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Carl Bridge, Sydney Morning Herald
'disperses one misty phantasm after another'
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The first dozen years of European settlement of Australia are fixed in our minds by powerful images raised from an incomplete historical record. Alan Frost, after collecting a greatly expanded range of documents from archives around the world, sets the record straight.
'disperses one misty phantasm after another'
Book Description
The first dozen years of European settlement of Australia are fixed in our minds by powerful images raised from an incomplete historical record. Alan Frost, after collecting a greatly expanded range of documents from archives around the world, sets the record straight.
The images he challenges are immediately familiar and include overcrowded and unhealthy English prison hulks, hasty decisions based on overly optimistic assessment of the land's fertility, a poorly equipped and managed First Fleet, subsequent neglect by Britain, callous treatment of Aborigines, and the opportunistic and aberrant use of the notion of terra nullius.
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- The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford History of the British Empire) by P. J. Marshall on 4 pages
- A Concise History of Australia by Stuart Macintyre in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Oxford Companion to Australian History by Graeme Davison on page 223, and page 586
- The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century (Oxford History of the British Empire) by P. J. Marshall on page 566, and page 567
- Bibliography of Imperial, Colonial, and Commonwealth History since 1600 (The Royal Historical Society Bibliography-the History of Britain, Ireland, and the British Overseas) by Andrew Porter on page 39
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