Empire's End
The Remaking of Australia
$33.99
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
16 February 2027
Summary
The Australian flag was lowered for the last time at the Port Moresby parade grounds in September 1975, leading to the birth of Papua New Guinea. At that very moment, Australia’s role as an external coloniser also came to an end.
Australia’s empire was not only a matter of territory. In Empire’s End, historian Jon Piccini shows it was also a way of thinking, of a world view shaped by culture, race and the country’s privileged past amid a sea of European empires in Asia and th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522881752 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0522881750 |
| Author: | Jon Piccini |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 16 February 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 153mm x 234mm |
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Jon Piccini
Jon Piccini is a historian of Australia in the world, specialising in social movements and political change. Based at Australian Catholic University, he has published Transnational Protest, Australia and the 1960s: Global Radicals (Palgrave, 2016) and Human Rights in Twentieth Century Australia (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
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