TY  - BOOK
AU  - Macintyre,Stuart
TI  - Australia's boldest experiment: war and reconstruction in the 1940s 
SN  - 9781742231129
U1  - 994.05 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Sydney, NSW
PB  - NewSouth Publishing
KW  - Reconstruction (1939-1951)
KW  - Australia
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 1939-1945
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - 1945-
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Australian
N2  - 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
ER  -