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Hoskins, Ian, 1962- author.
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Australia -- History.
Australia -- Foreign relations -- Pacific Area.
Pacific Area -- Foreign relations -- Australia.
Pacific Area -- History.
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Australia & the Paci...
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Australia & the Pacific : a history / Ian Hoskins.
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Hoskins, Ian, 1962- author.
Sydney, NSW. : NewSouth Publishing, 2021.
Subjects
Australia -- History.
Australia -- Foreign relations -- Pacific Area.
Pacific Area -- Foreign relations -- Australia.
Pacific Area -- History.
ISBN:
9781742235691 (paperback) :
1742235697 (paperback)
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489 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction -- 1 Shifting continents -- 2 First peoples -- 3 Converging on Australia -- 4 In the wake of Spain -- 5 A Pacific colony -- 6 An ocean of opportunity -- 7 Miners and mutineers -- 8 Saving souls and taking slaves -- 9 Australia's Pacific -- 10 A white Australia -- 11 World War One and its aftermath -- 12 World War Two -- 13 Governing Papua and New Guinea -- 14 Learning from the Pacific -- 15 Post-war Australia meets the Cold War Pacific -- 16 Confronting communism and decoupling a colony -- 17 The end of White Australia, refugees and reassessments -- 18 Pacific solutions -- 19 Pacific Islanders in Australia -- 20 Climate change -- Afterword: Mammon or millennial Eden? -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index.
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Australia's deep past and its modern history are intrinsically linked to the Pacific. In Australia & the Pacific, Ian Hoskins - award-winning author of Sydney Harbour and Coast - expands his gaze to examine Australia's relationship with the Pacific region; from our ties with Papua New Guinea and New Zealand to our complex connections with China, Japan and the United States. This revealing, sweeping narrative history begins with the shifting of the continents to the coming of the first Australians and, thousands of years later, the Europeans who dispossessed them. Hoskins explores colonists' attempts to exploit the riches of the region while keeping 'white Australia' desperate from neighbouring Asians, Melanesians and Polynesians. He examines how the advent of modern human rights and the creation of the United Nations after World War Two changed Australia and investigates our increasing regional engagements following the rise of China and the growing unpredictability of US foreign policy. Concluding with the offshore detention of asylum seekers and current debates over climate change, Hoskins questions Australia's responsibilities towards our increasingly imperilled neighbours.
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