The convict valley : the bloody struggle on Australia's early frontier / Mark Dunn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunn, Mark (Historian), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners--Australia--History--18th century.

Prisoners.

Aboriginal Australians--Kinship--18th century.

Aboriginal Australians.

Escaped prisoners--Australia--History--18th century.

Escaped prisoners.

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--New South Wales--History--18th century.

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--New South Wales--History--19th century.

Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of--History--18th century.

Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.

Aboriginal Australians--Social conditions--18th century.

Aboriginal Australians--Social conditions--19th century.

Colonies--History--19th century.

Colonies.

Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure--Australia--New South Wales--18th century.

Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure--Australia--New South Wales--19th century.

Penal colonies--Australia--Sydney (N.S.W.)--History--18th century.

Penal colonies.

Multiracial families--Australia--New South Wales--History--18th century.

Multiracial families.

Frontier and pioneer life--Australia--New South Wales--18th century.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Frontier and pioneer life--Australia--New South Wales--19th century.

Interracial friendship--Australia--New South Wales--History--18th century.

Interracial friendship.

British--Australia--New South Wales--History--18th century.

British.

British--Australia--New South Wales--History--19th century.

Pioneers--Australia--New South Wales--History--18th century.

Pioneers.

Pioneers--Australia--New South Wales--History--19th century.

Penal colonies--Australia--Hunter River Valley (N.S.W.)--History--18th century.

Land settlement--Australia--Hunter River Valley (N.S.W.)--History--18th century.

Land settlement.

Colonization--History--18th century.

Colonization.

History.

Social conditions.

Race relations.

Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure.

Aboriginal Australians--Social conditions.

Aboriginal Australians--Kinship.

Australia--History--1788-1900.

Australia.

Australia--Race relations--18th century.

Australia--Race relations--19th century.

Hunter River Valley (N.S.W.)--History--18th century.

Hunter River Valley (N.S.W.).

Hunter River Valley (N.S.W.)--History--19th century.

Hunter River Valley (N.S.W.)--Race relations--18th century.

Hunter River Valley (N.S.W.)--Race relations--19th century.

New South Wales--Social conditions--18th century.

New South Wales.

New South Wales--Social conditions--19th century.

New South Wales--History--18th century.

New South Wales--History--19th century.

New South Wales--Hunter River Valley.

New South Wales--Sydney.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 294 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Crows Nest, New South Wales : Allen & Unwin, 2020.

Summary:

The story of the second British penal settlement in Australia, where a notoriously brutal convict regime became the template for penal stations in other states. Mark Dunn explores relations between the white settlers and the local Aboriginal landholders, and uncovers a long forgotten massacre. In 1790, five convicts escaped Sydney by boat and were swept ashore near present-day Newcastle. They were taken in by the Worimi people, given Aboriginal names and started families. Thus began a long and at times dramatic series of encounters between Aboriginal people and convicts in the second penal settlement in Australia. The fertile valley of the Hunter River was the first area outside the Sydney basin explored by the British, and it became one of the largest penal settlements. Today manicured lawns and prosperous vineyards hide the struggle, violence and toil of the thousands of convicts who laid its foundations. The Convict Valley uncovers this rich colonial past, as well as the story of the original Aboriginal landholders. While there were friendships and alliances in the early years, in the later scramble for land in the 1820s - as the Valley was opened to free settlers - tensions rose and bloodshed ensued. With fascinating stories about convicts, white settlers and the Aboriginal inhabitants that have long been forgotten, The Convict Valley is a new Australian history classic.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Valley

2. First Contact

3. A Convict Outpost

4. As Fine a Country as Imagination Can Form

5. The Land Rush

6. Working on the Frontier

7. Living on Country

8. Resistance and Reprisals

9. A Landscape of Violence

10. Convict Revolt and Ruined Reputations

11. The Convict Valley.

ISBN:

1760528641

9781760528645

OCLC:

1139764465