Description
SECOND HAND BOOK
Sydney before 1810 can be likened to a difficult, boisterous, often undernourished and frequently undisciplined child. This collection of essays by eminent historians provides a vivid picture of early Sydney and its inhabitants. The essays are based on a wide range of written and visual source material: many of the maps, paintings and etchings of the infant settlement are included.
Includes the following essays:
People in an alien landscape: early Sydney’s environmental context/ Graeme Aplin
Tribal and linguistic boundaries: a reassessment of the evidence/ Anne Ross
Fixing the settlement upon a savage shore: planning and building/ Helen Proudfoot
Taking possession: Sydney’s first householders/ Alan Atkinson
A sodom in the South Pacific: male homosexuality in Sydney 1788-1809/ Garry Wotherspoon
The commercialisation of honour: early Australian capitalism/ George Parsons
Landed peasantry or landed gentry: a geography of land grants/ Lynne McLoughlin
Maritime trade: shipping and the early colonial economy/ Graeme Aplin and George Parsons
Specifications:
Condition: Good, has RHSV stamps inside front and back covers, some marks along the tail edge of the book
Publisher: New South Wales University Press
Year: 1988
Format: Paperback
Pages: 169
ISBN: 0868401714
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