A History Of Tasmania

Author : Henry Reynolds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107379016
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Tasmania written by Henry Reynolds and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This captivating work charts the history of Tasmania from the arrival of European maritime expeditions in the late eighteenth century, through to the modern day. By presenting the perspectives of both Indigenous Tasmanians and British settlers, author Henry Reynolds provides an original and engaging exploration of these first fraught encounters. Utilising key themes to bind his narrative, Reynolds explores how geography created a unique economic and migratory history for Tasmania, quite separate from the mainland experience. He offers an astute analysis of the island's economic and demographic reality, by noting that this facilitated the survival of a rich heritage of colonial architecture unique in Australia, and allowed the resident population to foster a powerful web of kinship. Reynolds' remarkable capacity to empathise with the characters of his chronicle makes this a powerful, engaging and moving account of Tasmania's unique position within Australian history.

Author : Lyndall Ryan
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1742370683
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tasmanian Aborigines written by Lyndall Ryan and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2012 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Lyndall Ryan's new account of the extraordinary and dramatic story of the Tasmanian Aborigines is told with passion and eloquence.

Author : Leslie Lloyd Robson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Tasmania written by Leslie Lloyd Robson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1 entitled 'Invasion'. Includes descriptions of Aboriginal culture and early contact with colonists.

Author : James Boyce
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1921825391
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Van Diemen’s Land written by James Boyce and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2009 Tasmania Book Prize Winner of the 2008 Colin Roderick Award Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen’s Land. There they found a land of bounty and a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life. In this book, James Boyce shows how the convicts were changed by the natural world they encountered. Escaping authority, they soon settled away from the towns, dressing in kangaroo skin and living off the land. Behind the official attempt to create a Little England was another story of adaptation, in which the poor, the exiled and the criminal made a new home in a strange land. This is their story, the story of Van Diemen’s Land. Shortlisted in the 2009 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, the 2009 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the 2010 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, the 2008 Age Book of the Year Awards, the 2008 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, the 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the 2008 NSW Premier's History Awards and the 2008 Australian Book Industry Awards ‘A brilliant book and a must-read for anyone interested in how land shapes people.’ —Tim Flannery ‘The most significant colonial history since The Fatal Shore. In re-imagining Australia's past, it invents a new future.’ —Richard Flanagan ‘Like the best history, Van Diemen's Land is not an artfully constructed narrative with the (inevitably inadequate) evidence banished to endnotes, but a dialogue between historian and reader as they explore the fragile sources, and the silences, together.’ —Inga Clendinnen ‘The publication of Van Diemen's Land signals an entirely fresh approach to Australian history-writing ... This is a brilliant publication.’ —Alan Atkinson ‘A fresh and sparkling account.’ —Henry Reynolds James Boyce is the multiple award-winning author of Born Bad, 1835 and Van Diemen’s Land. He has a PhD from the University of Tasmania, where he is an honorary research associate of the School of Geography and Environmental Studies.

Author : James Fenton
Publisher : Hobart, Tasmania : J. Walch and Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Tasmania written by James Fenton and published by Hobart, Tasmania : J. Walch and Sons. This book was released on 1884 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Fenton (1820-1901) was born in Ireland and emigrated to Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen's Land) with his family in 1833. He became a pioneer settler in an area on the Forth River and published this history of the island in 1884. The book begins with the discovery of the island in 1642 and concludes with the deaths of some significant public figures in the colony in 1884. The establishment of the colony on the island, and the involvement of convicts in its building, is documented. A chapter on the native aborigines gives a fascinating insight into the attitudes of the colonising people, and a detailed account of the removal of the native Tasmanians to Flinders Island, in an effort to separate them from the colonists. The book also contains portraits of some aboriginal people, as well as a glossary of their language.

Author : John West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Tasmania written by John West and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Tasmania written by John West and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rebe Taylor
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522867979
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into the Heart of Tasmania written by Rebe Taylor and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1908 English gentleman, Ernest Westlake, packed a tent, a bicycle and forty tins of food and sailed to Tasmania. On mountains, beaches and in sheep paddocks he collected over 13,000 Aboriginal stone tools. Westlake believed he had found the remnants of an extinct race whose culture was akin to the most ancient Stone Age Europeans. But in the remotest corners of the island Westlake encountered living Indigenous communities. Into the Heart of Tasmania tells a story of discovery and realisation. One man's ambition to rewrite the history of human culture inspires an exploration of the controversy stirred by Tasmanian Aboriginal history. It brings to life how Australian and British national identities have been fashioned by shame and triumph over the supposed destruction of an entire race. To reveal the beating heart of Aboriginal Tasmania is to be confronted with a history that has never ended.

Author : John West
Publisher : Launceston, Tas. : [Adelaide : Henry Dowling, Libraries Board of South Australia
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Tasmania written by John West and published by Launceston, Tas. : [Adelaide : Henry Dowling, Libraries Board of South Australia. This book was released on 1966 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lloyd Robson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195544343
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Tasmania written by Lloyd Robson and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: