A People's History of Australia since 1788 is a 1988
book by Verity
Burgmann and Jenny Lee that covers various areas in the history of
Australia that usually aren't
discussed such as the development of capitalism
in Australia, the resistance to the
establishment of private property by
Australian Aboriginals, the lives
of convicts and immigrants, Australia's slave
trade and efforts to establish a pacific
empire.
Summary
Chapter 1: White Man Came Took Everything
Chapter 2: Aborigines, Europeans and the Environment
Chapter 3: We are Hungry for Our Land
Chapter 4: Carving Up the Country
Chapter 5: Brutalized,Beggared and Bought
Chapter 6: Peopling the Place Again
Chapter 7: Everybody Become a Job: Twentieth-Century Immigrants
Chapter 8: The Apron-strings of Empire
Chapter 9: Workers, Capital and the Protection Racket
Chapter 10: Ruling the Region
Chapter 11: Used and Abused: the Melanesian Labour Trade
Chapter 12: Keeping Australia Clean White
Chapter 13: Australians at War
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