The colony : a history of early Sydney

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Title:

Author:

Karskens, Grace.

ISBN:

9781741756371

Personal Author:

Karskens, Grace.

Publication Information:

Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2009.

Physical Description:

678 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 26 cm.

Contents:

Introduction -- 1: Deep time and human history: the Sydney environment -- 2: Encounters in Eora country -- 3: The Camp, the canvas -- 4: 'Food from a common industry': public farms and common lands -- 5: Seeding and breeding -- 6: Views from Flagstaff Hill -- 7: Landscape artists: the Macquaries in Sydney -- 8: The face of the country -- 9: Nefarious geographies -- 10: 'A very bountiful place indeed': women and country -- 11: Soft colony -- 12: Taking possession -- 13: War on the Cumberland Plain -- 14: Aftermath -- Epilogue.

Subject Term:

Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History.

Geographic Term:

Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History -- 1788-1851.

Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions -- 1788-1851.

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The Colony is the story of the marvelously contrary, endlessly energetic early years of Sydney. It is an intimate account of the transformation of a campsite in a beautiful cove to the town that later became Australia's largest and best-known city. From the sparkling beaches to the foothills of the Blue Mountains, Grace Karskens skillfully reveals how landscape shaped both the lives of the original Aboriginal inhabitants and newcomers alike. She traces the ways in which relationships between the colonial authorities and ordinary men and women broke with old patterns, and the ways that settler and Aboriginal histories became entwined. She uncovers the ties between the burgeoning township and its rural hinterland expanding along the river systems of the Cumberland Plain. This is a landmark account of the birthplace of modern Australia, and a fascinating and richly textured narrative of people and place.