Hawkesbury settlement revealed : a new look at Australia's third mainland settlement 1793 - 1802 / Jan Barkley-Jack
- Bib ID:
- 4585085
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Barkley-Jack, Jan
- Description:
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- Dural Delivery Centre, N.S.W. : Rosenberg Publishing, 2009
- 488 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., maps ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781877058882
- Summary:
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This book has exciting new material about Australias beginnings, and in particular about the third mainland settlement which grew at the River Hawkesbury. It tackles controversial themes, including the meeting of European and Indigenous cultures, and delves into the local results of the influence of the French Revolution.
- Full contents:
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- Pt.1. Beginnings of settlement
- Evolution of the Hawkesbury grants, 1793-1794
- Creating a negative stereotype
- Vanishing soldier allotments, 1795
- Exconvict continuity and diversity, 1795-1802
- Pt.2. Settlers themselves
- Working farmers, prosperous settlers and John Stogdell, exconvict
- Debt despite work
- Hawkesbury indigenous culture meets colonial practice
- Lawlessness: European crime, protest and the radical thought of John Harris, exconvict
- Invisible women and Sarah Cooley, exconvict.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 471-475) and index.
- Subject:
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- Colonists -- New South Wales -- Hawkesbury
- Ex-convicts -- New South Wales -- Hawkesbury
- First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- New South Wales -- Hawkesbury
- Land settlement patterns -- New South Wales -- Hawkesbury
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Dharug / Daruk / Darug people (S64) (NSW SI56-05)
- Land rights - Non-Indigenous
- Settlement and contacts - Settlers
- Colonisation
- Hawkesbury (N.S.W.) -- History
- Richmond Hill (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
- Hawkesbury River area (N Sydney NSW SI56-05)
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2009
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