Bibliograph

Australia & the Pacific, a history, Ian Hoskins

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Label

Australia & the Pacific, a history, Ian Hoskins

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

portraitsmapsillustrationsplates

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Australia & the Pacific

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Ian Hoskins

Sub title

a history

Summary

Ian Hoskins, author of Sydney Harbour and Coast, expands his gaze to examine Australia's story in a Pacific context; from our relationship with neighbours Papua New Guinea, Tahiti and New Zealand to our complex ties with China, Japan and the United States. Beginning with the shifting of the continents, this sweeping narrative goes on to describe the coming of the Aboriginals and, thousands of years later, the arrival of the Europeans. Hoskins explores Australia's attempts to develop the riches of the region while keeping themselves distinct from the Asians, Melanesians and Polynesians who surrounded them, and how the advent of modern human rights and the creation of the UN after World War Two changed Australia. And, more recently, the offshore detention of asylum seekers, the current debates over climate change and Australia's responsibilities towards its threatened neighbours

Target audience

adult

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