The convict valley : the bloody struggle on Australia's early frontier /

The story of the second British penal settlement in Australia, where a notoriously brutal convict regime became the template for penal stations in other states. Mark Dunn explores relations between the white settlers and the local Aboriginal landholders, and uncovers a long forgotten massacre. In 17...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dunn, Mark, 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2020.
Subjects:
1700-1900
Prisoners > Australia > History > 18th century.
Escaped prisoners > Australia > History > 18th century.
Aboriginal Australians > Australia > New South Wales > History > 18th century.
Aboriginal Australians > Australia > New South Wales > History > 19th century.
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of > History > 18th century.
Colonies > History > 19th century.
Aboriginal Australians > Land tenure > Australia > New South Wales > 18th century.
Aboriginal Australians > Land tenure > Australia > New South Wales > 19th century.
Penal colonies > Australia > Sydney (N.S.W.) > History > 18th century.
Racially mixed families > Australia > New South Wales > History > 18th century.
Frontier and pioneer life > Australia > New South Wales > 18th century.
Frontier and pioneer life > Australia > New South Wales > 19th century.
Interracial friendship > Australia > New South Wales > History > 18th century.
British > Australia > New South Wales > History > 18th century.
British > Australia > New South Wales > History > 19th century.
Pioneers > Australia > New South Wales > History > 18th century.
Pioneers > Australia > New South Wales > History > 19th century.
Penal colonies > Australia > Hunter River Valley (N.S.W.) > History > 18th century.
Land settlement > Australia > Hunter River Valley (N.S.W.) > History > 18th century.
Colonization > History > 18th century.
Electronic books.
Prisonniers > Australie > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Prisonniers évadés > Australie > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Attitudes envers les Australiens (Aborigènes) > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Colonies > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Australiens (Aborigènes) > Terres > Australie > Nouvelle-Galles du Sud > 18e siècle.
Australiens (Aborigènes) > Terres > Australie > Nouvelle-Galles du Sud > 19e siècle.
Colonies pénitentiaires > Australie > Sydney (N.-G. du S.) > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Familles métisses > Australie > Nouvelle-Galles du Sud > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Amitié interraciale > Australie > Nouvelle-Galles du Sud > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Britanniques > Australie > Nouvelle-Galles du Sud > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Britanniques > Australie > Nouvelle-Galles du Sud > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Pionniers > Australie > Nouvelle-Galles du Sud > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Pionniers > Australie > Nouvelle-Galles du Sud > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Colonisation > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Livres numériques.
e-books.
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians > Land tenure
Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
British
Colonies
Colonization
Escaped prisoners
Frontier and pioneer life
Interracial friendship
Land settlement
Penal colonies
Pioneers
Prisoners
Race relations
Racially mixed families
Social conditions
Hunter River Valley (N.S.W.) > History > 18th century.
Hunter River Valley (N.S.W.) > History > 19th century.
Hunter River Valley (N.S.W.) > Race relations > 18th century.
Hunter River Valley (N.S.W.) > Race relations > 19th century.
Australia > History > 1788-1900.
Australia > Race relations > 18th century.
Australia > Race relations > 19th century.
New South Wales > Social conditions > 18th century.
New South Wales > Social conditions > 19th century.
New South Wales > History > 18th century.
New South Wales > History > 19th century.
Australie > Histoire > 1788-1900.
Australie > Relations raciales > 18e siècle.
Australie > Relations raciales > 19e siècle.
Nouvelle-Galles du Sud > Conditions sociales > 18e siècle.
Nouvelle-Galles du Sud > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Australia
New South Wales
New South Wales > Hunter River Valley
New South Wales > Sydney
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Terminology and naming
  • Maps
  • Introduction: a hidden valley
  • The Valley
  • First contact
  • A convict outpost
  • As fine a country as imagination can form
  • The land rush
  • Working on the frontier
  • Living on Country
  • Resistance and reprisals
  • A landscape of violence
  • Convict revolt and ruined reputations
  • The convict valley.

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