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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464463103321

Autore

Boyce James K.

Titolo

1835 : the founding of Melbourne & the conquest of Australia / / James Boyce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Collingwood, Victoria : , : Black Inc., , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-921870-95-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Disciplina

994.5102

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Melbourne (Vic.) History

Australia History

Australia Colonization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER PAGE; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; MAP OF PASTORAL SETTLEMENT OF AUSTRALIA; MAP OF PASTORAL SETTLEMENT OF VICTORIA; PREFACE; PART I: SETTING THE SCENE; 1. THE YARRA 1835; 2. BASS STRAIT 1835; 3. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND 1835; 4. SYDNEY 1835; 5. LONDON 1835; PART II: SETTING SAIL; 6. THE PORT PHILLIP ASSOCIATION; 7. THE TREATY; 8. FIRST SETTLEMENT; PART III: MELBOURNE'S FIRST YEAR; 9. A HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL CAMP; 10. CAMPING IN KULIN COUNTRY; 11. EARLY CONFLICT; PART IV: DECISION TIME; 12. THE COLONIES RESPOND; 13. THE EMPIRE DECIDES; PART V: THE AFTERMATH

14. EXPLOSIVE GROWTH15. CONQUEST CONFIRMED; 16. MELBOURNE'S CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTER; PART VI: UNDERSTANDING CONQUEST; 17. FRONTIER TRUTHS; 18. WHAT IF?; EPILOGUE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; REFERENCES

Sommario/riassunto

Winner of the 2012 Age Book of the Year Award and the 2013 Tasmania Book PrizeWith the founding of Melbourne in 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent. In three years more land - and more people - was conquered than in the preceding fifty.In 1835 James Boyce brings this pivotal moment to life.



He traces the power plays in Hobart, Sydney and London, and describes the key personalities of Melbourne's early days. He conjures up the Australian frontier - its complexity, its rawness and the way its legacy is still with us today. And he asks the poignant questi