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Disasters That Changed Australia
Richard Evans
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Paperback. Australian history is full of disasters and colossal debacles. Some are natural but many more are man-made, results of individual or collective stupidity, poor choices, short-sightedness or outright greed. This title nominates the disasters that have been instrumental in creating the Australia. Num Pages: 208 pages, b&w and colour illus. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HBJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290.
Australian history is full of disasters and colossal debacles. Some are natural but many more are man-made, results of individual or collective stupidity, poor choices, short-sightedness or outright greed. In ""Disasters that Changed Australia"", historian Richard Evans nominates the disasters that have been instrumental in creating the Australia we know today. From natural phenomenon such as Cyclone Tracy, the great drought and the Ash Wednesday and Black Friday fires, to key moments in our military history such as the battle at Flanders in 1917 and the fall of Singapore, to the drug wars and the Snowy Mountains scheme, ""Disasters that ... Read more
Australian history is full of disasters and colossal debacles. Some are natural but many more are man-made, results of individual or collective stupidity, poor choices, short-sightedness or outright greed. In ""Disasters that Changed Australia"", historian Richard Evans nominates the disasters that have been instrumental in creating the Australia we know today. From natural phenomenon such as Cyclone Tracy, the great drought and the Ash Wednesday and Black Friday fires, to key moments in our military history such as the battle at Flanders in 1917 and the fall of Singapore, to the drug wars and the Snowy Mountains scheme, ""Disasters that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Melbourne University Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Carlton, Australia
ISBN
9780522856491
SKU
V9780522856491
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Ref
99-50
About Richard Evans
Writer and historian Richard Evans is the author of The Pyjama Girl Mystery: A True Story of Murder, Obsession and Lies, and co-author of Constructing Australia. He has a PhD in history from Monash University, and works as a Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology.
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