1835: The Founding Of Melbourne & The Conquest Of Australia

AUSTRALIANA HISTORY Aboriginal

“With the founding of Melbourne in 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent. In three years more land – and more people – was conquered than in the preceding fifty. In 1835 James Boyce brings this pivotal moment to life. He traces the power plays in Hobart, Sydney and London, and describes the key personalities of Melbourne’s early days. He conjures up the Australian frontier – its complexity, its rawness and the way its legacy is still with us today. And he asks the poignant question largely ignored for 175 years: could it have been different? With his first book, Van Diemen’s Land, Boyce introduced an utterly fresh approach to the nation’s history. ‘In re-imagining Australia’s past,’ Richard Flanagan wrote, ‘it invents a new future.’ 1835 continues this untold story. “

First Edition.

• xiii, 257 pages : maps ; 24 cm. #200324
• AS NEW COPY!
• pt. 1. Setting the scene
• pt. 2. Setting the sail
• pt. 3. Melbourne’s first year
• pt. 4. Decision time
• pt. 5. The aftermath
• pt. 6. Understanding conquest.
• Colour illustrations on endpapers.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-248) and index.
• Winner, 2012 Age Book of the Year Award (Overall)
• Winner, 2012 Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award
• Winner, 2013 Tasmania Book Prize
• Batman, John, 1801-1839
• Buckley, William, 1780-1856
• Robinson, George Augustus, 1791-1866
• Derrimut, died 1864
• Kulin people (S21.1) (Vic SI54, SJ54)
• Race relations – Violent – Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. – To 1900
• Settlement and contacts – Colonisation – 1788-1850
• Settlement and contacts – 19th Century
• Government policy – Initial period and protectionism – 1788-1850
• Race relations – Power relations
• History
• Law – Constitutional law – Treaty movement
• Melbourne (Vic.) — History
• Australia — History
• Australia — Colonization
• Port Phillip / Western Port area (Vic SJ55)
• Melbourne (Vic SJ55-05)
• Australian