History of Australia 3 Volume Set Mixed media product
by George William Rusden
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania series
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When George William Rusden (1819-1903) was fourteen, his family emigrated from England to Australia, where he later became a prominent educationalist and civil servant.
Already an author of numerous books and pamphlets, he began work on his History of Australia after his retirement, and it was published in 1883 in three volumes.
Although the work is considered sympathetic to the Aboriginal people of Australia, it is also infused with Rusden's Tory politics, infuriating his critics - one wrote that the volumes were 'as untrustworthy as a partisan pamphlet well can be without deliberate dishonesty'.
Despite initial criticism, these wide-ranging volumes form an important early contribution to the writing of Australian history, beginning with the arrival of Europeans and the establishment of the first colony, and then describing the establishment of constitutions for the states, and examining the relationship between Australia and Britain.
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- Pages:2134 pages, 1 Plates, black and white; 1 Maps
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/04/2011
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- ISBN:9781108030588
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- Format:Mixed media product
- Pages:2134 pages, 1 Plates, black and white; 1 Maps
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/04/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108030588
