The Shortest History Of Australia
by Mark Mckenna
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Pages:
304
Published:
4 Nov 2025
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Black Inc.
Imprint
Black Inc.
ISBN:
9781760643591
In The Shortest History of Australia, Mark McKenna offers a compelling new version of our national story. This is a modern Australia permeated by First Nations history; a multicultural society with an island mindset; a continent of epic beauty and extreme natural events; a country obsessed by war abroad but blind to its founding war at home; and a thriving nation-state still to realise its political independence.
McKenna's wise and humane history reveals the surprising in the familiar, and reframes the past so we can see the present more clearly.
'Remarkable ... a deeply humane account of who we are and how we came to be' -Larissa Behrendt
'A deeply imaginative, beautifully written and individual book' --Robert Manne
'Original, eloquent and moving - a revelatory journey into the past we thought we knew' --Tom Griffiths
McKenna's wise and humane history reveals the surprising in the familiar, and reframes the past so we can see the present more clearly.
'Remarkable ... a deeply humane account of who we are and how we came to be' -Larissa Behrendt
'A deeply imaginative, beautifully written and individual book' --Robert Manne
'Original, eloquent and moving - a revelatory journey into the past we thought we knew' --Tom Griffiths
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