AUSTRALIAN HISTORY IN SEVEN QUESTIONS

Book ID/图书代码： 01899514B70675

English Summary/英文概要： From the author of The Shortest History of Europe, acclaimed historian John Hirst, comes this fresh and stimulating approach to understanding Australia’s past and present.

Hirst asks and answers questions that get to the heart of Australia’s history:

• Why did Aborigines not take up farming?

• How did a penal colony change peacefully into a democratic society?

• Why was Australia so prosperous so early?

• Why did the colonies federate?

• What effect did convict origins have on national character?

• Why was the postwar migration programme such a success?

• Why is Australia not a republic?

Engaging and enjoyable, and written for the novice and the expert alike, Australian History in Seven Questions explains how Australia became the nation it is today.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《你一定爱读的极简澳大利亚史》是约翰•赫斯特第二部“极简”风格的作品，由作者的课程讲义整理而成。全书由7个问题组成，每个问题为一章，共有7章。这7个问题既是澳大利亚历史最显着的特征，也都是读者最感兴趣且又是令人最为困惑的问题，其中包括：土著居民为何没有成为农民、犯人流放地如何过渡为民主共和国、澳大利亚为何很早就富裕起来、澳大利亚殖民地为何结成联邦、犯人初审对澳大利亚民族特征的影响、战后移民计划为何取得了成功以及澳大利亚为何不是共和政体等。本书可视为《你一定爱读的极简欧洲史》的姊妹篇，保留了叙述简明、幽默的讲史风格，是一本快速了解澳大利亚社会与历史的简明读本。(Zoe)

Awards/获奖情况：“one of the nation’s most independent and original historians” – Geoffrey Blainey

“John Hirst is the gadfly of Australian history, stinging and provocative” – Stuart Macintyre

About the Author/作者介绍： 约翰•赫斯特（John Hirst，1942－2016），澳大利亚与英联邦权威的社会暨政治历史学家、欧洲史专家。墨尔本拉筹伯大学（La Trobe University）历史系教授。曾是澳大利亚首相咨询委员会、澳大利亚国家博物馆评议会成员，澳大利亚联邦公民教育委员会主席。常在澳大利亚各大报章杂志为文，对公民教育的提升着力甚深。着有《澳大利亚人：1770年以来的民族精神知情者与局外人》等作品。

John Hirst was a member of the History Department at La Trobe University from 1968 to 2007. He has written many books on Australian history, including Convict Society and Its Enemies, The Strange Birth of Colonial Democracy, The Sentimental Nation, Sense and Nonsense in Australian History and The Shortest History of Europe.

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