{"product_id":"9781742234977","title":"The Europeans in Australia","description":"Author: Alan Atkinson\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781742234977\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: NewSouth Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Jul 2016\u003cbr\u003ePages: 608\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'It is the duty of historians to be, wherever they can, accurate, precise, humane, imaginative - using moral imagination above all  and even-handed.'\u003c\/i\u003e - Alan Atkinson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second of three volumes of the landmark, award-winning series \u003ci\u003eThe Europeans in Australia\u003c\/i\u003e gives an account of early settlement by Britain. It tells of the political and intellectual origins of this extraordinary undertaking that began during the 1780s, a decade of extraordinary creativity and the climax of the European Enlightenment.\u0026amp;nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume Two, Democracy, takes the story from around 1815 to the early 1870s. By exploring the nineteenth-century 'communications revolution' Atkinson casts new light on the way Australia first found its place in a 'global' world. This volume is more than a story of geography and politics. It describes the way people thought and felt. Throughout the trilogy Atkinson traces subtle and sudden shifts of 'common imagination' by analysing the lives of both powerful and ordinary Australians. He sets out the ideas and the imagery that moved and marked the people. This book, like all his work, is grounded in thorough and rigorous scholarship yet imbued with compassion and insight. Written 'from the inside', it is  as he says  history '\u003ci\u003ecaught up with the flesh and memory it describes'.\u0026amp;nbsp;\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe culmination of an extraordinary career in the writing and teaching of Australian history, \u003ci\u003eThe Europeans in Australia\u003c\/i\u003e grapples with the Australian historical experience as a whole from the point of view of the settlers from Europe. Ambitious and unique, it is the first such large, single-author account since Manning Clark's \u003ci\u003eA History of Australia.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47845888262302,"sku":"ADS-9781742234977","price":49.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781742234977.jpg?v=1781224104","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781742234977","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}