A History of Australia, Vol. 5: The People Make Laws 1888-1915

The grand themes of Volume V carry Australia's story forward to the tragic days of December 1915. We read of the growth of federal sentiment, the unhappy fate of the Aborigines, the land boom of the 1880s, the confrontation between true Australian nationalists and those who saw themselves as 'Australian-Britons', the labour movement, the Boer War and Gallipoli. Professor Clark closes his account with their evacuation from that ill-omened peninsula, bound for greater suffering and greater glory in France.