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Title: Australia's Boldest Experiment
Condition: New
Subtitle: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s
EAN: 9781742231129
ISBN: 9781742231129
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 01/06/2015
Description: A major new account of the 1940s in Australia.

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 shows Australia on the world stage, seeking to fashion a new world order that would bring peace and prosperity.

This book shows the 1940s to be a pivotal decade in Australia. At the height of his powers, Macintyre reminds us that key components of the society we take for granted – work, welfare, health, education, immigration, housing – are not the result of military endeavour but policy, planning, politics and popular resolve.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: AU
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 153mm
Author: Stuart Macintyre
Genre: History
Topic: Law & Politics, Business & Finance
Release Year: 2015

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