A history of Australia VI : 'The old dead tree and the young tree green', 1916-1935 with an epilogue / C. M. H. Clark.
Series: A history of Australia. 6 | Clark, Manning, History of Australia ; 6.Publication details: Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1987.Description: xvi, 522 pages, 12 pages of plates : maps ; 25 cmISBN:- 0522843530 (pbk.)
- 0522843522
- 994
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 994 CLA | Bk.6 | Available | 072766 |
Includes index.
"All through this volume runs a sense of Australian uncertainty over the period 1916-1935: were Australians a people with their own country, their own responsibilities, their own history to make? Or were they essentially Britons, relocated merely by some chance in a far corner of the globe? Was it their destiny to look forward bravely to an unknown future, or to look backwards on a fading imperial past? Henry Lawson put to them the choice they had - between 'the Old Dead Tree' and 'the Young Tree Green'. Clark takes up and follows as a reprise the themes of earlier volumes, and leaves a nation poised upon its greatest trial of destiny - the outbreak of World War II. So concludes this great achievement of scholarship and vision - the story of a nation's soul, told in six glowing volumes." -- Inside cover
In English.
