The Australian Colonists: An Exploration Of Social History 1788-1870
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Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
From the founding of a penal colony at Sydney Cove in 1788 to the eve of a newly federated nation, The Australian Colonists chronicles the sweeping social transformation of a continent over eight tumultuous decades. K. S. Inglis presents a richly textured portrait of the men, women, and children who built a society from the ground up — convicts and free settlers, pastoralists and gold-seekers — capturing the textures of everyday colonial life with both scholarly rigour and vivid narrative energy. The work examines how colonial Australians ate, worshipped, worked, celebrated, and mourned, grounding grand historical forces in the intimate details of lived experience. A landmark in Australian historiography, this volume argues that the period between 1788 and 1870 was nothing less than the crucible in which a distinctly Australian identity was forged. Inglis — one of Australia's most celebrated social historians — illustrates how class, gender, race, and religion shaped a society simultaneously bound to British tradition and compelled to reinvent itself under antipodean skies. For anyone seeking to understand the cultural and social foundations upon which modern Australia was built, this authoritative study raises a question as urgent now as it was then: what does it truly mean to be Australian?
Author: K. S. Inglis
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, Melbourne University Press
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
From the founding of a penal colony at Sydney Cove in 1788 to the eve of a newly federated nation, The Australian Colonists chronicles the sweeping social transformation of a continent over eight tumultuous decades. K. S. Inglis presents a richly textured portrait of the men, women, and children who built a society from the ground up — convicts and free settlers, pastoralists and gold-seekers — capturing the textures of everyday colonial life with both scholarly rigour and vivid narrative energy. The work examines how colonial Australians ate, worshipped, worked, celebrated, and mourned, grounding grand historical forces in the intimate details of lived experience. A landmark in Australian historiography, this volume argues that the period between 1788 and 1870 was nothing less than the crucible in which a distinctly Australian identity was forged. Inglis — one of Australia's most celebrated social historians — illustrates how class, gender, race, and religion shaped a society simultaneously bound to British tradition and compelled to reinvent itself under antipodean skies. For anyone seeking to understand the cultural and social foundations upon which modern Australia was built, this authoritative study raises a question as urgent now as it was then: what does it truly mean to be Australian?