Squatting : romance & reality / James Ferguson
- Bib ID:
- 7417215
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ferguson, James Alexander, author
- Description:
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- North Melbourne, Victoria : Arcadia, 2017
- ©2017
- xi, 261 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 23 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781925588309 (paperback)
- Summary:
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South-eastern Australia, outside the Sydney coastal plain, was settled through squatting in a remarkably rapid development driven by individual initiative in the face of government efforts at control. This book covers the political dilemma faced by government in regulating a movement that undermined the primary purpose of the colony as a penal settlement and led to conflict with the native people. Told largely in the words of those involved, it outlines the difficulties colonial governors had in convincing London that circumstances were changing and required governance. James Ferguson describes what the squatting life was like, how stations were founded and developed, where the squatters came from, and what kinds of people they were. Their rugged individualism did much to form the Australian character, and theirs is a story of courage and determination, but also of tragedy as economic progress led to the degradation of the land and destruction of the Aboriginal way of life.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-250) and index.
- Subject:
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- Pioneers -- Australia, Southeastern
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia, Southeastern
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- Australia, Southeastern
- Land tenure -- Australia, Southeastern
- Squatter settlements -- Australia, Southeastern
- History - Frontier conflict
- Race relations - Racial discrimination
- Settlement and contacts - Settlers
- Economics - Economic development
- Buildings - Farm buildings
- Buildings - Construction
- Land rights - Pastoral industry
- Economic sectors - Agriculture and horticulture - Pastoral industry - Sheep and wool
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation
- Mining industry - Gold
- Economics - Cycles
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers - European
- Land rights - Excisions and leases - Pastoral leases
- Land rights - Crown land
- Port Phillip / Western Port area (Vic SJ55)
- Clarence Town (NSW N Coast SI56-02)
- Murrumbidgee River (SW NSW SI54, SI55)
- River Murray (SW NSW, N Vic, SE SA SI54, SI55)
- Bass Strait (SJ55, SK55)
- Hunter River (NSW N Coast SI56-01, SH56-13)
- Australian
- Also Titled:
- Squatting : romance and reality
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2017
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