A History of Australia, Vol. 5

Geoffrey Blainey
'. . . a novelist, a painter, a theologian and prophet, and from these callings he brings some of the qualities of imagination, the sense of wonder, and the will to create order from chaos, which is as vital to the historian as those other more common and essential skills.'

Donald Horne
'. . . He looked for great human issues and presented them as moral dramas.'

Geoffrey Serle
'. . . He flooded whole areas with light in ways that nobody had ever done before. He was an oracle, not a conventional historian.'

Book Description
The grand themes of Volume V carry Australia's story forward to the tragic days of December 1915. We read of the growth of federal sentiment, the unhappy fate of the Aborigines, the land boom of the 1880s, the confrontation between true Australian nationalists and those who saw themselves as 'Australian-Britons', the labour movement, the Boer War and Gallipoli. Professor Clark closes his account with their evacuation from that ill-omened peninsula, bound for greater suffering and greater glory in France.

About the Author
Manning Clark was senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne, and later, Professor of History in the School of General Studies, Australian National University. In 1972 he became the first Professor of Australian History. In June 1975 Clark was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, in recognition of his writing of the monumental A History of Australia. He was named Australian of the Year for 1980. Professor Clark died in May 1991.


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