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    Australia's Boldest Experiment
    Australia's Boldest Experiment
    War and Reconstruction in the 1940s
    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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    Book Author
    Stuart MacIntyre
    Genre History
    Binding
    PERFECT BINDING (HARDBACK)
    Format
    Dyslexic Edition
    Publisher
    UNSW Press
    Age Range
    Publication Date
    01-Jun-2015

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