Acknowledgements

ix

A Note to the Reader

xii

Introduction

1

Prologue

5

One

Before the British

11

Two

Convicts and Colonists

18

Three

Class Conflicts with Unexpected Outcomes

32

Four

Spreading Across the Land

48

Five

Dispossessed: The Indigenous People

66

Six

A Place in Two Cultures

79

Seven

Immigrants and “White Australia”

97

Eight

A Multiethnic Nation

113

Nine

Diversity and Dissent

128

Ten

Embedded Legacies

139

Eleven

Turbulent Times

153

Twelve

Asian Connections

166

Thirteen

Which Way Ahead?

185

Chapter Notes

203

Selected Bibliography

217

Index

221