A People's History of Australia since 1788

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A People's History of Australia since 1788 is a 1988 book by Verity Burgmann and Jenny Lee that covers various areas in the history of Australia that usually aren't discussed such as the development of capitalism in Australia, the resistance to the establishment of private property by Australian Aboriginals, the lives of convicts and immigrants, Australia's slave trade and efforts to establish a pacific empire.

Summary

Chapter 1: White Man Came Took Everything

Chapter 2: Aborigines, Europeans and the Environment

Chapter 3: We are Hungry for Our Land

Chapter 4: Carving Up the Country

Chapter 5: Brutalized,Beggared and Bought

Chapter 6: Peopling the Place Again

Chapter 7: Everybody Become a Job: Twentieth-Century Immigrants

Chapter 8: The Apron-strings of Empire

Chapter 9: Workers, Capital and the Protection Racket

Chapter 10: Ruling the Region

Chapter 11: Used and Abused: the Melanesian Labour Trade

Chapter 12: Keeping Australia Clean White

Chapter 13: Australians at War

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