Karskens grace (5 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair - a well thumbed Copy. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket as Issued. First Edition. Moderate to heavy wear to covers. Spine not creased. The bottom margin of the last fifty or so pages have a minor abrasion (max 1cm x 2cm) where pages had adhered. Text and plates very clean. Binding good. A reading copy. 240pp The Rocks is Sydney's earliest surviving neighbourhood. Grace Karskens builds up a vivid picture of the lives of its earliest white inhabitants. A wealth of historical documents, pictures, maps and archaeological evidence allows her to recover the words and gestures, tastes and habits, aspirations and fears, of the dealers, publicans, labourers, artisans, watermen, washerwomen, servants and prostitutes who lived there. What sort of town did these people make? What did it look like? How did they treat their neighbours? And what of other human relations-how did men and women behave sexually? What did they think was 'moral' behaviour? What were their marriages like? How did they bring up their children? Grace Karskens shows it was a place very different from the usual images of a brutal 'gaol colony': it was, rather, a preindustrial town, a face-to-face society, marked more by movement and opportunity, dialogue and negotiation than by coercion, discipline and punishment. Size: 205mm x 270mm. Book.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Stamp and sticky tape on review page. RFID patch on inside back cover. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Bodt text and binding are still in very good condition. A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area 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. This community 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.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. Jacket has moderate wear, some browning to edges and three tiny tears at ends of spine and bottom front edge. There is a moderate water stain to the bottom margin of the jacket front. Light wear to cloth plus a small pale patch to top rear. Gift inscription to half title page, otherwise iinternally very clean. Binding tight. 280pp Size: 195mm x 265mm. Book.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 678 pages. 9.00x6.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Boards in d.j. 1st edition. 1st ed., quarto, pp.xiv, 678, incl Index, col and b&w plates, illus, maps, d.j. sl creased with closed tear to rear, orig bds., near fine condition in very good d.j. Profusely illustrated, detailed history of early Colonial Sydney. An account of the transformation of a campsite in a cove, the author skilfully reveals how landscape shaped the lives of the original Aboriginal inhabitants and newcomers alike. She traces the ways in which relationships between the colonial authorities and ordinary men and women broke with old patterns, and the ways that settler and Aboriginal histories became entwined. She uncovers the ties between the burgeoning township and its rural hinterland expanding along the river systems of the Cumberland Plain. This is a landmark account of the birthplace of modern Australia, and a fascinating and richly textured narrative of people and place. [publisher].…