Author: Irene Schaffer
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ISBN: 9781862528857
Category : Convicts
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Author: Irene Schaffer
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Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Irene Schaffer
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Category : Ex-convicts
Languages : en
Pages : 18

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Author: Irene Schaffer
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Category : Ex-convicts
Languages : en
Pages : 46

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Author: Sharon Morgan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521522960
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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This is the first detailed examination of land alienation and land use by white settlers in an Australian colony. It treats the first decades of settlement in Van Diemen's Land, encompassing the effects of the European invasion on Aboriginal society, the early history of environmental degradation, the island's society history and the growth of primary industry. The book presents vivid insights into nineteenth-century society, where wool was so useless that it was burnt, and farmers lived in fear of bushrangers and Aborigines. We see how individuals were constrained by the rigid expectations of race, class and gender in a society where no white man ever stood trial for rape or murder of a black. Drawing on contemporary diaries and letters, as well as government statistics, manuals for intending settlers and newspaper reports, Sharon Morgan has built up a comprehensive picture of the significance of landscape and land use in early colonial society.

Author: James Backhouse Walker
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Category : Norfolk Island
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Author: Irene McKay Thelma Schaffer
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Category : Map use
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: Irene Schaffer
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Category : Convicts
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Mollie Gillen
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 680

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"On 13 May 1787 more than 1,500 people sailed with the eleven ships of the First Fleet to become the founders of the modern nation of Australia. After 20 years of research Mollie Gillen has produced the most comprehensive study to date of the people of the First Fleet. Based largely on original sources in Britain and Australia, it functions both ad a detailed historical reference work with much new information and also as a very readable social history. Every person who sailed with the First Fleet or was born on board has been included whether a child, convict, sailor, marine or officer. The result is a fascinating series of pen-pictures in a total of 1,442 biographical entries. The background of each first Fleeter is examined (including the circumstances of the crime and trial of each convict) as well as their lives after 1788 as they spread throguh New South Wales, Norfolk Island, Van Diemen's land and in some cases, returned to England ... The book includes extensive explanatory notes, is fully indexed with a number of maps, illustrations, and the facsimile signatures and marks of hundreds of First Fleeters. Twelve appendices include abstracts of biographical information, descriptions of the First Fleet ships and their crews, a chronology of the First Fleet, miscellaneous facts of interest, statistics and the "Phantom Fleeters": persons inaccurately claimed in earlier publications to be First Fleeters ..."--Inside front cover.

Author: John West
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Category : Aboriginal Tasmanians
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Author's copy. Printed, with MS. corrections and annotations by the author. Handwriting identical with that in a letter from West to Edward Wise, 5 June 1864 in ML MSS. 1327/3, pp. 315-317. 1. pp. 209-340 are missing, with blank pages inserted at the back used for annotations. 2. identical with other copies of the volume.