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II. Colonisation (1824-61)
出版Sorley Boy, 2023-11
主題History / Australia & New Zealand
ISBN09870497559780987049759
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JxUD0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This second volume of McDonald's history of the Canberra-Queanbeyan district, begins in 1824, when the first pastoralists appeared and concludes in 1861, the eve of Robertson's land reforms. For the local Aboriginal bands, this was a catastrophe. For the British, it was about pastureland to feed the colony. McDonald covers the 1838-42 period, when the colony switched from a convict model to free immigration. It was also a time of debilitating drought and economic ruin. He also examines the power of dominant family blocs (Campbells, Palmers, Murrays, Johnstons, Wrights, etc.), the uneasy imposition of British law on the 'frontier', the gold rushes of the 1850s, and the ever-increasing pressure for political reform. Canberra II drills down into the lives of ordinary people. It reveals some of the more elusive topics: the stories of women, children, LGBQTI+ individuals, the working poor, and the earliest ethnic households and enclaves. Along the way, McDonald breaks new ground. A new pastoral chronology is constructed, acts of pastoral bastardry are exposed, Canberra's female bushranger, Mrs Winter, is unearthed, the Anglican foundation myth is debunked, and he even asks whether AFL had its origins on the Molonglo.