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The Italians in Australia

Gianfranco Cresciani author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:27th Aug '03

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This 2003 book brings to life the important story of the Italo-Australian community.

The Italians have made an enormous contribution to the development of Australian society, and Gianfranco Cresciani - the country's foremost expert on Italian life in Australia - provides the definitive account. In this 2003 edition Cresciani brings to life the important story of the Italo-Australian community into the twenty-first century.The Italians comprised the first truly large wave of immigrants to have arrived from Southern Europe after World War II. Today, people of Italian background in Australia number around one million. The Italians have made an enormous contribution to the development of Australian society through the twentieth century and to the present, and Gianfranco Cresciani - the country's foremost expert on Italian life in Australia - provides the definitive account. In this 2003 edition Cresciani brings to life the important story of the Italo-Australian community into the twenty-first century.

'Cresciani's is the best of the number of surveys of the Italian experience in Australia.' Professor Richard Bosworth, University of Western Australia
'Cresciani has a knowledge of the history of Italo-Australia unrivalled by anyone employed within the Australian (or Italian) academic system.' Professor Richard Bosworth, University of Western Australia
'Cresciani's book [is] a concise, masterly and a very well-written overview of its subject with a strong political emphasis and a strong grounding in Italian history …'. Professor Desmond Cahill, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
'… the linkage between Italian history and its repercussions in Australia and elsewhere [is] fascinating.' Professor Desmond Cahill, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

ISBN: 9780521537780

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm

Weight: 320g

210 pages