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The colony : a history of early Sydney / Grace Karskens.
Title: The colony : a history of early Sydney / Grace Karskens.
Author:
Karskens, Grace.
Book
Type: Book
D994.41/KAR/REF:HIST
Call no: D994.41/KAR/REF:HIST
Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin,
Publisher: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin,
2009.
Year: 2009.
Aboriginal Australians - New South Wales - Sydney - History. ; Eora / Iora language (S61) (NSW SI56-05). aiatsisl ; Eora / Iora people (S61) (NSW SI56-05). aiatsisl ; Sydney (N.S.W.) - History - 1788-1851. ; Sydney (N.S.W.) - Social conditions - 1788-1851. ; Mens collection
678 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 26 cm.
Physical description: 678 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 26 cm.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references: p. 622-662 and index.
Includes bibliographical references: p. 622-662 and index.
Notes: Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references: p. 622-662 and index.
Includes bibliographical references: p. 622-662 and index.
9781741756371 (hbk.);
ISBN/ISSN: 9781741756371 (hbk.);
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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.
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Abstract:
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.
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