Australien-Geschichte

In 1788, 11 tiny ships set sail from England on an eight-month-long voyage over the roughest of seas, carrying 1,500 people, food for two years, and all the equipment needed to build a colony of convicts in a land completely beyond their experience and imagination.

In Portsmouth, the fleet's preparation was characterized by disease, promiscuity, and death. The journey itself was one of unbearable hardship, but also of extraordinary resilience. Upon their arrival, however, the colonists faced their biggest challenges of all: conflict, starvation, and despair.

Combining the skill of a vigilant journalist with the magic of a master novelist, David Hill in this entrancing history brings the sights, sounds, sufferings, and joys of the “First Fleeters” back to life. Journals, letters, reports, and pleas to England are all interwoven here with the author's own insight, and together they convey the innermost horrors and joys of the very first European Australians. The result is a narrative history that is surprising, compelling, and unforgettable.

A national bestseller from the bestselling author of "The Forgotten Children".

In this lively, very readable book, the eminent and controversial historian Manning Clark portrays the evolution of Australia with remarkable breadth of vision. He begins with the Aborigines and the coming of white men, then traces the progress of the First Fleet to Botany Bay, the unfurling of the British flag in January 1788 to the accompaniment of a regimental band, and Governor Arthur Phillip's harangue to the convicts in his charge. With a provocative style the author describes convicts and settlers, architecture, exploration, immigrants and squatters, politics and culture, the gold rushes, radicals and nationalists, the world wars. The incisive concluding chapter deals with the years from 1969 to 1986 - Manning Clark's 'age of ruins.' This elegantly written and well-illustrated book brings to life the people and events that have shaped Australia's history.
Born in Sydney in 1915, Manning Clark won scholarships to Melbourne Grammar School and the University of Melbourne. He later attended Balliol College, Oxford, and in the early 1940s taught history at schools in England and Australia. He was a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne and, later, Professor of History in the School of General Studies, Australian National University. In 1972 he became the first Professor of Australian History and was awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Melbourne, Newcastle and Sydney. His classic text, the six-volume History of Australia (1962-1987) popularised the study of Australian history. In June 1975, Clark was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, in recognition of his writing of the History, and was named Australian of the Year in 1980. He is the author of the two volume autobiography: The Puzzles of Childhood (1988) and The Quest for Grace (1989). Professor Clark died in May 1991.

This breezy mini-history of Tasmania follows Robson's A History of Tasmania, Volume I (Oxford, 1983), which was hailed by the Australian consumer magazine Choice at the time as "well-written, deeply researched, and, most important, in no sense parochial."

General readers, students, and tourists alike will enjoy this encapsulated account of Tasmania's little-known but interesting past.

In this lively, very readable book, the eminent and controversial historian Manning Clark portrays the evolution of Australia with remarkable breadth of vision. He begins with the Aborigines and the coming of white men, then traces the progress of the First Fleet to Botany Bay, the unfurling of the British flag in January 1788 to the accompaniment of a regimental band, and Governor Arthur Phillip's harangue to the convicts in his charge. With a provocative style the author describes convicts and settlers, architecture, exploration, immigrants and squatters, politics and culture, the gold rushes, radicals and nationalists, the world wars. The incisive concluding chapter deals with the years from 1969 to 1986 - Manning Clark's 'age of ruins.' This elegantly written and well-illustrated book brings to life the people and events that have shaped Australia's history.

Born in Sydney in 1915, Manning Clark won scholarships to Melbourne Grammar School and the University of Melbourne. He later attended Balliol College, Oxford, and in the early 1940s taught history at schools in England and Australia. He was a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne and, later, Professor of History in the School of General Studies, Australian National University. In 1972 he became the first Professor of Australian History and was awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities of Melbourne, Newcastle and Sydney. His classic text, the six-volume History of Australia (1962-1987) popularised the study of Australian history. In June 1975, Clark was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, in recognition of his writing of the History, and was named Australian of the Year in 1980. He is the author of the two volume autobiography: The Puzzles of Childhood (1988) and The Quest for Grace (1989). Professor Clark died in May 1991.

A highly illustrated pocket book looking at the history and culture of the Australian Aborigines.

This concise pocket guide to the social and cultural history of Aboriginal Australia traces the origins of these people through to the present day. The authors explore their social structure, spiritual beliefs, the Aboriginal relationship with the land and animal world, and their art and literature, which has recently enjoyed a major revival and is now used to represent Australian heritage.

The years of colonialism and the impact this has had on the indigenous population is obviously covered as well, as is a discussion of how they managed to survive and maintain their identity.

The first book to reveal the secret and sacred practices of Aboriginal shamans, Aboriginal Men of High Degree presents an extraordinary series of rites by which the young Aboriginal male begins the degrees of shamanic initiation - each marked by its own portion of esoteric knowledge.

One of Australia's most eminent anthropologists, A. P. Elkin focuses on the karadji, or men of high degree, who possess magical powers and who serve as channels between the Dreamtime beings and their own communities. As psychologists and psychic experts, the karadji are essential to the groups' social chesion. They are believed to cure and kill mysteriously, make rain, anticipate future events, and appear and disappear at will.

Not content to explain away these phenomenon, Elkin boldly suggests that we enter into the karadji worldview and try to understand this remarkable culture on its own terms.

In the 1930s, in the wake of the Nazi ascendancy in Germany, a wave of vicious anti-Semitism swept Europe, as Jews became outcasts in their own lands. As they clamored to escape persecution, the world turned a blind eye to their plight. One man, Isaac Steinberg, had a vision of leading his people from the holocaust to a new paradise on the other side of the world. His enthusiastic and resolute efforts to realise his vision left large cracks in the smug Anglo-centrism that guarded his unpromised land. This lively account of the little-known Kimberley Jewish settlement scheme provides a fascinating insight into a series of events that came very close to changing the course of Australian history.

Previously unpublished UNESCO World Heritage-listed photos.

Bernhard Otto Holtermann emigrated from Hamburg to Australia in 1858 as a destitute young man, where, in 1872, he unearthed the largest lump of gold in the world. Holtermann shared his newfound wealth with his adopted home. As he travelled through the settlements, he had the poverty-stricken life documented in spectacular images, and promoted Australia to the world. More than 150 of these impressive photos have now been published, most for the first time, in this bilingual edition and are thus immortalized for eternity.

By Jürgen Tampke. Prof. Tampke was born 1944 in Brandenburg, Germany, and migrated to Australia in 1964. He graduated with first-class honours from Macquarie University in 1971 and with a PhD from the Australian National University in 1975.

Jürgen occupied the position of associate professor at the School of History, University of New South Wales, before his retirement. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Weimar and Nazi Germany and Czech–German Relations and the Politics of Eastern Europe.

Australien - ein Kontinent zwischen olympischen High-Tech-Spielen und mythischen Traumpfaden, der immer mehr Europäer fasziniert. Doch was wissen wir wirklich über dieses Land am anderen Ende der Welt? Auswanderer- und Eingeborenenromantik haben oft ein falsches Bild in unseren Köpfen hinterlassen.
Armin Hüttermann schildert die Entwicklung Australiens zum modernen Staat, der über ein gewaltiges gesellschaftliches und wirtschaftliches Potential verfügt. Ein Staat, der seine ursprünglich europäische Orientierung zunehmend in Frage stellt und sich dem pazifischen Wirtschaftsraum zuwendet. Liegt die Zukunft Australiens - und Europas - im Pazifik?