A History Of Australia Ii: New South Wales And Van Diemen's Land 1822-1838
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the young and turbulent colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, the years between 1822 and 1838 crackle with the tension of a society forged from convict chains, colonial ambition, and the relentless clash of competing visions for a new civilisation — and it is through this volatile crucible that Manning Clark's monumental A History of Australia, Volume II charts an unforgettable course. Clark chronicles the social, political, and moral upheavals of a formative era, presenting the lives of governors, clergy, convicts, and free settlers alike with a novelist's sensitivity and a historian's rigour, weaving together the grand sweep of empire with the intimate struggles of those caught beneath its weight. Clark's prose is rich with moral inquiry, and his narrative style — at once lyrical and forensic — elevates Australian historiography to the level of great literature, drawing inevitable comparisons to Gibbon and Tocqueville. A History of Australia stands as one of the defining intellectual achievements of twentieth-century Australian scholarship, and this second volume deepens the saga with mounting complexity: the rise of the pastoral economy, the brutal mechanics of convict discipline, and the first tremors of an indigenous dispossession whose consequences would echo for generations. For anyone who wishes to truly understand how Australia came to be, this is not merely recommended reading — it is essential.
Author: C. M. H. Clark
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, Melbourne University Press
Genre: Australian history
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the young and turbulent colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, the years between 1822 and 1838 crackle with the tension of a society forged from convict chains, colonial ambition, and the relentless clash of competing visions for a new civilisation — and it is through this volatile crucible that Manning Clark's monumental A History of Australia, Volume II charts an unforgettable course. Clark chronicles the social, political, and moral upheavals of a formative era, presenting the lives of governors, clergy, convicts, and free settlers alike with a novelist's sensitivity and a historian's rigour, weaving together the grand sweep of empire with the intimate struggles of those caught beneath its weight. Clark's prose is rich with moral inquiry, and his narrative style — at once lyrical and forensic — elevates Australian historiography to the level of great literature, drawing inevitable comparisons to Gibbon and Tocqueville. A History of Australia stands as one of the defining intellectual achievements of twentieth-century Australian scholarship, and this second volume deepens the saga with mounting complexity: the rise of the pastoral economy, the brutal mechanics of convict discipline, and the first tremors of an indigenous dispossession whose consequences would echo for generations. For anyone who wishes to truly understand how Australia came to be, this is not merely recommended reading — it is essential.