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Australia's Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s

Australia's Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s

MacIntyre, Stuart

Paperback

Australia & OceaniaGeneral World HistoryUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 1742231128
ISBN13: 9781742231129
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Published: Jun 1 2015
Pages: 600
Weight: 1.85
Height: 1.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatised by World War I, hammered by the Depression and overstretched by World War II became a prosperous, successful and growing society by the 1950s. An extraordinary group of individuals, notably John Curtin, Ben Chifley, Nugget Coombs, John Dedman and Robert Menzies, re-made the country, planning its reconstruction against a background of wartime sacrifice and austerity. The other part of this triumphant story shows Australia on the world stage, seeking to fashion a new world order that would bring peace and prosperity. This book shows the 1940s to be a pivotal decade in Australia. At the height of his powers, Macintyre reminds us that key components of the society we take for granted - work, welfare, health, education, immigration, housing - are not the result of military endeavour but policy, planning, politics and popular resolve.

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