A history of the Colony of Victoria from its discovery to its absorption into the Commonwealth of Australia / by Henry Gyles Turner
- Bib ID:
- 1681264
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Turner, Henry Gyles, 1831-1920
- Description:
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- London : Longmans, Green, 1904
- 2 v. (xvi, 395 ; x, 389 p.) : map (folded), plan ; 23 cm.
- Summary:
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v.1. Survey party from the Cumberland encountered Aborigines without hostility (at present Melbourne site); survey party from the Calcutta meet hostile natives area of Port Phillip Bay; Hume & Hovells overland journey through Victoria; Captain Sturts voyage on the Murray, meeting with natives; Tasmanian Black War, part played by Batman; reason for fear & cruelty of Tasmanian settlers towards natives; Batmans treaty with Port Phillip Aborigines over land ownership; attitude of settlers of the Yarra district; assessment of Aborigines before European invasion, vitality, health etc.; intertribal warfare & revenge killings; effect of colonization on tribes.
- Full contents:
- Contents: v. 1. 1797-1854. - v. 2. 1854-1900.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Subject:
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- Land rights - Excisions and leases
- Feuds and warfare - Avenging
- Law - Jurisprudence - Terra nullius
- Race relations - Violent - Massacres, murders, poisonings etc. - To 1900
- Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850
- Land rights - Ownership
- Settlement and contacts - Explorers
- Victoria -- History
- Yarra River (Melbourne Vic SJ55-05, E Vic SJ55-06)
- Melbourne (Vic SJ55-05)
- Tasmania (Tas)
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1920
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1904
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