The Oxford History of Australia: 1901-1942 : The Succeeding Age
Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton Oxford University Press, Incorporated
, 1986 - History - 399 pages The first volume to appear in the
five-volume Oxford History of Australia, this book surveys the
forty years following the establishment of the Commonwealth in
1901. It was a time of great change on the continent:
institutions were fashioned to meet the needs of a nation;
markets were extended; industries were enlarged; and Australians
pursued plans for material and social progress through war and
economic crisis. Yet as Australia yearned for autonomous
nationhood and industrial self-sufficiency, it remained bound to
Britain by ties of trade, culture, and sentiment. This narrative
history explores the shifting patterns of class conflict and
compromise that shaped the course of events and traces the links
between the social, economic, and political processes of a
nation in transition.