xiii, 678 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 26 cm
regular print
Contents
Introduction -- 1: Deep time and human history: the Sydney environment -- 2: Encounters in Eora country -- 3: The Camp, the canvas -- 4: 'Food from a common industry': public farms and common lands -- 5: Seeding and breeding -- 6: Views from Flagstaff Hill -- 7: Landscape artists: the Macquaries in Sydney -- 8: The face of the country -- 9: Nefarious geographies -- 10: 'A very bountiful place indeed': women and country -- 11: Soft colony -- 12: Taking possession -- 13: War on the Cumberland Plain -- 14: Aftermath -- Epilogue
Summary
A groundbreaking history of the colony of Sydney in its early years, from the sparkling harbour to the Cumberland Plain, from convicts to the city's political elite, from the impact of its geology to its economy. Australian author
Analysis
Modern history (c 1788-1914) (New South Wales,Australia)
Social history
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references: pages 622-662 and index