unique series grapples with the Australian historical experience as a whole from the point of view of the settlers from Europe.

The Europeans in Australia: Volume 3: Nation

University of New South Wales Press

Millom: A Cumberland Iron Town and Its Railways (Cumbrian Communities & Their Railways)

Cumbrian Railways Association

The Europeans in Australia: Volume Two: Democracy (2)

NewSouth

A landmark and revealing joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, from one of Australia's most respected historians. Arriving in 1790, Elizabeth and John Macarthur, both aged 23, were the first married couple to travel voluntarily from Europe to Australia, within three years of the initial invasion. John Macarthur soon became famous in New South Wales and beyond as a wool pioneer, a politician, and a builder of farms at Parramatta and Camden. For a long time, Elizabeth's life was regarded as contingent on John's and, more recently, John's on Elizabeth's. In Elizabeth and John, Alan Atkinson, the prizewinning author of Europeans in Australia, draws on his work on the Macarthur family over the last 50 years to explore the dynamics of a strong and sinewy marriage, and family life over two generations. With the truth of John and Elizabeth Macarthur's relationship much more complicated and more deeply human than other writers have suggested, Atkinson provides a finely drawn portrait of a powerful partnership.

Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

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