A History Of Australia: Ii New South Wales And Van Diemen's Land 1822-1838
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
In the formative decades between 1822 and 1838, the raw, convict-hewn colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land stood at a violent crossroads — caught between the brutal legacy of transportation and the first trembling aspirations toward a civilised society. This second volume of Manning Clark's monumental A History of Australia chronicles the social, political, and moral forces that shaped these twin colonies during a period of extraordinary turbulence and transformation, from the iron rule of governors and the suffering of transported convicts to the dispossession of Aboriginal peoples and the rising ambitions of free settlers. Clark writes with the sweep and gravitas of a national storyteller, infusing his meticulous scholarship with a near-biblical cadence that elevates colonial history into the realm of moral drama. His narrative does not merely recount events — it argues, passionately and provocatively, that Australia's founding contradictions are the very source of its national character. A landmark of Australian historiography, this volume compels the reader to ask whether a society born in chains could ever truly free itself from its origins.
Author: C. M. H. Clark
Format: Hardback
Published: 1975, Melbourne University Press
Genre: Australian history
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
In the formative decades between 1822 and 1838, the raw, convict-hewn colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land stood at a violent crossroads — caught between the brutal legacy of transportation and the first trembling aspirations toward a civilised society. This second volume of Manning Clark's monumental A History of Australia chronicles the social, political, and moral forces that shaped these twin colonies during a period of extraordinary turbulence and transformation, from the iron rule of governors and the suffering of transported convicts to the dispossession of Aboriginal peoples and the rising ambitions of free settlers. Clark writes with the sweep and gravitas of a national storyteller, infusing his meticulous scholarship with a near-biblical cadence that elevates colonial history into the realm of moral drama. His narrative does not merely recount events — it argues, passionately and provocatively, that Australia's founding contradictions are the very source of its national character. A landmark of Australian historiography, this volume compels the reader to ask whether a society born in chains could ever truly free itself from its origins.