The Colonial AustraliansPenguin Books, 1979 - 202 Seiten Who were the colonial Australians? Why did some stack their plates while others had them taken away one at a time? Did the limitations of the flintlock musket brutalize the conflict between the Aborigines and the colonial Australians? By using apparently trivial details The colonial Australians provides some startling new insights into the society and individual lives of our forebears. A fragment of unused road, leading from nowhere to nowhere, can tell us about the battle to 'unlock the land'. Fashion in clerical dress may illuminate attitudes to sexuality. When we understand the texture of our forebears' lives, what they build, how they travelled, who was married to whom, can we approach an answer to the broader question: who are the colonial Australians? And knowing who they were helps to tell us who we really are |
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