The Oxford Companion to Australian History - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019551503X ISBN 13: 9780195515039

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2001

Synopsis

This thoroughly revised Companion (first published in 1998) is immensely readable and entertaining with a range of curious and unexpected entries, such as those on duels, two-up, Vegemite, and the six o'clock swill. Thoroughly cross-referenced for easy access to all information, this volume contains many new entries as well as revisions on existing entries. This is a superb reference for all Australians as well as those interested in Australian history.

About this title

About the Author:

Graeme Davison is Professor of History at Monash University, Australia, and is perhaps best known as the author of The Rise an Fall of Marvellous Melbourne, published in 1979. John Hirst is Reader of History at La Trobe University, Australia, and he is the author of many major histories (see
Books by the same author, below). Stuart Macintyre is Ernest Scott Professor of History, University of Melbourne, Australia. He is co-editor of the Australia Series and author of The Succeeding Age (Volume 4 in the Series), which won the Victoria Premier's Award.

Review:

`Review from previous edition 'a book which will be consulted for decades to come and which every educated household should possess''
Roger Hainsworth, Adelaide Review

`this splendid new alphabetically ordered reference book on Australian history is remarkably free from the biases of political correctness or economic innocence...it is fair, competent and comprehensive; useful as a reference and often good to read in itself.'
Robert Murray, Quandrant

`A host of readers will consult this Companion and glean crucial facts and statistics, many of them unknown even to some specialists...the major articles in The Oxford Companion to Australian History say something new with clarity and pithiness. The three editors deserve praises, not least
because they themselves have written many of the major articles, commenting with insight even on fields that are not their own'
Geoffrey Blainey, Times Literary Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 019551503X
• ISBN 13: 9780195515039
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 744
• Editor: Davison Graeme, Hirst John, Macintyre Stuart