Colony A History Of Early Sydney

Author: Grace Karskens

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Price : $59.99 AUD
ISBN : 9781741756371
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Imprint : Allen & Unwin
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Weight (g) : 1.466
Publication date : 31 March 2009
Dimensions : 251mm X 180mm
Produced in : Australia
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Author : Grace Karskens
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Dewey classification : 994.41
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Pages : 540
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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.

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Grace Karskens's groundbreaking book The Rocks: Life in Early Sydney won the 1998 NSW Premier's Award for Local and Regional History and established the author as a leading historian of colonial Australia. As Project Historian for the Cumberland- Gloucester Streets Archaeological Project, she combined history and archaeology to explore the lost world of the Rocks neighbourhoods in her book Inside the Rocks.

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