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Страница 1Страница 2 Australian History For Dummies® To view this book's Cheat Sheet, simply go to www.dummies.com and search for “Australian History For Dummies Cheat Sheet” in the Search box. Table of Contents List of Illustrations Guide Pages Страница 7Страница 8Страница 9 Aussie, Aussie, Aussie When Oldest Meets Newest Getting ahead in the convict world Leaping into the big time with wool Gold, Gold, Gold for Australia Welcoming in male suffrage THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN LEISURE TIME EXPERIMENT Striving for the ‘workingman’s paradise’ WAIT A SECOND! WHERE ARE THE EXPLORERS AND THE BUSHRANGERS? Solving the Problems of the World (By Keeping Out the World) Now for War, Division, Depression and More War Joining the Empire in the war Dreaming of ‘Australia Unlimited’ Getting hit by the Great Depression … … And another war The Postwar Boom Broom Breaking Down the Fortress Australia Mentality Opening up the economy Opening up the borders (mostly) Entering the New Millennium Страница 30 First Australians: Making a Home, Receiving Visitors Indigenous Australians Settling in early Life in Aboriginal Australia SHAPING AUSTRALIA WITH NOMADIC LIFEWAYS History without books Trading with the neighbours Visitors from Overseas Macassan fishermen Portuguese and Spanish navigators Lost Dutch traders and wandering explorers Страница 42 Second Arrivals and First Colonials ‘Discovering’ the Great Southern Land Finding the right men for the job THE ORIGINAL ODD COUPLE: COOK AND BANKS Setting (British) eyes on New South Wales The Brits are Coming! Quick! New settlement required Turing to crime in the 18th century CONNECTING A FEAR OF POWERFUL KINGS TO BOTANY BAY Losing America and a terrible outbreak of peace Getting access to vital resources Pushing for a settlement in NSW CLAIMING THE ‘TERRA NULLIUS’ Picking a winner: NSW it is! SHAPING AUSTRALIA WITH TWO BIG DECISIONS Sailing for Botany Bay Getting there with the First Fleet The human material: Who were these people? Holding Out at Sydney Using convicts as guards Issuing ultimatums (and being ignored) Soldiering on regardless New Colony Blues Second Fleet horrors HORROR SCENES ON THE BOATS Courting disaster with the interlopers Bennelong and Phillip Then the rest of the world goes bung Страница 71 Colony Going Places (With Some Teething Troubles) Rising to the Task: The NSW Corps Steps Up LIFE ON THE FRONTIER: A LAND OF BRUTALITY AND OPPORTUNITY Setting up trading monopolies The ascendancy of the ‘Rum Corps’ Upsetting the reverends Ruling with Goodhearted Incompetence: Governor Hunter Ending the trading monopoly game A government store with empty shelves Handing out land higgledy-piggledy CRIMINALS OF GREAT ENTERPRISE Hunter’s wheels fall off King Came, King Saw, King Conquered — Kind Of Diversifying trade and production Ending the rum trade (well … points for trying) LAYING A CLAIM IN VAN DIEMEN’S LAND Pardoning convicts Fixing up the mess Choosing Bligh for the job Bligh gets down to business Removing rum as payment Quashing all dissension and threatening eviction Bligh’s end Soldiers and common populace join forces Sorting out fact from legend Страница 97 A Nation of Second Chances Macquarie’s Brave New World Converting Macquarie Living under the Macquarie regime FLINDERS GOES INVESTIGATING AND FINDS THE NAME AUSTRALIA Macquarie’s Main Points of Attack Pushing expansion Expanding settlement GETTING THROUGH THE BLUE MOUNTAINS BLUES Expanding the economy Conciliating (and pursuing) Indigenous Australians Re-ordering a town, re-ordering convict behaviour Introducing order to Sydney’s layout HELLO NSW: CALL ME LACHLAN, AND I’LL CALL EVERYTHING MACQUARIE Introducing order to the population’s behaviour Becoming a Governor Ahead of His Time Stirring up trouble with the free folk Creating outrage back home Big World Changes for Little NSW Coping with the deluge following Waterloo Britain starts paying attention again (unfortunately!) Bringing back terror Big Country? Big Ambitions? Bigge the Inspector? Big Problem! Recognising Macquarie’s Legacy Страница 122{buyButton}

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