The Resource People of the river : lost worlds of early Australia, Grace Karskens
People of the river : lost worlds of early Australia, Grace Karskens
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The item People of the river : lost worlds of early Australia, Grace Karskens represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Award-winning historian Grace Karskens uncovers the everyday lives of ordinary people in the early colony, both Aboriginal and British. Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury-Nepean River, is where the two early Australias - ancient and modern - first collided. People of the River journeys into the lost worlds of the Aboriginal people and the settlers of Dyarubbin, both complex worlds with ancient roots. The settlers who took land on the river from the mid-1790s were there because of an extraordinary experiment devised half a world away. Modern Australia was not founded as a gaol, as we usually suppose, but as a colony. Britain's felons, transported to the other side of the world, were meant to become settlers in the new colony. They made history on the river: it was the first successful white farming frontier, a community that nurtured the earliest expressions of patriotism, and it became the last bastion of eighteenth-century ways of life. The Aboriginal people had occupied Dyarubbin for at least 50,000 years. Their history, culture and spirituality were inseparable from this river Country. Colonisation kicked off a slow and cumulative process of violence, theft of Aboriginal children and ongoing annexation of the river lands. Yet despite that sorry history, Dyarubbin's Aboriginal people managed to remain on their Country, and they still live on the river today. The Hawkesbury-Nepean was the seedbed for settler expansion and invasion of Aboriginal lands to the north, south and west. It was the crucible of the colony, and the nation that followed
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- vii, 678 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781760292232
- Label
- People of the river : lost worlds of early Australia
- Title
- People of the river
- Title remainder
- lost worlds of early Australia
- Statement of responsibility
- Grace Karskens
- Subject
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- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- New South Wales
- Australia -- Ethnic relations | History
- trueAustralia -- History -- 1788-1851
- trueAustralian
- Colonists -- Australia -- History
- trueAboriginal Australians -- History
- Hawkesbury River (N.S.W.) -- History
- Nepean River (N.S.W.) -- History
- New South Wales -- Ethnic relations | History
- trueNew South Wales -- History -- 1788-1851
- New South Wales -- Social conditions
- Colonists -- New South Wales -- History
- trueAboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Award-winning historian Grace Karskens uncovers the everyday lives of ordinary people in the early colony, both Aboriginal and British. Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury-Nepean River, is where the two early Australias - ancient and modern - first collided. People of the River journeys into the lost worlds of the Aboriginal people and the settlers of Dyarubbin, both complex worlds with ancient roots. The settlers who took land on the river from the mid-1790s were there because of an extraordinary experiment devised half a world away. Modern Australia was not founded as a gaol, as we usually suppose, but as a colony. Britain's felons, transported to the other side of the world, were meant to become settlers in the new colony. They made history on the river: it was the first successful white farming frontier, a community that nurtured the earliest expressions of patriotism, and it became the last bastion of eighteenth-century ways of life. The Aboriginal people had occupied Dyarubbin for at least 50,000 years. Their history, culture and spirituality were inseparable from this river Country. Colonisation kicked off a slow and cumulative process of violence, theft of Aboriginal children and ongoing annexation of the river lands. Yet despite that sorry history, Dyarubbin's Aboriginal people managed to remain on their Country, and they still live on the river today. The Hawkesbury-Nepean was the seedbed for settler expansion and invasion of Aboriginal lands to the north, south and west. It was the crucible of the colony, and the nation that followed
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- QPPL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Karskens, Grace
- Dewey number
- 994.4
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Colonists
- Aboriginal Australians
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
- Colonists
- Aboriginal Australians
- New South Wales
- Australia
- Australia
- Hawkesbury River (N.S.W.)
- Nepean River (N.S.W.)
- New South Wales
- New South Wales
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- People of the river : lost worlds of early Australia, Grace Karskens
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (page 546-654) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarriers
- Content category
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- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- Content type code
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- txt
- sti
- cri
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000067268862
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- vii, 678 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781760292232
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1155324586
- Label
- People of the river : lost worlds of early Australia, Grace Karskens
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (page 546-654) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarriers
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- cri
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000067268862
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- vii, 678 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781760292232
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1155324586
Subject
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- New South Wales
- Australia -- Ethnic relations | History
- trueAustralia -- History -- 1788-1851
- trueAustralian
- Colonists -- Australia -- History
- trueAboriginal Australians -- History
- Hawkesbury River (N.S.W.) -- History
- Nepean River (N.S.W.) -- History
- New South Wales -- Ethnic relations | History
- trueNew South Wales -- History -- 1788-1851
- New South Wales -- Social conditions
- Colonists -- New South Wales -- History
- trueAboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- History
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