Australian History For Dummies. Alex McDermott

      6  Part 2: 1820s to 1900: Wool, Gold, Bust and then Federation Chapter 6: Getting Tough, Making Money and Taking Country Revamping the Convict System Getting Tough Love from Darling Enduring Tough Times from Arthur Hitting the Big Time with Wool and Grabbing Land Chapter 7: Economic Collapse and the Beginnings of Nationalism Bubble Times: From Speculative Mania to a Big Collapse Moving On from Convictism Feeling the First Stirrings of Nationalism Protecting Indigenous Australians — British Colonial Style Chapter 8: The Discovery of Gold and an Immigration Avalanche You want gold? We got gold! Working Towards the Workingman’s Paradise That Eureka Moment The Arrival of Self-Government Unlocking the Arable Lands Chapter 9: Explorers, Selectors, Bushrangers … and Trains Explorer Superstars Sturt and Leichhardt Go Looking The Great Race — Stuart versus Burke and Wills Selectors and Bushrangers Ned Kelly: Oppressed Selector’s Son? Larrikin Wild Child? Stone-cold killer? Growing Towards Nationhood … Maybe Chapter 10: Work, Play and Politics during the Long Boom The ‘Workingman’s Paradise’ Continues Workers’ Playtime The Big Myth of the Bush: Not So Rural Australia Rearranging the Political Furniture Chapter 11: The Economy’s Collapsed — Anyone for Nationhood? From Boom to Bust Birthing the Australian Labor Party New Nation? Maybe. Maybe Not.

      7  Part 3: The 20th Century: New Nation, New Trajectories Chapter 12: Nation Just Born Yesterday Advancing Australia: A Social Laboratory Defining the Commonwealth Passing Innovative Legislation Voting in Labor That Whole White Australia Thing Chapter 13: World War I: International and Local Ruptures Gearing Up for Global War Australia at War Home Front Hassles Moving the Pieces around the Global Table: Australia at Versailles Chapter 14: Australia Unlimited Expanding Australia Australia Not-So-Unlimited Schizoid Nation The Workers of Australia …

      8  Part 4: 1930 to 1949: Going So Wrong, So Soon? Chapter 15: A Not So Great Depression Crash and Depression A(nother) Labor Split Threats to Democracy from Best Friends and Enemies Mistakes and Resilience through the Crisis Celebrating 26 January 1938? Yes. Mourning and Protesting? Also yes. Chapter 16: World War II Battles Building Up to War Dealing with Early War Problems Overseas Again This Time It’s Personal: War in the Pacific Tackling Issues on the Home Front Chapter 17: Making Australia New Again Restarting the Social Laboratory Under Chifley Chifley’s Postwar Reconstruction Calwell and the Postwar Migration Revolution Shifting Balances with Foreign Policy Treading On an Ants’ Nest — of Angry Banks

      9  Part 5: 1950 to 2000: Prosperity and Social Turmoil Chapter 18: Ambushed — by Prosperity!