The Sydney wars : conflict in the early colony, 1788-1817 / Stephen Gapps
- Bib ID:
- 8595902
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gapps, Stephen, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2018
- ©2018
- 1 online resource : illustrations, maps.
- ISBN:
- 9781742244242
- Technical Details:
- Mode of Access: Available online.
- Summary:
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"The Sydney Wars tells the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians - described as 'this constant sort of war' by one early colonist - around the greater Sydney region. Telling the story of the first years of colonial Sydney in a new and original way, this provocative book is the first detailed account of the warfare that occurred across the Sydney region from the arrival of a British expedition in 1788 to the last recorded conflict in the area in 1817. The Sydney Wars sheds new light on how British and Aboriginal forces developed military tactics and how the violence played out. Analysing the paramilitary roles of settlers and convicts and the militia defensive systems that were deployed, it shows that white settlers lived in fear, while Indigenous people fought back as their land and resources were taken away. Stephen Gapps details the violent conflict that formed part of a long period of colonial strategic efforts to secure the Sydney basin and, in time, the rest of the continent." --Publisher.
- Notes:
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- Includes index and bibliographical references.
- Also available in print.
- Subject:
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- Great Britain. Army -- Colonial forces -- Australia
- Great Britain. Army -- History
- Great Britain. Army
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Treatment -- History
- Aboriginal Australians -- Warfare
- Aboriginal Australians -- Wars
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government relations
- British colonies
- Colonization
- HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand
- Race relations
- Australia -- Colonization -- History
- Australia -- History, Military -- 1788-1851
- Australia -- Race relations -- History
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History, Military
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Colonization
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- History -- 1788-1851
- Australia
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2018
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