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A Democratic Nation: Identity, Freedom and Equality in Australia 1901-1925
Hardback
Main Details
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A Democratic Nation: Identity, Freedom and Equality in Australia 1901-1925
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) David Kemp
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Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:515 | Dimensions(mm): Height 241,Width 164 |
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Category/Genre | Australia, New Zealand & Pacific history |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780522873467
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Classifications | Dewey:994.04 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | General | |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Melbourne University Press
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Imprint |
The Miegunyah Press
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Publication Date |
19 November 2019 |
Publication Country |
Australia
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Description
How Australians set out to perfect the exceptional democracy they had achieved A Democratic Nation- Identity, Freedom and Equality in Australia 1901-1925 tells the story of the political battle after Federation to achieve unprecedented levels of social and economic equality, while preserving both national independence and individual freedom.;;;As the third book in a landmark five-volume Australian Liberalism series, A Democratic Nation shows how Australians, inspired by the exceptional democracy they had achieved, set out to perfect its principles while protecting it from a world they saw as increasingly threatening.;;;The period saw political battles within and between Liberal and Labor parties as attempts to protect identities defined by nation, class and race confronted ideas of individual freedom and equality.;As the war of 1914-18 between the European empires gave rise to unimaginable horrors, economic chaos and continuing violence, the Australian Labor Party shattered and the Liberal Party became submerged in a new Nationalist win-the-war alliance. In peacetime it struggled to restore the nation's social and economic health under the weight of pre-war and wartime identity-based policies.;Throughout years of divisive political conflict, the Australian people would remain largely faithful to their hope of a land that would give them freedom to chart their own destinies, and would resist the siren calls of those who promised a conflict-free world by the use of centralised power to reconstruct the industrial and social order.
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