Australian History: A Captivating Guide to Aboriginal Roots, Colonial Conflict, and the Remarkable Rise of Modern Australia
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Two manuscripts in one book:
One continent. Two stories that could not be more different — and cannot be told apart.
This 2-in-1 book tells the full history of Australia from both directions. The first half is the sweep of the nation as it is usually told — from the first European sightings to convicts, gold rushes, federation, and two world wars. The second half tells the far older and far deeper story underneath it: the 65,000-year history of the Aboriginal peoples who were here long before any sail appeared on the horizon.
In the first part of this book, you will learn:
In the second part of this book, you will discover:
And much, much more.
Scroll up and click Add to Cart and discover the continent from the inside out.
Australian History: A Captivating Guide to Aboriginal Roots, Colonial Conflict, and the Remarkable Rise of Modern Australia
Sale price
$25.99
Regular price $31.99
The 65,000-year story of the world's oldest living culture — and the dramatic, often brutal making of a modern nation on top of it.
Two manuscripts in one book:
- History of Australia: A Captivating Guide to Australian History, Starting from the Aborigines Through the Dutch East India Company, James Cook, and World War II to the Present
- Aboriginal History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Indigenous Australians Called the Aborigines and Their Impact on Australia
One continent. Two stories that could not be more different — and cannot be told apart.
This 2-in-1 book tells the full history of Australia from both directions. The first half is the sweep of the nation as it is usually told — from the first European sightings to convicts, gold rushes, federation, and two world wars. The second half tells the far older and far deeper story underneath it: the 65,000-year history of the Aboriginal peoples who were here long before any sail appeared on the horizon.
In the first part of this book, you will learn:
- Where Australia's First People Came From: The diet, lifestyles, and beliefs of Australia's Aboriginal peoples before any Europeans arrived
- The Dutch Claim and the European Race for Land: How the Netherlands claimed a continent it barely explored — and why no nation thought it worth colonizing at first
- Convicts, Settlements, and a New Society: The political, social, and judicial developments that turned a penal outpost into a functioning society
- The Australian Gold Rushes: How the rushes — and the Eureka Stockade — transformed the region and drew the world to its shores
- Becoming a Nation: Australia's development into a unique nation separate from England, and the road to federation
- Australia at War: The country's role in World War I and World War II — from Gallipoli to the Pacific
- Australia Today: How the nation arrived at the prosperous, complicated present
In the second part of this book, you will discover:
- The First Australians: How a group of people made one of the most remarkable journeys in human history, crossing open ocean tens of thousands of years ago to reach a continent that had never known human footsteps
- A Civilization of Astonishing Diversity: How Aboriginal Australians developed 250 to 300 distinct languages, each with its own laws, customs, and knowledge systems
- Masters of the Land: How Aboriginal people used fire-stick farming to reshape entire landscapes, built sophisticated fish traps and eel farms, and developed seasonal patterns that sustained communities for millennia
- The Dreaming and Spiritual Life: How oral traditions preserved knowledge of real geological events across tens of thousands of years, and how complex kinship systems governed social and spiritual life
- Trade Networks Before Europe: How vast trading routes connected communities across the continent, exchanging tools, food, ochre, and knowledge long before any European arrived
- The British Arrival and Its Consequences: What happened when the First Fleet landed in 1788, and how frontier violence and dispossession devastated communities in the Frontier Wars
- Stolen Generations and Survival: How policies of forced child removal, language suppression, and reserve systems tried to erase Aboriginal culture — and how Aboriginal people resisted, adapted, and survived
- The Fight for Equality: How the struggle for land rights, recognition, and cultural survival continues today, and why this story is far from finished
And much, much more.
Scroll up and click Add to Cart and discover the continent from the inside out.