Machine derived contents note: List of illustrations -- Note on currency and measurements -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The alienation of land and spread of settlement -- 2. Ambitious, avaricious men: an examination of land grantees, 1804-1823 -- 3. 'A very comfortable situation': a social history of land settlement -- 4. The 'best kind of property': farmers and livestock in early Van Diemen's Land -- 5. Agriculture -- 6. A 'luscious abundance': colonial gardens and gardening -- 7. 'If it moves, shoot it': the impact of European settlement on the environment -- 8. Farming in a convict colony: the problems of the bush -- 9. A 'sadistic frenzy': European-Aboriginal contact -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index
Summary
Van Diemen's "Land" as a case study in 19th-century European expansion and imperialism
Analysis
Colonisation
Tasmania
History, 1801-1900
Land settlement
Social customs
Tasmania
Notes
Includes index
Paperback ed. publ. 2003
Bibliography
Bibliography: pages 198-206
Notes
Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
