San Antonio College Library

"This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Australia relates the history of this unique and beautiful land, which is home to an amazing range of exotic flora and fauna, a climate that ranges from tropical forests to arid deserts, and the largest single collection of coral reefs and islands in the world. Through a detailed chronology, an introduction, appendixes, a bibliography, and cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant people, places,...

Short History of Convict Australia is the first ever documentary about Australia's convict past. It visits the locations where convicts lived and worked, talks to historians and descendants of convicts and experiences the legacy of the dramatic, brutal birth of a nation.

"Australia : a new history of the great southern land" is a major new account that places Australia's history fully within a global context, drawing on sources from the United States, Britain, South Africa, and Canada, as well as within Australia itself.

Primitives - Age of Macquarie - Colonial - Late Colonial - Early Victorian Mid-Victorian - High Victorian - Late Victorian - Edwardian - Tansition - Early Modern - Austerity - Mid-twentieth century.

For tens of thousands of years, humans have imagined, visited and inhabited Australia as a place in which to make a future. From the first explorers, who sailed and eventually settled into the inlets and river mouths of the northern coast some sixty or eighty thousand years ago via the transportations of the eighteenth century to the anxious border controls of the twenty-first, and through the great migrations of the centuries in between, Australia's...

"Australians have become increasingly visible outside of their native country as speakers and actors in radio and television, Australian media moguls have frequently bought up foreign companies, and people around the world have enjoyed such Australian productions as The Flying Doctors, Neighbours, and Kath and Kim. The origins, early development, and later adaptations of radio and television demonstrate how Australia has gone from being a minor, rather...

Convicts - Bushrangers - Capital punishment - Irish convicts - Norfolk Island - Port Arthur - Female convicts - Male convicts - Offences.

A history of Australia focusing on how Australians really live from the cosmopolitan cities to the rowdy frontier towns.

Author's life - Survey of writings - Critical assessment and place in Australian literary history__