Limits of Location Creating a Colony.

The contributors to this book reveal different approaches to creating a colony. Using the rich collections of the Mitchell Library, the authors go beyond the traditional sources of history, highlighting the personal stories revealed through family letters, and creative interaction with the landscape...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Poiner, Gretchen
Otros Autores: Jack, Sybil
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2007.
Temas:
Australia > Social life and customs.
New South Wales > History > 19th century.
New South Wales > Social life and customs.
Australia > History > 19th century.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Half title page
  • Title page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Why This Collection?
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Setting the scene
  • 1 Surveyors and the Creation of Location in New South Wales
  • 2 Flora in View
  • 3 Belonging
  • 4 A Very Benevolent Society
  • 5 Portrait of a Family
  • 6 Early Indian Workers in the Australian Colonies
  • 7 People and Place
  • 8 'Make a Light'
  • 9 Baiami and the Bible
  • 10 'An Other World'
  • 11 The Ethnomania of R H Mathews
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Contributors

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