| Australia's Boldest Experiment: War and Reconstruction in the 1940s Contributor(s): MacIntyre, Stuart (Author) |
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ISBN: 1742231128 ISBN-13: 9781742231129 Publisher: NewSouth Books OUR PRICE: $37.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Australia & New Zealand - General - Political Science | American Government - General - History | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 994.05 |
| LCCN: 2015376803 |
| Physical Information: 1.8" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.85 lbs) 600 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Australian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatized 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, remade the country, planning its reconstruction against a background of wartime sacrifice and austerity. 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 endeavor but policy, planning, politics and popular resolve. |