Research Catalog

Title

The colony : a history of early Sydney / Grace Karskens.

Author

Karskens, Grace.

Publication

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

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Details

Description

xiii, 678 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm

Summary

The Colony is the story of the marvellously 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 skilfully reveals how landscape shaped 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.

Alternative Title

History of early Sydney

Subjects

• Aboriginal Australians
• History
• 1788-1851
• Aborigines
• Sydney
• New South Wales > Sydney
• Sydney (NSW SI56-05)
• Parramatta (W Sydney NSW SI56-05)
• Hawkesbury River area (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
• Georges River (S Sydney NSW SI56-05)
• Cumberland Plains (W Sydney NSW SI56-05)
• Botany Bay (S Sydney NSW SI56-05)
• Appin (NSW S Coast SI56-09)
• Sydney (N.S.W.) > Social conditions > 1788-1851
• Sydney (N.S.W.) > History > 1788-1851
• Aboriginal Australians > Australia > Sydney (N.S.W.) > History
• Dharawal > Tharawal > Dariwal people (S59) (NSW SI56-09)
• Eora > Iora language (S61) (NSW SI56-05)
• Gundungurra > Gundungura /Gandangara people (S60) (NSW SI56-09)
• Buildings > Homesteads
• Costume and clothing > Cloaks and coats
• Environment > Lakes and rivers
• Gender relations
• Fishing
• Health > Infectious diseases > Smallpox
• History > Battles > Hawkesbury
• Land rights > Excisions and leases > Land grants and leases to Aborigines
• Race relations > Representation > History
• Race relations > Violent > Massacres, murders, poisonings, etc > To 1900
• Settlement and contacts > English
• Settlement and contacts > First Fleet, 1788
• Settlement and contacts > Penal colonies > Convicts
• Settlement and contacts > 18th Century
• Sex relations > Coercive
• Transport > Water > Canoes
• Weapons > Spears
• Social conditions
• Soziale Situation

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 622-662) and index.

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.

ISBN

• 9781741756371
• 1741756375
• 9781742373645
• 174237364X

LCCN

2009459054

OCLC

• ocn299023193
• 299023193
• SCSB-1529077

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library