Search Type
  • All
  • Subject
  • Title
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Series Title
Search Title

Download

Australia's Boldest Experiment

War and Reconstruction in The 1940s

Australia's Boldest Experiment( )
Author: Macintyre, Stuart
ISBN:978-1-74136-195-7
Publication Date:Jun 2015
Publisher:ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $99.95
Book Description:

In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatised by World War I, hammered by the Depression and overstretched by World War II became a prosperous, successful and growing society by the 1950s. An extraordinary group of individuals, notably John Curtin, Ben Chifley, Nugget Coombs, John Dedman and Robert Menzies, re - made the country, planning its reconstruction against a background of wartime sacrifice and austerity. The other part of this triumphant story...
More Description

Author Biography
Macintyre, Stuart (Author)
Stuart Forbes Macintyre was born on April 21, 1947 in Melbourne, Australia. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Melbourne, his Master of Arts from Monash University and his PhD for the University of Cambridge. He is a historian and a former Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne.

His awards include Premier of Victoria's Literary Award for Australian Studies (1986), Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1987), Redmond Barry Award (1997), The Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award (1998)for his book The Reds, Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1999), Premier of New South Wales' Australian History Prize (2004)for the History Wars (co-written with Anna Clark), Officer of the Order of Australia (2011), and the Ernest Scott Prize (2016) for his book Australia's Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s, and the Premier New South Wales' Australian History Prize (2016) for Australia's Boldest Experiment.

030



Featured Books

I Love You Through and Through
Rossetti-Shustak, Bernadette
Board book: $8.99
The Odyssey
Homer
Hardback: $17.95
The Book of Love
Link, Kelly
Hardback: $31.00

Rate this title:

Select your rating below then click 'submit'.






I do not wish to rate this title.