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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Crows Nest, NSW :
Allen & Unwin,
2020.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.