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The Oxford Companion to Australian History

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85:, but is not exhaustive or detailed; for example it discusses only eight governors-general: Fitzroy, Hasluck, Hayden, Hopetoun, Isaacs, Kerr, McKell and Munro Ferguson; and only Hasluck in any depth. Its list of contributors contains around 320 names of researchers and specialists, mostly academics, with their respective institutions. 43:, its first edition dated 1998. It contains an alphabetically arranged set of articles on Australian subjects: notable persons, historic events and topics of general interest, ranging in length from 100 to 2,000 words. It has around 720 pages and is bound uniformly with 113: 138: 45: 143: 81: 30: 88:
It is not indexed, but has a useful list of subjects by category (Aborigines, agriculture, architecture, . . . ).
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Its preface acknowledges a considerable debt to the
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ISBN
9780195515039
Oxford Companions
Oxford University Press
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature
Graeme Davison
John Hirst
Stuart Macintyre
Monash
LaTrobe
Melbourne
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Murray, Robert
Quadrant
Categories
Oxford University Press reference books
Australian encyclopaedias
1998 non-fiction books
Books about Australia

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