Introduction: What became of Australia's empire? / Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward
The saga of Captain Cook / Hobbles Danaiyarri
Conquest / Alan Atkinson
Settling the land : the making of rural Australia / Richard Waterhouse
Indigenous subjects / Ann Curthoys
Art and the environment : new visions from old / Anne Gray
Empire, state, nation / John Hirst
Migrations : the career of White British Australia / Eric Richards
Religion and identity / Hilary M. Carey
Money : trade, investment, and Australian nationalism / Geoffrey Bolton
Security : defending Australia's empire / Stuart Ward
Monarchy : from reverence to indifference / Mark McKenna
War and commemoration : 'the responsibility of empire' / Joy Damousi
Gender and sexuality / Angela Woollacott
Popular culture / Richard White and Hsu-Ming Teo
'In history's page' : identity and myth / Neville Meaney
Epilogue: After empire / Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward.
Australia's empire. ISBN 9780199563739. Published by Oxford University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.