The Foundations Of Fremantle: Exploring The Early History Of Western Australia's First City
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A richly detailed work of regional history, The Foundations of Fremantle: Exploring the Early History of Western Australia's First City chronicles the origins and development of Fremantle, the port city that served as the gateway to European settlement in Western Australia. Deborah Tout-Smith draws on extensive archival research to illuminate the social, cultural, and architectural forces that shaped the colony's earliest urban landscape, from the first British arrivals in 1829 through the formative decades that followed. Written with scholarly authority yet an accessible and engaging tone, the narrative presents the lives of the settlers, convicts, merchants, and Indigenous peoples whose stories are woven into the city's foundations. Tout-Smith illustrates how Fremantle's unique character emerged from the intersection of colonial ambition, geographic necessity, and human resilience, offering readers a vivid portrait of a community forged at the edge of a vast and unfamiliar continent.
Author: Deborah Tout-Smith
Format: Paperback
Published: 1998, -
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A richly detailed work of regional history, The Foundations of Fremantle: Exploring the Early History of Western Australia's First City chronicles the origins and development of Fremantle, the port city that served as the gateway to European settlement in Western Australia. Deborah Tout-Smith draws on extensive archival research to illuminate the social, cultural, and architectural forces that shaped the colony's earliest urban landscape, from the first British arrivals in 1829 through the formative decades that followed. Written with scholarly authority yet an accessible and engaging tone, the narrative presents the lives of the settlers, convicts, merchants, and Indigenous peoples whose stories are woven into the city's foundations. Tout-Smith illustrates how Fremantle's unique character emerged from the intersection of colonial ambition, geographic necessity, and human resilience, offering readers a vivid portrait of a community forged at the edge of a vast and unfamiliar continent.