History of Australia 3 Volume Set
History of Australia 3 Volume Set
£143.00
GBPWhen George William Rusden (1819–1903) was fourteen, his family emigrated from England to Australia, where he later became a prominent educationalist and civil servant. Already an author of numerous books and pamphlets, he began work on his History of Australia after his retirement, and it was published in 1883 in three volumes. Although the work is considered sympathetic to the Aboriginal people of Australia, it is also infused with Rusden's Tory politics, infuriating his critics – one wrote that the volumes were 'as untrustworthy as a partisan pamphlet well can be without deliberate dishonesty'. Despite initial criticism, these wide-ranging volumes form an important early contribution to the writing of Australian history, beginning with the arrival of Europeans and the establishment of the first colony, and then describing the establishment of constitutions for the states, and examining the relationship between Australia and Britain.
Product details
April 2011Multiple copy pack
9781108030588
2134 pages
324 × 250 × 155 mm
3kg
1 b/w illus. 1 map
Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Preface
- 1. Discoveries
- 2. Australia and the Australians
- 3. Governor Phillip
- 4. Governor Hunter
- 5. Governor King
- 6. Governor Bligh
- 7. Governor Macquarie
- 8. Governor Brisbane. Volume 2:
- 9. Governor Darling
- 10. Governor Bourke
- 11. Governor Gipps
- 12. General condition of colonies – alterations of constitutions – crown lands – immigration
- 13. Cessation of transportation
- 14. Discovery of gold. Volume 3:
- 15. General condition of Australia and statistics
- 16. Further alterations of constitutions
- 17. Exploration and aborigines
- 18. Powers of houses of parliament – intercameral differences – attack on the council in Sydney – tacks in Victoria – Sir C. Darling
- 19. Payment of members – colonial defences – imperial relations – reform bills in Australia – parliaments of South Australia, Tasmania, and Queensland, and council of Western Australia
- 20. Religion and education – governors – labour-trades and kidnapping – Fiji – judicial and jury systems – public works – free selection of land in New South Wales – education in Victoria
- 21. Governors – alienation of crown lands in Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia – New Guinea – statistics and general condition of Australia
- Index.
