Settler Australia, 1780-1880, Volume 1: Settlement, Protest and Control

Settler Australia, 1780-1880 will be published in two formats. There are two printed volumes, a necessity given the scale of the project, and a single Kindle volume that contains both printed volumes. Settlement, Protest and Control examines the way in which Australia developed. It is divided into two parts: establishing a colonial state and violence and protest. Uniquely in Britain's growing empire, the colonies in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land were established as penal settlements...