Australia's Empire is the first collaborative evaluation of Australia's imperial experience in more than a generation. Bringing together poltical, cultural, and aboriginal understandings of the past, it argues that the legacies of empire continue to influence the fabric of modern Australian society.

Introduction: What Became of Australia's Empire? ; PART I CONTACT: THE PROJECTION OF EMPIRE ; 1. The Saga of Captain Cook ; 2. Conquest ; 3. Settling the Land ; 4. Indigenous Subjects ; 5. New Visions from Old: Art and the Environment ; PART II DYNAMICS: THE INSTRUMENTS OF EMPIRE ; 6. Empire, State, Nation ; 7. Migrations: The Career of White British Australia ; 8. Religion and Society ; 9. Money: Trade, Investment and Economic Nationalism ; 10. Security: Defending Australia's Empire ; PART III CULTURES: AN IMAGINED EMPIRE ; 11. Monarchy: From Reverence to Indifference ; 12. War and Commemoration: The Responsibility of Empire ; 13. Gender and Sexuality ; 14. Popular Culture ; 15. In History's Page: Identity and Myth ; Epilogue: After Empire

`Review from previous edition 'This is an important book. It will be seen by many readers as challenging or stimulating...To my knowledge this theme, so wide in its span, has not previously been attempted with such comprehensiveness' ' Geoffrey Blainey, The Australian Newspaper `'It is part of the unfashionability of the topic that nothing on quite this scale has been attempted since the 1930s. The editors have marshalled an impressive array of talent... [to produce] a fine volume' - ' Jim Davidson, The Age Newspaper `'Deryck Schreuder and Stuart Ward, are both recognised authorities on the subject, and both have done work beyond Australia that enables them to appreciate its distinctive characteristics. The contributors include leading historians who develop their topics with assurance...Together with the editorial introduction and epilogue, these make a persuasive case for bringing the imperial dimension back into Australian historiography' ' Stuart MacIntyre, The Australian Book Review