Historical Records Of Victoria: Foundation Series, 2A & 2B
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A landmark contribution to the documentary record of early colonial Australia, Historical Records of Victoria: Foundation Series presents two companion volumes — Volume 2A, The Aborigines of Port Phillip 1835–1839, and Volume 2B, Aborigines and Protectors 1838–1839 — that together chronicle the complex and often fraught encounters between Victoria's Indigenous peoples and the encroaching forces of British settlement. Drawing on primary sources including government correspondence, protectors' journals, and official dispatches, these volumes reconstruct with forensic precision the social and political landscape of the Port Phillip district during its earliest years of colonisation. The collection illuminates the systematic efforts — and profound failures — of the colonial protectorate system, casting an unflinching light on the human cost of dispossession and the contested early history of what would become the state of Victoria. Essential reading for historians, researchers, and anyone seeking to understand the foundations of Australian society, these volumes raise questions about sovereignty, justice, and memory that continue to resonate today.
Author: Michael Cannon; Ian MacFarlane
Format: Paperback
Published: 1982, Victorian Government Printing Office, Melbourne
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A landmark contribution to the documentary record of early colonial Australia, Historical Records of Victoria: Foundation Series presents two companion volumes — Volume 2A, The Aborigines of Port Phillip 1835–1839, and Volume 2B, Aborigines and Protectors 1838–1839 — that together chronicle the complex and often fraught encounters between Victoria's Indigenous peoples and the encroaching forces of British settlement. Drawing on primary sources including government correspondence, protectors' journals, and official dispatches, these volumes reconstruct with forensic precision the social and political landscape of the Port Phillip district during its earliest years of colonisation. The collection illuminates the systematic efforts — and profound failures — of the colonial protectorate system, casting an unflinching light on the human cost of dispossession and the contested early history of what would become the state of Victoria. Essential reading for historians, researchers, and anyone seeking to understand the foundations of Australian society, these volumes raise questions about sovereignty, justice, and memory that continue to resonate today.