Australia's boldest experiment : war and reconstruction in the 1940s

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Label

Australia's boldest experiment : war and reconstruction in the 1940s

Title remainder

war and reconstruction in the 1940s

Statement of responsibility

Stuart Macintyre

Creator

• Macintyre, Stuart, 1947-

Author

• Macintyre, Stuart, 1947-

Subject

• Australia -- Economic policy -- 1939-1945
• Australia -- Economic policy -- 1945-
• Australia -- History -- 20th century
• Australia -- Economic conditions -- 1939-1945
• Australia -- Social conditions -- 1945-
• Australian
• Reconstruction (1939-1951) -- Australia
• Australia -- Social conditions -- 1939-1945
• Australia -- Economic conditions -- 1945-

Language

eng

Summary

A major new account of the 1940s in Australia. 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 u work, welfare, health, education, immigration, housing u are not the result of military endeavour but policy, planning, politics and popular resolve

Cataloging source

ANL

Dewey number

994.05

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography