Research Catalog

Title

Destination Australia : migration to Australia since 1901 / Eric Richards.

Author

Richards, Eric, 1940-2018

Publication

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2008.

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Details

Description

xiii, 431 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book charts the history of migration to Australia from the twentieth century to the present. Written by one of Australia's leading historians of immigration, the book explores three main themes: the maintenance of British White Australia through to 1947; the Europeanisation of immigration through to the 1970s; and, the dismantling of White Australia and the radical diversification of immigration that has continued to the present day. More than just a linear history, Richards uses the drama of real stories and experiences to illustrate broader arguments and places Australia's experience in the context of international migration patterns."--Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Geschichte 1900-2005
• Immigrants > Cultural assimilation > Australia
• Australia > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century
• Australia > Emigration and immigration > Government policy

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 392-423) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The new century: 1900 and 2000 -- 2. The slow awakening: 1900-14 -- 3. Migrants and the Great War: 1914-18 -- 4. White British Australia resuscitated: the 1920s -- 5. Malaise, recrimination and demographic pessimism: the 1930s -- 6. Race, refugees, war and the future: 1939-45 -- 7. Arthur Calwell and the new Australia: 1945-51 -- 8. The great diversification: the 1950s and 1960s -- 9. White Australia dismantled: the 1970s -- 10. The end of the heroic days: the 1980s -- 11. Whither immigrant Australia? -- 12. The new century -- 13. Retrospect.

ISBN

• 9780719080371 (pbk.)
• 0719080371 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 271834148
• SCSB-10854998

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library