Historical Records Of Victoria: Foundation Series
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Few archives capture the turbulent birth of a nation's most storied state quite like Historical Records of Victoria: Foundation Series — a monumental multi-volume collection that chronicles the earliest documented chapters of European settlement and Indigenous life in what would become the colony of Victoria. Spanning volumes that address the Beginnings of Permanent Government (Volume 1), the Aborigines of Port Phillip 1835–1839 (Volume 2A), and Surveyors' Problems and Achievements 1836-1839 (Volume 5), the series assembles primary source documents — dispatches, letters, official reports, and colonial correspondence — into a comprehensive and authoritative archive. The scope is breathtaking: readers are transported to a frontier world of competing imperial ambitions, fragile administrative structures, and the profound and often devastating encounter between settler colonists and the Aboriginal peoples of the Port Phillip district. As a scholarly resource, this Foundation Series stands as an indispensable cornerstone of Victorian historiography, produced under the auspices of the Public Record Office Victoria and edited by leading historians of the period. The carefully annotated documents illuminate themes of governance, land dispossession, cultural contact, and colonial law with unflinching clarity, presenting the raw materials of history rather than a sanitised retrospective. Bound in distinguished leather volumes that befit their archival gravitas, these records do not merely recount the past — they hold it to account, inviting every reader to reckon with the complex and contested foundations upon which modern Victoria was built.
Author: Michael Cannon; Ian MacFarlane
Format: Hardback
Published: 1981, Public Record Office Victoria
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Good
Few archives capture the turbulent birth of a nation's most storied state quite like Historical Records of Victoria: Foundation Series — a monumental multi-volume collection that chronicles the earliest documented chapters of European settlement and Indigenous life in what would become the colony of Victoria. Spanning volumes that address the Beginnings of Permanent Government (Volume 1), the Aborigines of Port Phillip 1835–1839 (Volume 2A), and Surveyors' Problems and Achievements 1836-1839 (Volume 5), the series assembles primary source documents — dispatches, letters, official reports, and colonial correspondence — into a comprehensive and authoritative archive. The scope is breathtaking: readers are transported to a frontier world of competing imperial ambitions, fragile administrative structures, and the profound and often devastating encounter between settler colonists and the Aboriginal peoples of the Port Phillip district. As a scholarly resource, this Foundation Series stands as an indispensable cornerstone of Victorian historiography, produced under the auspices of the Public Record Office Victoria and edited by leading historians of the period. The carefully annotated documents illuminate themes of governance, land dispossession, cultural contact, and colonial law with unflinching clarity, presenting the raw materials of history rather than a sanitised retrospective. Bound in distinguished leather volumes that befit their archival gravitas, these records do not merely recount the past — they hold it to account, inviting every reader to reckon with the complex and contested foundations upon which modern Victoria was built.